The 1994 Mini-List

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#1 Post by **swo17** » Thu May 01, 2025 4:53 am

ELIGIBLE TITLES FOR 1994

VOTE THROUGH JUNE 30

Please post in this thread if you think anything needs to change about the list of eligible titles.

yoshimori · #2 Post by **yoshimori** » Thu May 01, 2025 7:41 am

I've seen it listed as 1994 and 1995, but I'll vote for Greenaway's "Stairs 1, Geneva" wherever you place it.

#3 Post by **swo17** » Thu May 01, 2025 1:11 pm

Added to 1995

therewillbeblus · #4 Post by **therewillbeblus** » Thu May 01, 2025 2:19 pm

Swo, can you please add:

The Color of Fear (Lee Mun Wah)
Magic Hunter (Ildikó Enyedi)
Yakuza Taxi (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

#5 Post by **swo17** » Thu May 01, 2025 3:21 pm

Added!

therewillbeblus · #6 Post by **therewillbeblus** » Thu May 01, 2025 3:44 pm

I'd like to single out The Color of Fear as a spotlight recommendation. It's an underseen fly-on-the-wall doc examining a diverse focus group centered around race relations. Victor Lee Lewis is a force of nature, and you'll want to follow him on social media, etc. after seeing his 'performance' here. The film gets at the messiness and clarity around different forms of racism and their effects better than any other I've seen. knives and I discussed it a bit here

knives · #7 Post by **knives** » Wed May 14, 2025 3:57 pm

How’s Rivette’s Joan the Maid series being worked for the list? I only see one entry, but I believe it’s always been released as two films?

#8 Post by **swo17** » Wed May 14, 2025 4:46 pm

I'm counting them as a single film but if anyone wants to be able to vote for just one or the other part (competing against the combined entry) let me know and I can add that option as well

knives · #9 Post by **knives** » Wed May 14, 2025 7:16 pm

Thanks. I was just not sure for the purposes of my guide.

Lowry_Sam · #10 Post by **Lowry_Sam** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:26 am

Can you add Maysles' documentary on Christo's Umbrellas project? I found this one to be the most cinematically compelling of his documentaries on Christo's real-world installation art projects.

#11 Post by **swo17** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:44 am

the preacher · #12 Post by **the preacher** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:33 pm

Please add the following titles:
The Puppet Masters
Bab El Oued City
Ermo
Tokarefu
El héroe (short, animation)

#13 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:42 pm

the preacher wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:33 pm The Puppet Masters

I really like this one too, though I feel like you and I may be the only ones who do! I think it's a lot better than some of the other Body Snatcher-type films that get bolstered in its place (and casting Sutherland in the film is so galling that I'm still kind of amazed they did it [and that he did it!])

therewillbeblus · #14 Post by **therewillbeblus** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:48 pm

I love it too, it's a lot of fun

#15 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 3:02 pm

Plus you get all the Richard Belzer action movie heroics other movies have denied you

#16 Post by **swo17** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:52 pm

the preacher wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:33 pm Please add the following titles:
The Puppet Masters
Bab El Oued City
Ermo
Tokarefu
El héroe (short, animation)

All added, although Ermo was already there as Er mo

knives · #17 Post by **knives** » Wed Jun 04, 2025 3:53 pm

Here’s the little guide for this year. Probably not going to post as much this month thanks to the joy of a new kid.

#18 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Wed Jun 04, 2025 4:17 pm

Congratulations, knives!

scotty2 · #19 Post by **scotty2** » Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:56 pm

I'm unlikely to vote for it, but Robert Altman's Pret-a-Porter has its admirers and it seems like he should be on the big list.
Also, The Madness of King George, if only for one of Helen Mirren's great performances.

knives · #20 Post by **knives** » Wed Jun 11, 2025 9:58 pm

I just saw Madness and actually thought Mirren was one of the least compelling aspects of the film. I did think it was good overall though. The way it plays with royal sanity and insanity as unpleasant for different reasons was just sour enough to make it more than another crown picture. Also the Holm sequence is genuinely unnerving.

knives · #21 Post by **knives** » Thu Jun 12, 2025 6:20 pm

Could you add Penelope by Barbara Meter to the list? It’s a great little horror portrait of someone who had.

Also watched Being Human which must have been a real crusher for Forsyth fans after a half decade of no films. As the film progresses you really do get a sense that all the flavor was crushed out and that with just a few more minutes, especially in segments two and five, you could have had a real good Kieslowski type film.

#22 Post by **swo17** » Thu Jun 12, 2025 7:04 pm

Added, thanks!

scotty2 · #23 Post by **scotty2** » Sat Jun 14, 2025 11:36 pm

knives wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 9:58 pm I just saw Madness and actually thought Mirren was one of the least compelling aspects of the film. I did think it was good overall though. The way it plays with royal sanity and insanity as unpleasant for different reasons was just sour enough to make it more than another crown picture. Also the Holm sequence is genuinely unnerving.

Disagree on Mirren, very much agree on Ian Holm. I do like the way the picture sets up as cinematic royal gossip and ends up as a kind of terrifying comedy.

#24 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:42 am

Can you please add Outside In?

domino harvey wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 2:21 am The YouTube algorithm has done it again: Outside In, which both soothes and creates a headache as two unseen voices discuss how to turn a sphere inside out without folding or creasing it as early era CGI illustrates the problem at hand in yellow and purple. Probably once every minute I kind of understood what was going on, only for it to completely lose me and send me like eighteen steps back. Adult Swim before Adult Swim. An incredible whatsit

#25 Post by **swo17** » Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:49 am

Added, thanks!

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