A little about my favorite movies of 1985: After Hours: My favorite Martin Scorsese film. After seeing this, I thought Griffin Dunne would go on to fame and fortune. Boy, did he blow it! Best use of a Peggy Lee song ever. Back to the Future: Somewhat popular film. Probably dated by now. The Big Snit: The funniest cartoon ever made. Kiss of the Spider Woman: I confess, I can't remember that much about this movie, but I think I liked it. Lust in the Dust: Yes, a western musical starring Divine. Perfect pitch parody. Mask: Wasn't that such a tear-jerker? Pee-Wee's Big Adventure: A movie that only gets better with repeated viewings. Restless Natives: Two inept Scottish youths embark on a career of crime. Shoah: I was lucky, and got to watch this broken up over many video tapes. It has its own rhythm, which you have to adapt yourself to. Claude Lanzmann later made "Tzahal," with a similar rhythm but about a completely different subject. That was good too. Year of the Dragon: A movie I ought to flat-out hate (after all, Oliver Stone? Mickey Rourke?), but that is oddly fascinating. As a Hot Topic movie it does nothing for me, but as a portrait of one man slowly destroyed by his own ideas of right and wrong, very compelling.