1980’s Cinema

My Favorite Jonathan Demme Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Something Wild (1986)

2.   Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (2016)
(Concert Film)

3.   Handle with Care (1977)
(a.k.a. Citizens Band)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

4.   Rachel Getting Married (2008)

5.   Stop Making Sense (1984)
(Concert Film)

6.   Swing Shift (1984)
(Original Cut/Workprint)
(I watched it online)

7.   Who Am I This Time? (1982)
(Episode of PBS American Playhouse)
(Television)

8.   Melvin and Howard (1980)

9.   The Agronomist (2003)
(Documentary)

10a. Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)
10b. Neil Young Trunk Show (2009)
10c. Neil Young Journeys (2011)
(Documentaries/Concert Films)

11. Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
(Performance Film)

12. Storefront Hitchcock (1998)
(Concert Film)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Enlightened (2011)
1a. Episode: “Sandy”
(Cable/Television)

My Favorite Terence Davies Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Of Time and the City (2008)
(Documentary)

2.   The Long Day Closes (1992)

3.   Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

4.   The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984)

5.   A Quiet Passion (2016)

6.   Sunset Song (2015)

7.   The House of Mirth (2000)

8.   The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

9.   The Neon Bible (1995)

My Favorite Joe Dante Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Masters of Horror (2005)
1a. Episode: “Homecoming”
(Cable/Television)

2.   The Second Civil War (1997)
(Cable/Television)

3.   Matinee (1993)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Eerie, Indiana (1991-1992)
(Episodes from 1991: “Forever Ware”, “The Retainer”, “The Losers” and “Heart on a Chain”)
(Episodes from 1992: “The Hole in the Head Gang”)
(Television)

2.   Police Squad! (1982)
(Episodes: “Ring of Fear
(A Dangerous Assignment”
and
“Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don’t Laugh)”)
(Television)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Gremlins (1984)

2.   The ‘Burbs (1989)

3.   Innerspace (1987)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “It’s a Good Life”)

My Favorite David Cronenberg Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Videodrome (1983)

2.   A History of Violence (2005)

3.   Crash (1996)
(No relation to Paul Haggis 2005 film) 

4.   Cosmopolis (2012)

5.   Dead Ringers (1988)

6.   Spider (2002)

7.   The Fly (1986)

8.   Eastern Promises (2007)

9.   The Brood (1979)

10. Naked Lunch (1991)

11. Maps to the Stars (2014)

12. A Dangerous Method (2011)

13. eXistenZ (1999)

14. M. Butterfly (1993)

15. The Dead Zone (1983)

16. Scanners (1981)

17. Rabid (1977)

18. Shivers (1975)
(a.k.a. “They Came from Within”)

19. Fast Company (1979)

20. Friday the 13th: The Series – Season 1 (1988)
20a. Episode: “Faith Healer”
(Television)

21. Crimes of the Future (1970)

22. Stereo (1969)

My Favorite Bernardo Bertolucci Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Conformist (1970)

2.   Besieged (1998)

3.   The Spider’s Stratagem (1970)

4.   Last Tango in Paris (1972)

5.   1900 (1976)

6.   Luna (1979)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Before the Revolution (1964)

2.   The Grim Reaper (1962)

My Favorite Francis Ford Coppola Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Apocalypse Now (1979)

2.   The Conversation (1974)

3a. The Godfather (1972)
3b. The Godfather Part II (1974)
3c. The Godfather Part III (1990)

4.   Rumble Fish (1983)

5.   The Cotton Club (1984)

6.   One from the Heart (1981)

My Favorite Larry Cohen Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   God Told Me To (1976)

2.   Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

3.   It’s Alive (1974)

4.   The Stuff (1985)

5.   The Ambulance (1990)

6.   Masters of Horror (2006)
6a. Episode: “Pick Me Up”
(Cable/Television)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Bone (1972)

2.   Black Caesar (1973)

3.   The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

4.   It Lives Again (1978)

My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Miller’s Crossing (1990)

2.   No Country for Old Men (2007)

3.   Raising Arizona (1987)

4.   Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

5.   Fargo (1996)

6.   Barton Fink (1991)

7.   The Big Lebowski (1998)

8.   A Serious Man (2009)

9.   True Grit (2010)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
(Anthology Film)

11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

13. Burn After Reading (2008)

14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

15. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

16. Blood Simple (1984)

My Favorite Robert Bresson Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   L’Argent (1983)

2.   Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

3.   A Man Escaped (1956)

4.   Lancelot of the Lake (1974)

5.   Pickpocket (1959)

6.   Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

7.   Mouchette (1967)

8.   Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)

9.   The Devil Probably (1977)

10. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)

11. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)

12. A Gentle Woman (1969)

13. Angels of Sin (1943)