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Escape from New York 28 JOHN CARPENTER

Lola RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER 36Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid 44 CARL REINER Conan the Barbarian JOHN MILIUS 52Fitzcarraldo WERNER HERZOG 60Body Heat LAWRENCE KASDAN 68Clean Slate 74 BERTRAND TAVERNIER

The Boat WOLFGANG PETERSEN 82Blow Out BRIAN DE PALMA 90Time Bandits TERRY GILLIAM 96Prince of the City SIDNEY LUMET 104

Flashdance ADRIAN LYNE 110Fanny and Alexander 118 INGMAR BERGMAN

E.T. – the Extra-Terrestrial 126 STEVEN SPIELBERG

Tootsie SYDNEY POLLACK 136Scarface BRIAN DE PALMA 142Querelle 150 RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

The King of Comedy 158 MARTIN SCORSESE

Blade Runner RIDLEY SCOTT 164Gandhi RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH 176The Draughtsman’s Contract 184 PETER GREENAWAY

Monty Python’s The Meaning 192 of Life TERRY JONES

1981 1982

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Rumble Fish FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA 200Once Upon a Time in America 208 SERGIO LEONE

Nostalghia ANDREI TARKOVSKY 218The Right Stuff PHILIP KAUFMAN 226

Desperately Seeking Susan 236 SUSAN SEIDELMAN

Paris, Texas WIM WENDERS 242The Terminator JAMES CAMERON 250Ghostbusters IVAN REITMAN 258Blood Simple JOEL COEN 266Brazil TERRY GILLIAM 272A Nightmare on Elm Street 280 WES CRAVEN

Amadeus MILOŠ FORMAN 288Body Double BRIAN DE PALMA 296Beverly Hills Cop MARTIN BREST 302A Passage to India DAVID LEAN 310

1983 1984

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1986

Back to the Future ROBERT ZEMECKIS 318To Live and Die in L.A. 324 WILLIAM FRIEDKIN

The Fly DAVID CRONENBERG 330Blue Velvet DAVID LYNCH 336Prizzi’s Honor JOHN HUSTON 344Hannah and Her Sisters 352 WOODY ALLEN

Out of Africa SYDNEY POLLACK 360Ran AKIRA KUROSAWA 370Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 378 GEORGE MILLER, GEORGE OGILVIE

Tea in the Harem 386 MEHDI CHAREF

My Beautiful Laundrette 394 STEPHEN FREARS

A Room with a View JAMES IVORY 400The Untouchables BRIAN DE PALMA 408Highlander RUSSELL MULCAHY 416Tampopo JUZO ITAMI 424Platoon OLIVER STONE 430The Green Ray ÉRIC ROHMER 440Aliens JAMES CAMERON 446Down by Law JIM JARMUSCH 456

She’s Gotta Have It SPIKE LEE 464Stand by Me ROB REINER 470

1985

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Full Metal Jacket STANLEY KUBRICK 478A Fish Called Wanda 486 CHARLES CRICHTON

Fatal Attraction ADRIAN LYNE 494Goodbye, Children LOUIS MALLE 500The Last Emperor 508 BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Frantic ROMAN POLANSKI 518

A Chinese Ghost Story 524 CHING SIU-TUNG

Near Dark KATHRYN BIGELOW 530RoboCop PAUL VERHOEVEN 538The Unbearable Lightness 548 of Being PHILIP KAUFMAN

Lethal Weapon RICHARD DONNER 556House of Games DAVID MAMET 562Wall Street OLIVER STONE 568

Die Hard JOHN MCTIERNAN 574Rain Man BARRY LEVINSON 582Dead Ringers DAVID CRONENBERG 590Working Girl MIKE NICHOLS 596

Indiana Jones and the Last 602 Crusade STEVEN SPIELBERG

The Naked Gun – From the 610 Files of Police Squad! DAVID ZUCKER

Mississippi Burning ALAN PARKER 618

Dead Poets Society PETER WEIR 628Batman TIM BURTON 638Who Framed Roger Rabbit 646 ROBERT ZEMECKIS, RICHARD WILLIAMS

Dangerous Liaisons 654 STEPHEN FREARS

1987 1988

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1990

Sex, Lies, and Videotape 664 STEVEN SODERBERGH

Miller’s Crossing 670 JOEL COEN, ETHAN COEN

Pretty Woman GARRY MARSHALL 676Time of the Gypsies 684 EMIR KUSTURICA

Crimes and Misdemeanors 690 WOODY ALLEN

When Harry Met Sally… 696 ROB REINER

My Left Foot JIM SHERIDAN 702Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 710 PEDRO ALMODÓVAR

Born on the Fourth of July 716 OLIVER STONE

Sweetie JANE CAMPION 726

Home Alone CHRIS COLUMBUS 732Dances with Wolves KEVIN COSTNER 738I Hired a Contract Killer 750 AKI KAURISMÄKI

Total Recall PAUL VERHOEVEN 756Wild at Heart DAVID LYNCH 764Edward Scissorhands TIM BURTON 774Misery ROB REINER 784Bullet in the Head JOHN WOO 792GoodFellas MARTIN SCORSESE 798

Academy Awards 810

Index 816

About the Authors 826

Credits 827

Imprint 832

1989

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INTRODUCTION

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