1981 1982 1983 1984

Escape from New York 28 Flashdance ADRIAN LYNE 110 Rumble Fish FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA 200 Desperately Seeking Susan 236 JOHN CARPENTER SUSAN SEIDELMAN Fanny and Alexander 118 Once Upon a Time in America 208 Lola RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER 36 INGMAR BERGMAN SERGIO LEONE Paris, Texas WIM WENDERS 242 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid 44 E.T. – the Extra-Terrestrial 126 Nostalghia ANDREI TARKOVSKY 218 The Terminator JAMES CAMERON 250 CARL REINER STEVEN SPIELBERG The Right Stuff PHILIP KAUFMAN 226 Ghostbusters IVAN REITMAN 258 Conan the Barbarian JOHN MILIUS 52 Tootsie SYDNEY POLLACK 136 Blood Simple JOEL COEN 266 Fitzcarraldo WERNER HERZOG 60 Scarface BRIAN DE PALMA 142 Brazil TERRY GILLIAM 272 Body Heat LAWRENCE KASDAN 68 Querelle 150 RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER A Nightmare on Elm Street 280 Clean Slate 74 WES CRAVEN BERTRAND TAVERNIER The King of Comedy 158 MARTIN SCORSESE Amadeus MILOŠ FORMAN 288 The Boat WOLFGANG PETERSEN 82 Blade Runner RIDLEY SCOTT 164 Body Double BRIAN DE PALMA 296 Blow Out BRIAN DE PALMA 90 Gandhi RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH 176 Beverly Hills Cop MARTIN BREST 302 Time Bandits TERRY GILLIAM 96 The Draughtsman’s Contract 184 A Passage to India DAVID LEAN 310 Prince of the City SIDNEY LUMET 104 PETER GREENAWAY Monty Python’s The Meaning 192 of Life TERRY JONES

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Back to the Future ROBERT ZEMECKIS 318 A Room with a View JAMES IVORY 400 Full Metal Jacket STANLEY KUBRICK 478 Die Hard JOHN MCTIERNAN 574

To Live and Die in L.A. 324 The Untouchables BRIAN DE PALMA 408 A Fish Called Wanda 486 Rain Man BARRY LEVINSON 582 WILLIAM FRIEDKIN CHARLES CRICHTON Highlander RUSSELL MULCAHY 416 Dead Ringers DAVID CRONENBERG 590 The Fly DAVID CRONENBERG 330 Fatal Attraction ADRIAN LYNE 494 Tampopo JUZO ITAMI 424 Working Girl MIKE NICHOLS 596 Blue Velvet DAVID LYNCH 336 Goodbye, Children LOUIS MALLE 500 OLIVER STONE Platoon 430 Indiana Jones and the Last 602 Prizzi’s Honor JOHN HUSTON 344 The Last Emperor 508 Crusade STEVEN SPIELBERG

The Green Ray ÉRIC ROHMER 440 BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI Hannah and Her Sisters 352 The Naked Gun – From the 610 Aliens JAMES CAMERON 446 WOODY ALLEN Frantic ROMAN POLANSKI 518 Files of Police Squad! DAVID ZUCKER Out of Africa SYDNEY POLLACK 360 Down by Law JIM JARMUSCH 456 A Chinese Ghost Story 524 CHING SIU-TUNG Mississippi Burning ALAN PARKER 618 Ran AKIRA KUROSAWA 370 She’s Gotta Have It SPIKE LEE 464

KATHRYN BIGELOW Near Dark 530 PETER WEIR Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 378 Stand by Me ROB REINER 470 Dead Poets Society 628

GEORGE MILLER, GEORGE OGILVIE PAUL VERHOEVEN RoboCop 538 Batman TIM BURTON 638

Tea in the Harem 386 The Unbearable Lightness 548 MEHDI CHAREF Who Framed Roger Rabbit 646 of Being PHILIP KAUFMAN ROBERT ZEMECKIS, RICHARD WILLIAMS

My Beautiful Laundrette 394 RICHARD DONNER Lethal Weapon 556 Dangerous Liaisons 654 STEPHEN FREARS STEPHEN FREARS House of Games DAVID MAMET 562

Wall Street OLIVER STONE 568

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Sex, Lies, and Videotape 664 Home Alone CHRIS COLUMBUS 732 STEVEN SODERBERGH Dances with Wolves KEVIN COSTNER 738 Miller’s Crossing 670 JOEL COEN, ETHAN COEN I Hired a Contract Killer 750 AKI KAURISMÄKI Pretty Woman GARRY MARSHALL 676 Total Recall PAUL VERHOEVEN 756 Time of the Gypsies 684

EMIR KUSTURICA Wild at Heart DAVID LYNCH 764

TIM BURTON Crimes and Misdemeanors 690 Edward Scissorhands 774 WOODY ALLEN Misery ROB REINER 784 When Harry Met Sally… 696 JOHN WOO ROB REINER Bullet in the Head 792 INTRODUCTION

GoodFellas MARTIN SCORSESE 798 My Left Foot JIM SHERIDAN 702 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 710 PEDRO ALMODÓVAR

Born on the Fourth of July 716 OLIVER STONE

Sweetie JANE CAMPION 726

Academy Awards 810

Index 816

About the Authors 826

Credits 827

Imprint 832

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