1981's Best Movies: 40 Years Later

The Rivette is the most okay Rivette ever.

Modern Romance for me but Blow Out imo is quintessential De Palma, like everything he is in one film.

Polyester

possession

1. Blow Out
2. Modern Romance
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark

On my watchlist: Blind Chance, Le Pont du Nord, Pixote, and The Woman Next Door

What a year

Possession and The Beyond both made my top 100 ballot so it's between those two waking nightmares

Voted Possession before a second-thoughts derailment.

1. Possession
2. Escape from New York

Chariots is one of the most boring Oscar winners. The beach scene with the music is the only good part.

Gregory's Girl is listed as 1980 on IMDB.

I remember really liking the films Peter Weir made between 1975-1982 - Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness - but I haven’t seen any of them in decades

Atlantic City an 1980 film I'd rank among my 1981 ones.

Possession doesn't seem to be available in the US at all at the moment - not on streaming, as a dvd rental, or for purchase

the sword of power!

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance was completed in 1981 before the declaration of martial law in Poland but it was shelved by authorities until 1987, which is why it is often listed as a 1987 film. It presents three alternative futures for the protagonist

have never seen Excalibur, Possession, The Evil Dead or The Woman Next Door.

Surprised My Dinner With Andre isn't higher.

Das Boot, Gallipoli, Mad Max 2, Pixote, Reds I remember liking and want to see again. I was scornful of Chariots of Fire at the time but also want to revisit it

Didn't realize that Raiders of the Lost Ark has been considered to be the greatest film from this year. I am skeptical

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watched Blow Out again recently and thought it was great. It had a rapt quality and it referenced two of my other favorite films, Blow Up and The Conversation

I liked what Pauline Kael said about Travolta and Allen, that in the films in which they starred together (Carrie and Blow Out) they gave out the same amount of energy and were equally vivid

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Modern Romance over Possession.

don't feel like this was a great year ultimately

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