10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1980-х по версии Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine):

1980:
1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
3. Mon Oncle d’Amerique (Alain Resnais)
4. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
5. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
6. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7. The Changeling (Peter Medak)
8. Voyage en Douce (Michel Deville)
9. The Fog (John Carpenter)
10. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

Honorable Mention: Pepi, Luci, Bom (Pedro Almodóvar), Maniac (William Lustig), The Long Riders (Walter Hill), Inferno (Dario Argento), The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller), Popeye (Robert Altman), From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman), Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker), Atlantic City (Louis Malle), and The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

Blind Spots: God’s Angry Man (Werner Herzog), The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty), Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles), Health (Robert Altman), Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard), Carny (Robert Kaylor), Loulou (Maurice Pialat), Death Watch (Bertrand Tavernier), The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys), The Great Rock ‘n Roll Swindle (Julien Temple), Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper), Shogun Assassin (Robert Houston), The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field), Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis)

1981:
1. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
2. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
3. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
4. Polyester (John Waters)
5. Pixote (Héctor Babenco)
6. Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda)
7. Cutter’s Way (Ivan Passer)
8. The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer)
9. Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry)
10. Circle of Deceit (Volker Schlondorff)

Honorable Mention: The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi), Escape from New York (John Carpenter), Beau Pere (Bertrand Blier), Reds (Warren Beatty), Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg), Southern Comfort (Walter Hill), They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich), Modern Romance (Albert Brooks), Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)

Blind Spots: Tree of Knowledge (Nils Malmros), Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta), Three Brothers (Francesco Rosi), Assassination Attempt (Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov), The Professional (Georges Lautner), Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet), S.O.B. (Blake Edwards), True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard), Taxi Zum Klo (Frank Ripploh), Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Emir Kusturica), All the Marbles (Robert Aldrich), Rich and Famous (George Cukor), Full Moon High (Larry Cohen), Eijanaika (Shôhei Imamura), Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev)

1982:
1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
2. Cecilia (Humberto Solás)
3. Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
6. The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty)
7. Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
8. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
9. Tenebre (Dario Argento)
10. Yol (Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney)

Honorable Mention: Liquid Sky (Slava Tsuckerman), Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel), The Draughtman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper), Made in Britain (Alan Clarke), A Good Marriage (Eric Rohmer), Labyrinth of Passion (Pedro Almodóvar), Cat People (Paul Schrader), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman), Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Blind Spots: Passion (Jean-Luc Godard), Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner), Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni), La Traviata (Franco Zeffirelli), Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski), My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin), All Night Long (Chantal Akerman), The State of Things (Wim Wenders), La Truit (Joseph Losey), On Top of the Whale (Raúl Ruiz), So Is This (Michael Snow), Time Stands Still (Péter Gothár), Barbarosa (Fred Schepisi), Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette), Too Early, Too Late (Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub)

1983:
1. L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
2. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
3. Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. Ballad of Narayama (Shôhei Imamura)
5. The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven)
6. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
7. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
8. Testament (Lynne Littman)
9. El Sur (Víctor Erice)
10. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)

Honorable Mention: Scarface (Brian De Palma), Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio), Dark Habits (Pedro Almodóvar), The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg), Christine (John Carpenter), A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat), Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford), Warriors of the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark), Zelig (Woody Allen)

Blind Spots: A Brutal Game (Jean-Claude Brisseau), Danton (Andrzej Wajda), Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raúl Ruiz), Faux-Fuyants (Alain Bergala and Jean-Pierre Limosin), Carmen (Carlos Saura), El Norte (Gregory Nava), Entre Nous (Diane Kurys), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima), Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood), Exposed (James Toback), Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis), Betrayal (David Hugh Jones), Life Is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais), Sugar Cane Alley (Euzhan Palcy), Under Fire (Roger Spottiswoode)

1984:
1. Blood Simple (Joel and Ethan Coen)
2. Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell)
3. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
4. My Summer at Grandpa’s (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
6. Streetwise (Martin Bell)
7. Kaos (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
8. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodóvar)
9. The Terminator (James Cameron)
10. The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles)

Honorable Mention: Gremlins (Joe Dante), In the Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan), The Home and the World (Satyajit Ray), Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch), Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax), Fear City (Abel Ferrara), Starman (John Carpenter), Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer), Secret Honor (Robert Altman), Ballad of the Little Soldier (Werner Herzog)

Blind Spots: Threads (Mick Jackson), Choose Me (Alan Rudolph), Carmen (Francesco Rosi), After the Rehearsal (Ingmar Bergman), The Funeral (Juzo Itami), A Soldier’s Story (Norman Jewison), All of Me (Carl Reiner), Eureka (Nicolas Roeg), A Sunday in the Country (Bertrand Tavernier), The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola), Micki & Maude (Blake Edwards), The Natural (Barry Levinson), Improper Conduct (Néstor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez Leal), Diary for My Children (Márta Mészáros), Der Riese (Michael Klier), Class Relations (Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub)

1985:
1. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
2. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
3. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
4. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
5. The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Jiri Barta)
6. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
7. When Father Was Away on Business (Emir Kusturica)
8. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)
10. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)

Honorable Mention: Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant), The Angelic Conversation (Derek Jarman), Lost in America (Albert Brooks), Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon), My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears), After Hours (Martin Scorsese), Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman), Phenomena (Dario Argento), Vagabond (Agnès Varda), Fool For Love (Robert Altman)

Blind Spots: Flesh & Blood (Paul Verhoeven), Boycott (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Police (Maurice Pialat), Hour of the Star (Suzana Amaral), Tokyo-Ga (Wim Wenders), Dreamchild (Gavin Millar), The Runner (Amir Naderi), Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette), Police Story (Jackie Chan), Real Genius (Martha Coolidge), Angel’s Egg (Mamoru Oshii), Sweet Dreams (Karel Reisz) Wetherby (David Hare), Himatsuri (Mitsuo Yanagimachi), Taipei Story (Edward Yang), Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg)

1986:
1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
2. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
3. Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee)
4. Parting Glances (Bill Sherwood)
5. The Hitcher (Robert Harmon)
6. Matador (Pedro Almodóvar)
7. Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
8. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
9. Scene of the Crime (André Téchiné)
10. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)

Honorable Mention: Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismäki), Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen), Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter), Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan), Platoon (Oliver Stone), The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer), The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes), Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch), God’s Country (Louis Malle), Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox)

Blind Spots: Jean de Florette (Claude Berri), Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix), Angry Harvest (Agnieszka Holland), The Terrorizer (Edward Yang), Thérèse (Alain Cavalier), Rosa Luxemburg (Margarethe von Trotta), ’Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier), She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), Landscape Suicide (James Benning), Salvador (Oliver Stone), Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri), A Better Tomorrow (John Woo), Ménage (Bertrand Blier), 2 Friends (Jane Campion)

1987:
1. Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
3. Law of Desire (Pedro Almodóvar)
4. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
5. Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
6. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
7. Opera (Dario Argento)
8. Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse)
9. Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
10. Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle)

Honorable Mention: The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara), The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben), Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer), The Dead (John Huston), Good Morning, Babylon (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), O.C. & Stiggs (Robert Altman), Maurice (James Ivory), Radio Days (Woody Allen), Raising Arizona (The Coen Brothers), Matewan (John Sayles)

Blind Spots: Dark Eyes (Nikita Mikhalkov), Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer), Rouge (Stanley Kwan), The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol), Under Satan’s Sun (Maurice Pialat), The Camp at Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow), Missile (Frederick Wiseman), The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway), Barfly (Barbet Schroeder), Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme), Made in Heaven (Alan Rudolph), Winter Ade (Helke Misselwitz), The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), My Twentieth Century (Ildikó Enyedi), A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami)

1988:
1. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
2. Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
3. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
4. A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
5. Alice (Jan Svankmajer)
6. Story of Women (Claude Chabrol)
7. The Last of England (Derek Jarman)
8. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
9. A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
10. Medea (Lars von Trier)

Honorable Mention: Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears), Chocolat (Claire Denis), Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos), The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar), A Cry in the Dark (Fred Schepisi), Ariel (Aki Kaurismäki), Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell), My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)

Blind Spots: Hôtel Terminus (Marcel Ophüls), Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov), Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo), Hanussen (István Szabó), Candy Mountain (Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer), Talk Radio (Oliver Stone), Cannibal Tours (Dennis O’Rourke)

1989:
1. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
3. Born on the 4th of July (Oliver Stone)
4. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
5. Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
6. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
7. sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
8. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
9. Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
10. Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto)

Honorable Mention: La Chiesa (Michele Soavi), The Killer (John Woo), Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman), Henry V (Kenneth Branagh), Batman (Tim Burton), Heathers (Michael Lehmann), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson), Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara), Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki), Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)

Blind Spots: Sea of Love (Harold Becker), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover (Peter Greenway), Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte), The Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti), Freeze, Die, Come To Life (Vitali Kanevsky), Black Rain (Shoei Imamura)