LIST - O - MANIA
Last update 03/30/05
from the mind of Nathaniel R
favorite films by yearAbout the 90s lists
# after title indicates number of viewings --if viewings are multiple.
Rankings are extremely subject to change since the 90s lists are like some unholy hybrid of memories of college favorites mixed with altered perceptions looking back. If I have a major 90s viewing spree --or catch up on my foreign film missing links for this period, a lot will change.
Titles in blue are my favorites of the decade.
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1990
01 Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton) 5
02 Men Don't Leave (Paul Brickman) 2
03 The Grifters (Stephen Frears) 3
04 Henry & June (Phillip Kauffman) 2
05 Postcards from the Edge (Mike Nichols) 3
06 Longtime Companion (Norman René)
07 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Pedro Almodovar)
08 Alice (Woody Allen)
09 Metropolitan (Whit Stilman)
101991
01 Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott) 5
02 Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise) 5
03 Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan)
04 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron) 4
05 The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam) 3
06 My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) 3
07 The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) 2
08 Rambling Rose (Martha Coolidge)
09 Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese) 2
10 Bugsy (Barry Levinson)1992
01 Husbands and Wives (Irving Keschner) 3
02 Howards End (James Ivory) 2
03 The Player (Robert Altman) 2
04 Batman Returns (Tim Burton) 4
05 The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
06 Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller)
07 A League of their Own (Penny Marshall) 3
08 Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann) 3
09 The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann) 2
10 Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis) 21993
01 The Piano (Jane Campion) 3
02 Trois Coleurs: Bleu (Krysztof Kieslowski) 2
03 Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
04 Addams Family Values (Barry Sonnenfeld) 7
05 Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi) 3
06 Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh) 3
07 Orlando (Sally Potter) 2
08 Remains of the Day (James Ivory) 2
09 What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (Lasse Halström) 2
10 Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough)
1994
01 Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson) 2
02 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) 4
03 Queen Margot (Patrice Chéreau) 2
04 Reality Bites (Ben Stiller) 6
05 Trois Coleurs: Rouge (Kryzstof Kieslowski)
06 Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen) 3
07 Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
08 Nell (Michael Apted) 2
09 Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
10 Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
1995
01 Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins) 2
02 Safe (Todd Haynes) 2
03 Se7en (David Fincher) 2
04 Priest (Antonia Bird) 2
05 Babe (Chris Noonan) 2
06 Smoke (Wayne Wang)
07 Sense & Sensibility (Ang Lee)
08 Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
09 Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis) 2
10 Clueless (Amy Heckerling) 31996
01 Fargo (Irving Keschner) 2
02 William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (Woody Allen) 2
03 Evita (Alan Parker) 5
04 Bound (James Cameron) 3
05 Flirting With Disaster (David O Russell) 2
06 Emma (Douglas McGrath)
07 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) 2
08 Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)
09 The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner)
10 Swingers (Doug Liman) 21997
01 Boogie Nights (p.t. Anderson) 5
02 Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest) 4
03 The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley) 2
04 Titanic (James Cameron) 3
05 Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) 2
06 Contact (Robert Zemeckis) 2
07 Ponette (Jacques Doillon)
08 Lilies (John Greyson) 2
09 The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
10 My Best Friend's Wedding (P.J. Hogan) 21998
01 The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
02 Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
03 The Thin Red Line (Terence Malick)
04 High Art (Lisa Cholodenko) 2
05 The Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes) 2
06 The Idiots (Lars Von Trier)
07 Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
08 Living Out Loud (Richard LaGravanese) 3
09 Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon) 2
10 The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos) 3
1999
01 Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) 3
02 All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
03 Election (Alexander Payne) 3
04 Run Lola Run (Thomas Twykver) 3
05 The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
06 The Straight Story (David Lynch)
07 The Insider (Michael Mann)
08 Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Pierce) 2
09 The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan) 2
10 Three Kings (David O Russell)
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