Showing posts with label Night of the Comet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Night of the Comet. Show all posts

Monday, August 28, 2023

The 1984 Retro Hollmann Awards - Nominees

Almost a week late, and for a few reasons, though the one important one is: this was hard! Even last night I was second-guessing my choices and changing lineups and just...nothing seemed 100% right. It's just such a good year.

Well, anyway, now I've managed it from 76 films to a Top Ten, and now I've narrowed all the elements into 18 categories with five nominees each - and 32 films honored.

The nominees are:

Monday, August 21, 2023

Top Ten Films of 1984

A reminder - these were the 76 films screened for this 1984 retrospective.

2010
Against All Odds
All of Me
Amadeus
Beverly Hills Cop
Birdy
Body Double
The Bostonians
Broadway Danny Rose
The Brother from Another Planet
Breakin'
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Company of Wolves
Conan the Destroyer
The Cotton Club
Country
Crimes of Passion
Dreamscape
Dune
Falling in Love
Footloose
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Harry & Son
The House by the Cemetery
Iceman
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Karate Kid
The Killing Fields
The Lonely Guy
Mass Appeal
Mike's Murder
Mrs. Soffel
Moscow on the Hudson
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Natural
The NeverEnding Story
Night of the Comet
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Nineteen Eighty-Four
El Norte
Once Upon a Time in America
Paris, Texas
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Purple Rain
A Question of Silence
Repo Man
Rhinestone
The River
Romancing the Stone
Secret Honor
Sixteen Candles
Sleepaway Camp
A Soldier's Story
Songwriter
Splash
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Starman
Stop Making Sense
Stranger Than Paradise
Streets of Fire
Suburbia
A Sunday in the Country
Supergirl
Swing Shift
The Terminator
This is Spinal Tap
Tightrope
The Times of Harvey Milk
Top Secret!
Under the Volcano
Unfaithfully Yours
The Woman in Red

Now - with apologies to Honorable Mentions The Cotton Club (my #13), Harry & Son (my #11), and Mass Appeal (my #12) - my personal Top Ten Films of 1984, in alphabetical order.

Thursday, August 3, 2023

1984: Sex and Violence

Yesterday, I mentioned this lineup of films includes works from four of my favorite directors - all-timers, the best of the best. I'm sure many of you can guess, but let me know which films/directors you think I'm talking about. And please - join in the convo! What do you think of these flicks? Seen them? Love them?

Anyway: