{"id":88757,"date":"2013-02-12T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=88757"},"modified":"2014-06-21T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:06:27","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1985-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1985-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1985.<\/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

1985<\/h2>\n

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  1. A Room with a View<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Brazil<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Ran<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Witness<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Ladyhawke<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. After Hours<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Blood Simple<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Back to the Future<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Legend<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Better Off Dead<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. My Life as a Dog<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. The Purple Rose of Cairo<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. The Hit<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Fletch<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Pee-Wee\u2019s Big Adventure<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. 28 Up<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. The Color Purple<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. The Company of Wolves<\/li>\n
  19. The Breakfast Club<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. The Goonies<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Clue<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. To Live and Die in L.A.<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Silverado<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. The Journey of Natty Gann<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Cocoon<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. A Chorus Line<\/span><\/li>\n
  27. Real Genius<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1985<\/h6>\n
    Adela (Mircea Veroiu)<\/span>
    \n Agnes of God<\/span>
    \n Almanac of Fall (Bela Tarr)<\/span>
    \n An Early Frost<\/span>
    \n Angry Harvest (Agnieszka Holland)<\/span>
    \n Bad Medicine (Harvey Miller)<\/span>
    \n Bekci (Ali Ozgenturk)<\/span>
    \n Canada\u2019s Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks<\/span>
    \n Code of Silence<\/span>
    \n Colonel Redl<\/span>
    \n Come and See (Elem Klimov)<\/span>
    \n Contact (Alan Clarke)<\/span>
    \n Cop au Vin<\/span>
    \n Crime Wave (John Paisz)<\/span>
    \n Dance With a Stranger (Mike Newell)<\/span>
    \n Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)<\/span>
    \n Defence of the Realm<\/span>
    \n Desperately Seeking Susan<\/span>
    \n Detective (Jean-Luc Godard)<\/span>
    \n Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart<\/span>
    \n Dreamchild (Gavin Millar)<\/span>
    \n Dust<\/span>
    \n Erotic Psyche<\/span>
    \n Explorers (Joe Dante)<\/span>
    \n Fool for Love (Robert Altman)<\/span>
    \n Four Days in July (Mike Leigh)<\/span>
    \n Gwen, the Book of Sand<\/span>
    \n Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)<\/span>
    \n Hard Choices<\/span>
    \n Himatsuri (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)<\/span>
    \n Huey Long<\/span>
    \n Insignificance<\/span>
    \n Into the Night (John Landis)<\/span>
    \n Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand)<\/span>
    \n Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/span>
    \n La vie de famille (Jacques Doillon)<\/span>
    \n Little Treasure (Alan Sharp)<\/span>
    \n Lost in America (Albert Brooks)<\/span>
    \n Mala Noche<\/span>
    \n Manoel in the Island of the Wonders<\/span>
    \n Men \u2026<\/span>
    \n Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters<\/span>
    \n Mix-Up (Francoise Romand)<\/span>
    \n Mix-Up ou Meli-melo<\/span>
    \n My American Cousin<\/span>
    \n My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)<\/span>
    \n My Country: At the Razor\u2019s Edge (Lino Brocka)<\/span>
    \n My Sweet Little Village<\/span>
    \n Night on the Galactic Railroad (Gisaburo Sugii)<\/span>
    \n No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski)<\/span>
    \n No Surrender<\/span>
    \n On the Edge<\/span>
    \n Out of Africa<\/span>
    \n Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)<\/span>
    \n Phenomena (Dario Argento)A Private Function (Malcolm Mowbray)<\/span>
    \n Plenty<\/span>
    \n Police (Maurice Pialat)<\/span>
    \n Police Story<\/span>
    \n Private Conversations: On the Set of \u2018Death of a Salesman\u2019<\/span>
    \n Prizzi\u2019s Honor<\/span>
    \n Pumping Iron II: The Women<\/span>
    \n Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)<\/span>
    \n Runaway Train<\/span>
    \n Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)<\/span>
    \n Silas Marner<\/span>
    \n Smooth Talk<\/span>
    \n Snatched from Heaven (Ishmael Bernal)<\/span>
    \n St. Elmo\u2019s Fire<\/span>
    \n Subway<\/span>
    \n Sylvia (Michael Firth)<\/span>
    \n Taipei Story (Edward Yang)<\/span>
    \n Tampopo (Juzo Itami)<\/span>
    \n The Coca-Cola Kid (Dusan Makavejev)<\/span>
    \n The Emerald Forest<\/span>
    \n The Falcon and the Snowman<\/span>
    \n The Good Father (Mike Newell)<\/span>
    \n The Home and the World<\/span>
    \n The Hour of the Star (Suzana Amaral)<\/span>
    \n The Man Who Envied Women (Yvonne Rainer)<\/span>
    \n The Official Story<\/span>
    \n The Quiet Earth<\/span>
    \n The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O\u2019Bannon)<\/span>
    \n The Runner<\/span>
    \n The Shooting Party<\/span>
    \n The Sure Thing<\/span>
    \n The Time to Live and the Time to Die<\/span>
    \n The Trip to Bountiful<\/span>
    \n Treasure Island (Raul Ruiz)<\/span>
    \n Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)<\/span>
    \n Turtle Diary<\/span>
    \n Twice in a Lifetime<\/span>
    \n UFOria<\/span>
    \n Vagabond (Agnes Varda)<\/span>
    \n Vampires in Havana (Juan Padron)<\/span>
    \n Vision Quest<\/span>
    \n Wetherby (David Hare)<\/span>
    \n When Father Was Away on Business<\/span>
    \n Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette)<\/span>
    \n Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino)<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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