{"id":88763,"date":"2013-02-12T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=88763"},"modified":"2013-11-02T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T03:38:07","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1987","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1987.<\/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

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1987<\/h2>\n

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  1. Wings of Desire<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Babette\u2019s Feast<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Raising Arizona<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Empire of the Sun<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The Princess Bride<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Roxanne<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The Dead<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. The Last Emperor<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Good Morning, Vietnam<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Swimming to Cambodia<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Full Metal Jacket<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. No Way Out<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. The Untouchables<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Broadcast News<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Au Revoir, Les Enfants<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Hope and Glory<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. House of Games<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Radio Days<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Pathfinder<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Moonstruck<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Innerspace<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Robocop<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. The Glass Menagerie<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. 84 Charing Cross Road<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    • Wall Street<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1987<\/span><\/h6>\n
      A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Gyula Gazdag)<\/span>
      \n A Long Goodbye<\/span>
      \n A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami)<\/span>
      \n A Western<\/span>
      \n Angel Heart<\/span>
      \n Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland<\/span>
      \n Baby Boom<\/span>
      \n Back to the Beach<\/span>
      \n Bagdad Cafe (Percy Adlon)<\/span>
      \n Barfly<\/span>
      \n Beirut: The Last Home Movie<\/span>
      \n Belly of an Architect<\/span>
      \n Black Widow (Bob Rafelson)<\/span>
      \n Blind Chance<\/span>
      \n Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer)<\/span>
      \n Camp de Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembene)<\/span>
      \n China Girl (Abel Ferrara)<\/span>
      \n Chinese Ghost Story<\/span>
      \n Christine (Alan Clarke)<\/span>
      \n Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll<\/span>
      \n City on Fire<\/span>
      \n Comrades<\/span>
      \n Course Completed<\/span>
      \n Cry Freedom<\/span>
      \n Damnation (Bela Tarr)<\/span>
      \n Dark Eyes<\/span>
      \n Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/span>
      \n Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam<\/span>
      \n Dogs in Space (Richard Lowenstein)<\/span>
      \n El Bosque animado<\/span>
      \n Evil Dead II<\/span>
      \n Falsch (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)<\/span>
      \n Family Viewing<\/span>
      \n Fatal Attraction<\/span>
      \n From the Pole to the Equator(Yervant Gianikian\/Angela Ricci Lucchi)<\/span>
      \n Gaby: A True Story<\/span>
      \n Heat and Sunlight<\/span>
      \n Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)<\/span>
      \n In a Glass Cage (Agust\u00ed Villaronga)<\/span>
      \n Ishtar (Elaine May)<\/span>
      \n I\u2019ve Heard the Mermaids Singing<\/span>
      \n Jackie Chan\u2019s Project A2<\/span>
      \n King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard)<\/span>
      \n La Bamba<\/span>
      \n La Chouette aveugle<\/span>
      \n Law of Desire (Pedro Almodovar)<\/span>
      \n Le Grand Chemin<\/span>
      \n Less Than Zero<\/span>
      \n Light of Day<\/span>
      \n Making Mr. Right<\/span>
      \n Making Waves (Ann Wingate)<\/span>
      \n Matewan (John Sayles)<\/span>
      \n Michael Caine \u2013 Acting in Film<\/span>
      \n Mixed Blood (Paul Morrissey)<\/span>
      \n Mournful Indifference (Aleksandr Sokurov)<\/span>
      \n Nadine (Robert Benton)<\/span>
      \n Nayakan<\/span>
      \n Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)<\/span>
      \n Night Zoo<\/span>
      \n Nuts<\/span>
      \n Opera (Dario Argento)<\/span>
      \n Orphans<\/span>
      \n Pelle the Conqueror<\/span>
      \n Personal Services (Terry Jones)<\/span>
      \n Plain Talk & Common Sense (Jon Jost)<\/span>
      \n Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears)<\/span>
      \n Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter)<\/span>
      \n Red Sorghum<\/span>
      \n Repentance<\/span>
      \n Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (Alan Clarke)<\/span>
      \n Rouge (Stanley Kwan)<\/span>
      \n Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (Stephen Frears)<\/span>
      \n September<\/span>
      \n Shinran: Path to Purity<\/span>
      \n Shy People (Andrei Konchalovsky)<\/span>
      \n Soigne ta droite (Jean-Luc Godard)<\/span>
      \n Stage Fright (Michele Soavi)<\/span>
      \n Street Smart (Jerry Schatzberg)<\/span>
      \n Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)<\/span>
      \n The Big Easy<\/span>
      \n The Big Town<\/span>
      \n The Cartographer\u2019s Girlfriend (Hal Hartley)<\/span>
      \n The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol)<\/span>
      \n The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)<\/span>
      \n The Deadman<\/span>
      \n The Emperor\u2019s Naked Army Marches On<\/span>
      \n The Family<\/span>
      \n The Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer)<\/span>
      \n The Fourth Protocol<\/span>
      \n The Hidden (Jack Sholder)<\/span>
      \n The House of Bernarda Alba (Mario Camus)<\/span>
      \n The Living Daylights<\/span>
      \n The Peddler<\/span>
      \n The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser)<\/span>
      \n The Short and Curlies (Mike Leigh)<\/span>
      \n The Sicilian (Michael Cimino)<\/span>
      \n The Silent Majority<\/span>
      \n The Trouble With Dick (Gary Walkow)<\/span>
      \n The Whales of August<\/span>
      \n The Year My Voice Broke<\/span>
      \n Three O\u2019Clock High (Phil Joanou)<\/span>
      \n Throw Momma from the Train (Danny DeVito)<\/span>
      \n Tin Men<\/span>
      \n Tough Guys Don\u2019t Dance (Norman Mailer)<\/span>
      \n Travelling North<\/span>
      \n Under Satan\u2019s Sun<\/span>
      \n Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh<\/span>
      \n Waiting for the Moon<\/span>
      \n Walker<\/span>
      \n Wedding in Galilee<\/span>
      \n Where is the Friend\u2019s Home (Abbas Kiarostami)<\/span>
      \n Wish You Were Here<\/span>
      \n Withnail & I<\/span>
      \n Yeleen (Souleymane Cisse)<\/span>
      \n Your Face<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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