1996 Poll

People vs. Larry Flynt isn’t bad, but Ashes of Time? That’s great.

I was just replacing Ashes with Larry Flynt. Ashes was 1994, my mistake.

And Ashes of Time is phenomenal.

Really should give Forever Mozart another try though. Love Godard, but that film just didn’t do it for me.

Secrets & Lies
Breaking the Waves
Trainspotting
Fargo
Shine
Waiting for Guffman
James and the Giant Peach
Everyone Says I Love You
The Crucible
Box of Moonlight
That Thing You Do
Sleepers
Marvin’s Room
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Please add Few of Us by Sharunas Bartas second to my list on page 1.. Thanks

Secrets & Lies

Crash
The English Patient
Fargo
Foreign Land
From Dusk Till Dawn
Hard Eight
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Pusher
Shine
Sling Blade
Thesis
Trainspotting
When We Were Kings

Secrets & Lies
Breaking the Waves
Trainspotting
Waiting for Guffman
The English Patient
James and the Giant Peach
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Shine
Basquiat
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie

Unfortunately, I have seen very little from this year, but I was able to think of seven films I love. I hope it’s okay if I participate anyway.

Fargo

Runners-up (alphabetical):
Bottle Rocket
Crash
Happy Gilmore
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Sling Blade
Trainspotting

MovieGu​ide1,

i would like to take grace of my heart off my list, and add chronicle of a dissapearance instead please. thanks!

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

A Summer in La Goulette
Autumn Sun
Bound
Box of Moon Light
Drifting Clouds
Earth
Irma Vep
Kolya
Lone Star
Mars Attacks!
Mission: Impossible
Ridicule
Scream
Secrets & Lies
Shall We Dance?
Star Trek: First Contact
Thesis
Thieves
Under the Skin

Deliberately excluded (TSPDT top 250, IMDb top 250, S&S top 250)
A Moment of Innocence
Breaking the Waves
Fargo
Trainspotting

Wanted
My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well

I managed to forget Scream. Please add it to my list. Thank you!

1. Mission Impossible (Brian De Palma / USA)

Albino Alligator (Kevin Spacey / USA, France)
Blackout (Allan A. Goldstein / USA)
Dangan ranna “Dangan Runner” (Sabu / Japan)
Human Behavioural Case Studies (Adam Benjamin Elliot / Australia)
L’appartement “The Apartment” (Gilles Mimouni / France)
Les voleurs “Thieves” (Andre Techine / France)
Nun va Goldoon “A Matter of Innocence” (Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Iran, France)
Suwarôteiru “Swallowtail” (Shunji Iwai / Japan)
The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller / USA)
Tierra (Julio Medem / Spain)
Uncle (Adam Benjamin Elliot / Australia)
Une robe d’été “A Summer Dress” (Francois Ozon / France)

1. Comrades, Almost a Love Story / Tian Mi Mi (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)

The Ceremony (Claude Chabrol, USA)
Thieves / Les Voleurs (Andre Techine, France)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
Drifting Clouds (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland)
Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, United Kingdom)
Tale of Summer / Conte d’ete (Eric Rohmer, France)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, United Kingdom)
Crash (David Cronenberg, USA)
L’Appartement (Gilles Mimouni, France)
The People VS. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman, USA)
La Promesse (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran)
Mahjong / Ma jiang (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
Oriental Elegy / Vostochnaya Elegiya (Aleksandr Sokurov, USSR)
Kolya (Jan Sverak, Czech)
Flirting with Disaster (David O. Russell, USA)
How I Started an Argument…(My Sex Life) (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
Few of Us / Musu Nedaug (Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania)
Goodbye, South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)

What a strange year for me! Lots of pretty good movies, but nothing approaching a masterpiece or real favorite. There are some films already voted for that I still haven’t seen, particularly from Europe and Asia, but of the 55 releases from ’96 that I have, only these few remain in my mind as particular pleasures and unique experiences.

1-Jude

Dragonheart
Big Night
Kansas City
Carried Away
Unforgettable

And I usually have trouble narrowing it down to twenty!

goodbye south goodbye
mahjong
lone star
drifting clouds
secrets & lies
the funeral
deep crimson
irma vep
la promesse
breaking the waves

Fargo
Secrets & lies
Breaking the Waves
Lone Star
La promesse
Big Night
Flirting with Disaster
Everyone Says I Love You

1. Fargo

Drifting Clouds
The Pillow Book

1. Voci nel tempo (F. Piavoli)

Few of Us (S. Bartas)
Fargo (J. Coen)
How to Make Love to a Woman (B. Plympton)

1. Three Lives and Only One Death
The Stendhal Syndrome

^Right! Please add Three Lives and Only One Death (Trois vies et une seule mort) – Raúl Ruiz to my list above. Remember discovering this in the 2010 Directors’ Cup final. Thanks Experimentofilm.

Last call, 24 hours left!

Secrets & Lies
Breaking the Waves
Captain Conan
Family Resemblances
My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument
A Summer’s Tale
Thieves
The Promise
Drifting Clouds
Thesis
Beautiful Girls
City Hall
The English Patient
Everyone Says I Love You
Fargo
The Funeral
Kansas City
Lone Star
Mars Attacks!
Things I Never Told You

Keep up the good work, MG!

Drifting Clouds

The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well
Breaking the Waves
Sling Blade
Secrets & Lies
Three Lives and Only One Death
Fargo
Crash
Pusher
Ridicule
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Lone Star
Shine
Box of Moonlight
Brassed Off
Hamlet
Trainspotting
Bound
Mission Impossible
Jerry Maguire

Captaine Conan / Bertrand Tavernier
City Hall / Harold Becker

Deep Crimson / Arturo Ripstein
The Delta / Ira Sachs
Drifting Clouds / Aki Kaurismäki

Fargo / Joel & Ethan Coen
Few of Us / Šarūnas Bartas
For Ever Mozart / Jean-Luc Godard

Goodbye, South, Goodbye / Hou Hsiao-hsien

Irma Vep / Olivier Assayas

Jude / Michael Winterbottom

Mahjong / Edward Yang

Nénette and Boni / Claire Denis

Oriental Elegy / Aleksandr Sokurov

Paradise / Sergei Dvortsevoy
La Promesse / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

Red Hollywood / Thom Andersen & Noël Burch

Lost and Found (Lee Chi-Ngai)

Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
Fargo (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez)
Crash (David Cronenberg)
James and the Giant Peach (Henry Selick)
Michael Collins (Neil Jordan)
Mission Impossible (Brian De Palma)
Carla’s Song (Ken Loach)
Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks)
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
Flirting with Disaster (David O. Russell)
Piano Man (Yu Sang-wook)
The Hunchback Of The Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
Escape From L.A. (John Carpenter)
The Craft (Andrew Fleming)
The Spitfire Grill (Lee David Zlotoff)
2 Days in the Valley (John Herzfeld)
Till Death Do Us Laugh (Joe Ma)

09/01/2012 Results: http://mubi.com/lists/1996-poll

Thanks to all who contributed!

I missed the deadline, but anyways:

1. Irma Vep (Oliver Assayas)
2. The Funeral (Abel Ferrara)
3. Crash (David Cronenberg)
4. Mahjong (Edward Yang)
5. Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
6. For Ever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard)