1.The Full Monty
The Game
Funny Games
Lost Highway
Crash
Contact
Life is Beautiful
L.A Confidential
Jackie Brown
1. Wag the Dog
L.A. Confidential
Boogie Nights
Contact
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Jackie Brown
Donnie Brasco
The Spanish Prisoner
The Game
Chasing Amy
Starship Troopers
Good Will Hunting
Taste of Cherry
In the Company of Men
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
Affliction (Paul Schrader)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
Night Falls on Manhattan (Sidney Lumet)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjærg)
The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan)
Kundun (Martin Scorsese)
Year of the Horse (Jim Jarmusch)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
Hana-bi (Kitano)
L.A. Confidential
Alien: Resurrection
Boogie Nights
The Boxer
Donnie Brasco
The Game
Good Will Hunting
Grosse Pointe Blank
Insomnia
Jackie Brown
Lost Highway
Starship Troopers
Suicide Kings
1997 was an incredible year for films… I don’t even know where to begin!
1. Taste of Cherry
The River (Tsai)
Happy Together (Wong)
Mother and Son (Sokurov)
Live Flesh (Almodovar)
Destiny (Chahine)
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Ho Sun-Chan)
Love and Death on Long Island (Kwietniowski)
Voyage to the Beginning of the World (de Oliveira)
The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
Boogie Nights (Anderson)
Xiao Wu / Pickpocket (Jia zhang-ke)
Jackie Brown (Tarantino)
In the Company of Men (LaBute)
Children of Heaven (Madjidi)
LA Confidential (Hanson)
Gummo (Korine)
Ossos (Pedro Costa)
1. Happy Together
Le acrobate — S. Soldini
Airbag — J. Bajo Ulloa
El amor perjudica seriamente la salud — M. Gómez Pereira
Buenos Aires viceversa — A. Agresti
Character — M. van Diem
Contact — R. Zemeckis
Donnie Brasco — M. Newell
Genealogies of a Crime — R. Ruiz
The Island on Bird Street — S. Kragh-Jacobsen
Jackie Browne — Q. Tarantino
L.A. Confidential — C. Hanson
Love and Death on Long Island — R. Kwietniowski
Ma Vie en Rose — A. Berliner
La Moños — M. Ros
My Best Friend’s Wedding — P.J. Hogan
¿Quién diablos es Juliette? — C. Marcovich
Secretos del corazón — M. Armendáriz
The Sweet Hereafter — A. Egoyan
The Taste of Cherry — A. Kiarostami
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
The River (Tsai-Ming Liang)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
Gummo (Harmony Korine)
Boogie Nights (PT Anderson)
The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
Mononoke Hime (Hayao Miyazaki)
Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
Face / Off (John Woo)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle)
Ma Vie En Rose (Alain Berliner)
Scream 2 (Wes Craven)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Twenthy Four Seven (Shane Meadows)
Hear, hear Grey. I wasn’t able to participate in the 1997 poll due to my lack of film viewing from back then but I’m gonna have to think before posting a list for this year.
1. Happy Together
Letter from Waco
Mother and Son
The Sweet Hereafter
The Life of Jesus
Boogie Nights
Jackie Brown
The Sweet Hereafter
Princess Mononoke
Deconstructing Harry
This is is short and rather predictable I suppose, but it’s honest. There are some other movies from 1997 that I do like, but these four are the only ones that I actively look forward to seeing again.
I wish Bulworth had been released in 1997.
Thanks, McBean, for reminding me of Deconstructing Harry.
1. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano)
Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)
Crash (David Cronenberg)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
The Game (David Fincher)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Kundun (Martin Scorsese)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar)
Oscar And Lucinda (Gillian Armstrong)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
No single great masterpiece i’ve seen, i’ve no doubt missed the best ones that make Grey Daisies so enthusiastic, and i look forward to the forthcoming recommendations!
1. Journey to the Beginning of the World (Oliveira), i give this 2 points as it has Leonor Silveira and starts at my favourite place
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Flatworld (Greaves)
Hana Bi (Kitano)
The Eel (Imamura)
Mother and Son (Sokurov)
Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
The Thief (Chukhrai)
Sweet Hereafter & Golden seven:
1. The Sweet Hereafter
Happy Together
Henry Fool
Level Five
Mother and Son
Ossos
The River
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
My favorite year of the 1990s.
1. Starship Troopers
-Happy Together
-Hana-Bi
-Mother and Son
-Taste of Cherry
-Lost Highway
-Boogie Nights
-Princess Mononoke
-The Eel
-L.A. Confidential
-In the Company of Men
1. LA Confidential
Face/Off
As Good As It Gets
Boogie Nights
Happy Together
Guess what my movie taste was in 1997.
1. The Life of Jesus (Dumont)
Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Dick)
Funny Games (Haneke)
The Wings of the Dove (Softley)
The River (Tsai)
Pickpocket (Jia Jhangke)
Kasaba (Ceylan)
The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
Train of Shadows (Guerin)
Suzaku (Kawase)
Happy Together (Wong)
The House (Bartas)
Mother of the Dunes (Ascofare)
Genealogies of a Crime (Ruiz)
Want to Watch:
The Roe’s Room (Majewski)
Blue Moon (I-Chen Ko)
Public Housing (Wiseman)
The Perfect Circle (Kenovic)
Level Five (Marker)
how are we determining release date? i’m going to go by it’s entry here on mubi…and this is only provisional as i’ve only had a quick look, i may come back for more, but:
1. Robinson in Space – Patrick Keiller (!!!! times 100!!!)
then
- Long Twilight (Attila Janisch)
- The Roe’s Room (Lech Majewski)
- Pickpocket – (Jia Zhangke)
- Train of Shadows (Jose Luis Guerin)
- Three Stories (Kira Muratova)
- Public Housing (Fred Wiseman)
- Orbis Pictus – (Martin Sulik)
- A Casa (Sharunas Bartas)
- Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
- The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Destiny (Youssef Chahine)
- Ossos (Pedro Costa)
- Mother of the Dunes – (Abdoulaye Ascofare)
- Mother and Son (Sokurov)
1. Commingled Containers
Princess Mononoke
Happy Together
Boogie Nights
A Taste of Cherry
1. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
Destiny (Youssef Chahine)
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
1. The Ice Storm
The Apostle
Boogie Nights
Chasing Amy
Clockwatchers
Cop Land
Cube
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
Donnie Brasco
Eve’s Bayou
The Fifth Element
Kundun
L.A. Confidential
Lost Highway
Men with Guns
The Sweet Hereafter
Waiting for Guffman
The Wings of the Dove
but, but but… Henry Fool is from 1998! :-o
Isn’t Crash from 1996?
1. Open Your Eyes (Amenabar)
Men In Black (Barry Sonnenfield)
Brother (Aleksei Balabanov)
Mother & Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Kasaba (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Face/Off (John Woo)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Mirror (Jafar Panahi)
Orgazmo (Trey Parker)
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
Destiny (Youssef Chahine)
Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)
Double Team (Tsui Hark)
Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson)
Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjærg)
Love! Valour! Compassion! (Joe Mantello)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
The River (Tsai Ming Liang)
1. See the Sea (Francois Ozon)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
Breakdown (Jonathan Mostow)
Gasman (Lynne Ramsay)
Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris)
Uncle Sam (William Lustig)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
The number one choice was a very tough call. I’d say it’s pretty much a tie between See the Sea and Henry Fool. I ended up picking Ozon’s film as I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned in any of the lists yet.
yes Crash is 1996.
Woops if Ma Vie en Rose is from 1997, then i’ll include that one too.
@Kenji: YAY im surprised w/ Voyage to the Beginning of the World that its getting very intense after they see that Marcau statue. Also we can see de Oliveira’s presence as a bonus.
@Ralch
Henry Fool premiered on September 7, 1997 at the Toronto Film Festival.
Yes, Crash is indeed 1996. It looks like it wasn’t released in the USA until March 1997 so maybe that’s where the confusion arose. It premiered plenty of other countries from mid-1996 onwards.
well, well…
aw, shit.
my list reloaded.
1. Happy Together
Le acrobate — S. Soldini
Airbag — J. Bajo Ulloa
El amor perjudica seriamente la salud — M. Gómez Pereira
Buenos Aires viceversa — A. Agresti
Character — M. van Diem
Contact — R. Zemeckis
Donnie Brasco — M. Newell
Genealogies of a Crime — R. Ruiz
Henry Fool — H. Hartley
Jackie Browne — Q. Tarantino
The Island on Bird Street — S. Kragh-Jacobsen
L.A. Confidential — C. Hanson
Love and Death on Long Island — R. Kwietniowski
Ma Vie en Rose — A. Berliner
La Moños — M. Ros
My Best Friend’s Wedding — P.J. Hogan
¿Quién diablos es Juliette? — C. Marcovich
Secretos del corazón — M. Armendáriz
Sorry, Abbas.
The Sweet Hereafter — A. Egoyan
MovieGuide1
What I’m asking you to do is to fill a ballot with some titles of your own choice. 1997 must be the year of first public release.
- 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.