December 12, 1985

Top 10 Films of 1985

1. "Brazil" (Terry Gilliam, UK)

2. "Runaway Train" (Andrei Konchalovsky, USA)

3. "The Purple Rose Of Cairo" (Woody Allen, USA)

4. "Come And See" (Elem Klimov, Soviet Union)

5. "Colonel Redl" (István Szabó, Hungary)

6. "The Emerald Forest" (John Boorman, USA)

7. "Ran" (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

8. "Prizzi's Honor" (John Huston, USA)

9. "The Company Of Wolves" (Neil Jordan, UK)

10. "After Hours" (Martin Scorsese, USA)


Other great films:

Angry Harvest (Germany)
Bez konca (Poland)
Le Declic (France)
Detective (France)
L'Effrontée (France)
Elvis Gratton (Canada)
Je vous salue Marie (Switzerland)
Mr Vampire (Hong Kong)
Nadzor (Poland)
Och Karol (Poland)
Perinbaba (Czechoslovakia)
Police (France)
Police Story (Hong Kong)
Pulgasari (North Korea)
Shoah (France)
Silip (Philippines)
Silverado
Subway (France)
Sugarbaby (Germany)
Women In Fury (Brazil)

Short Top 3:

1. "Le Livre de Marie" (Anne-Marie Miéville, Switzerland)

2. "I Hate You Now" (Richard Kern, USA)

3. "Rainbow War" (Bob Rogers, Canada)


Other great shorts:


Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Take On Me" (Steve Barron, A-Ha)

2. "Cry" (Godley and Creme, Godley and Creme)

3. "Don't Stop The Dance" (Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Bryan Ferry)


Other great music videos:

Don't Come Around Here No More
Money For Nothing

Top Commercial:

"Varför ska vi bry oss om varandra?" (Roy Andersson, Sweden)


Other great commercials:

HSB-Spjalsangen (Sweden)
Lemmings
Lotto-Familjen (Sweden)

TV Top 3:

1. "Moonlighting: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" (Peter Werner, ABC)

2. "Miami Vice: Out Where The Buses Don't Run" (Jim Johnston, NBC)

3. "Miami Vice: Evan" (Rob Cohen, NBC)


Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Jack Mac And Rad Boy Go!" (Wes Archer, USA)

2. "The Big Snit" (Richard Condie, NFB, Canada)

3. "Get A Job" (Brad Caslor, NFB, Canada)


Other great cartoons:

78 Tours (Switzerland)

Weak films of 1985:

Agnes Of God
Crimewave