Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1989

<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <body> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Top Ten of 1989</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Click here for <a href=persac89.html>Favorites in Major Categories</a></b></Font><br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 1. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">When Harry Met Sally...</Font></b></Font> Dir. Rob Reiner. With Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 2. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Black Rain</Font></b></Font> Dir. Shohei Imamura. With Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 3. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Do the Right Thing</Font></b></Font> Dir. Spike Lee. With Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Bill Nunn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 4. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Crimes and Misdemeanors</Font></b></Font> Dir. Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Martin Landau <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 5. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Roger & Me</Font></b></Font> Dir. Michael Moore. Documentary about labor crisis in Flint, Michigan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 6. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Henry V</Font></b></Font> Dir. Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Paul Scofield <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 7. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">The Fabulous Baker Boys</Font></b></Font> Dir. Steve Kloves. With Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 8. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Sweetie</Font></b></Font> Dir. Jane Campion. With Karen Colston, Genevi&#232ve Lemon, Tom Lycos <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 9. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Valmont</Font></b></Font> Dir. Milo&#154 Forman. With Annette Bening, Colin Firth, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 10. <b><Font Color="#003399">Cinema Paradiso</Font></b></Font> Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore. With Salvatore Cascio, Philippe Noiret <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1989</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=born4th.html style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Born on the Fourth of July</a></b></Font> Dir. Oliver Stone. With Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/11/bitter-sweetie-is-still-beauty.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Sweetie</a></b></Font> Dir. Jane Campion. With Karen Colston, Genevi&#232ve Lemon, Tom Lycos <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1989</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Looking for Langston</b></Font> Dir. Isaac Julien. With Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Music Box</b></Font> Dir. Costa-Gavras. With Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lukas Haas <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>My Left Foot</b></Font> Dir. Jim Sheridan. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh O'Conor, Brenda Fricker <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Say Anything...</b></Font> Dir. Cameron Crowe. With John Cusack, Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, John Mahoney <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>sex, lies, and videotape</b></Font> Dir. Steven Soderbergh. With Andie MacDowell, James Spader <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Shirley Valentine</b></Font> Dir. Lewis Gilbert. With Pauline Collins, Bernard Hill, Tom Conti <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Steel Magnolias</b></Font> Dir. Herbert Ross. With Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Also from 1989</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Tongues Untied</b></Font> Dir. Marlon Riggs. With Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Steve Langley<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The War of the Roses</b></Font> Dir. Danny DeVito. With Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Wild Women Don't Have the Blues</b></Font> Dir. Christine Dall. Documentary about Harlem blues singers<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fair</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Batman</b></Font> Dir. Tim Burton. With Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Michael Gough<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Camille Claudel</b></Font> Dir. Bruno Nuytten. With Isabelle Adjani, G&#233rard Depardieu, Laurent Gr&#233vill<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Field of Dreams</b></Font> Dir. Phil Alden Robinson. With Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Glory</b></Font> Dir. Edward Zwick. With Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Heathers</b></Font> Dir. Michael Hoffman. With Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Kim Walker, Shannen Doherty<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket</b></Font> Dir. Karen Thorsen. Documentary about the author<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Little Mermaid</b></Font> Dirs. Ron Clements & John Musker. Animated. Voice of Jodi Benson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Parenthood</b></Font> Dir. Ron Howard. With Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Rick Moranis<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Feh</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Blue Steel</b></Font> Dir. Kathryn Bigelow. With Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Pe&#241a<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Casualties of War</b></Font> Dir. Brian De Palma. With Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Thuy Thu Le, John Harvey<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dead Poets Society</b></Font> Dir. Peter Weir. With Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Driving Miss Daisy</b></Font> Dir. Bruce Beresford. With Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Honey, I Shrunk the Kids</b></Font> Dir. Joe Johnston. With Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Amy O'Neill<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade</b></Font> Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Harrison Ford, Sean Connery<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Look Back in Anger</b></Font> Dirs. Judi Dench & David Jones. With Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Pet Sematary</b></Font> Dir. Mary Lambert. With Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Shag: The Movie</b></Font> Dir. Zelda Barron. With Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Flotsam</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Hearing Voices</b></Font> Dir. Sharon Greytak. With Erika Nagy, Stephen Gatta, Tim Ahren, Michael Davenport<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Sweet Bird of Youth</b></Font> Dir. Nicolas Roeg. TV Movie. With Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Wild Orchid</b></Font> Dir. Zalman King. 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