Throwback Muriels: 1984

Friday, July 15, 2011

1984

Picture:
Once Upon a Time in America
L’Argent
This Is Spinal Tap
Stranger Than Paradise
Paris, Texas
A Sunday in the Country
Entre Nous
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Body Double
Love Streams

Director:
Robert Bresson, L’Argent
Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America
Jim Jarmusch, Stranger Than Paradise
Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas
Bertrand Tavernier, A Sunday in the Country

Male Lead:
Harry Dean Stanton, Paris, Texas
F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus
Jeff Bridges, Starman
Christopher Guest, This Is Spinal Tap
Albert Finney, Under the Volcano

Female Lead:
Gena Rowlands, Love Streams
Sumiko Sakamoto, The Ballad of Narayama
Sandrine Bonnaire, A Nos Amours
Karen Allen, Starman
Mia Farrow, Broadway Danny Rose

Male Supporting:
John Lithgow, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Harry Dean Stanton, Repo Man
Tom Hulce, Amadeus
Haing S. Ngor, The Killing Fields
Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, The Karate Kid

Female Supporting:
Sabine Azema, A Sunday in the Country
Melanie Griffith, Body Double
Cecilia Stark, Stranger Than Paradise
Nastassja Kinski, Paris, Texas
Elizabeth McGovern, Once Upon a Time in the West

Screenplay:
Stranger Than Paradise
Broadway Danny Rose
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
L’Argent

Ensemble:
A Nos Amours
L’Argent
Love Streams
This Is Spinal Tap
The Ballad of Narayama

Cinematography:
A Sunday in the Country (de Keyzer)
Paris, Texas (Muller)
Amadeus (Ondricek)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Delli Colli)
Body Double (Burum)

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Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.