The 1980 List
##. Film (Director)
points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking
01. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
316/16(8)/1(x3)
02. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
237/11(8)/1(x4)
03. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
212/9(8)/1(x4)
04. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
194/11(5)/2(x3)
05. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
184/10(5)/1
06. American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)
146/9(1)/4
07. Sauve qui peut (la vie) [Every Man for Himself] (Jean-Luc Godard)
142/7(4)/1(x2)
08. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
129/8(3)/3
09. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
124/8(3)/2
10. Inferno (Dario Argento)
117/9(1)/3
11. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
99/6(2)/3
12. Hollywood (Kevin Brownlow & David Gill)
97/4(4)/1
13. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
95/6(2)/3
14. 影武者 [Kagemusha] (Akira Kurosawa)
94/5(1)/4
15. Popeye (Robert Altman)
91/6(1)/5
16. The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
89/6(2)/2
17. Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth)
86/5/7(x2)
18. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
84/7(1)/3
19. Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper)
82/6(1)/5
(tie) Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker)
82/6(1)/5
21. Constans [The Constant Factor] (Krzysztof Zanussi)
77/4(3)/2
(tie) Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
77/5(1)/1
23. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
74/5(1)/3
24. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
69/5(1)/4
25. Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
64/4(1)/3
26. Aus dem Leben der Marionetten [From the Life of the Marionettes] (Ingmar Bergman)
61/4(1)/3
(tie) Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
61/4/8
28. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
53/4/7
(tie) Gloria (John Cassavetes)
53/4/10
30. Golem (Piotr Szulkin)
50/4(1)/4
31. La città delle donne [City of Women] (Federico Fellini)
46/3(1)/5
32. Altered States (Ken Russell)
44/3/7
33. The Changeling (Peter Medak)
43/5/8
34. The Fog (John Carpenter)
42/2(1)/4
35. Une semaine de vacances [A Week's Holiday] (Bertrand Tavernier)
41/3(1)/5
36. Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank)
38/2/7(x2)
(tie) Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted)
38/3/10
38. Willie & Phil (Paul Mazursky)
37/3/9
39. Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges)
35/2(1)/4
40. The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty)
34/2(1)/3
(tie) Bizalom [Confidence] (István Szabó)
34/2(1)/5
(tie) Personal Problems (Bill Gunn)
34/2(1)/5
(tie) ツィゴイネルワイゼン [Zigeunerweisen] (Seijun Suzuki)
34/2/6
44. Murder Psalm (Stan Brakhage)
33/2(1)/1
45. Terror Train (Roger Spottiswoode)
30/3(1)/5
46. Robert Haller’s Wedding (Jonas Mekas)
29/2/8
(tie) The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
29/3/8
48. Le Dernier Métro [The Last Metro] (François Truffaut)
28/2/10
49. Zig-Zag, ou le Jeu de l'oie (une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie) [Snakes and Ladders] (Raúl Ruiz)
26/2/11
50. Maniac (William Lustig)
25/2(1)/5
ALSO-RANS
सतह से उठता आदमी [Satah Se Uthata Aadmi] [Arising from the Surface] (Mani Kaul)
24/2/7
第一類型危險 [Di yi lei xing wei xian] [Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind] (Tsui Hark)
24/2/14(x2)
짝코 [Jagko] [Pursuit of Death] (Im Kwon-taek)
23/2/6
Return of the Secaucus Seven (John Sayles)
20/2/12
Architecture (Al Jarnow)
18/2/14
Bridge (John Woodman)
17/2/11
Hopscotch (Ronald Neame)
17/2/16
Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
14/2/13
Alligator (Lewis Teague)
10/3/22(x2)
ORPHANS
Film (Director)
highest ranking
Fame (Alan Parker)
22
La verdad sobre el caso Savolta [The Truth on the Savolta Affair] (Antonio Drove)
18
Where the Buffalo Roam (Art Linson)
10
Barnes & Barnes: Fish Heads (Bill Paxton & Rocky Schenck)
2
Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood)
3
9 to 5 (Colin Higgins)
22
The Final Countdown (Don Taylor)
10
La terrazza (Ettore Scola)
4
A légy [The Fly] (Ferenc Rófusz)
12
Babylon (Franco Rosso)
20
Model (Frederick Wiseman)
11
आक्रोश [Aakrosh] [Outrage] (Govind Nihalani)
5
എസ്തപ്പാൻ [Esthappan] [Stephen] (Govindan Aravindan)
10
Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
25
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (Héctor Babenco)
6
Private Benjamin (Howard Zieff)
14
Manila by Night (Ishmael Bernal)
11
師弟出馬 [Shi di chu ma] [The Young Master] (Jackie Chan)
25
El nido [The Nest] (Jaime de Armiñán)
19
The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys)
14
Zánik domu Usherů [The Fall of the House of Usher] (Jan Švankmajer)
20
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch (Jean Eustache)
23
La Nuit des traquées [The Night of the Hunted] (Jean Rollin)
13
Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin)
24
Honeysuckle Rose (Jerry Schatzberg)
25
Postav dom, zasaď strom [Build a House, Plant a Tree] (Juraj Jakubisko)
11
శంకరాభరణం [Sankarabharanam] [The Jewel of Shiva] (K. Viswanath)
9
Motel Hell (Kevin Connor)
20
The Metaphor (King Vidor)
9
Kontrakt [The Contract] (Krzysztof Zanussi)
22
萬人斬 [Wan ren zan] [Killer Constable] (Kuei Chih-hung)
25
Carabosse (Larry Jordan)
9
최후의 증인 [Choehuui jeungin] [The Last Witness] (Lee Doo-yong)
24
Strangulation Blues (Leos Carax)
7
බද්දේගම [Beddegama] [Village in the Jungle] (Lester James Peries)
13
You Better Watch Out [Christmas Evil] (Lewis Jackson)
23
Simon (Marshall Brickman)
21
Signum laudis [The Medal] (Martin Hollý)
7
Le Voyage en douce (Michel Deville)
10
Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh)
9
Split Enz: One Step Ahead (Noel Crombie)
23
Spetters (Paul Verhoeven)
24
Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman)
18
HealtH (Robert Altman)
5
Night of the Juggler (Robert Butler)
12
Xanadu (Robert Greenwald)
3
鬼打鬼 [Gui da gui] [Encounter of the Spooky Kind] (Sammo Hung)
17
翔んだカップル [Tonda kappuru] [The Terrible Couple] (Shinji Sōmai)
7
Ko to tamo peva [Who's Singing Over There?] (Slobodan Šijan)
15
Petrijin venac [Petria's Wreath] (Srđan Karanović)
4
Der Kandidat [The Candidate] (Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge, Alexander von Eschwege & Volker Schlöndorff)
12
Madonna and Child (Terence Davies)
9
Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος [O megalexandros] [Alexander the Great] (Theo Angelopoulos)
9
Talking Heads: Crosseyed and Painless (Toni Basil)
15
地獄無門 [Dei yuk mo moon] [We're Going to Eat You] (Tsui Hark)
23
Москва слезам не верит [Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears] [Moskva slezam ne verit] (Vladimir Menshov)
9
Lightning Over Water (Wim Wenders & Nicholas Ray)
21
巴山夜雨 [Ba shan ye yu] [Evening Rain] (Wu Yigong)
23
天云山传奇 [Tian yun shan chuan qi] [Legend of Tianyun Mountain] (Xie Jin)
1
遙かなる山の呼び声 [Haruka naru yama no yobigoe] [A Distant Cry from Spring] (Yōji Yamada)
2
Лісова пісня. Мавка [Lisova pisnya. Mavka] [The Forest Song: Mavka] (Yuri Ilyenko)
19
Journeys from Berlin/1971 (Yvonne Rainer)
6
Media (Zbigniew Rybczyński)
3
Sceny narciarskie z Franzem Klammerem [Ski Scenes with Franz Klammer] (Zbigniew Rybczyński, Gerald Kargl & Bogdan Dziworski)
6
Csontváry (Zoltán Huszárik)
20
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