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Return of the Secaucus Seven 1980

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Richard Linklater Jewels In The Wasteland series is designed to spotlight some of the best films made during the 1980s. This was a time when zillion-dollar studio blockbusters became the norm, while in other corners of the industry, a new kind of independent cinema was taking shape, and auteurs young and old made important work.

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The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board was established in 1988. Each year, 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" are preserved, to increase awareness for its preservation. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old but it is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released.

Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/

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The top 100 American independent films as selected by Jason Wood, author of BFI Screen Guides' "100 American Independent Films."

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Movies released during the 1980s to watch

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The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-part series written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation.
The series provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion-dollar globalised digital industry."

Note: "Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas," a documentary about the making of Avatar, is missing because it does not appear to have an imdb page.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Cinema-Hollywood-Dream/dp/B00AMQ1B1O

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This is a list of the films featured in The Story of Film: An Odyssey series by Mark Cousins.

The films are in order of appearance in the series.
The following are missing (not in Trakt):

  • American Cinema: Film Noir - Alain Klarer (1995)
  • 71st Academy Awards - Louis J. Horvitz (1999)
  • Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands - Levon Grigoryan (1988)
  • Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty - Beti Ellerson Poulenc (1997)
  • Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion - Jorge Ribas (2009)

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey

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