{"id":88759,"date":"2013-02-12T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=88759"},"modified":"2013-11-02T21:38:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T03:38:06","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1986","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1986.<\/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

Red = Treasures
\n<\/span>Purple = Favorites
\n<\/span>Blue = Achievements
\n<\/span>Gray = Decent\/Noteworthy
\n<\/span>Green = Unseen or Undecided<\/span>
\n* = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/p>\n

1986<\/h2>\n

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    \n
  1. Down by Law<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Hannah and Her Sisters<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Sacrifice<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The Mission<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Aliens<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The Mosquito Coast<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Manon of the Spring<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Jean de Florette<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Blue Velvet<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Castle in the Sky<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. True Stories<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Manhunter<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Stand by Me<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Three Amigos!<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Labyrinth<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. River\u2019s Edge<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Man Facing Southeast<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Platoon<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. The Color of Money<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Big Trouble in Little China<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Mona Lisa<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Little Shop of Horrors<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Top Gun<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Hoosiers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1986<\/span><\/h6>\n
      38 \u2013 Vienna Before the Fall<\/span>
      \n A Deadly Business (John Korty)<\/span>
      \n A Girl, She Is 100% (Naoto Yamakawa)<\/span>
      \n A Zed and Two Noughts<\/span>
      \n About Last Night\u2026 (Edward Zwick)<\/span>
      \n At Close Range (James Foley)<\/span>
      \n Bang! (Robert Breer)<\/span>
      \n Betty Blue<\/span>
      \n Caravagiio (Derek Jarman)<\/span>
      \n Children of a Lesser God<\/span>
      \n Combat Shock (Buddy Giovinazzo)<\/span>
      \n Crime Story (Abel Ferrara)<\/span>
      \n Crimes of the Heart<\/span>
      \n Crossroads (Walter Hill)<\/span>
      \n Desert Bloom<\/span>
      \n Dona Herlinda and Her Son<\/span>
      \n Down and Out in Beverly Hills<\/span>
      \n Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/span>
      \n Eight Million Ways to Die (Hal Ashby)<\/span>
      \n Ginger and Fred<\/span>
      \n God\u2019s Country<\/span>
      \n Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood)<\/span>
      \n Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)<\/span>
      \n Horse Thief<\/span>
      \n Joan Does Dynasty<\/span>
      \n Landscape Suicide (James Benning)<\/span>
      \n Le rayon vert (Eric Rohmer)<\/span>
      \n Life Is a Dream (Raul Ruiz)<\/span>
      \n Lucas<\/span>
      \n Mammame (Raul Ruiz)<\/span>
      \n Matador (Pedro Almodovar)<\/span>
      \n Mauvais Sang<\/span>
      \n Mauvais sang (Leos Carax)<\/span>
      \n Melo (Alain Resnais)<\/span>
      \n M\u00e9moire des apparences<\/span>
      \n Menage<\/span>
      \n Miss Mary<\/span>
      \n Noir et blanc (Claire Devers)<\/span>
      \n Otello<\/span>
      \n Parting Glances (Bill Sherwood)<\/span>
      \n Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola)<\/span>
      \n Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)<\/span>
      \n Precious Images<\/span>
      \n Pretty in Pink<\/span>
      \n Prisoner in the Dark (Mike de Leon)<\/span>
      \n Richard III (Raul Ruiz)<\/span>
      \n Rita, Sue and Bob Too!<\/span>
      \n Rosa la rose, fille publique (Paul Vecchiali)<\/span>
      \n Rosa Luxemburg<\/span>
      \n \u2018Round Midnight<\/span>
      \n Routine Pleasures<\/span>
      \n Ruthless People<\/span>
      \n Salvador<\/span>
      \n Seize the Day<\/span>
      \n Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki)<\/span>
      \n Sherman\u2019s March (Ross McElwee)<\/span>
      \n She\u2019s Gotta Have It<\/span>
      \n Sid and Nancy<\/span>
      \n Sleepwalk<\/span>
      \n Song of Experience (Stephen Frears)<\/span>
      \n Summer<\/span>
      \n Sweet Liberty<\/span>
      \n That\u2019s Life!<\/span>
      \n The Assault<\/span>
      \n The Big Easy (Jim McBride)<\/span>
      \n The Cup and the Lip (Warren Sonbert)<\/span>
      \n The Decline of the American Empire<\/span>
      \n The Fly (David Cronenberg)<\/span>
      \n The Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman)<\/span>
      \n The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)<\/span>
      \n The Manhattan Project<\/span>
      \n The Mexican Tapes: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law<\/span>
      \n The New King (Mario O\u2019Hara)*<\/span>
      \n The Rose King (Werner Schroeter)<\/span>
      \n The Singing Detective (Jon Amiel)<\/span>
      \n The Terrorizer (Edward Yang)<\/span>
      \n The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/span>
      \n Therese (Alain Cavalier)<\/span>
      \n Under the Cherry Moon (Prince)<\/span>
      \n Universal Citizen<\/span>
      \n Universal Hotel<\/span>
      \n When the Wind Blows<\/span>
      \n Working Girls (Lizzie Borden)<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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