1989 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1989 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by people who do not participate in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1989 lists will be Monday, March 25 at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Flimsy year? I haven't turned up many titles I'll be excited about watching; I may run out of interesting options well before the poll ends, and that *never* happens.

1989 - seen and liked

Barroco - Leduc
Batman - Burton
Drugstore Cowboy - van Sant
Leningrad Cowboys Go America -
Looking For Langston
Mentiras Piadosas - Ripstein
Mystery Train - Jarmusch
Pet Sematary
The Plot Against Harry -
Rojo Amanecer - Fons
Tetsuo The Iron Man
Used Innocence - Benning
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For The East?

1989 - available for viewing (subject to augmentation)

all about ah-long (johnnie to)
Alter Ego (Nina Shorina) 9 min
antarjali jatra
apoorva sagodharargal no subs?
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
Bagh Bahadur (Buddhadev Dasgupta)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai)
batwara
before my eyes - Mani Kaul 28 min no subs?
beijing watermelon
a better tomorrow 3: love and death in saigon - Hark Tsui
bill & ted's excellent adventure (stephen herek)
Black Rainbow (Mike Hodges, UK)
Bondage Ecstacy - Sato
Boris Godunov - Zulawski
Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
Breaking In
The Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989)
the church (michele soavi) dubbed English
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
Come, Come, Come Upward (Im Kwon-taek)
The Cook The Thief The Wife And The Lover
Cyborg (Albert Pyun, USA)
The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1989)
Damned House Of Hajn - Svoboda
Darkness, Light, Darkness - Jan Svankmajer
Dead Bang (John Frankenheimer, USA)
Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce)
Dead Poets Society (Weir)
Death Of A Tea Master - Kumai
Drugstore Cowboy - van Sant
84 Charlie MoPic (Patrick Sheane Duncan)
ek din achanak
Elephant (Alan Clark) 38 min.
Enemies: A Love Story (Paul Mazursky, 1989)
Eversmile New Jersey
The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves, USA)
Fight for Us (Lino Brocka)
Freedom Is Paradise - Bodrov
geethanjali
Gharana - K Ravi Shankar
Great Balls of Fire
Herdsmen of the Sun (Herzog)
Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989) 70 of 86 min
The House Of Clocks - Fulci
The House Of Witchcraft - Lenzi
The Icicle Thief
In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones - Pradip Krishen
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
Indiran Chandiran -
Jacknife
Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni - Vimal Kumar
Jésus de Montréal (1989, Denys Arcand)
kala bazaar no subs?
kamli ki maut
kayal gatha
Kiki's Delivery Service - Miyazaki
The Killer - Woo
kireedam
Life And Nothing But (Tavernier)
Longtime Companion
Lost in New York (Jean Rollin)
Margarit and Margarita (Nikolai Volev)
Mariya (Aleksandr Sokurov) 15 min
Marriage of the Blessed (Makhmalbaf)
La Maschera Dl Demonio - Lamberto Bava
Me And Rubyfruit - S. Benning
Meet The Feebles - jackson
meeting a milestone
Il Mefistofile - Ken Russell
Muscle - sato
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (Patrick Tam Kar-Ming, 1989)
My Nights Are More beautiful Than Your days - Zulawski
Mystery Train - Jarmusch
La nacion clandestina - Sanjines no subs?
El Nino De La Luna
Noce Blanche - Brisseau
Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli)
parinda
pièce touchée (Arnold))
Pomeriggio caldo "Afternoon" (Joe D'Amato, Italy) dubbed English
Powwow Highway
Prancer (1989, John D. Hancock)
Przesluchanie / Interrogation (1989, Ryszard Bugajski)
Recollections of the Yellow House (João César Monteiro, 1989)
Rembrandt Laughing (Jon Jost, 1989)
Roselyne and the Lions (Beineix)
salim langde pe mat ro
Samuel Fuller's Street Of No Return
Santa sangre
Save And Protect - Sokurov
Schwarz Sunde - Straub/Huillet
Sea of Love (Harold Becker)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Arthur Hiller)
Sex Lies And Videeotape
Shocker - Craven
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! (Monte Hellman)
Le sujet du tableau (1989, Georges Schwizgebel) 6 min
Surname Viet Given Name Nam - Minh-ha
Tango and Cash - Konchalovski and Magnoli
There Were Seven Simeons (Herz Frank & Vladimir Eisner)
Three Women On Love/Sieben Frauen - Thorne
Tie Me Up Tie Me Down -
Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs)
True Love (1989, Nancy Savoca)
visitor of a museum - Lopushanskiy
The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito)
Wild Search - Lam Russell
Yaaba/Grandmother (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1989)
You Take Care Now (Ann Marie Fleming) 11 min

[Umbugbene]

1. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Greenaway)
2. pièce touchée (Arnold)
3. Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia (Ottinger)
4. Herdsmen of the Sun (Herzog)
5. The Seventh Continent (Haneke)
6. Marriage of the Blessed (Makhmalbaf)
7. Roselyne and the Lions (Beineix)
8. Dead Poets Society (Weir)
9. sex, lies, and videotape (Soderbergh)
10. Life and Nothing But (Tavernier)

Huh, two of my top ten are not supposed to be capitalized :geek:

[kanafani]

Wow deep year.

Members of the Personal Canon
Near Death (Frederick Wiseman, 1989)
Route One USA (Robert Kramer, 1989)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)

Excellent
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989)
Les sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, 1989)
Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung, 1989)
Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki, 1989)
The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer, 1989)
Water and Power (Pat O'Neill, 1989)
Emergency Kisses (Philippe Garrel, 1989)
Marriage of the Blessed (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1989)
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989)
Rembrandt Laughing (Jon Jost, 1989)
Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette, 1989)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)
Elephant (Alan Clarke, 1989)
Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
The Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

Also Very Enjoyable
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (Patrick Tam Kar-Ming, 1989)
Grandmother (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1989)
The Iceman Cometh (Clarence Yiu-leung Fok, 1989)
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord (Eric Saks, 1989)
Mr. Hoover and I (Emile de Antonio, 1989)
Enemies: A Love Story (Paul Mazursky, 1989)
The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989)
Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara, 1989)
Recollections of the Yellow House (João César Monteiro, 1989)
Blood (Pedro Costa, 1989)
sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
Les Jeux de société (Éric Rohmer, 1989)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989)
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989)
Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989)
Black Sin (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 1989)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1989)
The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1989)
The Deadman (Peggy Ahwesh, Keith Sanborn, 1989)

[pabs]

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1. Near Death (Wiseman)

Life and Nothing But (Tavernier)
Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant)
The Seventh Continent (Haneke)
A City of Sadness (Hou)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
Les sièges de l'Alcazar (Moullet)
Les baisers de secours (Garrel)
sex, lies, and videotape (Soderbergh)
Jesus de Montréal (Arcand)
Do the Right Thing (Lee)
Monsieur Hire (Leconte)
New York Stories (Scorsese, Coppola, Allen)
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down! (Almodovar)
Nostos: The Return (Piavoli)
Chameleon Street (Harris)




Watchlist:

All About Ah Long (To) √
Nostos: The Return (Piavoli) √
Les baisers de secours √
Les sièges de l'Alcazar √ (Thanks to arkheia)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America √
Near Death √
The Plot Against Harry √
Chameleon Street √
A City of Sadness √
Pet Sematary √
Monsieur Hire √
Noce blanche √
Mystery Train √
The Unbelievable Truth √
My Twentieth Century


This gives me another excuse to see some American punky, weird stuff from the 80s. Yay!
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[greennui]

1. O Sangue (Pedro Costa)

Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Lost in New York (Jean Rollin)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)
Route One USA (Robert Kramer)
Elephant (Alan Clarke)
Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien)
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (Ulrike Ottinger)
Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes (Duncan Ward/Gabriella Cardazzo)
The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)

[flip]

outstanding year, had to leave some good things out. in my notes, Freeze, Die, Come to Life! (Vitali Kanevski) was also 1989, but it's now 1990 on imdb:

Nostos: Il Ritorno (Franco Piavoli)

Suddenly, One Day (Mrinal Sen)
Water, Wind, Dust (Amir Naderi)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
You Take Care Now (Ann Marie Fleming)
Alter Ego (Nina Shorina)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai)
O Sangue (Pedro Costa)
Used Innocence (James Benning)
Fight for Us (Lino Brocka)
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
84 Charlie MoPic (Patrick Sheane Duncan)
Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill)
Marriage of the Blessed (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki)

[Silga]

Seen 51 films from 1989

Provisional list:

1. Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)

Sea of Love (Harold Becker)
Batman (Tim Burton)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
New York Stories (Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola & Woody Allen)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
Steel Magnolias (Herbert Ross)
Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito)
True Believer (Joseph Ruben)
Parenthood (Ron Howard)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Arthur Hiller)
Licence to Kill (John Glen)
Kill Me Again (John Dahl)
Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce)
The Mighty Quinn (Carl Schenkel)
Society (Brian Yuzna)

[brian d]

huh, in a year with a rivette, a greenaway, and a monteiro, none of them quite make the top spot (first ranked, the rest random):

my nights are more beautiful than your days (zuławski)
the cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover (greenaway)
barroco (leduc)
schwarze sünde (straub/huillet)
the gang of four (rivette)
recollections of the yellow house (monteiro)
o sangue (costa)
nostos: the return (piavoli)
tie me up, tie me down! (almodóvar)
where the sun beats (pinto)
isle of flowers (furtado)
rosa de areia (reis/cordeiro)
fear of drowning (greenaway)
the secret nation (sanjinés)
impressions from the upper atmosphere (sistiaga)
steel mask against blue abyss (rocha)

to see:
roselyne and the lions (beineix)*
do the right thing (lee)*
johanna d'arc of mongolia (ottinger)
yaaba (ouedraogo)*
lost in new york (rollin)*

[liquidnature]

1. Nostos: Il ritorno (1989, Franco Piavoli)

Used Innocence (1989, James Benning)
O Sangue / Blood (1989, Pedro Costa)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989, Peter Greenaway)
Mashgh-e Shab / Homework (1989, Abbas Kiarostami)
Arousi-ye Khouban / Marriage of the Blessed (1989, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
Back to the Future Part II (1989, Robert Zemeckis)
Le sujet du tableau (1989, Georges Schwizgebel)
Prancer (1989, John D. Hancock)

I've seen exactly these 12 movies from 1989, and I liked all of them. Not sure if I'll see more or not. I watched Prancer this christmas in a dream-state and loved the heck out of its purity and solemnity, genuine weirdness, little amount of dialogue, and frozen landscapes in rural Michigan. Not recommended for everyone though.

[thoxans]

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! (Monte Hellman)

all about ah-long (johnnie to)
bill & ted's excellent adventure (stephen herek)
the church (michele soavi)
the cook, the thief, his wife, & her lover (peter greenaway)
the decalogue (krzysztof kieslowski)
do the right thing (spike lee)
drugstore cowboy (gus van sant)
elephant (alan clarke)
johnny handsome (walter hill)
"life lessons" segment from new york stories (martin scorsese)
longtime companion (norman rene)
my nights are more beautiful than your days (andrzej zulawski)
mystery train (jim jarmusch)
road house (rowdy herrington)
sex, lies, and videotape (steven soderbergh)
tie me up! tie me down! (pedro almodovar)
venus wars (yoshikazu yasuhiko)
weekend at bernie's (ted kotcheff)

*seen [strikethru]49[/strikethru] ... 50 (watched alan clarke's elephant)

[nrh]

meeting a milestone
beijing watermelon
khayal gatha
les sieges de l'alcazar
bagh bahadur
black sin
my heart is that eternal rose
pedicab driver
route 1 usa
o sangue
a better tomorrow 3: love and death in saigon
parinda
the unbelievable truth
geethanjali
leningrad cowboys go america
before my eyes
recollections of the yellow house
do the right thing
batwara
chandni

haven't seen kumar shahani's kayal gatha, mrinal sen's ek din achanak, or salim langde pe mat ro, or kamli ki maut, or sati, antarjali jatra, in which annie gives it to those ones, kireedam, beijing watermelon,...

will probably bite the bullet and watch apoorva sagodharargal in its hindi dubbed version appu raja, since that seems to be the only subtitled version out there.

[rischka]

to watch

all about ah-long
bashu the little stranger
a city of sadness
nostos il ritorno
visitor of a museum
the plot against harry
before my eyes
black sin
the unbelievable truth
marriage of the blessed
my nights are more beautiful than your days
meeting a milestone
lost in new york
beijing watermelon
yaaba

[kanafani]

Flimsy year?

NO!

Lencho, I think you'll like Chameleon Street. Marriage of the Blessed as well

[flip]

Flimsy year?

agree with kanafani, if i look at the number of films from each year that i've given 4 or 5 star ratings, 1989 is the deepest year in the last 45 years of film for me, and one of the five deepest years ever (1946, 1947, 1950 and 1974 are the others). that's of course is skewed by what i've seen and what i haven't yet seen, but i think i'll always look at 1989 as a deep year.

[Lencho of the Apes]

NO!

Downloading Chameleon Street tonight; it looks like I'll find enough to keep me busy from other peoples' suggestions after all... just as I hoped would happen. From where I was standing, it looked like '89 was going to be the year of Driving Miss Daisy and suchlike drivel... but as always, the digger-deeepers have dug more deeply.

[thoxans]

the digger-deeepers have dug more deeply

awww yeah somebody's bout to watch weekend at bernie's and be blown the fuxk away

[---]

No one's mentioned Brisseau's Noce Blanche? That's fucking essential sadboy shit right there

[ofrene]

A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Elephant (Alan Clarke)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
Recollections of the Yellow House (João César Monteiro)
Rosa de Areia (Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis)
Route One USA (Robert Kramer)
The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)



Blood (Pedro Costa)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
In the Line of Duty 4 (Yuen Woo-ping)
Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto)
The Killer (John Woo)
Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs)
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae Yong-kyun)


and so many movies on watchlist...

[Lencho of the Apes]

the digger-deeepers have dug more deeply

awww yeah somebody's bout to watch Silent Night Deadly Night III and be blown the fuxk away

FIFY.

[mesnalty]

Tongues Untied is on Kanopy, for the interested.

[karl]

I almost picked '89 for my year to duel because there are some wonderful little-seen gems. I agree it's a very good year. Well.

A City of Sadness

There Were Seven Simeons (Herz Frank & Vladimir Eisner)
Black Rain (Imamura Shohei)
Revenge (Yermek Shinarbayev)
Banana Paradise (Wang Tung)
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Come, Come, Come Upward (Im Kwon-taek)
Freedom Is Paradise (Sergei Bodrov)
And Then There Was Light (Otar Iosseliani)
The Decalogue
Bagh Bahadur (Buddhadev Dasgupta)
The Touch (Amanzhol Aituarov)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai)
An Enemy of the People (Satyajit Ray)
Indian Nocturne (Alain Corneau)
Eldorado (Géza Bereményi)
Margarit and Margarita (Nikolai Volev)
Mariya (Aleksandr Sokurov)
The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Obsession (Zhou Xiaowen)

It's been ages since I've seen the Hartley.

[karl]

Seven Simeons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGe3XJEV9lk



Come Upward:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNdlh4nuOQU



Bagh Bahadur:

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

[...]

Huh. I watched 229 movies from '89 and it looks like at least 200 of them were the wrong ones. Not surprising I guess since I watched most at the time before having potential access to many mentioned as favorites so far, but still depressing. There are a lot I don't much care for that some seem to like, so I might just be an outlier, but, thankfully, Silent Night Deadly Night 3 isn't one of those so it'll likely get one of my votes.

[pabs]

No one's mentioned Brisseau's Noce Blanche? That's fucking essential sadboy shit right there

Watched it. What is it you liked about it??

[thoxans]

*added alan clarke's elephant to my list

[rischka]

thx for the links karl

[Senor Arkadin]

My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days - Andrzej Zulawski
Water and Power - Pat O'Neil
Darkness, Light, Darkness - Jan Svankmajer
Santa Sangre - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Tango and Cash - Konchalovski and Magnoli
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Peter Greenaway

[wba2]

Incredible year!!!

Even though I don't like some of the listed favorites (Do the Right Thing, A City of Sadness, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Noce blanche, etc.) it was easy to come up with 20 mind-blowing masterpieces.

As I've seen some 100+ films from this year, I also had to leave many favorites off the list.


01. Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce, Australia)
02. Majo no takkyubin "Kiki's Delivery Service" (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
03. Batman (Tim Burton, USA)
04. Shiatsu Oja "The Master of Shiatsu (Sogo Ishii, Japan)
05. Sono otoko, kyobo ni tsuki "Violent Cop" (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
06. The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves, USA)
07. Road House (Rowdy Herrington, USA)
08. In Search of Guru Dutt (Nasreen Munni Kabir, UK)
09. Black Rainbow (Mike Hodges, UK)
10. Pomeriggio caldo "Afternoon" (Joe D'Amato, Italy)

11. Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
12. The Rainbow (Ken Russell, UK/USA)
13. Cyborg (Albert Pyun, USA)
14. S.E.R. - Svoboda eto rai "Freedom is Paradise" (Sergei Bodrov, Soviet Union)
15. Yaaba "Grandmother" (Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso/Switzerland/France)
16. Arousi-ye Khouban "Marriage of the Blessed" (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran)
17. L'enfant de l'hiver "Winter's Child" (OIivier Assayas, France)
18. Dead Bang (John Frankenheimer, USA)
19. Les ministères de l’art (Philippe Garrel, France)
20. Society (Brian Yuzna, USA)

[St. Gloede]

My list:

1. Jésus de Montréal (1989, Denys Arcand)
2. Mystery Train (1989, Jim Jarmusch)
3. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989, Peter Greenaway)
4. Az én XX. századom / My Twentieth Century (1989, Ildikó Enyedi)
5. Le rapport Darty (1989, Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Music Box (1989, Costa-Gavras)
7. Kuroi ame / Black Rain (1989, Shôhei Imamura)
8. Der siebente Kontinent / The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke)
9. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
10. Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia (1989, Ulrike Ottinger)

11. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989, Yong-Kyun Bae)
12. Ganashatru / An Enemy of the People (1989, Satyajit Ray)
13. L'enfant de l'hiver / Winter's Child (1989, Olivier Assayas)
14. Santa sangre (1989, Alejandro Jodorowsky)
15. A British Picture (1989, Ken Russell)
16. O Sangue / Blood (1989, Pedro Costa)
17. Sedím na konári a je mi dobre / Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989, Juraj Jakubisko)
18. The Unbelievable Truth (1989, Hal Hartley)
19. Les Baisers de secours / Emergency Kisses (1989, Philippe Garrel)
20. Przesluchanie / Interrogation (1989, Ryszard Bugajski)