Movie Mania - 1985

I love movies. The really great thing about Zürich is that movies are shown in their original version. We are not tortured by dubbing. I'm crap at learning languages in classes. Thankfully to Zürich's theatre owners, I at least made some progress with the English language.

Some days ago, fabulous Rob7534 reminded me that I haven't been in a cinema for ages. Hence, it's more than appropriate to wallow myself in reminiscences of better times. Here is the first of my more intense cinematic years (notably a year when I had to support myself from about $750 per month):

1. Akropolis Now (still the best Swiss road movie)
2. Dune (I had a yawn race with the worms in the movie)
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Ghostbusters (this was Swiss premier show at midnight with an audience dressed as ghosts)
5. Tightrope (now memories whatsoever)
6. Purple Rain (although I adore Prince, I still don't like the title song)
7. The Noah's Ark Principle (the corner stone of Roland Emmerich's career)
8. Amadeus
9. The Cotton Club
10. The Killing Fields
11. 2010
12. Rope (the murder with no cut, i.e. this movie has no cuts and the guest was dead on time)
13. The Company of Wolves
14. Ordeal by Innocence
15. Er Moretto (probably my first gay flick - and it's a tough and disturbing one)
16. City Heat
17. Beverly Hills Cop (I saw (partially) a rerun on HBO lately. Did we really like this movie back then?)
18. Ghostbusters (this time with less ghosts in the audience)
19. Je vous salue, Marie (my first by Jean-Luc Godard)
20. A passage to India (as uneventful as the book)
21. A Soldier's Story
22. Falling in Love
23. Der Bulle & das Mädchen (Prochnow at his best)
24. Mass Appeal
25. Brazil (at least for me the greatest of all films)
26. Brazil
27. Witness
28. Birdy (I just don't like Nicolas Cage. He is talented but there is nothing I fancy with him)
29. The Little Drummer Girl
30. Best Defense (indefensible bad)
31. Into the Night (why does John Landis work for TV only nowadays?)
32. C'era una volta il West
33. 48 Hrs.
34. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (for me it's not blasphemy but an homage)
35. Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (4 minute extract)
36. Don Camillo (embarrassing, but it's on the list)
37. The Blues Brother (the yearly treat, at least)
38. Subway (I sooo fancied Eric Serra, the bassist)
39. Otto - Der Film
40. A View to a Kill
41. King David
42. Dance with a Stranger
43. The Blues Brother
44. Stop Making Sense (it had been running for over two years in Zürich, there is no record I listened to more in my life)
45. Desperately Seeking Susan (Yes, the Madonna thingy)
46. Oberst Redl
47. Midnight Express (on my sister's recommendation, probably to keep me from drug smuggling or so)
48. The Falcon and the Snowman
49. Höhenfeuer (just rated the best Swiss movie ever, despite the intense sisterly love)
50. Prizzi's Honor
51. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
52. The Purple Rose of Cairo
53. Ran (my first Kurosawa)
54. Der Rekord
55. Back to the Future (still my favourite product placement: Marty McFly: "Calvin? Wh... Why do you keep calling me Calvin?" Lorraine Baines: "Well, that is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.")
56. Year of the Dragon
57. The Meaning of Life (And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint)
58. The Emerald Forest
59. Rendez-vous
60. The Black Cauldron
61. Cocoon.

Surprisingly, there are only about three movies I don't remember anymore.

And here as a bonus, some stills from our own flick "Inspector McTup", which we released in 1984: