Saturday, February 23, 2008

by Ari

We've already published a detailed analysis of our favorite films of the 1990's, but because I'm addicted to lists and have no other ideas for an update at the moment, I thought it would be fun to post my own complete list for each year. Kind of how Siskel and Ebert did it. You can follow that first link to read the reviews. What follows is the list...just the list. The list is....oh, forget it.

Here we go:

1990:
1. Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese
2. Miller’s Crossing - Joel and Ethan Coen
3. White Hunter, Black Heart - Clint Eastwood
4. The Grifters - Stephen Frears
5. Edward Scissorhands - Tim Burton
6. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams - Akira Kurosawa
7. Quick Change - Bill Murray, Howard Franklin
8. La Femme Nikita - Luc Besson
9. Wild at Heart - David Lynch
10. Hamlet - Franco Zeffirelli

1991:
1. Barton Fink - Joel and Ethan Coen
2. JFK - Oliver Stone
3. Raise the Red Lantern - Zhang Yimou
4. Boyz N the Hood - John Singleton
5. Days of Being Wild - Wong Kar-Wai
6. Grand Canyon - Lawrence Kasdan
7. Night on Earth - Jim Jarmusch
8. Defending Your Life - Albert Brooks
9. Terminator II: Judgement Day - James Cameron
10. Delicatessen - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro

1992:
1. Malcolm X - Spike Lee
2. Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood
3. Baraka - Ron Fricke
4. Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen
5. The Player - Robert Altman
6. Glengarry Glen Ross - James Foley
7. Hard Boiled - John Woo
8. One False Move - Carl Franklin
9. The Crying Game - Neil Jordan
10. Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola

1993:
1. Naked - Mike Leigh
2. The Age of Innocence - Martin Scorsese
3. Short Cuts - Robert Altman
4. Schindler’s List - Steven Spielberg
5. In the Name of the Father - Jim Sheridan
6. Blue - Krzysztof Kieslowski
7. Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis
8. The Fugitive - Andrew Davis
9. Jurassic Park - Steven Spielberg
10. Carlito’s Way - Brian De Palma

1994:
1. The Hudsucker Proxy - Joel and Ethan Coen
2. Chungking Express - Wong Kar Wai
3. Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen
4. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
5. Ed Wood - Tim Burton
6. Quiz Show - Robert Redford
7. Red - Krzysztof Kieslowski
8. Heavenly Creatures - Peter Jackson
9. Leon - Luc Besson
10. The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont

1995:
1. Smoke - Wayne Wang
2. Casino - Martin Scorsese
3. Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch
4. Heat - Michael Mann
5. 12 Monkeys - Terry Gilliam
6. Nixon - Oliver Stone
7. Devil in a Blue Dress - Carl Franklin
8. Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis
9. Ghost in the Shell - Mamoru Oshii
10. Cyclo - Tran Anh Hung

1996:
1. Bound - Larry and Andy Wachowski
2. Secrets and Lies - Mike Leigh
3. Crash - David Cronenberg
4. Fargo - Joel and Ethan Coen
5. Hard Eight - Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Flirting with Disaster - David O. Russell
7. Breaking the Waves - Lars von Trier
8. Trainspotting - Danny Boyle
9. The People vs. Larry Flynt - Milos Forman
10. Kingpin - Peter and Bob Farrelly

1997:
1. Kundun - Martin Scorsese
2. Happy Together - Wong Kar Wai
3. Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino
4. The Eel - Shohei Imamura
5. Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Lost Highway - David Lynch
7. Fireworks - Takeshi Kitano
8. Gattaca - Andrew Niccol
9. LA Confidential - Curtis Hanson
10. Princess Mononoke - Hayao Miyazaki

1998:
1. The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick
2. Dark City - Alex Proyas
3. Ronin - John Frankenheimer
4. The Truman Show - Peter Weir
5. The Big Lebowski - Joel and Ethan Coen
6. Celebrity - Woody Allen
7. Rushmore - Wes Anderson
8. Out of Sight - Steven Soderbergh
9. Pi - Darren Aronofsky
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Terry Gilliam

1999:
1. Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick
2. Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
3. The Matrix - Larry and Andy Wachowski
4. Three Kings - David O. Russell
5. The Insider - Michael Mann
6. My Voyage to Italy - Martin Scorsese
7. Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze
8. Election - Alexander Payne
9. The Virgin Suicides - Sofia Coppola
10. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - Jim Jarmusch