80's Draft: Lists

1. A. Wilford Brimley's The Thing (1982)
Trailers: The Thing From Another World, Rio Bravo, The Hidden
Q&A with Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter and a video linkup with John Carpenter from his living room.
Special Treat: Brimley performs his one man show "I'm all out of Oatmeal."

2. Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Trailers: The Wild Bunch, 48 Hrs, TBA
Q&A with Walter Hill, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso and Larry B. Scott.
Special Treat: Repeated phone calls to Nick Nolte, inquiring on his whereabouts.

3. Top Secret! (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_abq2BcUMk

4. Into the Night (1985)

5. Year of the Dragon (1985)

Bonus: O.C. and Stiggs (1985)

1. Brazil (1985)
2. After Hours (1985)
3. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
4. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
5. The Hitcher (1986)
Bonus: Lost in America (1985)

I guess I enjoy me some 1985! And Jennifer Jason Leigh!

1. Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
2. Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981)
3. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987)
4. Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet, 1981)
5. Street Trash (James Muro, 1987)

The decade that went from me playing with Matchbox cars to me playing with tits:

1. Robocop (1987)
2. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
3. Pixote (1981)
4. Stalker (1982)
5. Ms.45 (1981)

Bonus: The Dead (1987)

Festival of the Third Eye - 5 Ways to Expand One's Boundaries In A Decade of Consumerism

1. Videodrome (1983)
2. The Color Purple (1985)
3. Altered States (1980)
4. Hellraiser (1987)
5. 2010 (1984)

Bonus: Clue (1985)

1) Fanny and Alexander (1982)
2) Wings of Desire (1987)
3) The Long Good Friday (1980)
4) Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
5) Vagabond (1985)

Bonus Round: Cutter's Way (1981)

Straxflicks Presents: "No Room For Bad Hair & Cock Rock: An 1980s Celluloid Oasis"

Playing all five screens, all week, two shows a day

Screen 1: Once Upon A Time In America 1984 d. Sergio Leone -- support feature The Roaring Twenties trailers Bullets Over Broadway, Once Upon...West and The Godfather

Screen 2: Re Animator 1985, d. Stuart Gordon -- supporting feature The Black Cat (1932) with trailers for The Resurrected, Stuck and Night Life

Screen 3: Gremlins 1984, d. Joe Dante -- supporting features: Twilight Zone Episodes Terror At 35,000 Feet, The Invaders and The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

Screen 4: Come & See 1985, d. Elim Klimov -- supporting feature The Pianist trailers for Battleship Potemkin, Ballad Of A Soldier and The Big Red One

Screen 5: The Blob (1988) supporting feature Phantoms with trailers for [b]Slither[/i], The Blob (1955) and Body Melt

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
2. The Last Emperor (1987)
3. One From the Heart (1982)
4. Missing (1982)
5. Passage to India (1984)

Bonus: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Dellamorte's Fest of films from Reagan's America:
1. Blue Velvet (1986) Followed by a Q&A with Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and Isabella Roselini. Trailers : TBA
2. Stop Making Sense (1984) Followed by a Q&A with Johnathan Demme and David Byrne. Trailers : TBA
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Followed by a Q&A with Woody Allen and Jeff Daniels. Trailers: TBA
4. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Followed by a Q&A with Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford. Trailers: TBA
5. Casualties of War (1989) Followed by a Q&A with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. Trailers: TBA
MIDNIGHT SHOW: Say Anything (1989) Followed by Q&A with John Cusack (masturbating is discouraged). Trailers: TBA

Death, Rebirth, and Faith: The Ressurected Messiah and the Power of Believing in 80s Genre Cinema

Five Days at New York City's famous Film Forum. Each film will feature Trailers before and a Guest Panel discussion (scheduled for 60 minutes) right after the feature. There will also be screenings before and after each featured presentation, the earlier being films that may have been an influence, the later being films influenced by it. Thus we will see a progression of tropes and techniques, as well as the variations in artistic vision.

1. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Pre Screening: The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Trailers: The Greatest Story Ever Told, Kundun, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Messenger, Platoon, The Passion of the Christ
Guest Panel: Willem Dafoe, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Cardinal Edward Egan. Moderator is Darren Aronofsky
Post Screening: The Fountain (2006)

2. Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Pre Screening: Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Trailers: Krull, Red Dawn, The Scorpion King, Scarface, Gladiator
Video Introduction by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Guest Panel: John Milius, Oliver Stone, James Earl Jones, Gerry Lopez. Moderator is Zack Snyder
Post Screening: 300 (2007)

3. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Pre Screening: The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
Trailers: Time Bandits, Brazil, Tall Tale, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, City of Lost Children, Dreamchild
Guest Panel: Terry Gilliam, John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Charles McKeown. Moderator is Tim Burton
Post Screening: Big Fish (2003)

4. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Pre Screening: Zombie (1979)
Trailers: Live and Let Die, Something Wicked This Way Comes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Thunderheart
Guest Panel: Wes Craven, Bill Pullman, Wade Davis. Moderator is Iain Softley
Post Screening: The Skeleton Key (2005)

5. Excalibur (1981)
Pre Screening: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Trailers: Deliverance, The Sword in the Stone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur, Dragonslayer, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Video Introduction by Helen Mirren
Guest Panel: John Boorman, Nicol Williamson, Nigel Terry. Moderator is Liam Neeson
Post Screening: Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut (2005)

6. BONUS MOVIE Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
No extra screenings or panel
Taped intro by Steven Spielberg
Trailers: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Zardoz, You Only Live Twice, Excalibur, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Free Admission for anyone with three stubs from the previous 5 days.

Eddie Murphy: Raw

Bonus: Dirty Dancing

Edit: Stupid 4 photo limit

Cannon Films Presents: A Hocken Production.

1. Repo Man
2. Gallipoli
3. UHF
4. Wall Street
5. Good Morning, Vietnam

BONUS: Witness

1. The King Of Comedy (1983)
2. Lethal Weapon (1987)
3. The Naked Gun (1988)
4. The Hidden (1987)
5. Uncommon Valor (1983)

Bonus Baby: MAJOR LEAGUE (1989)

FAT ELVIS 1st Annual FILM FESTIVAL
At the restored Startime Drive-In Theatre in rustic Canton, GA. Tickets: Two Dollars! Available at your local Turtles Records & Tapes

1. Feature Presentation: THE RIGHT STUFF (1983) d. Philip Kaufman Scheduled guests: Tom Wolfe, Pamela Reed, Levon Helm, and FRED WARD
trailers: Patton, X-15, Countdown, The Magnificent Seven, Apollo 13, The Great Northfield Minn. Raid, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Capricorn One
special matinee show-How The West Was Won
First 80 ticket holders receive a free pack of Beeman's chewing gum!
(Hey kids...the first seven at the box-office to say 'My name, Jose Jimenez' get in free!)

2. "Be Afraid...Be Very Afraid"
Feature Presentation: THE FLY(1986) d. David Cronenberg Scheduled guests: Geena Davis, John Getz, and F/X artist Chris Walas (Jeff Goldblum, C. Everett Koop unconfirmed)
trailers: The Fly ('58), The Thing, They Came From Within, Rabid, The Brood, SuperFly, War of the Worlds ('05), The Blob, Frankenstein, Seconds, Mister Frost, Inv. of the Body Snatchers ('56), Dead Ringers
special matinee double bill: ALIEN / INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ('78)
First 80 ticket holders receive authentic relic from "The Brundle Museum of Natural History"!
(Hey kids...At the box-office say 'Help me! Help meee!' win....Vincent Price's Egg Magic!!!)

3. "Say 'what the fuck'... if you can't say it, you can't do it."
Feature Presentation: RISKY BUSINESS (1983) d. Paul Brinkman Scheduled guests: Curtis Armstrong, Bronson Pinchot, Joe Pantoliano, Rebecca De Mornay... And performances by Bob Seger + Tangerine Dream !!! (Tom Cruise unconfirmed)
Trailers: You're A Big Boy Now, Harold & Maude, Better Off Dead, Handle With Care, Lost In America, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, Valley Girl, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Little Darlings, The Flamingo Kid, Baby It's You, The Sure Thing, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Say Anything
Special Matinee: The Graduate

4. Feature Presentation: PURPLE RAIN (1984) Hosted by Martha Quinn & Nina Blackwood Scheduled guests: Apollonia Kotero, Denise Katrina Matthews (Vanity).....Following the Show...A Special Concert by Morris Day & The Time!!! (A Reunited Prince & the Revolution unconfirmed)
Trailers: A Hard Day's Night, Jailhouse Rock, The Girl Can't Help It, Help, Head, Payday, Phantom of the Paradise, Hustle & Flow, That Thing You Do!, Let's Spend The Night Together, Yellow Submarine, I'm Not There, Renaldo & Clara, Light of Day, Honeysuckle Rose, Coal Miner's Daughter, Tougher Than Leather, Desperately Seeking Susan, Graffiti Bridge
Matinee: The Harder They Come, Michael Jackson's THRILLER

5. Feature Presentation: REDS (1981) d. Warren Beatty Hosted by Peter Biskind Scheduled Guests: Warren Beatty and Elia Kazan
Trailers: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; 1776; Doctor Zhivago; Red Dawn; Shampoo; Heaven Can Wait; Big Jim McClain; JFK; The Grapes of Wrath; On The Waterfront; Treasure of the Sierra Madre; High Noon; The Parallax View; 1900; There Will Be Blood; The Iceman Cometh; The Long Voyage Home; Bonnie & Clyde
Matinee: Heaven's Gate
(Get in free with ACLU or John Birch Society card!)

6. "This school is our home...we think it's worth defending."
Feature Presentation: TAPS (1981) d. Harold Becker Scheduled Guests: Harold Becker, Timothy Hutton (Sean Penn, Tom Cruise unconfirmed)
Trailers: First Blood; Rio Bravo; The Alamo; Southern Comfort; Uncommon Valor; An Officer and a Gentleman; The Falcon & The Snowman; Up The Academy; Stripes; Top Gun; Tank; Class of 1984; River's Edge; Bugsy Malone; Dr. Strangelove; War Games; Casualties of War; Assault On Precinct 13; Die Hard
Matinee: Patton
(Hey kids...shout "It's beautiful, man!" at the box-office...win scholarship to Valley Forge Military Academy!

1. E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)- Trailers:Wall-E, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, The Empire Strikes Back Preceded by screening of Captain EO
2. Withnail & I (1987) - Trailers: Shawn Of The Dead, Gosford Park, A Hard Days Night Preceded by an open bar
3. River's Edge (1986) - Trailers : Permanent Record, Rumble Fish, Where The Day Takes You, Directly following the feature a screening of Crispin Glover's legendary appearance on Late Night with David Letterman
4. Eight Men Out (1988) - Trailers : Lone Star, Matewan, The Natural Preceded by Q&A with Charlie Sheen and no less than three (3) prostitutes.
5. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) - Trailers :
Bonus - The Lost Boys (1987)

When cinema turned to cynicism, these were worth saving from the ruins:

1. The Abyss - James Cameron - 1986
2. To Live and Die in LA - William Friedkin - 1985
3.Near Dark - Kathryn Bigelow - 1987
4.Flesh+Blood - Paul Verhoeven - 1985
5. Honkytonk Man - Clint Eastwood - 1982

bonus round: The Howling - Joe Dante - 1981

1. Back to the Future (1985)
2. Real Genius (1985)
3. They Live (1988)
4. Field of Dreams (1989)
5. First Blood (1982)

Bonus: Stripes (1981)

1. Ghostbusters - Ivan Reitman - 1984
2. Big Trouble in Little China - John Carpenter - 1986
3. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Robert Zemeckis - 1988
4. Fletch - Michael Ritchie - 1985
5. Wild Style - Charlie Ahearn - 1983

Bonus punch:

6. Rocky IV - Sylvester Stallone - 1985

Paying homage to the masters of practical effects of the 80's.
Baker, Henson, Winston and many more geniuses.

1. An American Werewolf in London - 1981
2. Predator - 1987
3. Labyrinth - 1986
4. Enemy Mine - 1985
5. Critters - 1986

Bonus : Willow - 1988

Around the World in an 80s Daze

Tales of Best Laid Plans, Madness, Obsessions, and Quests from Around the World

1. RAN - Akira Kurosawa (1985)
2. FITZCARRALDO - Werner Herzog (1982)
3. RUNAWAY TRAIN - Andrei Konchalovsky (1985)
4. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION - Harold Ramis (1983)
5. TAMPOPO - Juzo Itami (1985)

Bonus: JEAN DE FLORETTE - Claude Berri (1986)

1. Tootsie (1982)
2. The Verdict (1982)
3. Thief (1981)
4. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
5. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Bonus: Hoosiers (1986)

Still pissed I stupidly missed out on To Live and Die in LA, but I'm pretty happy with that line-up.

Worlds Away From Home:

1. The Invader: Local Hero (1983)
2. The Outsider: The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
3. The Exile: Paris, Texas (1984)
4. The Immigrant: Coming To America (1988)
5. The Outlaw: The Grey Fox (1982)

Bonus: The Wanderer: Streets of Fire (1984)

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5. Heartbreak Ridge (1986) (what was I thinking
Bonus: The 'burbs" (1989)

An Introduction to Oscar Winning Writer/Director's First Films in the '80s Quintuple Feature:

1. "That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."

..........- The Terminator (1984) First film co-written and directed by James Cameron, Oscar Winner: Best Director (1997)

2. "Well, ma'am, if I see him, I'll sure give him the message."

..........- Blood Simple (1985) First film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, Oscar Winner: Best Director (2007)

3. "You know what word I'm not comfortable with? Nuance. It's not a real word. Like gesture. Gesture's a real word. With gesture you know where you stand. But nuance? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong."

..........- Diner (1982) First film written and directed by Barry Levinson, Oscar Winner: Best Director (1988)

4. "Aren't I lucky, I got a chunky bit!"

..........- Bad Taste (1987) First film written and directed by Peter Jackson, Oscar Winner: Best Director (2003)

5. "OH SHIT! I just lost my right hand in an elaborately staged car accident!!!"

..........- The Hand (1987) First studio film written and directed by Oliver Stone, Oscar Winner: Best Director (1986, 1989)

B. "Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle."

..........- The Company of Wolves (1984) Second film written and directed by Neil Jordan, Oscar Winner: Best Original Screenplay (1992)

1. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
2. Midnight Run (1988)
3. Innerspace (1987)
4. Bull Durham (1988)
5. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

1. Modern Romance (1981)

2. Pennies from Heaven (1981)

3. Mona Lisa (1986)

4. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

5. My Favorite Year (1982)

Bonus: The Hit (1984)

1. Die Hard (1988)
2. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
3. Scanners (1981)
4. When The Wind Blows (1986/88)
5. Best Seller (1987)

Bonus: Police Story (1985/1987)

Update this bitch.

1. Blade Runner
2. Down By Law
3. Hannah and Her Sisters
4. True Stories
5. Red Dawn

1. Batman
2. Stand By Me
3. Beverly Hills Cop
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Dead Poet's Society

1. House Of Games (1987)
2. WarGames (1983)
3. The Color of Money (1986)
4. Walker (1987)
5. Star 80 (1983)
BONUS: The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

Update, cunts.

This is the current lists thread - I did a sticky on it at the beginning of the draft.

Update!

Well played, good theme.


Also... finish your updates, peoples!