(Yes, Wenders’ movie provided the basis for the American film City of Angels. He may not win her over, but he’s willing to risk the agony and ecstasy of being human to make a connection. One such divine guardian, Damiel (Bruno Ganz), falls in love with a circus trapeze artist named Marion (Solveig Dommartin) and decides to renounce his heavenly privileges. No one can see them except children they can hear thoughts and offer a solace to the distraught, but they’re not allowed to interfere with the affairs of the living. German filmmaker Wim Wenders’ gorgeous, ethereal romance movie imagines a Berlin populated by angels - no harps or halos, but they’re immortal and have massive, feathery wings - who silently watch over the city’s denizens. Image Credit: ©United Artists/Everett Collection It blew into British cinema like a breath of fresh air, becoming a minor sensation across the pond in the process and giving a lot of audiences their first look at a future Oscar-winner/super-intense milkshake drinker. His hustler of an uncle unloads a second-rate laundrette on his nephew as a favor soon, the young man and his old friend/lover Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), a former punk with National Front associations, are turning a profit and getting it on in the backroom. Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is a second-generation Pakistani living in London and eager to make his way in the world. And all of these selections are ones we felt represented not just the decade they sprung from, but the very best that Eighties cinema had to offer.Ī keen-eyed, sharp-tongued look at Thatcher’s Britain - and the attitudes of the nation regarding race, class, success, money and sexuality, long after the sun had set on its empire - director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Hanief Kureishi’s satire pits two misfits against the system and lets everything around them work up a nice, thick lather. Some are movies that might have flown under your radar entirely yet have not only stood the test of time, they’ve proven that they’re well worth yours. Some of these became instant cult classics and some were smaller films championed by few at the time, and have only recently - and belatedly - been rediscovered as true treasures. Some dominated the box office for weeks on end. So it wasn’t that hard, after many Zima-fueled nights of popping VHS tapes in and out of our video cassette recorders, to come up with a definitive ranked list of the 100 greatest movies of the 1980s. It’s never quite been the lost decade that people have claimed it was. Documentaries became formally innovative, socially insightful and more popular than ever. Several major directors brought their A game to the 1980s, a transfusion of fresh-blood filmmakers hit the scene with breakthrough works and bold debuts, and a handful of veteran international auteurs made late masterpieces. Genres like science fiction and horror hit new heights. But that 10-year period minted a handful of Hall of Fame movie stars. It was a lull, a pressed pause button, a clearing of the throat in between arias. For a long time, the Eighties were considered a bit of a cinematic dead zone stuck between the New Hollywood/modern blockbuster-inventing Seventies and the edgier, irony-heavy Indie Revolution Nineties.
(Thank you for three of those things.) And if you went to the movies regularly, you were blessed with a steady diet of horny teens, killer robots, homesick extraterrestrials, raging bulls, road warriors, cop-and-crook team-ups, and more dystopian visions of the future than you could shake a time-traveling DeLorean at. It was the decade that gave us the Reagan administration, Rubik’s cubes, “The Reflex” and Run DMC.
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