1980s

A Look Back at Our AotYs and MotYs: 1963-2012

by Greg W. Locke January 2, 2013

To follow up the big year-end bash we had a couple of weeks ago, we have compiled a list of our Albums of the Year and Movies of the Year for the past 50 years, making for a list of 100 essential works we hope you’ve seen/heard. And, if you haven’t seen/heard them all, we, [...]

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ZeCat’s Top 20 Favorite Films of All-Time

by Greg W. Locke December 31, 2011

About a week ago I did a little write-up about the Top 5+ albums of my lifetime. It was a tough list to commit to, but now I feel the need to do a similar film list. But, instead of five, I’ll be doing my Favorite 20 Films Ever. In order, top to bottom, printable [...]

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Our 100 Favorite Films of the Last 40 Years

by Greg W. Locke May 7, 2011

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) 3. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) 4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) 5. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) 6. The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola) 7. Rushmore (Wes Anderson) 8. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nic Roeg) 9. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson) 10. [...]

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Best Films of the 1980s

by Greg W. Locke January 17, 2009

Compared to the 1970s, 1990s and even the 2000s, the 1980s were not a very good decade for film. Sure, we had a lot of emerging stars (Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Spike Lee, etc.) starting their careers, but we also had a lot of 60s and 70s mainstays ending theirs. Some blame it on all [...]

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Film :: 1989

by Greg W. Locke February 6, 2008

1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) 2. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant) 3. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan) 4. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch) 5. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir) 6. Batman (Tim Burton) 7. Rain Man (Barry Levinson) 8. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner) 9. Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh) 10. Say [...]

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Film :: 1988

by Greg W. Locke January 6, 2008

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman) 2. Rain Man (Barry Levinson) 3. Beetlejuice (Tim Burton) 4. Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt) 5. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg) 6. Running On Empty (Sidney Lumet) 7. Big (Penny Marshall) 8. Colors (Dennis Hopper) 9. Eight Men Out (John Sayles) 10. Die Hard (John McTiernan) 11. The [...]

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Film :: 1987

by Greg W. Locke December 6, 2007

1. Barfly (Barbet Schroeder) 2. Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson) 3. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) 4. Broadcast News (James L. Brooks) 5. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci) 6. House of Games (Sidney Lumet) 7. Raising Arizona (Coen Brothers) 8. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders) 9. Less Than Zero (Marek Kanievska) 10. Matewan (John Sayles) [...]

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Film :: 1986

by Greg W. Locke November 6, 2007

1. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch) 1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch) 3. One Crazy Summer (Savage Steve Holland) 4. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen) 5. My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears) 6. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme) 7. Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox) 8. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner) 9. Aliens (James Cameron) 10. True Stories [...]

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Film :: 1985

by Greg W. Locke October 6, 2007

1. Brazil (Terry Gilliam) 2. Better Off Dead (Savage Steve Holland) 3. Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant) 4. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes) 5. Ran (Akira Kurosawa) 6. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis) 7. Blood Simple (Coen Brothers) 8. Witness (Peter Weir) 9. Prizzi’s Honor (John Huston) 10. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton) 11. [...]

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Film :: 1984

by Greg W. Locke September 6, 2007

1. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch) 2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) 3. The Hit (Stephen Frears) 4. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone) 5. Repo Man (Alex Cox) 6. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner) 7. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman) 8. The Terminator (James Cameron) 9. Amadeus (Milos Foreman) 10. Revenge of the Nerds [...]

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