Friday, March 9, 2012

Best Films of the 1990s

The first five are in order of preference, everything after that is random,

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) 1994

Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen) 1996

La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz) 1995

Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese) 1990

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch) 1995

Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) 1999

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola) 1991

Dark City (Alex Proyas) 1998

Three Kings (David O. Russell) 1999

La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette) 1991

The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont) 1994

All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar) 1999

Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh) 1996

Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise) 1991

Seven (David Fincher) 1995

Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1993

Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson) 1999

Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater) 1995

The Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte) 1990

Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki) 1997

Fight Club (David Fincher) 1999

Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1994

Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) 1996

Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay) 1999

Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) 1997

Special Jury Prize:
Leolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon) 1992

Honorable Mention:
Election (Alexander Payne) 1999

Disclaimer: I've yet to see the Dardenne Brothers' "Rosetta" and "La Promesse," and the ending of Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" still bothers me.

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