This poll will remain open for the next 3 weeks, then we’ll do 1978.
A Dedicated Life (Kazuo Hara)
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Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen)
The Corridor (Šarūnas Bartas)
What Happened Was… (Tom Noonan)
Vive l’amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
Rice People (Rithy Panh)
Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette)
The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli)
Whispering Pages (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Crows (Dorota Kędzierzawska)
Metal and Melancholy (Heddy Honigmann)
1. Chungking Express
-U.S. Go Home
-A Confucian Confusion
-Pulp Fiction
-Through the Olive Trees
-In the Mouth of Madness
-Hoop Dreams
Death and the Maiden (Roman Polanski)
and
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
Interview With the Vampire (Neil Jordan)
71 Fragments in a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)
Clerks (Kevin Smith)
The Crow (Alex Proyas)
Romeo Is Bleeding (Peter Medak)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
1)A Borrowed LIfe (Wu Nien-Jen)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen)
Vive l’amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)
Red Rose White Rose (Stanley Kwan)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-Wai)
The Corridor (Šarūnas Bartas)
1. In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Aki Kaurismaki)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)
Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (Jim Van Bebber)
Faust (Jan Svankmajer)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Spanking the Monkey (David O Russell)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Wes Craven)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi)
Serial Mom (John Waters)
Amateur (Hal Hartley)
La Reine Margot (Patrice Chereau)
Nadja (Michael Almereyda)
My Sweet Satan (Jim Van Bebber)
L’Enfer (Claude Chabrol)
1) Pulp Fiction
Ed Wood
Red
The Shawshank Redemption
Clerks
Interview with the Vampire
The Lion King
Hoop Dreams
Bullets Over Broadway
Il Postino
Chungking Express
Natural Born Killers
Drunken Master II (The Legend of Drunken Master)
White
Fear of a Black Hat
Speed
Heavenly Creatures
1.The Monster
Jimmy Hollywood
Serial Mom
JLG/JLG
Love Affair
Nobody’s Fool
Ed Wood
A Good Man in Africa
Bandit Queen
This was a good year. I suspect I can imagine what will make the top 3 this year (for me little has aged worse than Pulp). Il Monstero is one of the funniest films I have ever seen and Jimmy Hollywood is a funny parody of method acting with some creative and sinister overtones.
1. Jeanne la Pucelle (Rivette)*
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Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Silences of the Palace (Tlatli)
Amateur (Hartley)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Must see What Happened Was and A Dedicated Life (among others)
1, Shawshank Redemption
Darkman
Ed Wood
Forest Gump
IQ
Legends of the Fall
the mask
Nobody’s Fool
pulp fiction
quiz show
The River Wild
Romeo Is Bleeding
With Honors.
Exotica Atom Egoyan
00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter Helge Schneider
0116643225059 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Ai qing wan sui Tsai Ming-liang
A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy Vivienne Dick
Au bord du lac Patrick Bokanowski
Black Ice Stan Brakhage
Die letzten Männer Ulrich Seidl
Günther 1939 (Heil Hitler) Johannes Rosenberger
Infight Romuald Karmakar
Jonas in the Desert Peter Sempel
Koridorius Šarūnas Bartas
Moving Pictures Robert Frank
Nothing Broke but the Heart Clea T. Waite
Rit over de grens Rosemarie Blank
River of Grass Kelly Reichardt
S.O.S. Estraterrestria Mara Mattuschka
The Color of Love Peggy Ahwesh
Trying to Kiss the Moon Stephen Dwoskin
Veillées d’armes Marcel Ophüls
1. Lamerica – Gianni Amelio
El acto en cuestión – Alejandro Agresti
Bullets over Broadway – Woody Allen
Cómo ser infeliz y disfrutarlo – Enrique Urbizu
Ed Wood – Tim Burton
Four Weddings and a Funeral – Mike Newell
Interview with the Vampire – Neil Jordan
El jardín del Edén – María Novaro
Lisbon Story – Wim Wenders
Nobody’s Fool – Robert Benton
Priest – Antonia Bird
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino
Quiz Show – Robert Redford
The River Wild – Curtis Hanson
Vive l’Amour – Ming-liang Tsai
Wild Reeds – André Téchiné
1. L’eau froide (Assayas)
2. Amateur (Hartley)
3. L’enfer (Chabrol)
Bullets Over Broadway
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Ed Wood
The Madness Of King George
Leon / The Professional
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
Muriel’s Wedding
Quiz Show
Backbeat
Tom & Viv
Four Weddings And A Funeral
1st Tier
I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis)
A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)
Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)
2nd Tier
Le Franc (Djibril Diop Mambety)
U.S. Go Home (Claire Denis)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Drunken Master II (Liu Chia-Liang)
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee)
Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-Wai)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Vive L’amour (Tsai Ming-Liang)
1. Satantango
Through the Olive Trees
Casa de lava
Chungking Express
Death and the Maiden
Three Colors: Red
L’eau froide
Exotica
A Confucian Confusion
Immortal Beloved
Little Odessa
Ashes of Time
A Pure Formality
Wing Chun
Amateur
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
I Can’t Sleep
Vive L’Amour
The Glass Shield
River of Grass
Adding: Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
How could I have forgotten that!?
1. Chung Hing sam lam “Chungking Express” (Kar Wai Wong / Hong Kong)
Koridorius “The Corridor” (Sharunas Bartas / Lithuania, Germany)
The Addiction (Abel Ferrara / USA)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis / USA)
Maverick (Richard Donner / USA)
Otaku (Jackie Bastide, Jean-Jacques Beineix / France)
Nihon eiga no hyaku nen “100 Years of Japanese Cinema” (Nagisa Ôshima / Japan, UK)
Drop Zone (John Badham / USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray / USA)
Paradjanov: A Requiem (Ron Holloway / USA, Germany)
Black Ice (Stan Brakhage / USA)
Dumb & Dumber (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly / USA)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell / UK)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino / USA)
Speed (Jan de Bont / USA)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont / USA)
I count Sokurov’s “Whispering pages” as 1993. Otherwise it would be NO.1.
Anyways, It seems I need to see A LOT MORE from this year…
Pulp Fiction
I Can’t Sleep – Claire Denis
Wild Reeds – Andre Techine
Through the Olive Trees – Abbas Kiarostami
Three Colours: White – Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colours: Red – Krzysztof Kieslowski
U.S. Go Home – Claire Denis
Vive L’Amour – Tsai Ming Liang
Bullets over Broadway – Woody Allen
Ed Wood – Tim Burton
Four Weddings and a Funeral – Mike Newell
Interview with the Vampire – Neil Jordan
Natural Born Killers – Oliver Stone
TIE
Chungking Express – Wong Kar-Wai
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino
Like them or not, these two films bent world cinema as no others had in quite a while, and they each set a trajectory of tone under which much of cinema is still operating.
then …
Quiz Show – Robert Redford
Tres Colours – Red – Krzystof Kieslowski
Ed Wood – Tim Burton
Exotica – Atom Egoyan
Satantango – Bela Tarr
The Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont
Blue Sky – Tony Richardson
Heavenly Creatures – Peter Jackson
Nobody’s Fool – Robert Benton
Natural Born Killers – Oliver Stone
Wild Reeds – Andre Techine
The Hudsucker Proxy – Joel Coen
To Live – Zhang Yimou
I had forgotten about Death and the Maiden … I have to take another look at it sometime.
@ WBA Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction came out in 1995 I do believe.
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Sátántangó (Bela Tarr)
Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang)
71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (Michael Haneke)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar- Wai)
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
Clerks (Kevin Smith)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Amateur (Hal Hartley)
Serial Mom (John Waters)
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Aki Kaurismaki)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Wes Craven)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
US Go Home (Claire Denis)
River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt)
1. Leon (Luc Besson)
Chunking Express
Exotica
Pulp Fiction
Death and the Maiden
@ Charles Deckert.
You’re probably right, as I usually go by copyright on the print when listing the “year” of a film. And I don’t care about Imdb that much in this regard, so…
1. Exotica
Chungking Express
Joan the Maiden
JLG/JLG
Through the Olive Trees
Heavenly Creatures
i’m glad to see Little Odessa mentioned so many times here.
regrettably i’ve yet to watch Satantango, mostly because i haven’t found a spare day to watch it. Haven’t seen Casa De Lava either.
favourites out of the ones i have seen, in no particular order:
RED
Cobb
City Of Lost Children
A Confucian Confusion
Little Odessa
Exotica
Bullets Over Broadway
71 Fragments
Clerks
Ed Wood
Natural Born Killers
Through the Olive Trees
Leon
White
Death and the Maiden
Chungking Express(although i’m not nearly enamoured with this as others)
Fresh
Pulp Fiction(mostly for oldtime sake!)
To Live
Runners up: Killing Zoe, In The Mouth Of Madness, Romeo Is Bleeding, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
oh, and Fun too, that belongs in my top 20. it has been forgotten though.
1. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Legends of the Fall (Edward Zwick)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Speed (Jan de Bont)
Barcelona (Whit Stillman)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
The Kingdom (Lars von Trier and Merton Amfred)
Amateur (Hal Hartley)
Serial Mom (John Waters)
The Awkward Age (Nenad Dizdarevic)
Krantiveer (Muhul Anand)
Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
Wing Chun (Yuen Woo-ping)
MovieGuide1
What I’m asking you to do is to fill a ballot with some titles of your own choice. 1994 must be the year of first release (according to IMDb).
- Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites.
- There is no need to rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.
- You may change your ballot as many times as you’d like.
A certain standardization of the outcome is predictable, but it is not our goal to establish a Canon. It’s just a game and individual votes are the true centers of attraction.
Results will be presented in a specially created Movie List.
Thank you in advance for joining us in this game.