The most iconic 80s movies

[Timcognito]

 

[jsilvela]

David Lean made his last: A Passage To India.
And there was The Right Stuff.

Since those, and Empire of the Sun, I don't think we've seen movies of the old-school epic sweep.

 

[Timcognito]

 

[bluefuzz]

I don't think we've seen movies of the old-school epic sweep

Perhaps this one?

Philip Kaufman - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

 

[Timcognito]

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[jsilvela]

American Gigolo

American Gigolo (1980)

Richard Gere in American Gigolo (1980)

www.imdb.com

 

[jsilvela]

Perhaps this one?

Philip Kaufman - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

OK, perhaps. That's a great one, also from Kaufman.
Right, i give you that, but aside from A Passage To India, Empire of the Sun, The Right Stuff, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, what have the Romans ever done for us?

 

[jsilvela]

Risky Business

Risky Business Dance Scene - Invidious

 

[bluefuzz]

but aside from A Passage To India, Empire of the Sun, The Right Stuff, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Hmm. Epic in a different way ... ;-)

Werner Herzog - Fitzcarraldo (1982)

 

[Puddingbuks]

 

[bluefuzz]

Alejandro Jodorovsky - Santa Sangre (1989)

 

[bluefuzz]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Querelle (1982)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Lili Marleen (1981)

 

[KKQ]

 

[Freeway]

 

[blueone]

I was working too much in the 1980s to pay much attention to movies or television, but based on this thread I didn't miss much of value.

 

[DanielT]

It is remembered and loved. Even decades later in NY when...:
(he he what reactions people give when they drive around)

 

[Oldasdrt]

I was working too much in the 1980s to pay much attention to movies or television, but based on this thread I didn't miss much of value.

Pretty Much, but looking back there were a few good ones,

 

[jsilvela]

Hmm. Epic in a different way ... ;-)

Werner Herzog - Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Haha, good old Werner. Epic no doubt.
Another small-scale epic of his is Scream of Stone, with a perfect use of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.

But the total epic, I mean, the Tolstoy style historic + multi-character. I don't think there has been a real heir to David Lean, even if Nolan thinks he is.
I can think of smaller-scale epics like The Aviator or the recent and terrific Benediction, but no Lean-style broad-scope epic since the 80s...

 

[Andretti60]

My personal most iconic movie of the eighties, Beverly Hills Cops, great fun, great theme song

 

[bluefuzz]

Paul Schrader - Cat People (1982)