{"id":88755,"date":"2013-02-12T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=88755"},"modified":"2014-07-15T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:23:48","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1984-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1984-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1984.<\/p>\n

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/p>\n

1984<\/h2>\n

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  1. Amadeus<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Top Secret!<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Paris, Texas<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. This is Spinal Tap<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Gremlins<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The Terence Davies Trilogy*<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Stranger Than Paradise<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Stop Making Sense<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Birdy<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. The Terminator<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. The Brother from Another Planet<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. A Passage to India<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Ghostbusters<\/li>\n
  15. The Karate Kid<\/li>\n
  16. Starman<\/li>\n
  17. Dune<\/li>\n
  18. The Gods Must Be Crazy*<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    • The Bounty<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Sixteen Candles<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Muppets Take Manhattan<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Broadway Danny Rose<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1984<\/span><\/h6>\n
      1984<\/span>
      \n A Girl\u2019s Own Story (Jane Campion)<\/span>
      \n A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/span>
      \n A Private Function<\/span>
      \n A Soldier\u2019s Story<\/span>
      \n A Sunday in the Country (Bertrand Tavernier)<\/span>
      \n A Year of the Quiet Sun (Krzysztof Zanussi)<\/span>
      \n All of Me<\/span>
      \n American Taboo (Steve Lustgarten)<\/span>
      \n Another Country (Marek Kanievska)<\/span>
      \n Beat Street (Stan Lathan)<\/span>
      \n Body Double (Brian De Palma)<\/span>
      \n Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)<\/span>
      \n Carmen<\/span>
      \n Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)<\/span>
      \n Comfort and Joy (Bill Forsyth)<\/span>
      \n Conan the Destroyer (Richard Fleischer)<\/span>
      \n Condemned (Mario O\u2019Hara)*<\/span>
      \n Country<\/span>
      \n Dangerous Moves<\/span>
      \n Dreamscape (Joseph Ruben)<\/span>
      \n Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-Liang)<\/span>
      \n Fear City (Abel Ferrara)<\/span>
      \n Firstborn (Michael Apted)<\/span>
      \n Flowers of the City Jail (Mario O\u2019Hara)<\/span>
      \n Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer)<\/span>
      \n Heimat<\/span>
      \n Iceman<\/span>
      \n Kaos (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)<\/span>
      \n L\u2019amour a mort (Alain Resnais)<\/span>
      \n L\u2019amour par terre (Jacques Rivette)<\/span>
      \n Les enfants (Marguerite Duras, Jean Mascolo, and Jean-Marc Turine)<\/span>
      \n Love Streams<\/span>
      \n Love Streams (John Cassavetes)<\/span>
      \n MacArthur\u2019s Children<\/span>
      \n Manuel on the Island of Wonders (Raul Ruiz)<\/span>
      \n Maria\u2019s Lovers (Andrei Konchalovsky)<\/span>
      \n Meantime (Mike Leigh)<\/span>
      \n Memories of Prison (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)<\/span>
      \n Micki & Maude<\/span>
      \n Moscow on the Hudson (Paul Mazursky)<\/span>
      \n Nausica\u00e4 of the Valley of the Wind<\/span>
      \n Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan)<\/span>
      \n Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt)<\/span>
      \n Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)<\/span>
      \n Paso Doble (Lothar Lambert)<\/span>
      \n Places in the Heart<\/span>
      \n Purple Rain<\/span>
      \n Reckless (James Foley)<\/span>
      \n Repentance (Tengiz Abuladze)<\/span>
      \n Repo Man<\/span>
      \n Secret Honor (Robert Altman)<\/span>
      \n Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)<\/span>
      \n Special Effects (Larry Cohen)<\/span>
      \n Streets of Fire (Walter Hill)<\/span>
      \n Summer at Grandpa\u2019s (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/span>
      \n Tarang (Kumar Shahani)<\/span>
      \n That Was Rock<\/span>
      \n The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola)<\/span>
      \n The Element of Crime (Lars Von Trier)<\/span>
      \n The Flamingo Kid<\/span>
      \n The Funeral (Juzo Itami)<\/span>
      \n The Killing Fields<\/span>
      \n The Legend of the Suram Fortress (Sergei Parajanov)<\/span>
      \n The Natural<\/span>
      \n The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen)<\/span>
      \n The Stone Boy<\/span>
      \n<\/span> The Times of Harvey Milk<\/span>
      \n The Wannsee Conference<\/span>
      \n Threads<\/span>
      \n Tightrope (Richard Tuggle)<\/span>
      \n Time of Desire (Yuli Raizman)<\/span>
      \n Under the Volcano (John Huston)<\/span>
      \n What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodovar)<\/span>
      \n Wildrose<\/span>
      \n Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin\u2019<\/span>
      \n Yellow Earth<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1984. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. \u2022 1984 Amadeus Top Secret! Paris, Texas This is Spinal Tap Gremlins Indiana Jones and the Temple of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":94151,"parent":79134,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88755","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nOverstreet's Favorite Films: 1984 - Looking Closer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1984. 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