{"id":88769,"date":"2013-02-12T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=88769"},"modified":"2014-08-31T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T02:41:51","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1989","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet&#8217;s Favorite Films: 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1989.<\/p>\n<p>In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/jeffrey-overstreets-favorite-films-lists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<h2>1989<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2013\/02\/henry-v1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94630 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2013\/02\/henry-v1-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"henry v1\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2013\/02\/Unbelievable-Truth.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-94631\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2013\/02\/Unbelievable-Truth-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Unbelievable Truth\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2013\/02\/Burbs.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-94632\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2013\/02\/Burbs-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"Burbs\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Henry V<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Unbelievable Truth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The \u2018Burbs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Do the Right Thing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Dead Poets Society<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Abyss<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">sex, lies, and videotape<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Heathers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Fabulous Baker Boys<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mystery Train<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">My Left Foot<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Glory<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">When Harry Met Sally<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Say Anything<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sea of Love<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Roger and Me<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Parenthood<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Drugstore Cowboy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Bill and Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Back to the Future, Part 2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Field of Dreams<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Batman<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Lethal Weapon 2<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1989<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A City of Sadness<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> A Dry White Season<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> A Spy in the House That Ruth Built<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> A Tale of the Wind<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Always (Steven Spielberg)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Bashu, The Little Stranger<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Baxter (Jerome Boivin)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Black Rain (Ridley Scott)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Black Sin<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Blaze<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Born on the Fourth of July<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> C\u00e9zanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Chameleon Street<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr.)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Chances Are<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Cousins<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Crusoe<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Driving Miss Daisy<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> El aprendiz de pornografo (Jaime Hermosillo)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Elephant (Alan Clarke)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Enemies: A Love Story (Paul Mazursky)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Five Days in June<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> For All Mankind<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Getting it Right (Randal Kleiser)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Ghostbusters II (Ivan Reitman)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> He Was Once (Mary Hestand)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Homework (Abbas Kiarostami)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Images of the World and the Inscription of War<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Le fille de 15 ans (Jacques Doillon)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Leningrad Cowboys Go to America (Aki Kaurismaki)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Licence to Kill<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Life and Nothing But<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Major League<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Marriage of the Blessed<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Memories of a Marriage<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Miss Firecracker<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Mr. Hoover and I<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Music Box<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> My Twentieth Century (Ildiko Enyedi)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Orapronobis (Lino Brocka)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Parents (Bob Balaban)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Queen of Hearts (Jon Amiel)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Roadkill (Bruce McDonald)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Romuald et Juliette<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Scandal<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Shirley Valentine<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Sidewalk Stories<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Skin Deep (Blake Edwards)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Strapless (David Hare)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Street of No Return (Samuel Fuller)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Sweet Home (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Sweetie (Jane Campion)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Tap<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Aesthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Burbs (Joe Dante)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Church (Michele Soavi)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Iceman Cometh<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Killer<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Kill-Off<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Last Stop (Serik Aprimov)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Machine That Killed Bad People<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Mighty Quinn<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Owl\u2019s Legecy (Chris Marker)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Too Beautiful for You<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> True Love<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Valmont (Milos Forman)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Vampire\u2019s Kiss 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