My Top 20 by Year - 1984
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of 203 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Mar 2017)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Dong dong de jia qi (A Summer at Grandpa's, Hou, 1984)
Monanieba (Repentance, Abuladze, 1984)
Öszi almanac (Almanac of Fall, Tarr, 1984)
Repo Man (Cox, 1984)
Saraba hakobune (Goodbye Ark, Terayama, 1984)
Il bacio di Tosca (Tosca's Kiss, Schmid, 1984, doc)
Four Days in July (Leigh, 1984, TV)
Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik (Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany, Reitz, 1984, TV mini)
Carmen (Rosi, 1984)
Kaos (Chaos, P. and V. Taviani, 1984)
28 Up (Apted, 1984, doc)
Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World, S. Ray, 1984)
Los zancos (The Stilts, Saura, 1984)
Davandeh (The Runner, Naderi, 1984)
Utu (G. Murphy, 1984)
Notre nazi (Our Nazi, R. Kramer, 1984, doc)
Manoel dans l'île des merveilles (Manuel on the Island of Wonders, Ruiz, 1984, TV mini)
Bao gio cho den tháng Muoi (When the Tenth Month Comes, Dang Nhat Minh, 1984)
Tro, håb og kærlighed (Twist and Shout, August, 1984)
Osôshiki (The Funeral, Itami, 1984)
Top Secret! (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker, 1984)
Comfort and Joy (Forsyth, 1984)
Seksmisja (Sexmission, Machulski, 1984)
Bianca (Moretti, 1984)
Before Stonewall (Schiller/R. Rosenberg, 1984, doc)
Los motivos de Berta (Berta's Motives, Guerín, 1984)
Moscow on the Hudson (Mazursky, 1984)
Illustres inconnus (Notorious Nobodies, Stanojevic, 1984)
Namuslu (The Honest One, Egilmez, 1984)
Another Country (Kanievska, 1984)
Choose Me (Rudolph, 1984)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of 203 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Mar 2017)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Dong dong de jia qi (A Summer at Grandpa's, Hou, 1984)
Monanieba (Repentance, Abuladze, 1984)
Öszi almanac (Almanac of Fall, Tarr, 1984)
Repo Man (Cox, 1984)
Saraba hakobune (Goodbye Ark, Terayama, 1984)
Il bacio di Tosca (Tosca's Kiss, Schmid, 1984, doc)
Four Days in July (Leigh, 1984, TV)
Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik (Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany, Reitz, 1984, TV mini)
Carmen (Rosi, 1984)
Kaos (Chaos, P. and V. Taviani, 1984)
28 Up (Apted, 1984, doc)
Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World, S. Ray, 1984)
Los zancos (The Stilts, Saura, 1984)
Davandeh (The Runner, Naderi, 1984)
Utu (G. Murphy, 1984)
Notre nazi (Our Nazi, R. Kramer, 1984, doc)
Manoel dans l'île des merveilles (Manuel on the Island of Wonders, Ruiz, 1984, TV mini)
Bao gio cho den tháng Muoi (When the Tenth Month Comes, Dang Nhat Minh, 1984)
Tro, håb og kærlighed (Twist and Shout, August, 1984)
Osôshiki (The Funeral, Itami, 1984)
Top Secret! (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker, 1984)
Comfort and Joy (Forsyth, 1984)
Seksmisja (Sexmission, Machulski, 1984)
Bianca (Moretti, 1984)
Before Stonewall (Schiller/R. Rosenberg, 1984, doc)
Los motivos de Berta (Berta's Motives, Guerín, 1984)
Moscow on the Hudson (Mazursky, 1984)
Illustres inconnus (Notorious Nobodies, Stanojevic, 1984)
Namuslu (The Honest One, Egilmez, 1984)
Another Country (Kanievska, 1984)
Choose Me (Rudolph, 1984)
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