1988: Movies Seen
Submitted by Imposter on Fri, 07/23/2004 - 04:16
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Totally Awesome
- Grave Of The Fireflies - dir: Isao Takahata; st: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
****½
- Die Hard - dir: John McTiernan; st: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Alexander Godunov
- Eight Men Out - dir: John Sayles; st: John Cusack, David Strathairn, D.B. Sweeney, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen
- A Fish Called Wanda - dir: Charles Crichton; st: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken
- The Last Temptation of Christ - dir: Martin Scorsese; st: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Verna Bloom
- The Vanishing - dir: George Sluizer; st: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit - dir: Robert Zemeckis; st: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Joanna Cassidy
****
- As Tears Go By - dir: Wong Kar-Wai; st: Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jackie Cheung, Alex Man, William Chang
- Beetlejuice - dir: Tim Burton; st: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones
- Big - dir: Penny Marshall; st: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Mercedes Ruehl
- Bull Durham - dir: Ron Shelton; st: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Robert Wuhl, William O'Leary
- Chocolat - dir: Claire Denis; st: Giulia Boschi, Francois Cluzet, Isaach De Bankole, Cecile Ducasse, Mireille Perrier
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - dir: Frank Oz; st: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Barbara Harris
- Hairspray - dir: John Waters; st: Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller
- Midnight Run - dir: Martin Brest; st: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Joe Pantoliano
- Stand And Deliver - dir: Ramón Menéndez; st: Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris
- U2: Rattle And Hum - dir: Phil Joanou; st: U2, B.B. King
- The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - dir: Philip Kaufman; st: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint
- Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown - dir: Pedro Almodóvar; st: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julietta Serano, Rossy de Palma
***½
- The Accused - dir: Jonathan Kaplan; st: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - dir: Terry Gilliam; st: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman
- Biloxi Blues - dir: Mike Nichols; st: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Penelope Ann Miller, Park Overall
- Dangerous Liaisons - dir: Stephen Frears; st: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves
- Frantic - dir: Roman Polanski; st: Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney, Yorgo Voyagis
- The In Crowd - dir: Mark Rosenthal; st: Donovan Leitch, Joe Pantoliano, Jennifer Runyon, Wendy Gazelle
- Mississippi Burning - dir: Alan Parker; st: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, R. Lee Ermey, Brad Dourif
- The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad! - dir: David Zucker; st: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson
- Police Story 2 - dir: Jackie Chan; st: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Benny Lai, Bill Tung, Kwok-Hung Lam
- Rain Man - dir: Barry Levinson; st: Dustin Hoffman; Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
***
- 18 Again! - dir: Paul Flaherty; st: George Burns, Charlie Schlatter, Red Buttons, Anita Morris
- The Dead Pool - dir: Buddy Van Horn; st: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, David Hunt
- Scrooged - dir: Richard Donner; st: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum
- Twins - dir: Ivan Reitman; st: Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb
- Vice Versa - dir: Brian Gilbert; st: Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Kaczmarek, Corinne Bohrer
- Young Guns - dir: Christopher Cain; st: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
**½
- Arthur 2: On The Rocks - dir: Bud Yorkin; st: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald
- Big Top Pee-Wee - dir: Randal Kleiser; st: Paul Reubens, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino
- Casual Sex? - dir: Geneviève Robert; st: Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen, Jerry Levine
- Coming To America - dir: John Landis; st: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Shari Headley
- Two Moon Junction - dir: Zalman King; st: Sherilyn Fenn, Louise Fletcher, Kristy McNichol, Burl Ives
**
- And God Created Woman - dir: Roger Vadim; st: Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella, Donovan Leitch
- Short Circuit 2 - dir: Kenneth Johnson; st: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston
- A Tiger's Tale - dir: Peter Douglas; st: Ann-Margret, C. Thomas Howell, Charles Durning, Kelly Preston, Ann Wedgeworth
Wow, so much to agree with! Grave of the Fireflies is an excellent top choice in a very good year that features several other favorites of mine, Wanda, Midnight Run, Roger Rabbit, Big, and Bull Durham, all of which are well-placed here. Nice!
Nice lots of movies that I like here, but one of my favorites from 88 isnt, that being Willow. Otherwise I agree with you on a lot of these movies, mainly Grave of the Fireflies which I did not know many people had seen.
You know, I honestly can't remember if I've seen Willow or not. I used to work at a video store around the time it came out on home video, and I know we played it a lot, but as far as going from beginning to end, I'm not even sure.