1989--The Year in Review

Spike Lee had good reason to be peeved in 1989. His monumentally moving and extremely controversial Do The Right Thing commanded discussion amongst film lovers, and the media, all throughout the year, but ended up garnering only two Oscar nominations: one for his incisive original script and another for Danny Aiello's searing performance as a prideful pizzeria owner who watches his neighborhood and family business suffer through a particularly hot and contested Brooklyn day. Critics, too, seemed behind the times, with only the Los Angeles group deeming it Best Picture. But it's now clear there was no movie of the period which had more to say about where we were then and, indeed, where we are now. I bet there's no 1989 movie, outside of Tim Burton's game-changing megahit Batman or maybe the crowd-pleasing Field of Dreams, that's seriously viewed more often these days. Lee commanded a large and dedicated crew working on location in the borough's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where Lee had partially spent his childhood. As a result, the film--more than any other in this notable year--had a passionate grasp on its place and time, and still stands as a remarkably frank document of the racial divides that still tear at the United States' populace. For my part, the only films that came close to its strength were Gus Van Sant's haunting portrait of heroin addiction Drugstore Cowboy (starring a dynamic Matt Dillon) and Woody Allen's supreme look at misdeeds both major and slight, suitably titled Crimes and Misdemeanors. But Lee had to suffer through a year where a more forgivingly old-fashioned view of the racial divide, called Driving Miss Daisy, sparked the attention of the Academy, winning Best Picture (without even a nomination for its Australian director Bruce Beresford) and Best Actress for its aging star Jessica Tandy (who was superb in the film). Even Do The Right Thing's opening song, the bracing "Fight the Power" by NYC rap group Public Enemy, was ignored by the Academy, who clearly weren't able to process the song's (or the film's) stinging insights. Here, I do what I can to fight that power. I should say here that I left two great TV miniseries out of the running here: the UK's narcotics-chain epic Traffik and the US's western opus Lonesome Dove. If I were more inclusive, they'd be in the conversation here, but I really see them more as TV products rather than as cinema. NOTE: These are MY choices for each category, and are only occasionally reflective of the selections made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (aka The Oscars). When available, the nominee that actually won the Oscar will be highlighted in bold. 

PICTURE: DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee)
(2nd: Drugstore Cowboy (US, Gus Van Sant)
followed by: Crimes and Misdemeanors (US, Woody Allen)
Mystery Train (US, Jim Jarmusch)
Henry V (UK, Kenneth Branagh)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (US, Steven Soderbergh)
Jesus of Montreal (Canada, Denys Arcand)
The Seventh Continent (Austria, Michael Haneke)
Field of Dreams (US, Phil Alden Robinson)
The Abyss (US, James Cameron)
For All Mankind (US, Al Reinert)
My Left Foot (UK/Ireland, Jim Sheridan)
Born on the Fourth of July (US, Oliver Stone)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (UK, Peter Greenaway)
Black Rain (Japan, Shohei Imamura)
Sidewalk Stories (US, Charles Lane)
Life and Nothing But (France, Bertrand Tavernier)
Glory (US, Edward Zwick)
Let It Ride (US, Joe Pytka)
How to Get in Advertising (US, Bruce Robinson)
Parenthood (US. Ron Howard)
Sweetie (Australia, Jane Campion)
Enemies, a Love Story (US, Paul Mazursky)
The Nasty Girl (West Germany, Michael Verhoeven)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (US, Steven Spielberg)
Say Anything (US, Cameron Crowe)
True Love (US, Nancy Savoca)
Parents (US, Bob Balaban)
The Match Factory Girl (Finland, Aki Kaurismäki)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (US, Steve Kloves)
Roger and Me (US, Michael Moore)
Driving Miss Daisy (US, Bruce Beresford)
The Little Mermaid (US, John Musker and Ron Clements)
The Killer (Hong Kong, John Woo)
The Tall Guy (UK, Mel Smith)
Batman (US, Tim Burton)
Apartment Zero (UK/Argentina, Martin Donovan)
Heathers (US, Michael Lehmann)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Japan, Shinya Tsukamoto)
My Twentieth Century (Hungary, Ildekó Enyedi)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (West Germany/US, Uli Edel)
Eat a Bowl of Tea (US, Wayne Wang)
Lethal Weapon 2 (US, Richard Donner)
Dead Calm (Australia, Philip Noyce)
Chameleon Street (US, Wendell B. Harris Jr.)
Violent Cop (Japan, Takeshi Kitano)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Japan, Hayao Miyazaki)
Longtime Companion (US, Norman Rene)
The Big Picture (US, Christopher Guest)
Santa Sangre (Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky)
New York Stories (US, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Woody Allen)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (US, Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman)
Blaze (US, Ron Shelton)
When Harry Met Sally… (US, Rob Reiner)
Breaking In (US, Bill Forsyth)
Jacknife (US, David Hugh Jones)
Casualties of War (US, Brian De Palma)
Licence to Kill (UK, John Glen)
Great Balls of Fire (US, Jim McBride)
Sea of Love (US, Harold Becker)
Johnny Handsome (US, Walter Hill)
The Unbelievable Truth (US, Hal Hartley)
Scandal (UK, Michael Caton-Jones)
Valmont (US, Milos Forman)
The 'Burbs (US, Joe Dante)
Meet the Feebles (New Zealand, Peter Jackson)
Dead Poets Society (US, Peter Weir)
UHF (US, Jay Levey)
Shag (US, Zelda Barron)
Lean on Me (US, John G. Avildsen)
Back to the Future Part II (US, Robert Zemeckis)
Weekend at Bernie's (US, Ted Kotcheff)
Road House (US, Rowdy Herrington)



ACTOR: Daniel Day Lewis, MY LEFT FOOT (2nd: Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy, followed by: Kenneth Branagh, Henry V; Tom Cruise, Born on the Forth of July; Matt Dillon, Drugstore Cowboy, James Spader, Sex, Lies and Videotape; Charles Lane, Sidewalk Stories; Richard Dreyfuss, Let It Ride)

ACTRESS: Jessica Tandy, DRIVING MISS DAISY (2nd: Michelle Pfieffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys, followed by: Andie McDowell, Sex, Lies and Videotape; Annabella Sciorra, True Love; Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally; Lena Stolze, The Nasty Girl; Helen Mirren, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover; Winona Ryder, Heathers)



SUPPORTING ACTOR: Danny Aiello, DO THE RIGHT THING (2nd: Martin Landau, Crimes and Misdemeanors, followed by: Ossie Davis, Do The Right Thing; Denzel Washington, Glory; John Mahoney, Say Anything; Hugh O’Conor, My Left Foot; James Earl Jones, Field of Dreams; Alan Alda, Crimes and Misdemeanors)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Jason Leigh, LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (2nd: Kelly Lynch, Drugstore Cowboy, followed by: Anjelica Huston, Enemies, a Love Story; Lena Olin, Enemies, a Love Story; Rosie Perez, Do The Right Thing; Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot; Ruby Dee, Do The Right Thing; Laura San Giacomo, Sex, Lies and Videotape)



DIRECTOR: Spike Lee, DO THE RIGHT THING (2nd: Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors, followed by: Gus Van Sant, Drugstore Cowboy; Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train; Kenneth Branagh, Henry V; Steven Soderburgh, Sex, Lies and Videotape; Peter Greenaway, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover; Denys Arcand, Jesus of Montreal)



NON ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILM: JESUS OF MONTREAL (Canada, Denys Arcand) (2nd: The Seventh Continent (Austria, Michael Haneke), followed by: Black Rain (Japan, Shohei Imamura); Life and Nothing But (France, Bertrand Tavernier); The Nasty Girl (West Germany, Michael Verhoeven); The Match Factory Girl (Finland, Aki Kaurismäki); The Killer (Hong Kong, John Woo); Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Japan, Shinya Tsukamoto); My Twentieth Century (Hungary, Ildekó Enyedi); Violent Cop (Japan, Takeshi Kitano); Kiki’s Delivery Service (Japan, Hayao Miyazaki); Santa Sangre (Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky))



DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: FOR ALL MANKIND (US, Al Reinert) (2nd: Roger and Me (US, Michael Moore), followed by: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (US, Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman))

ANIMATED FEATURE: THE LITTLE MERMAID (US, Ron Clements and Jon Musker) (2nd: Kiki’s Delivery Service (Japan, Hayao Miyazaki))



ANIMATED SHORT: CREATURE COMFORTS (UK, Nick Park) (won in 1991) (2nd: A Grand Day Out (UK, Nick Park), followed by: Balance (West Germany, Christoph Lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein); The Club of the Discarded (Czechoslovakia, Jiri Barta); The Hill Farm (UK, Mark Baker))



LIVE ACTION SHORT: ELEPHANT (UK, Alan Clarke) (2nd: This Note's For You (US, Julien Temple), followed by: The Lunch Date (US, Adam Davidson))



ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Spike Lee, DO THE RIGHT THING (2nd: Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors, followed by: Steven Soderburgh, Sex, Lies and Videotape; Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train; Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, Parenthood)



ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost, DRUGSTORE COWBOY (2nd: Phil Alden Robinson, Field of Dreams, followed by: Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan, My Left Foot; Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic, Born on the Forth of July; Nancy Dowd, Let It Ride)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ernest Dickerson, DO THE RIGHT THING (2nd: Michael Ballhaus, The Fabulous Baker Boys, followed by: Mikael Solomon, The Abyss; Takashi Kawamata, Black Rain; Freddie Francis, Glory)

ART DIRECTION: BATMAN, The Abyss, Do The Right Thing, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Glory

COSTUME DESIGN: HENRY V, Valmont, Driving Miss Daisy, Batman, Great Balls of Fire



EDITING: DO THE RIGHT THING, The Abyss, Born on the Fourth of July, Drugstore Cowboy, Crimes and Misdemeanors



SOUND: THE ABYSS, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Glory, Born on the Forth of July, Field of Dreams

SOUND EFFECTS: THE ABYSS, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Glory



ORIGINAL SCORE: James Horner, FIELD OF DREAMS (2nd: Bill Lee, Do the Right Thing, followed by: Danny Elfman, Batman; Hans Zimmer, Driving Miss Daisy; James Horner, Glory)



ADAPTATION SCORE/SCORING OF A MUSICAL: Alan Menken, THE LITTLE MERMAID (won as Original Score) (2nd: Dave Grusin, The Fabulous Baker Boys)



ORIGINAL SONG: “Fight The Power” from DO THE RIGHT THING (Music and lyrics by Carlton Ridenhour, Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee and Eric Sadler) (2nd: “Cheer Down” from Lethal Weapon 2 (Music by George Harrison, lyrics by George Harrison and Tom Petty), followed by: “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid (Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman); “I Love to See You Smile” from Parenthood (Music and lyrics by Randy Newman); "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid (Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman))

VISUAL EFFECTS: THE ABYSS, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Tetsuo: The Iron Man

MAKEUP: BATMAN, Driving Miss Daisy, Johnny Handsome

My Movie Diary (August 2010-March 2012)

Since August of 2010, I've been keeping a movie diary on the right-hand column of FILMICABILITY.   But now it's time for me to delete those titles on the sidebar in order to make room for newer titles. So, in one single post, I decided to group these 630 films and 14 TV series according to the grades I've given them.  This is really just a post for me, but it can be for you, too.   Just take all the titles in the A+/B range, and if there's anything you haven't seen on these lists, boy, update your Netflix list pronto, because you need to see these movies/TV series.   At any rate, I'm not commenting at all on these, except to say: AVOID those titles at the bottom!  

A+
Pulp Fiction, You're Gonna Miss Me, General Orders No. 9, The Tree of Life, A Little Romance, Midnight Cowboy, Culloden, A Man Escaped, Bonnie and Clyde, O Lucky Man, Tommy, Rushmore, Goodfellas, A Separation, Tiny Furniture, Yellow Sky, Quatermass and the Pit, Hardware Wars, The Big Lebowski, Drugstore Cowboy, Men Don't Leave, Birth, The Deer Hunter, Moneyball, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, On The Bowery, Melancholia, Interiors, Frankenstein (1931), Louie (Seasons 1 & 2), The Fountain, Tess, Life is Sweet, Blood Simple, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blue Velvet, Bugsy Malone, Short Cuts, Inglourious Basterds, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, Harry and Tonto, The King's Speech, Encounters at the End of the World, This Man Must Die, 12 Angry Men, Timepiece, Special Delivery, Marvin and Tige, Electra Glide in Blue, Chopped (seasons 1-10), Jackie Brown, All The President's Men, Hud, Brewster McCloud, Point Blank, Troll 2 (good bad movie), "I Know Where I'm Going," Let Me In, Goodbye Day, Ablution, Secrets and Lies, K Street (miniseries), per-mu-tat-tion, On The Bowery, All or Nothing, 8 Ball Bunny, The Dot and the Line, My Darling Clementine, Our Day, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, King-Sized Canary, Breaking Bad (Seasons 1-4), The Office (seasons 1-5), Home Movies (Seasons 1-4), The House of Mirth, Salesman, What's Up, Doc?, Mad Men (Seasons 1-4), The Wire (Seasons 1-3), Targets, Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Catalog, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, The Social Network, Boxing Gym, The Heiress, Greenberg, The Short and Curlies, Topsy-Turvy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Edvard Munch, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Sopranos (full series).

A
Star Wars, Dillenger (1973), We Need To Talk About Kevin, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Buck, Inside Moves, Heartbeats, Of Gods and Men, Storytime, Winnie The Pooh, An Idiot Abroad (Seasons 1 and 2), Footnote, Motion Painting 1, King of the Hill (Steven Soderburgh), Hell and Back Again, A Night to Remember, Dusty and Sweets Magee, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, One Trick Pony, Carny, The Edge of Heaven, Billy Budd, Goodbye First Love, Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, Play, A Little Help, Striking Distance (good bad movie), We Own The Night, Find Me Guilty, The Wrestler, The Artist, High School, Contagion, Pina, Car Wash, Citizen X, Career Girls, Successful Alcoholics, Red (starring Brian Cox), Reagan, Big Fan, Theater of Blood, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Seasons 1-4), Galaxy Quest, eXistenZ, The Last of Sheila, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, Happy-Go-Lucky, Red (Bruce Willis), The Simpsons (Season 4), Easy A, Blue Valentine, Conspiracy, The Rutles: All You Need is Cash, Birds Anonymous, Green for Danger, My Dog Tulip, The Fighter, Disneyland Dream, Clueless, Rejected, Player Hating: A Love Story, The Ghost Writer, Blazing Saddles, The Autobiography of Nicolai Ceausescu, The Bostonians, Carlos, A Letter to Elia, Tuesday After Christmas, Inside Job, Hausu, Lucky Louie (Season 1), The In-Laws (1979), Picnic at Hanging Rock, Julia (Tilda Swinton), Frozen (2010), Night of the Demon, Deep End, Insignificance, The Tin Star, The Ricky Gervais Show (Seasons 1 & 2)

A-
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), The Yes Men Fix The World, Crazy Stupid Love, Phone Booth, Elephant (Alan Clarke short), Shampoo, Louie CK: Hilarious, The Future, King of New York, Bridesmaids, The Dirty Dozen, Japanese Myths, The Silence of the Lambs, The Devil's Double, The Squid and the Whale, An Enemy of the People, The Little Foxes, The Devil Thumbs A Ride, C'est La Vie, Paris Texas, The Boys Next Door, Enter the Void, Buffalo Soldiers (2001), Escape From New York, Seconds, The Constant Nymph, Martha Marcy May Marlene, La Vie en Rose, Magic, Jude, Heat (Michael Mann), Disabled but Able to Rock, Rabbit Hole, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Swimmer, The Odd Couple (1968), Kitchen Nightmares (Seasons 1-4), Dick, Gandhi, You're Telling Me, Frances, Lebenon, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Cyrus, Tom Sawyer (1973), The Bank Job, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Double Indemnity, War Zone (Maggie Hadleigh-Smith), Nights and Weekends, The Bridge, Silent Souls, Aurora, Rollerball (1974), Mother and Child, The Outsiders (director's cut), Please Give, The Hitch-hiker (Ida Lupino)

B+
Duma, The Sniper, Midnight in Paris, The Lonely Guy, The Brink's Job, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Sunshine Boys, Project Nim, Beginners, The Trip (full series, 2011), The Inturrupters, Pollyanna, Patton, The Guard, The Rain People, The Yes Men, Tell No One, Little Buddha, Into the Abyss, Warrior, River of Grass, Clean and Sober, My Week With Marilyn, Source Code, When The Wind Blows, Magnum Force, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Win Win, A Room with a View, Path to War, Seven Men From Now, Death Buy Lemonade, Kwidan, Cleopatra (1963), Countdown to Zero, Night Shift, Hatchiko: A Dog's Story, Beeswax, Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him), The Tillman Story, Stone, Pawn Stars (Seasons 1-4), Mona, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Monsters, The Great Santini, Eegah (good bad movie), Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, The Racket, Meek's Cutoff, Tales from the Crypt (1972), 1941, The House of the Devil, The Narrow Margin (1952)

B
Trainspotting, Exam, Once Upon a Time in America, War Horse, The Days of Wine and Roses, That Evening Sun, Q, Corman's World, The Doonesbury Movie, A Dangerous Method, Breaker Morant, Quicksand, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Tyrannosaur, The Man Who Crossed Hitler, The Muppets, Ironweed, The Aviator, Croupier, The Skin I Live In, The Descendants, An Inconvenient Truth, 4:44: Last Day on Earth, The Help, Fatso, Let There Be Light: The Making of DARK STAR, Boardwalk Empire (Seasons 1 & 2), Inherit the Wind (1962), Rocky Balboa, Rio Lobo, The Gathering Storm, Helter Skelter (2004), Stepping Out, Freakonomics, Lars and the Real Girl, The Lookout, Get Low, Suddenly, Lovely Still, Black Swan, Paranormal Activity, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Without Limits, Film Socialisme, American Hot Wax, Dark Passage, Our Mother's House, Animal Kingdom, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Man with the Gun, Voices, One on One

B-

Paul, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Desperate Hours (Cimino version), Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Water for Elephants, The Mist, Rudy, Loophole, Candleshoe, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Walking and Talking, Tell No One, 'night Mother, Half Nelson, Robocop 2, The Beaver, The Happy Years, Beautiful Girls, Copland, The Falcon and the Snowman, Assault on Precinct 13 (1973), Terri, The Last Man on Earth, The Caine Mutiny, Greased Lightning, Short Walk to Daylight, A Patch of Blue, Soldier in the Rain, Bonanza Bunny, Outland, The Company Men, Big, Longford, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Blood Work, Hardcore Pawn (Seasons 1-2), The Bunker, Somewhere, Splice, The Office (seasons 6 & 7), Gasland, Huge (Season 1), Hot Tub Time Machine, Lennon NYC, Quiz Show, The Leopard, How to Train Your Dragon, In the Valley of Elah, The Hospital, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

C+
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Red State, The Paper, Horror of Dracula, When Worlds Collide, Puss in Boots, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher), Three Days of the Condor, Ciao Manhattan, Black Dynamite, A Bunch of Amateurs, Carnage, Cleaners, The Lady in Ermine, The Devil Rides Out, Vicki Christina Barcelona, Brainstorm, The Young Lions, Man on Fire, Hanna K., The Special Relationship, The New Centurions, Bitter and Twisted, Rango, Texas Killing Fields

C
Hugo, In The Heat of the Night, The Round-Up, Transamerica, Django, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Racing with the Moon, A Movie, Firstborn, 28 Days, Trial and Error, The Towering Inferno, Rabid, Night Falls on Manhattan, Happy Accidents, Barber Shop, Man in the Moon, A Dog Year, Margin Call, She's Working Her Way Through College, The Enforcer, Sometimes a Great Notion, Helen, Lust For Life, Art and Copy, Welcome to Mooseport, Best Worst Movie, Moonshot, Just You and Me, Apocolypto, John Carpenter's Vampires, Welcome to the Rileys, The Night They Raided Minsky's, The Cat Concerto, An Unfinished Life, American Crude, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Brubaker, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Cemetery Junction, Cold Weather, Page One: Inside The New York Times, Cinema Verite, Too Big to Fail, The Ides of March 

C-
Ice Station Zebra, Horrible Bosses, Super 8, The Scenesters, Smokey and the Bandit II, Hammer, Battle Royale, Into the Night, The Selling, Our Idiot Brother, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fair Game, Only You, Six Pack, Paul McCartney is Really Dead, Funeral for a Friend, Art School Confidential, Nowhere Boy, Phoebe in Wonderland, The Robber, Hereafter, Revelucion, Immortal Sargeant, Rampart, The Boyfriend

D+
The Iron Lady, This Thing of Ours, Sudden Impact, Surviving the Game, Unstoppable, 127 Hours, The Sunset Limited, Conan O' Brien Can't Stop, 

D
The Conspirator, Bad Teacher, The Satan Bug, The Bigamist, Fighting Back, Evilspeak, Billy The Kid (1956), Albert Nobbs, J. Edgar, Fast Break, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Conspiritor, The Brothers Grimm, Lymelife, 8 Million Ways to Die, The Elephant in the Room, Fracture, To Hell and Back, Deadhead Miles

D-
My Super Ex-Girlfriend, 30 Minutes or Less, Grandma's Boy, Me Myself and Irene, Frankie and Alice, Kick-Ass, The Strange Case of Angelica, Pretty Ugly People, Saturn 3, Another Earth

F
Larry Crowne, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Wicker Tree, Wrecked, Robocop 3, Little Murders, Chillerama, Immortal Beloved, Hot Stuff, We Can't Go Home Again, Assault of the Killer Bimbos, Joe Dirt, Nothing But Trouble, The Omen (2006), Veronica Guerin, Volunteers, Edison Force

Cinema Gallery: 200 MORE Movie Images, Part 2 of 5

For my 300th post on filmicability, I present the second part of my newest Cinema Gallery collection. As always, click on the photo to see it writ large.

Punk rock arrives in American Pop. (Ralph Bakshi, 81) 


One unhappy army recruitment center. Drive, He Said. (Jack Nicholson, 71) 


The chilling final image from Blue Collar. (Paul Schrader, 78) 


The wrecked bus is raised to the heavens in The Sweet Hereafter. (Atom Egoyan, 97) 


A Christmas Eve upchucking for Bad Santa. (Terry Zwigoff, 2003) 


A dead platoon returns to confront their leader in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. (Akira Kurosawa, 90) 


"Three Little Maids From School." Topsy-Turvy. (Mike Leigh, 99) 


A shot from the outrageous Super 8mm camera commercial in I'll Never Forget What's'isname. (Michael Winner, 67) 


"Smile. SMILE!" Blow-Up. (Michelangelo Antonioni, 66) 


A hobo's nest in Sullivan's Travels. (Preston Sturges, 41) 


A "victim" is taunted in Freeway. (Matthew Bright, 96) 


The very definition of utter panic in Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 80) 


A boy teeters on a high-rise ledge in Antichrist. (Lars Von Trier, 2009) 


David gets left behind in A.I. Artificial Intelligence. (Steven Spielberg, 2001)


At the bottom of the well in Ivan's Childhood. (Andrei Tarkovsky, 62) 


The Squid and the Whale. (Noah Baumbach, 2005) 


Waiting for the boat to return in I Know Where I'm Going. (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger, 45)

Red Hot Riding Hood, in performance. (Tex Avery, 43) 


Rick Danko takes the lead during The Last Waltz. (Martin Scorsese, 78) 


Miss Kensington informs Mr. Stevens that his father has just passed in The Remains of the Day. (James Ivory, 93) 


A Fokker hits the dirt in The Stunt Man. (Richard Rush, 80) 


The ultimate punishment in Tales from the Crypt. (Freddie Francis, 72)

Saddam Hussein, proud of his breakdancing abilities, in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. (Trey Parker and Matt Stone, 99) 


Another day On The Bowery. (Lionel Rogosin, 57) 


The saucers smash into D.C.'s Capitol dome in Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers. (Fred F. Sears, 56) 


Perpetual assisted living--if you can call it that--in Coma. (Michael Crichton, 78) 


Stanley, as a fly, tries to blow the raspberry through an uncooperative proboscis in Bedazzled. (Stanley Donen, 67) 


The title character, hustling on the football field, in Gregory's Girl. (Bill Forsyth, 81) 


Veronique toys with her puppet counterpart in The Double Life of Veronique. (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 91) 


Debra Winger in an extraordinary desert portrait from The Sheltering Sky. (Bernardo Bertolucci, 90) 


Hard steel plunges into an even harder heart in The Piano Teacher. (Michael Haneke, 2001) 


Bedded down for the night. Lars and the Real Girl. (Craig Gillespie, 2007)

"Shit. I've got some sticky stuff in my hair." Sherilyn Fenn in Wild at Heart. (David Lynch, 90)

"How do I look?" The Man With Two Brains. (Carl Reiner, 83) 


The professor makes a morbid toast in The Bride of Frankenstein. (James Whale, 35) 


"Ladies and gentlemen, The President of the United States." Seven Days in May. (John Frankenheimer, 64) 


The Chief prepares for freedom in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. (Milos Forman, 75) 


The Proteus navigates the ear canal in Fantastic Voyage. (Richard Fleischer, 66) 


Rupert Pupkin conducts his show, with special guests Jerry Langford and Liza Minnelli!The King of Comedy. (Martin Scorsese, 82)

An addict's one upsmanship, from Drugstore Cowboy. (Gus Van Sant, 89)