25 Off My Head - The 80s Movies That Matter

This list goes out to Daniel, who left a comment on yesterday's post about Blue Velvet that got this subject churning in my brain -- thing is, I'm pretty sure that David Lynch's film, released on September 19th 1986, is the greatest film of the 1980s. Number One! Once I realized that I thought this, well from there I got to thinking about the other movies I would put on such a list. I scribbled down a couple dozen, then I did some research and scribbled down a few more, and then I whittled those down to 25 and voila.

I had to make a few random choices to condense - it couldn't be a list of nothing but David Lynch & David Cronenberg movies, for instance (even though it probably could). And lord knows there are probably movies I'm forgetting since I made this list pretty spur of the moment. But here, not in specific order (save the first one because totally) are...

(David Lynch, 1986)

(Martin Scorsese, 1985)

(James Cameron, 1986)

(Rob Epstein, 1984)

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
(Frank Oz, 1986)

ROBOCOP
(Paul Verhoeven, 1987)

THE ELEPHANT MAN
(David Lynch, 1980)

CRIMES OF PASSION
(Ken Russell, 1984)

SILKWOOD
(Mike Nichols, 1983)

HAIRSPRAY
(John Waters, 1988)

DRESSED TO KILL
(Brian De Palma, 1980)

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?
(Robert Zemeckis, 1988)

(David Cronenberg, 1983)

(James Ivory, 1987)

(James L. Brooks, 1987)

(Terry Gilliam, 1985)

(Wim Wenders, 1987)

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
(Steven Spielberg, 1981)

(Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

(Jonathan Demme, 1984)

(Pedro Almodovar, 1988)

RAISING ARIZONA
(The Coens, 1987)

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE
(Stephen Frears, 1985)

THE THING
(Carpenter, 1982)

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Okay so what did I miss?
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