1984

1. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
2. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
3. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
4. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
5. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
6. The Funeral (Juzo Itami)
7. The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles)
8. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
9. The Terminator (James Cameron)
10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
11. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (W.D. Richter)

Almost There: All of Me (Carl Reiner), Amadeus (Milos Forman), Blood Simple (Joel Coen), The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer [short] (Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, and Timothy Quay), Choose Me (Alan Rudolph), Love Streams (John Cassavetes), A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven), Sixteen Candles (John Hughes), A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker), Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige).

Have Yet to See: The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola), Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone).