Siskel & Ebert: Best Movies of 1980 - American Gigolo, Being There, Best Boy, Kagemusha 

BEING THERE.....I loved that movie

Coal Miner's Daughter is one of my favorite movies.

if you've never seen "Black Stallion", you missing out. Great cinematography, Mickey Rooney's best performance, and a great story, plus a beautiful Terri Garr.

Kagemusha! One of the greatest samurai movies of all time

Blues Brothers is my all-time favorite. I couldn't respect someone who didn't like it.

I'm watching this 42 years later and the nostalgia almost brings tears to my eyes. I know each of these movies well. I just think, 'Wow, John Lennon could have seen these films" (for my own reasons, Lennon's death coincided with a lot of changes in my life)

1980 had some many great movies and now you go to the movies and it's a hit or miss. The movies just aren't the same.

can we all just agree 1980 was one of the best years ever for film releases? Why can't we have quality like this now a days?

In a 2 month stretch in summer 1980, The Empire Strikes Back, The Shining, Airplane, The Blues Brothers, and Caddyshack were all released. I really hope theatrical releases come back strong - I'll take that over streaming any day.

All GREAT FILMS!! Classics we look back on today for their filmmaking. Caddyshack is my all-time favorite comedy ❤️

The Blues Brothers the best musical comedy ever & in the 80's. 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟 Other movies of 1980 Raging Bull Ordinary People The Black Stallion Airplane Private Benjamin American Gigolo Gloria The Great Santini Being There Coal Miner's Daughter The Shining Kagemusha

Sissy Spacek definitely deserved an award for emulating the siskel and ebbert theme in Coal Miners Daughter...the way she immitated all those instruments of their theme....just wow!!! Lol .jk, jk..

I loved this movie and the Aretha scene had people applauding in the theater.

It's insane that America was capable of producing that much year over year. Now, lucky to have one great film a decade.

The Cab Calloway scene on stage is one of my all time favorite scenes of all movies.

1980 was a really good year for films! The Blues Brothers, Ordinary People and The Empire Strikes Back are fantastic films. I'll have to check out the others as they look really interesting.

When I saw Risky Business I thought that this was the logical other end of "Ordinary People".

Was Stanley Kubrick's The Shining ever reviewed by Siskel and Ebert on their show?

Blues Bros would be my number 1 but there were some amazing films that year. Wonder what my Chicago dudes thought of The Shining?

Funny and useful to find out about hidden gems

2:59 The sub-moron copyright holders who complain of copyright violations that are CLEARLY fair use exceptions (criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research being examples). This is a movie review show and they are going to show film clips and even music from the films. The courts should have panels of people who clear genuine copyright complaints to go forward and fine the people who make specious complaints.

Video becomes surreal at 3:05.

1980 was a cracking year for cinema.

Empire Strikes Back is the first movie I ever saw AT the movies. Father took me, and it was one of the few memories I had of him, for a long time. One of only two or three things that I remember from that year now. I still can't get into Deniro in Raging Bull, a little too much of a sociopath. Don't think that I have seen it all the way through in one sitting, ever. And Deniro is my all-time fave. Finally gotten around to seeing Ordinary People last year. The last "Chicago" '80s movie that I had not ever watched. It was a slog, barely got through it. Mary Tyler Moore was (ahem) a little too much of a sociopath. OTOH. I've saw the Blue Brothers like three years after its release on TV, and 100 times since. I am sentimental to the scene with Aretha, as I was able to visit this local diner as a kid, several times before the building was knocked down. I vaguely remember it now, but possibly the first time I had Corned Beef-on-rye was there. 1980 would be the year that LA officially surpassed Chicago in size, and something about that impending change made the city work harder to get movies there, funny thing. Much love and respect to the late Mayor Jane Byrne for starting a train of nearly 5 dozen films being shot in the city over the course of the 80s; with that statistic in mind.

Raging Bull is easily the best: in fact it's voted the best film of the decade

Gene and Roger would be offended, as am I, by the fact that the word epic has no meaning anymore because it is used to describe just about everything.

14:59 Blues Brothers

Kagemusha is a great movie

Tess was my best film of 1980. I am one of the rare people who dislikes Raging Bull.

You should just edit out the parts that are under copyright and that you cannot use.

"The Black Stallion" was released on October 17, 1979 and is considered a 1979 film not a 1980 film.

How did they miss: 1. The Elephant man 2. The Shining 3. Stir Crazy 4. Airplane 5. Dressed to Kill 6. Melvin and Howard

1. The Shining 2. Stalker 3. The Elephant Man 4. The Empire Strikes Back 5. Caddyshack 6. Coal Miner's Daughter 7. Ordinary People 8. The Ninth Configuration 9. Altered States 10.Dressed to Kill

"Being There" actually came out in December 1979 and is considered a 1979 film not a 1980 film.

The Distinguished Gentleman is a 1992

Wow, i bet people were falling over themselves to go see Tree of Wooden Clogs.

5 commercial breaks in 30 minutes are to many.

I have to say, I agree with Gene’s list more that Roger’s. Then again, I always found myself agreeing with Gene mor often than Roger

The Empire Strikes Back has had of course more staying power than all those films listed.

DISCO PANTS AND HAIRCUTS!!!

greatest bond song hamlisch/sager

Roger Ebert there, correctly predicting the Oscar win of the superb Sissy Spacek.

You can't look at this list and then tell me today's Hollywood is as vibrant and capable today. The superhero films and the woke BS have killed it.

um...how about a bigger TV? You're only using about 30% of the RU-vid screen.

Raging Bull is really one of most overrated movies ever

These guys were so pretentious...lol

blues brothers is the worst movie of the 80s considering what came after it but I do like the musical cut scenes and the un buttered toast part.

Siskel and Ebert this is what my mother watched every Saturday back in the 1980,s I was 12 years old in 1980 and I loved the movie the shinning. The weird thing is my mom never ever went to a movie in the theater . She waited a year to watch it on cable TV. She would make me run to the movie theater to buy her a large fresh buttered popcorn for her every Saturday so she can watch Siskel and Ebert! When a horror movie came on at 10:00 pm on week nights she would call me when I was already in bed and let me come down stairs to watch it with her, in other words she was a chicken but by me been there at age 12 13 14 15 she was able to make it through the horror movie.😜🪓🪓🪓🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🗡️🤭🤭🤭👍

i guess you had to plaster siskel & ebert's face on the screen to skirt around copyright infringements when they would show clips of the movies?

American gigolo was boring.