Top 10 Films of 1988

1. ''The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'' (Philip Kaufman, USA)

2. ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (Stephen Frears, USA)

3. "A Fish Called Wanda" (Charles Crichton, UK)

4. ''Married To The Mob'' (Jonathan Demme, USA)

5. "Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown" (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)

6. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?" (Robert Zemeckis, Disney)

7. "Die Hard" (John McTiernan, USA)

8. "Cinema Paradiso" (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy)

9. "Ice Palace" (Per Blom, Norway)

10. "Bagdad Café" (Percy Adlon, Germany)

Other great films:

The Accidental Tourist

Akira (Japan)
Another Woman
As Tears Go By (Hong Kong)
Big
Bird

Chocolat (France)

Coming To America 
The Dead Pool

Dead Ringers (Canada)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dragons Forever (Hong Kong)

Drowning By Numbers (UK)

Emmanuelle 6

The Everlasting Secret Family (Australia)

The Ghostess With The Mostess

Le Grand Bleu (France)

Hairspray

Her Vengeance (Hong Kong)
High Hopes (UK)
Hôtel Terminus (France)
In The Line Of Duty 3 (Hong Kong)

Karhozat (Hungary)

Krotki film o milosci (Poland)

Krotki film o zabijaniu (Poland)

The Last Temptation Of Christ

La Lectrice (France)

Little Dorrit (UK)

Little Vera (Soviet Union)
Maitre de musique (Belgium)

My Neighbor Totoro (Japan)
The Naked Gun
Oliver And Company
L'Ours (France)

Pelle The Conqueror (Denmark)
Plaff! (Cuba)
Police Story II (Hong Kong)
Powaqqatsi

Rain Man

The Rainbow (UK)

Salaam Bombay (India)
Salsa

Sensual Escape

School On Fire (Hong Kong)

The Summer Of Aviya (Israel)
Tales From The Gimli Hospital (Canada)
Talk Radio

Tangerine Taxi (Canada)

A Taxing Woman's Return (Japan)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Japan)

Thin Blue Line

La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille (France)

Willow
Working Girl

Short Top 3:

1. "On s'est tous défilé" (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

2. "Whoregasm" (Nick Zedd, USA)

3. "Puissance de la parole" (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

Other great shorts:

Fingered

Gerçure (Canada)
Gullah Tales

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "When We Was Fab" (Godley and Creme, George Harrison)

2. "Simply Irresistible" (Terence Donovan, Robert Palmer)

3. "Roll With It" (David Fincher, Steve Winwood)

Top Commercials:

"Revolving Door" (Bush For President)

Other great commercials:

Felix Pommes strips (Sweden)

TV Top 3:

1. "Yes Prime Minister: The Tangled Web" (Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, BBC, UK)

2. "Moonlighting: A Womb With A View" (Jay Daniel, ABC)

3. "Yes Prime Minister: The National Education Service" (Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, BBC, UK)

Other great TV shows:

Trio en mi bemol (France)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "One Of Those Days" (Bill Plympton, USA)

2. "The Cat Came Back" (Cordell Barker, NFB, Canada)

3. "Love At First Sight" (Pavel Koutsky, Czechoslovakia)

Other great cartoons:

Academy Leader Variations
Pas a deux (Holland)

Les Quatre voeux (France)

Super Powers (Iran)
Technological Threat
Tin Toy

Weak films of 1988:

Une Affaire de femmes (France)
Alice (Czechoslovakia)
Au-dela du vertige
Beetlejuice

Bull Durham
Cannibal Woman In The Avocado Jungle Of Death
Clara's Heart
Deadbeat At Dawn
Gorillas In The Mist
Let's Get Lost
Mississippi Burning
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

La Petite voleuse (France)
Les Portes tournantes (Canada)
Red Sorghum (China)
Stand And Deliver
Sur (Argentina)
Tiger Cage (Hong Kong)
The Vanishing (Holland)

Weak shorts:

Appointments Of Dennis Jennings

Weak cartoons:

Arnold Escapes From The Church
Candy Jam (UK)
The Dingles (Canada)
Disconnected (Canada)
Lettre d'amour (Canada)
A Nice Day In The Country (Canada)
The Writer (Holland)

Top Musical of 1988

"Salsa" (Boaz Davidson, Cannon)