Throwback Muriels: 1987

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

1987

Picture:
Come and See
Withnail and I
Au Revoir Les Enfants
RoboCop
The Princess Bride
Broadcast News
Prick Up Your Ears
Moonstruck
House of Games
Evil Dead II

Director:
Elem Klimov, Come and See
Louis Malle, Au Revoir les Enfants
Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I
Paul Verhoeven, RoboCop
James L. Brooks, Broadcast News

Male Lead:
Richard E. Grant, Withnail and I
Nicolas Cage, Moonstruck
Aleksey Kravchenko, Come and See
William Hurt, Broadcast News
Gary Oldman, Prick Up Your Ears

Female Lead:
Holly Hunter, Broadcast News
Christine Lahti, Housekeeping
Faye Dunaway, Barfly
Cher, Moonstruck
Robin Wright, The Princess Bride

Male Supporting:
Albert Brooks, Broadcast News
Mandy Patinkin, The Princess Bride
Richard Griffiths, Withnail and I
R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket
Charles Grodin, Ishtar

Female Supporting:
Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck
Vanessa Redgrave, Prick Up Your Ears
Emmanuelle Beart, Manon of the Spring
Anjelica Huston, The Dead
Mia Farrow, Radio Days

Screenplay:
Withnail and I
Broadcast News
Au Revoir les Enfants
The Princess Bride
House of Games

Ensemble:
Matewan
Broadcast News
Moonstruck
The Princess Bride
Come and See

Cinematography:
The Last Emperor (Storaro)
Matewan (Wexler)
Come and See (Rodionov)
Empire of the Sun (Daviau)
The Untouchables (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.