The BFI's Lost In America: The Other Side Of Reagan's 80's retrospective

Out Of The Blue is set in Canada, isn't it?

Out of the Blue, Lost in America, Something Wild = essential viewing if you've never seen them.

Suburbia, Choose Me, Smooth Talk, River's Edge, Running on Empty - all worth seeing too.

Have never seen Mike's Murder, but it was a notorious disaster at the time - maybe the BFI is trying to rescue its reputation.

Notable absences = Cutter's Way, To Live and Die in LA.

Voted Something Wild cos it's the ultimate 'Yuppie Terror' movie.

Lost in America, though I still need to see a few of these.

Mike's Murder was beloved by Kael and no one else. I've never come across it anywhere, but I'm intrigued.

Choose Me has a weird, artificial vibe to it but is interesting viewing.

Haven't seen all of these but would assume Lost in America and Something Wild are as good as any here, both funny/cringey.

Out Of The Blue is set in Canada, isn't it?

Not only that but it predates Reagan's regime!

I should see more of these in order to judge fairly but Running on Empty is one of my all-time faves so that.

Wish River Phoenix had done more 'kids at the mercy of parents who make fucked-up decisions' movies (see also: Mosquito Coast).

Out of the Blue, Lost in America, Something Wild = essential viewing if you've never seen them.

The trailers for all three has 60/70s pop in the soundtrack.

Thanks Ward for that really useful breakdown - like Daniel I had no idea where to start with this. Might catch a couple even though I want to see a couple of films that I haven't from the '68 season. xps

Streetwise is a great doc about street kids in Seattle, not sure if it's ever been out on DVD.

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Title track. I've never seen Out of the Blue or Suburbia; may have seen Mike's Murder, not sure (I get it confused with Everybody Wins).

Kind of surprised, given the Neil Young connection, that you haven't seen OoTB. Anchor Bay had a nice DVD out awhile back.

Mike's Murder was beloved by Kael and no one else. I've never come across it anywhere, but I'm intrigued.

― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko)

It's not bad at all. I bought a cheap DVD a couple years ago. I thought enough of it to review it at the time.

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i like Suburbia. super early punk rock movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNgwoIeJoBU