1984 IN FILM

My favourite films released in the U.S. in 1984. Top 30 and many honorables:

(ballot)








             
30.              RAZORBACK

29.             BMX BANDITS

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                 BROTHER

28.     FROM ANOTHER PLANET

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27.WANDERERS OF THE DESERT

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            CRIMES OF PASSION

26.       [Director's cut]

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25.              TOP SECRET

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24.A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STEET

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23.          FRANKENWEENIE

22.           BOY MEETS GIRL

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21.            BODY DOUBLE

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               THE ADVENTURES

           OF BUCKAROO BANZAI

20. ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION

-tie- 20.   GHOSTBUSTERS

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19.    NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

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18.  MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN

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17.          STREETS OF FIRE

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16.  A YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN

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15. THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK

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14.            LOVE STREAMS

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13.            À NOS AMOURS

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12.         THIS IS SPINAL TAP

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  ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
11.      [extended Director's cut]

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10.                EL NORTE

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9.                 REPO MAN

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8.    THE NEVERENDING STORY

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7.            THE TERMINATOR

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6.                  STARMAN

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5.        STOP MAKING SENSE

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           MANOEL'S DESTINIES

4.     [Roadshow version]

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3.                PARIS, TEXAS

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2.    STRANGER THAN PARADISE

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1.                   GREMLINS

***** 

ALSO ESSENTIAL! NOT RANKED.

(the other titles of '84 I loved that could've placed) 

URUSEI YATSURA 2: 

BEAUTIFUL DREAMER

UNDER THE VOLCANO

HEROIC TIMES

PARADISE

.
 

PLACES IN THE HEART

.
INDIANA JONES
AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM

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ANOTHER STATE OF MIND

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THE POPE
OF GREENWICH VILLAGE

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THE EIGHT
DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER

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DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN

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THE 4TH MAN

.

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STREETWISE

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THREADS

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THE NATURAL

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FULL MOON IN PARIS

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COMFORT AND JOY

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CHOOSE ME

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WHEELS ON MEALS

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LE DERNIER COMBAT

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JUMPING

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THE FEARLESS HYENA

DUNE

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NIGHT OF THE COMET

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ALMANAC OF FALL

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SOLE SURVIVOR

BALLAD OF THE LITTLE SOLDIER

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MACROSS:
 DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE?

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THURSDAY AFTERNOON

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BEVERLY HILLS COP

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THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Обратная сторона луны

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THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA

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AMADEUS

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A PASSAGE TO INDIA

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 PURPLE RAIN

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ROMANCING THE STONE

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 ALL OF ME

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AND THE SHIP SAILS ON

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DELTA SPACE MISSION

OLD ENOUGH

EYES OF FIRE

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS

Будет ласковый дождь

 

SPLASH

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THE KILLING FIELDS

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 BROADWAY DANNY ROSE

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ANGEL [DANNY BOY]

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THE ADVENTURES

OF ANDRE & WALLY B.

TAOISM DRUNKARD

鬼馬天師 [CHASE MASTERS]

****

1984
TOP 30

1. GREMLINS (Dante)
2. STRANGER THAN PARADISE (Jarmusch)
3. PARIS, TEXAS (Wenders)
4. MANUEL ON THE ISLAND OF WONDERS (Ruiz)
5. STOP MAKING SENSE (Demme)
6. STARMAN (Carpenter)
7. THE TERMINATOR (Cameron)
8. THE NEVERENDING STORY (Peterson)
9. REPO MAN (Cox)
10. EL NORTE (Gregory Nava)
11. ONCE UPON A TIME AMERICA [Director's cut] (Leone)
12. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner)
13. A NOS AMOURS (Pialat)
14. LOVE STREAMS (Cassavetes)
15. TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (Epstein)
16. YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN (Krzysztof Zanussi)
17. STREETS OF FIRE (Hill)
18. MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN (Oz)
19. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (Radford)
20. GHOSTBUSTERS (Reitman)                                           -tie- BUCKAROO BANZAI (W. D. Richter)
21. BODY DOUBLE (De Palma)
22. BOY MEETS GIRL (Carax)
23. FRANKENWEENIE (Burton)
24. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (Craven)
25. TOP SECRET (Zucker/Abrahams)
26. CRIMES OF PASSION (Russell)
27. WANDERERS OF THE DESERT (Khemir)
28. BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (Sayles)
29. BMX BANDITS (Trenchard-Smith)
30. RAZORBACK (Mulcahy)

RUNNER UP:

URUSEI YATSURA 2: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER (Oshii), UNDER THE VOLCANO (Huston), DALIÁS IDÖK (Gémes), PARADISE (Patel), PLACES IN THE HEART (Benton), TEMPLE OF DOOM (Spielberg), ANOTHER STATE OF MIND (Small), POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE (Rosenburg), 8 DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER (Lau Kar-leung), DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN (Márta Mészáros), THE FOURTH MAN (Verhoeven), STREETWISE (Bell), THREADS (Jackson), THE NATURAL (Levinson), FULL MOON IN PARIS (Rohmer), COMFORT & JOY (Forsyth), CHOOSE ME (Rudolph), WHEELS ON MEALS (Hung), LE DERNIER COMBAT (Besson), JUMPING (Osamu Tezuka), FEARLESS HYENA (Chan), DUNE (Lynch), NIGHT OF THE COMET (Eberhardt), ALMANAC OF FALL (Tarr), SOLE SURVIVOR (Eberhardt), BALLAD OF THE LITTLE SOLDIER (Herzog), MACROSS DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE (Ishiguro/Kawamori), THURSDAY AFTERNOON (Eno), BEVERLY HILLS COP (Brest), DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (Tatarsky), BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (Imamura), AMADEUS (Forman), A PASSAGE TO INDIA (Lean), PURPLE RAIN (Magnoli), ROMANCING THE STONE (Zemeckis), ALL OF ME (C.Reiner), AND THE SHIP SAILED ON (Fellini), DELTA SPACE MACHINE (Antonescu/Toia), OLD ENOUGH (Marisa Silver), EYES OF FIRE (Crounse), THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (Tulyahodzhayev), SPLASH (Howard), KILLING FIELDS (Joffe), BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (Allen), ANGEL (Jordan), ANDRE & WALLY B (Lasseter), TAOISM DRUNKARD (Cheung-Yan Yuen)