AFI Lost Films / Totally Awesome: Films of the 80's

[pmw]

Im in DC for the Summer. Found this on the AFI website, regarding their collection. Pretty interesting. Check your closets everybody:

Lost Films

CAMILLE (1927) starring Norma Talmadge
CLEOPATRA (1917) starring Theda Bara
THE DIVINE WOMAN (1928) starring Greta Garbo
GREED (1925) Eric von Stroheim's 40-reel version
THE KAISER, BEAST OF BERLIN (1918) A World War I anti-German film
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (1922) An early Walt Disney cartoon
LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1927) starring Lon Chaney
THE ROGUE SONG (1930) starring Laurel and Hardy
THAT ROYLE GIRL (1925) starring W.C. Fields
courtesy of The Museum of Television and Radio


Lost Television Programs

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Pilots (1968-1971)
CAVALCADE OF STARS (1950-1952)
THE JONATHAN WINTERS SHOW (October 23, 1956)
MIKE WALLACE'S NIGHTBEAT (1955)
OPENING NIGHTS AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA (ABC, 1948, 1950)
SUPER BOWL I (January 15, 1967)
TEXACO STAR THEATER (June-December 1948)
THE TONIGHT SHOW: Premier (September 27, 1954)


I'll be attedning some of the following as part of their Totally Awesome: Films of the 80's series:
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
VALLEY GIRL
FRIDAY THE 13th
EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN
PURPLE RAIN
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
SAY ANYTHING
REPO MAN
FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF
THE TERMINATOR
PRETTY IN PINK
BRAZIL
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
COMING TO AMERICA
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
BLUE VELVET
PORKY'S

[Chris Knipp]

You're struck gold there, but the Brat Pack seems to be underrepresented.

[cinemabon]

List is incomplete without the Breakfast Club, the Sure Thing, Adventures in Babysitting, St. Elmo's Fire, Rumble Fish, and the Karate Kid... all from that early/mid-1980's period.

Bring the mini-bong... man.

[Chris Knipp]

Sixteen Candles
Weird Science
Tex
The Outsiders
Class

[cinemabon]

You might not like him now, but Val Kilmer did two of my faves: Top Secret and Real Genius (where he fills the house with popcorn with a giant Jiffy pop ball, and speaks to Kent, actor Robert Prescott, through his braces, telling him that pettin the monkey too much grows hair in your palm, etc.) Both have pretty boy Kilmer in eye make up! Now this is truly a guilty pleasure.

[Chris Knipp]

I did not know that and will have to go back and see those. I was just reviewing earlier John Dahl noir movies apropos of his recent You Kill Me and I loved Val Kilmer in Dahl's first, Kill Me Again, where he is the hunky fall guy detective. Have you seen Spanking the Monkey?

[Chris Knipp]

What about John Cusack in Better Off Dead? 1985, teen angst. Can't remember if I've seen it or not.