1989 poll

[pabs]

OK, I saw the Hartley. I wish I'd chosen Enyedi's! Bummer!

[Lencho of the Apes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8xdcP9hFl4

[liquidnature]

Final:

Nostos: Il ritorno (Franco Piavoli)

Used Innocence (James Benning)
O Sangue / Blood (Pedro Costa)
Korova / The Cow (Aleksandr Petrov)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
Mashgh-e Shab / Homework (Abbas Kiarostami)
Pekin no suika / Beijing Watermelon (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi)
Arousi-ye Khouban / Marriage of the Blessed (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
Le sujet du tableau (Georges Schwizgebel)
Prancer (John D. Hancock)

[Lencho of the Apes]

From "Vote The Right Films" to "Visitor To A Ballot Box," 62 really really really good movies from 1989, including the ones from Liquid Nature which I did not miss seeing. Of.

1
Do The Right Thing -

2
Nostos, The Return - Piavoli

3
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
The Cook The Thief The Wife And The Lover

5
Blood (Pedro Costa, 1989)
The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989)

7
Drugstore Cowboy - van Sant
Kiki's Delivery Service - Miyazaki
My Nights Ar More beautiful Than Your days - Zulawski
Yaaba/Grandmother (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1989)

11
Life Lessons (Martin Scorsese) / N Y Stories
marriage of the blessed - makhmalbaf
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989)

14
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
Emergency Kisses (Philippe Garrel, 1989)
near death (wiseman)
Recollections of the Yellow House
Sex Lies And Videotape

19
Batman - Burton
Elephant - Alan Clark
Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)
Mystery Train - Jarmusch
my twentieth century

24
Jésus de Montréal (1989, Denys Arcand)
Joan Of Arc Of Mongolia -
Les sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, 1989)
Tetsuo The Iron Man
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For The East?
You Take Care Now (Ann Marie Fleming)

30
the abyss (cameron)
Barroco - Leduc
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai)
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989)
Dead Poets Society (Weir)
Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette, 1989)
Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki, 1989)
The Killer - Woo
Pedicab Driver
Route One USA
Santa Sangre - Joderowsky
The Seventh Continent (Haneke)
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! (Monte Hellman)
Tie Me Up Tie Me Down -
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)

46 - 62
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
Bagh Bahadur (Buddhadev Dasgupta)
bill & ted's excellent adventure (stephen herek)
Crimes And Misdemeanors -
Freedom Is Paradise - Bodrov
Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America -
Life And Nothing But (Tavernier)
Music Box (1989, Costa-Gavras)
my heart is that eternal rose - tam
Ora Pro Nobis (Lino Brocka)
Przesluchanie / Interrogation (1989, Ryszard Bugajski)
Road House (Rowdy Herrington, USA)
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989)
visitor of a museum - Lopushanskiy

[rischka]

a pretty decent list i suppose

do the right thing should have certainly won the oscar imo. it hit like an earthquake

[Silga]

wow, I didn't expect Monsieur Hire to end up in the Top 20. Nice surprise!

[thoxans]

ugh i seriously need to start cutting the more popular films from my lists...