{"id":88767,"date":"2013-02-12T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=88767"},"modified":"2014-07-03T22:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T04:28:22","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1988","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1988.<\/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

1988<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Midnight Run<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Die Hard<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
    \n<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Dangerous Liaisons<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The Unbearable Lightness of being<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. A Fish Called Wanda<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The Last Temptation of Christ<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Running on Empty<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. The Accidental Tourist<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. The Thin Blue Line<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Who Framed Roger Rabbit<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Beetlejuice<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. I\u2019m Gonna Git You Sucka<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Tin Toy<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Frantic<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Big<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Rain Man<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Mississippi Burning<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. The Chocolate War<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Shoot to Kill<\/li>\n
  23. Married to the Mob<\/li>\n
  24. The Vanishing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1988<\/span><\/h6>\n
    36 fillette (Catherine Breillat)<\/span>
    \n A Cry in the Dark<\/span>
    \n A Handful of dust<\/span>
    \n A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski)<\/span>
    \n A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)<\/span>
    \n A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens)<\/span>
    \n A Taxing Woman\u2019s Return<\/span>
    \n A Time of Destiny<\/span>
    \n A World Apart (Chris Menges)<\/span>
    \n Above the Law (Andrew Davis)<\/span>
    \n Akira<\/span>
    \n Alice<\/span>
    \n Another Woman<\/span>
    \n Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan)<\/span>
    \n Ariel (Aki Kaurismaki)<\/span>
    \n As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai)<\/span>
    \n Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov)<\/span>
    \n Biloxi Blues<\/span>
    \n Bird (Clint Eastwood)<\/span>
    \n Brain Damage (Frank Henenlotter)<\/span>
    \n Bright Lights, Big City<\/span>
    \n Bull Durham<\/span>
    \n C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (William Friedkin)<\/span>
    \n Camille Claudel<\/span>
    \n Candy Mountain (Robert Frank\/Rudy Wurlizter)<\/span>
    \n Chocolat (Claire Denis)<\/span>
    \n Clara\u2019s Heart (Robert Mulligan)<\/span>
    \n Clean and Sober<\/span>
    \n Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog)<\/span>
    \n Colors<\/span>
    \n Coming to America<\/span>
    \n Crossing Delancey (Joan Micklin Silver)<\/span>
    \n Crusoe (Caleb Deschanel)<\/span>
    \n Damnation<\/span>
    \n Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov)<\/span>
    \n Dead Ringers<\/span>
    \n Dominick and Eugene<\/span>
    \n Dragons Forever<\/span>
    \n Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway)<\/span>
    \n Drums of Winter<\/span>
    \n Eight Men Out<\/span>
    \n Essai d\u2019ouverture<\/span>
    \n Funny Farm<\/span>
    \n Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette)<\/span>
    \n Ghosts\u2026of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat)<\/span>
    \n Golub<\/span>
    \n Gorillas in the Mist<\/span>
    \n Hairspray (John Waters)<\/span>
    \n Hanussen<\/span>
    \n High Hopes (Mike Leigh)<\/span>
    \n H\u00f4tel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie<\/span>
    \n It\u2019s Impossible to Learn to Plow By Reading Books (Richard Linklater)<\/span>
    \n Jacob (Mircha Daneliuc)<\/span>
    \n July (Darezhan Omirbaev)<\/span>
    \n Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Stephen Chiodo)<\/span>
    \n La lectrice (Michel Deville)<\/span>
    \n Lady in White<\/span>
    \n Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos)<\/span>
    \n Legend of the Holy Drinker<\/span>
    \n Little Dorrit<\/span>
    \n Little Vera<\/span>
    \n Madame Sousatzka<\/span>
    \n Maniac Cop (William Lustig)<\/span>
    \n Maria (Aleksandr Sokurov)<\/span>
    \n Medea (Lars Von Trier)<\/span>
    \n Memories of Me<\/span>
    \n Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)<\/span>
    \n Monkey Shines (George A. Romero)<\/span>
    \n My Uncle\u2019s Legacy<\/span>
    \n Mystic Pizza<\/span>
    \n Paperhouse (Bernard Rose)<\/span>
    \n Pascali\u2019s Island<\/span>
    \n Permanent Record<\/span>
    \n Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli)<\/span>
    \n Puissance de la parole<\/span>
    \n Red Heat (Walter Hill)<\/span>
    \n Rembrandt Laughing (Jon Jost)<\/span>
    \n Salaam Bombay!<\/span>
    \n School Daze<\/span>
    \n Scrooged (Richard Donner)<\/span>
    \n Stand and Deliver<\/span>
    \n Stormy Monday<\/span>
    \n Story of Women (Claude Chabrol)<\/span>
    \n Straight, No Chaser<\/span>
    \n Sunset (Blake Edwards)<\/span>
    \n Switching Channels (Ted Kotcheff)<\/span>
    \n Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin)<\/span>
    \n Talk Radio (Oliver Stone)<\/span>
    \n Talking to Strangers (Rob Tregenza)<\/span>
    \n Tequila Sunrise (Robert Towne)<\/span>
    \n Tetsuo: The Iron Man<\/span>
    \n The Boost<\/span>
    \n The Days of Eclipse<\/span>
    \n The Dead Pool<\/span>
    \n The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years<\/span>
    \n The Documentator (Istvan Darday\/Gyorgy Szalai)<\/span>
    \n The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell)<\/span>
    \n The Last of England (Derek Jarman)<\/span>
    \n The Little Thief<\/span>
    \n The Milagro Beanfield War<\/span>
    \n The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)<\/span>
    \n The Music Teacher<\/span>
    \n The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick<\/span>
    \n The Serpent Rainbow (Wes Craven)<\/span>
    \n The Summer of Miss Forbes (Jaime Hermosillo)<\/span>
    \n The Vanishing<\/span>
    \n The Venus Trap (Robert van Ackeren)<\/span>
    \n The Wizard of Speed and Time (Mike Jittlov)<\/span>
    \n Thelonious Monk:<\/span>
    \n They Live (John Carpenter)<\/span>
    \n Thou Shall Not Kill<\/span>
    \n Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)<\/span>
    \n Torch Song Trilogy<\/span>
    \n Trois places pour le 26<\/span>
    \n Tucker: The Man and His Dream<\/span>
    \n Two Moon Junction (Zalman King)<\/span>
    \n Vampire\u2019s Kiss (Robert Bierman)<\/span>
    \n Vice Versa<\/span>
    \n Voices of Sarafina!<\/span>
    \n Without a Clue<\/span>
    \n Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown<\/span>
    \n Working Girl<\/span>
    \n Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious)<\/span>
    \n Zero City (Karen Shakhnazarov)<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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