And it was a great year for movies!
1. The Apartment
2. The Magnificent Seven
3. Inherit the Wind
Honorable mentions...
Psycho
La Dolce Vita (foreign)
Exodus
Breathless (foreign)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
L'Avventura (foreign)
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Shoot the Piano Player (foreign)
Never on Sunday
Cinderfella
The Bellboy
Oceans 11
Mostly comedies, a few dramas : Fletch, Back to the Future, Lost in America, Witness, To Live and Die in LA, Real Genius
Yeah, i know Back to the Future is the big one, was never a fan, don't love or hate it. There was just nothing with much staying power from 1985 but did have some good action flicks. 1986 was infinitely better.
I've never actually seen Kramer v. Kramer, which won Best Picture. The other big-name release was Apocalypse Now, which certainly had elements of greatness, but gets a bit ponderous and tough to watch.
2 Honorable mentions: Manhattan and The Muppet Movie.
Such as Vertigo, The Vikings, Auntie Mame, Damn Yankees, Run Silent Run Deep, South Pacific, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Fly, The Blob, Attack of the 50-foot woman (although I think I might have actually seen a remake), and Old Man and the Sea.
I look at the cast lists for some of these on IMDB and there's some pretty powerful stuff.
The magnificent seven
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1. The Apartment
2. The Magnificent Seven
3. Inherit the Wind
Honorable mentions...
Psycho
La Dolce Vita (foreign)
Exodus
Breathless (foreign)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
L'Avventura (foreign)
BUtterfield8
Shoot the Piano Player (foreign)
Never on Sunday
Cinderfella
The Bellboy
Oceans 11
Witness for the Prosecution
and it was the Elvis era with Jailhouse Rock
Life Of Brian
Doctor Zhivago
Sound of Music
Stripes
Clash of the Titans
Rosemary's Baby
2001 Space Odyssey
Honorable Mention - Once Upon a Time in the West (was about 45 minutes too long)
The Incredible Shrinking Man - really well done for its time
The Seventh Seal - Classic fantasy
Honorable Mention: Plan 9 from Outer Space...Ha, just kidding.
Mad Max
Caligula
Apocalypse Now
Ghostbusters
Once Upon a Time in America
The Ten Commandments
Giant
The Searchers
2) Rocky Horror
3) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
More seriously:
--Red River
--Key Largo
--Sierra Madre.
Hamlet won best picture, but is dated. Two stories about children are special to me: The Search, and The Fallen Idol.
The Deer Hunter
Halloween
Dawn of the Dead
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
Fantastic Voyage
Love those.
Rain man
Bill Durham
Lot of others but those 3 for sure
Yeah, i know Back to the Future is the big one, was never a fan, don't love or hate it. There was just nothing with much staying power from 1985 but did have some good action flicks. 1986 was infinitely better.
The Jerk
Alien
I've never actually seen Kramer v. Kramer, which won Best Picture. The other big-name release was Apocalypse Now, which certainly had elements of greatness, but gets a bit ponderous and tough to watch.
2 Honorable mentions: Manhattan and The Muppet Movie.
Full Metal Jacket
Lethal Weapon
MASH
PATTON
and Kelly's Heroes
so many many great moves came out that year
The French Connection
Willy Wonka & The CF
Tom Jones
Billy Liar
The Godfather
A Clockwork orange
Deliverance
Airplane
Caddyshack
The Shining
Blues Brothers
and of course...
FLASH GORDAN
Rocky
Carrie
A Raisin in the Sun...Poitier at his finest.
A Day At The Races
Marked Woman
Ghostbusters
Once Upon a Time in America
I'm 1984 too, but my list is:
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
Karate Kid
All Classic movies that I love from my childhood.
I look at the cast lists for some of these on IMDB and there's some pretty powerful stuff.
Midnight Cowboy
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
And for the 1985 list, how can Brazil not be included?
Planet of the Apes
Barbarella
Dr. Strangelove
Goldfinger
The Birds,
From Russia with Love
Not a bad group at all, I must say.
IMDB - 1963 - ( New Window )
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dog Day Afternoon
or as sometimes think of it, the prequel to Raiders for the Lost Ark.
The Searchers is also from that year but I've never gotten around to seeing it.
West Side Story
The Hustler