The Movies of 1985

Something wonderful happened to cinema in the nineties. The decade started slowly, hungover on the popcorn spectacles and high school dramas of the eighties, until---BANG!---Tarantino burst onto the scene with Reservoir Dogs and made cinephiles everywhere sit up and take notice. Young directors emerged from the fluoro-spandex ruin of the previous decade in response; directors who grew up with videotape and Nintendo instead of super 8 and cowboys and black and white war movies; they threw away the