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knives wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:45 pm Batman Returns

I forgot how much I love Danny Elfman's Catwoman theme. And "Face to Face." It's totally unrealistic though how

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audio surfaces of the Penguin saying something disqualifying and people no longer want to vote for him. How quaint!

Hah, I independtly sat down and watch A Sense of History (Mike Leigh) this morning hoping it would be the tenth film I needed. Very good, short, black comedy that gets really quite grim.

swo17 wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 4:21 am

knives wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:45 pm Batman Returns

I forgot how much I love Danny Elfman's Catwoman theme. And "Face to Face." It's totally unrealistic though how

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audio surfaces of the Penguin saying something disqualifying and people no longer want to vote for him. How quaint!

The film lives in a simpler time.

John Cope wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:58 pm I do love the Kiarostami film. It's among my favorites of his and I consider it a kind of career peak high point. It could easily be a contender for #1 for me though I have to give Erice the edge.

My sentiments exactly. I saw The Quince Tree Sun last year for the first time in two decades plus. It was really a formative filmic experience for me back in the day, and if anything it held up even better than I remembered. Life, art, death...hope I myself hang on the branch long enough for the blu ray to finally emerge one day.

Speaking of discs, I've failed to get the Monteiro set in time to see The Last Dive. Next time.

And speaking of next time: too late to encourage watches for this list, but worth noting two not-unrelated films from Senegal both came out in 1992: Sembene's Guelwaar and Mambety's Hyenas. Not the best-known films of theirs but we're arguably talking career high points here, too.

Guelwaar's burial mix-up drama takes in a huge number of themes, many of them relating to how different strata of Senegalese society do (or don't) function alongside one another. The narrative structure is quietly quite powerful, it's great to look at, and also very funny when it wants to be. You don't get many imams speaking as this one does...

Plot wise, Hyenas sticks quite closely to its source, the Durrenmatt play The Visit. No bad thing. And on top of that you get a load of contemporary concerns about Senegal, consumerism, foreign aid (also a Guelwaar speciality), and the whole thing is shot and framed beautifully.

The 1992 List



##. Film (Director) points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking

01. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch) 234/11(8)/1(x2)
02. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) 212/11(6)/2(x4)
03. زندگی و دیگر هیچ [Zendegi va digar hich] [And Life Goes On...] [Life, and Nothing More] (Abbas Kiarostami) 188/10(6)/1(x2)
04. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen) 180/9(6)/2(x2)
05. The Player (Robert Altman) 172/11(4)/1
06. Malcolm X (Spike Lee) 159/9(4)/1
07. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies) 152/10(1)/3
08. Lektionen in Finsternis [Lessons of Darkness] (Werner Herzog) 130/6(3)/1
09. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley) 119/6(4)/1
10. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino) 118/7(3)/2
(tie) Deep Cover (Bill Duke) 118/8(2)/5(x2)
12. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven) 116/7(2)/1
13. Orlando (Sally Potter) 114/7(3)/2
14. Bitter Moon (Roman Polański) 103/9(1)/2
15. 辣手神探 [Lat sau san taam] [Hard Boiled] (John Woo) 97/6(1)/5
16. Conte d'hiver [A Tale of Winter] (Éric Rohmer) 94/6(2)/2
17. Batman Returns (Tim Burton) 89/5(3)/1(x2)
18. Un cœur en hiver [A Heart in Winter] (Claude Sautet) 86/6(1)/1
19. A Sense of History (Mike Leigh) 85/5(3)/3
20. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara) 82/7(1)/2
(tie) The Crying Game (Neil Jordan) 82/6/6
22. Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader) 77/6/6
23. Candyman (Bernard Rose) 71/4(2)/2
24. El sol del membrillo [Dream of Light] [The Quince Tree Sun] (Víctor Erice) 70/4(2)/1(x2)
25. Passion Fish (John Sayles) 64/5/6
26. 青少年哪吒 [Qing shao nian nuo zha] [Rebels of the Neon God] (Tsai Ming-liang) 63/4(1)/3
27. Il ladro di bambini [The Stolen Children] (Gianni Amelio) 60/3(1)/4
28. Howards End (James Ivory) 58/5(1)/4
29. 紅の豚 [Kurenai no buta] [Porco Rosso] (Hayao Miyazaki) 57/8/15
30. Braindead (Peter Jackson) 56/3(1)/1
31. La Vie de Bohème (Aki Kaurismäki) 55/4/7
32. Den goda viljan [The Best Intentions] (Bille August) 52/3/6
(tie) 秋菊打官司 [Qiu ju da guan si] [The Story of Qiu Ju] (Zhang Yimou) 52/4(1)/5
34. Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola) 50/7/7
35. Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders) 49/4/9
36. My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn) 46/4(1)/5
37. Benny's Video (Michael Haneke) 45/3(1)/3
38. C'est arrivé près de chez vous [Man Bites Dog] (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel & Benoît Poelvoorde) 42/2(1)/3
(tie) Innocent Blood (John Landis) 42/3/7
(tie) Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi) 42/5/9
41. Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder) 41/2(1)/3
42. Le petit prince a dit [And the Little Prince Said] (Christine Pascal) 38/2/6
43. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield) 36/2(1)/2
44. Hyènes (Djibril Diop Mambéty) 34/2(1)/4
(tie) Damage (Louis Malle) 34/2(1)/5
(tie) Baraka (Ron Fricke) 34/2/8
(tie) One False Move (Carl Franklin) 34/4/12
48. La Guerre sans nom [The Undeclared War] (Bertrand Tavernier) 33/2(1)/3
(tie) The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson) 33/2/6
50. L.627 (Bertrand Tavernier) 32/3/9

ALSO-RANS

Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins) 31/3(1)/1
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (Stephen & Timothy Quay) 31/2/9
A Midnight Clear (Keith Gordon) 30/2/10
Whispers in the Dark (Christopher Crowe) 30/3/10
Toutes peines confondues [Sweetheart] (Michel Deville) 29/2(1)/2
Aladdin (John Musker & Ron Clements) 29/3/13
Vacas [Cows] (Julio Medem) 26/2(1)/5
O Dia do Desespero [The Day of Despair] (Manoel de Oliveira) 26/2/6
Olivier, Olivier (Agnieszka Holland) 26/2/11
Le Pays des sourds [In the Land of the Deaf] (Nicolas Philibert) 24/2/7
Pandora's Box (Adam Curtis) 24/2/7
Simple Men (Hal Hartley) 24/4/14

Como agua para chocolate [Like Water for Chocolate] (Alfonso Arau) 23/2/6
Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller) 21/2/8
Untitled (For Marilyn) (Stan Brakhage) 21/2/11
無言的山丘 [Wu yan de shan qiu] [Hill of No Return] (Wang Tong) 21/2/11
A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall) 21/2/12
Careful (Guy Maddin) 21/2/12
Color Adjustment (Marlon Riggs) 19/2/10
Juice (Ernest Dickerson) 19/2/15

Map of the Human Heart (Vincent Ward) 16/2/16
A River Runs Through It (Robert Redford) 15/2/12
Rosa (Peter Greenaway) 14/2/17
L'Amant [The Lover] (Jean-Jacques Annaud) 12/2/19
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann) 10/2/17
Noises Off (Peter Bogdanovich) 10/2/20
Las soledades [The Solitudes] (Raúl Ruiz) 2/2/25(x2)

ORPHANS

Film (Director) highest ranking

Un lugar en el mundo [A Place in the World] (Adolfo Aristarain) 1
Equinox (Alan Rudolph) 9
Камень [Kamen] [Stone] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 8
De noorderlingen [The Northerners] (Alex van Warmerdam) 5
In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell) 23
Crush (Alison Maclean) 9
La Sentinelle [The Sentinel] (Arnaud Desplechin) 4
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy & Stuart Samuels) 10
Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer) 24
The Panama Deception (Barbara Trent) 8
Screen Play (Barry Purves) 10
Footprints (Bill Morrison) 13
The Tune (Bill Plympton) 22
Raising Cain (Brian De Palma) 5
Beethoven (Brian Levant) 23
Singles (Cameron Crowe) 12
飛女正傳 [Fei nui jing juen] [It's Now or Never] (Chang Kwok-hei) 22
Betty (Claude Chabrol) 17
Les Nuits fauves [Savage Nights] (Cyril Collard) 19
Hoffa (Danny DeVito) 6
Alien³ (David Fincher) 15
1991: The Year Punk Broke (David Markey) 8
Dr. Dre: Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang (Dr. Dre) 25
Belle Époque (Fernando Trueba) 11
Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise) 19
The Last Days of Chez Nous (Gillian Armstrong) 14
Тито и ја [Tito i ja] [Tito and Me] (Goran Marković) 11
The Living End (Gregg Araki) 18
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley) 16
Videograms of a Revolution (Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujica) 12
女殺油地獄 [Onna goroshi abura no jigoku] [The Oil-Hell Murder] (Hideo Gosha) 21
Édes Emma, drága Böbe – vázlatok, aktok [Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe] (István Szabó) 12
Jídlo [Food] (Jan Švankmajer) 1
'Weird Al' Yankovic: Smells Like Nirvana (Jay Levey) 25
Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) [Antigone] (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) 8
Je pense à vous [Thinking of You] (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) 14
92黑玫瑰對黑玫瑰 [Gau sap ji hak mui gwai duei hak mui gwai] [92 Legendary La Rose Noire] (Jeffrey Lau) 10
Tom Waits: Goin' Out West (Jesse Dylan) 18
O Último Mergulho [The Last Dive] (João César Monteiro) 18
Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky) 4
Medicine Man (John McTiernan) 10
The Boys of St. Vincent (John N. Smith) 25
ミンボーの女 [Minbō no onna] [The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion] (Jūzō Itami) 7
Peter's Friends (Kenneth Branagh) 22
Nirvana: In Bloom (Kevin Kerslake) 23
Balanţa [The Oak] (Lucian Pintilie) 1
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (Lynne Fernie & Aerlyn Weissman) 19
Blue Black Permanent (Margaret Tait) 15
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick) 24
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Mark Rappaport) 9
Office Space (Mike Judge) 14
Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembène) 5
Filmarilyn (Paolo Gioli) 14
El maestro de esgrima [The Fencing Master] (Pedro Olea) 15
Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris) 15
妖獸都市 [Yiu sau dou si] [The Wicked City] (Peter Mak) 10
Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson) 15
Hotell E [Hotel E] (Priit Pärn) 3
Indochine (Régis Wargnier) 10
Chaplin (Richard Attenborough) 8
The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams) 25
1492: Conquest of Paradise (Ridley Scott) 5
White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton) 22
警察故事3超級警察 [Ging chaat goo si saam chiu kup ging chaat] [Police Story III: Supercop] (Stanley Tong) 19
Hero (Stephen Frears) 19
Sonic Youth: Drunken Butterfly (Stephen Hellweg) 11
Daens [Priest Daens] (Stijn Coninx) 3
Swoon (Tom Kalin) 23
黃飛鴻之二男兒當自強 [Wong fei hung chi yee nam yee tung chi keung] [Once Upon a Time in China II] (Tsui Hark) 6
龍行天下 [Lung hang tin ha] [The Master] (Tsui Hark) 11
Tuhlaajapoika [The Prodigal Son] (Veikko Aaltonen) 22
Billy Wilder, wie haben Sie's gemacht? [Billy, How Did You Do It?] (Volker Schlöndorff & Gisela Grischow) 10
Trespass (Walter Hill) 9
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson) 11

19 lists submitted

Thanks Swo!

1. Basic Instinct
2. Batman Returns
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
4. Candyman
5. Husbands and Wives
6. Dead Alive / Braindead
7. Hard Boiled
8. 1991: The Year Punk Broke
9. Unforgiven
10. The Wicked City

Funny that the Palme d'or and Gold Lion winners that year share a petty 32nd place in the list.

andyli wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 12:58 am Funny that the Palme d'or and Gold Lion winners that year share a petty 32nd place in the list.

Those highest votes (5 for Zhang, 6 for August) were mine. I wonder if many people here have even seen the August ... or maybe even the Zhang.

yoshimori wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 3:35 pm

andyli wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 12:58 am Funny that the Palme d'or and Gold Lion winners that year share a petty 32nd place in the list.

Those highest votes (5 for Zhang, 6 for August) were mine. I wonder if many people here have even seen the August ... or maybe even the Zhang.

Qiu Ju is the only Zhang film of that era I've not seen. Never been able to find it.

It's included in Imprint's Zhang Yimou/Gong Li set

yoshimori wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 3:35 pm

andyli wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 12:58 am Funny that the Palme d'or and Gold Lion winners that year share a petty 32nd place in the list.

Those highest votes (5 for Zhang, 6 for August) were mine. I wonder if many people here have even seen the August ... or maybe even the Zhang.

For what it's worth, they were both on my list, too (Qiu Ju at 11, Best Intentions at 13).

Thanks, geoffcg!

Were you also responsible for the one other vote the two docs in my top ten received? :)

[Aileen Wuornos and the Philbert pic about the deaf French kids]

another busy month for me, but my work schedule has finally changed and I should be able to participate for 1993. I don't like this trend of big ticket Hollywood movies winning every year so far, maybe we can see Blue or Red break that trend soon? ironically the only new movie I was able to get to was Light Sleeper, which I enjoyed but honestly need to spend a little more time with, it perplexed me a little but I enjoyed it a lot more than The Comfort of Strangers. and how was Wayne's World left an orphan, really

01 Rebels of the Neon God
02 Life, and Nothing More
03 The Player
04 The Long Day Closes
05 Husbands and Wives
06 The Quince Tree Sun
07 Light Sleeper
08 The Crying Game
09 La Vie de Bohème
10 A Sense of History
11 Untitled (For Marilyn)
12 Wayne's World
13 U2: Even Better Than the Real Thing

ryannichols7 wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 6:39 am I don't like this trend of big ticket Hollywood movies winning every year so far, maybe we can see Blue or Red break that trend soon?

I'm pretty surprised to hear anybody characterize Fire Walk With Me as a "big ticket Hollywood" movie. Still, I do agree with your sentiments. I would love to see Vale Abraão top the'93 list but I'm not holding my breath.

yoshimori wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 6:28 am Thanks, geoffcg!

Were you also responsible for the one other vote the two docs in my top ten received?

[Aileen Wuornos and the Philbert pic about the deaf French kids]

Nope!

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1- Glengarry Glen Ross
2- Malcolm X
3- Reservoir Dogs
4- Husbands And Wives
5- Player, The
6- Il Ladro di Bambini
7- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
8- Lorenzo’s Oil
9- Crying Game, The
10-Passion Fish
11- The Story of Qiu Ju
12- Singles
13- The Best Intentions
14- Deep Cover
15- Olivier, Olivier
16- Army of Darkness
17- Porco Rosso
18- One False Move
19- Of Mice and Men
20- A Tale of Winter
21- Bitter Moon
22- Life and Nothing More
23- In The Soup
24- Bob Roberts
25- Light Sleeper

John Cope wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 8:10 am

ryannichols7 wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 6:39 am I don't like this trend of big ticket Hollywood movies winning every year so far, maybe we can see Blue or Red break that trend soon?

I'm pretty surprised to hear anybody characterize Fire Walk With Me as a "big ticket Hollywood" movie. Still, I do agree with your sentiments. I would love to see Vale Abraão top the'93 list but I'm not holding my breath.

It should top mine, and ‘92 was a “big ticket” year for me!

Here are alternative results reflecting one ballot that was submitted late:

01. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch) 234/11(8)/1(x2)
02. زندگی و دیگر هیچ [Zendegi va digar hich] [And Life Goes On...] [Life, and Nothing More] (Abbas Kiarostami) 212/11(7)/1(x2)
(tie) Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) 212/11(6)/2(x4)
04. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen) 201/10(7)/2(x2)
05. The Player (Robert Altman) 195/12(5)/1
06. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies) 174/11(2)/3
07. Malcolm X (Spike Lee) 159/9(4)/1
08. Lektionen in Finsternis [Lessons of Darkness] (Werner Herzog) 130/6(3)/1
09. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley) 119/6(4)/1
10. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino) 118/7(3)/2
(tie) Deep Cover (Bill Duke) 118/8(2)/5(x2)
12. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven) 116/7(2)/1
13. Orlando (Sally Potter) 114/7(3)/2
14. Bitter Moon (Roman Polański) 103/9(1)/2
15. A Sense of History (Mike Leigh) 101/6(3)/3
16. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan) 100/7/6
17. 辣手神探 [Lat sau san taam] [Hard Boiled] (John Woo) 97/6(1)/5
18. Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader) 96/7/6
19. Conte d'hiver [A Tale of Winter] (Éric Rohmer) 94/6(2)/2
20. El sol del membrillo [Dream of Light] [The Quince Tree Sun] (Víctor Erice) 90/5(2)/1(x2)
21. Batman Returns (Tim Burton) 89/5(3)/1(x2)
22. 青少年哪吒 [Qing shao nian nuo zha] [Rebels of the Neon God] (Tsai Ming-liang) 88/5(2)/1
23. Un cœur en hiver [A Heart in Winter] (Claude Sautet) 86/6(1)/1
24. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara) 82/7(1)/2
25. La Vie de Bohème (Aki Kaurismäki) 72/5/7
26. Candyman (Bernard Rose) 71/4(2)/2
27. Passion Fish (John Sayles) 64/5/6
28. Il ladro di bambini [The Stolen Children] (Gianni Amelio) 60/3(1)/4
29. Howards End (James Ivory) 58/5(1)/4
30. 紅の豚 [Kurenai no buta] [Porco Rosso] (Hayao Miyazaki) 57/8/15
31. Braindead (Peter Jackson) 56/3(1)/1
32. Den goda viljan [The Best Intentions] (Bille August) 52/3/6
(tie) 秋菊打官司 [Qiu ju da guan si] [The Story of Qiu Ju] (Zhang Yimou) 52/4(1)/5
34. Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola) 50/7/7
35. Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders) 49/4/9
36. My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn) 46/4(1)/5
37. Benny's Video (Michael Haneke) 45/3(1)/3
38. C'est arrivé près de chez vous [Man Bites Dog] (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel & Benoît Poelvoorde) 42/2(1)/3
(tie) Innocent Blood (John Landis) 42/3/7
(tie) Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi) 42/5/9
41. Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder) 41/2(1)/3
42. Le petit prince a dit [And the Little Prince Said] (Christine Pascal) 38/2/6
43. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield) 36/2(1)/2
(tie) Untitled (For Marilyn) (Stan Brakhage) 36/3/11(x2)
45. Hyènes (Djibril Diop Mambéty) 34/2(1)/4
(tie) Damage (Louis Malle) 34/2(1)/5
(tie) Baraka (Ron Fricke) 34/2/8
(tie) One False Move (Carl Franklin) 34/4/12
49. La Guerre sans nom [The Undeclared War] (Bertrand Tavernier) 33/2(1)/3
(tie) The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson) 33/2/6

ALSO-RANS

L.627 (Bertrand Tavernier) 32/3/9
Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins) 31/3(1)/1
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (Stephen & Timothy Quay) 31/2/9
A Midnight Clear (Keith Gordon) 30/2/10
Whispers in the Dark (Christopher Crowe) 30/3/10
Toutes peines confondues [Sweetheart] (Michel Deville) 29/2(1)/2
Aladdin (John Musker & Ron Clements) 29/3/13
Vacas [Cows] (Julio Medem) 26/2(1)/5
O Dia do Desespero [The Day of Despair] (Manoel de Oliveira) 26/2/6
Olivier, Olivier (Agnieszka Holland) 26/2/11

Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris) 25/2/12
Le Pays des sourds [In the Land of the Deaf] (Nicolas Philibert) 24/2/7
Pandora's Box (Adam Curtis) 24/2/7
Simple Men (Hal Hartley) 24/4/14
Como agua para chocolate [Like Water for Chocolate] (Alfonso Arau) 23/2/6
Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller) 21/2/8
無言的山丘 [Wu yan de shan qiu] [Hill of No Return] (Wang Tong) 21/2/11
A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall) 21/2/12
Careful (Guy Maddin) 21/2/12
Color Adjustment (Marlon Riggs) 19/2/10
Juice (Ernest Dickerson) 19/2/15

Map of the Human Heart (Vincent Ward) 16/2/16
A River Runs Through It (Robert Redford) 15/2/12
Rosa (Peter Greenaway) 14/2/17
L'Amant [The Lover] (Jean-Jacques Annaud) 12/2/19
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann) 10/2/17
Noises Off (Peter Bogdanovich) 10/2/20
Las soledades [The Solitudes] (Raúl Ruiz) 2/2/25(x2)

ORPHANS

Un lugar en el mundo [A Place in the World] (Adolfo Aristarain) 1
Equinox (Alan Rudolph) 9
Камень [Kamen] [Stone] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 8
De noorderlingen [The Northerners] (Alex van Warmerdam) 5
In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell) 23
Crush (Alison Maclean) 9
La Sentinelle [The Sentinel] (Arnaud Desplechin) 4
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy & Stuart Samuels) 10
Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer) 24
The Panama Deception (Barbara Trent) 8
Screen Play (Barry Purves) 10
Footprints (Bill Morrison) 13
The Tune (Bill Plympton) 22
Raising Cain (Brian De Palma) 5
Beethoven (Brian Levant) 23
Singles (Cameron Crowe) 12
飛女正傳 [Fei nui jing juen] [It's Now or Never] (Chang Kwok-hei) 22
Betty (Claude Chabrol) 17
Les Nuits fauves [Savage Nights] (Cyril Collard) 19
Hoffa (Danny DeVito) 6
Alien³ (David Fincher) 15
1991: The Year Punk Broke (David Markey) 8
Dr. Dre: Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang (Dr. Dre) 25
Belle Époque (Fernando Trueba) 11
Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise) 19
The Last Days of Chez Nous (Gillian Armstrong) 14
Тито и ја [Tito i ja] [Tito and Me] (Goran Marković) 11
The Living End (Gregg Araki) 18
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley) 16
Videograms of a Revolution (Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujica) 12
女殺油地獄 [Onna goroshi abura no jigoku] [The Oil-Hell Murder] (Hideo Gosha) 21
Édes Emma, drága Böbe – vázlatok, aktok [Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe] (István Szabó) 12
Jídlo [Food] (Jan Švankmajer) 1
'Weird Al' Yankovic: Smells Like Nirvana (Jay Levey) 25
Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) [Antigone] (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) 8
Je pense à vous [Thinking of You] (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) 14
92黑玫瑰對黑玫瑰 [Gau sap ji hak mui gwai duei hak mui gwai] [92 Legendary La Rose Noire] (Jeffrey Lau) 10
Tom Waits: Goin' Out West (Jesse Dylan) 18
O Último Mergulho [The Last Dive] (João César Monteiro) 18
Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky) 4
Medicine Man (John McTiernan) 10
The Boys of St. Vincent (John N. Smith) 25
ミンボーの女 [Minbō no onna] [The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion] (Jūzō Itami) 7
Peter's Friends (Kenneth Branagh) 22
U2: Even Better Than the Real Thing (Kevin Godley) 13
Nirvana: In Bloom (Kevin Kerslake) 23
Balanţa [The Oak] (Lucian Pintilie) 1
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (Lynne Fernie & Aerlyn Weissman) 19
Blue Black Permanent (Margaret Tait) 15
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick) 24
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Mark Rappaport) 9
Office Space (Mike Judge) 14
Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembène) 5
Filmarilyn (Paolo Gioli) 14
El maestro de esgrima [The Fencing Master] (Pedro Olea) 15
妖獸都市 [Yiu sau dou si] [The Wicked City] (Peter Mak) 10
Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson) 15
Hotell E [Hotel E] (Priit Pärn) 3
Indochine (Régis Wargnier) 10
Chaplin (Richard Attenborough) 8
The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams) 25
1492: Conquest of Paradise (Ridley Scott) 5
White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton) 22
警察故事3超級警察 [Ging chaat goo si saam chiu kup ging chaat] [Police Story III: Supercop] (Stanley Tong) 19
Hero (Stephen Frears) 19
Sonic Youth: Drunken Butterfly (Stephen Hellweg) 11
Daens [Priest Daens] (Stijn Coninx) 3
Swoon (Tom Kalin) 23
黃飛鴻之二男兒當自強 [Wong fei hung chi yee nam yee tung chi keung] [Once Upon a Time in China II] (Tsui Hark) 6
龍行天下 [Lung hang tin ha] [The Master] (Tsui Hark) 11
Tuhlaajapoika [The Prodigal Son] (Veikko Aaltonen) 22
Billy Wilder, wie haben Sie's gemacht? [Billy, How Did You Do It?] (Volker Schlöndorff & Gisela Grischow) 10
Trespass (Walter Hill) 9
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson) 11

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Thanks swo, great list as always.

I've been taking a different approach with these than past projects. Instead of binging beforehand, I've been adding movies to my watchlist as we go, specifically any title I haven't seen that lands in the top 10 of the mini-lists. I've added 11 from 1990-92, a number that will grow with each passing month. Got some viewing to do by end of 90s project.

ryannichols7 wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 6:39 amanother busy month for me, but my work schedule has finally changed and I should be able to participate for 1993. I don't like this trend of big ticket Hollywood movies winning every year so far, maybe we can see Blue or Red break that trend soon? ironically the only new movie I was able to get to was Light Sleeper, which I enjoyed but honestly need to spend a little more time with, it perplexed me a little but I enjoyed it a lot more than The Comfort of Strangers. and how was Wayne's World left an orphan, really

I think Blue has a strong chance of topping 1993. And Wayne's World was my orphan, haha. You un-orphaned it, so good work! Glad you liked Light Sleeper. I recall putting it in my Top 10.

Swo, this is probably way too late, but a pretty great movie, Passed Away by Charlie Peters, seems to be missing from the list of eligible titles. I was shocked to realize I had been completely oblivious to its existence until recently, even though a bunch of my favorite actors of the era were in it.

I've now added it to the database, thanks!

swo17 wrote: Sat Feb 07, 2026 6:53 pm I've now added it to the database, thanks!

Thank you!