Best film of the '90's?

Mat I Syn hats off

I like:
Kids
Clerks
Chasing Amy
Reservoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
Casino
Dazed and Confuzed
Fargo

I like:
Kids
Clerks
Chasing Amy
Reservoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
Casino
Dazed and Confuzed
Fargo

I like:
Kids
Clerks
Chasing Amy
Reservoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
Casino
Dazed and Confuzed
Fargo

IMDB

1. Crash [1996, Cronenberg]
2. Chungking Express [1994, Kar-Wai]
3. Heat [1995, Mann]
4. Unforgiven [1992, Eastwood]
5. Satantango [1994, Tarr]
6. Benny’s Video [1992, Haneke]
7. LA Confidential [1997, Hanson]
8. Tombstone [1993, Russell]
9. The Thin Red Line [1998, Malick]
10. Rhapsody in August [1991, Kurosawa]

Operation Dumbo Drop

It’s Heat for me.

What a moment!

In no particular order:

Good Fellas
Rushmore
Heat
JFK
Remains of the Day
Schindler’s List
The Nasty Girl
Barton Fink
Affliction
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Waiting for Guffman
Boogie Nights
LA Confidential
The Apostle
Pulp Fiction
Casino
Gods & Monsters
Out of Sight

El faro (The Lighthouse)
The Insider
Reversal of Fortune
Household Saints
JFK
El sol de membrillo (The Quince Tree Sun)
Trust
Fearless
The Double Life of Veronique
King of the Hill
Cabeza de Vaca
Cómo ser infeliz y disfrutarlo (How to Be Unhappy and Enjoy It)
Lamerica
Toy Story
L.A. Confidential
The Dreamlife of Angels
The Color of Paradise
The Matrix

The Limey and Fast, Cheap & Out of Control are two.

This is like asking, whats thee shiniest piece of shit on the shit pile.

Second Circle (Sokurov)
Mother and Son (Sokurov)
Satantango (Tarr)
Voyage to the beginning of the world (Oliveira)
Naked (Leigh)
Orlando (Potter)
Safe (Haynes)
Ningen Gokaku/License to live (Kurosawa)
Chungking Express (Wong)
Happy Together (Wong)
Benny’s Video (Haneke)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou)
In the Company of Men (Labute)
Election (Payne)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
Beau Travail (Denis)
No Fear, No Die (Denis)
Late August, Early September (Assayas)
Close up (Kiarostami)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Kiarostami)
Bleu (Kieslowski)
The Addiction (Ferrara)
Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
Fight Club (Fincher)
After Life (Koreeda)
La Promesse (Dardenne)
Clean, Shaven (Keane)

Schindler’s List
The Big Lebowski
Goodfellas

Krug vtoroj (1990)
Mat i syn (1997)
Sátántangó (1994)
Rang-e khoda (1999)
Koridorius (1994)
Lebedyne ozero-zona (1990)
A Casa (1997)
Kamen (1992)
Dead Man (1995)
La Belle noiseuse(1991)

My Top 20 off the top of my head:

The Big Lebowski
Casino
Cyrano De Bergerac
Eyes Wide Shut
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
The Hairdresser’s Husband
Hana-Bi
Heat
Heavy
Husbands & Wives
JFK
The Legend of 1900
Lost Highway
Magnolia
Miller’s Crossing
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Short Cuts
Sonatine

addition: Solanas’ El viaje (The Journey // The Voyage)

To add to my OP, After Life and these two recent discoveries (thanks to David-D-D) by M. Makhmalbaf: Gabbeh and Sohkout/Silence.

01. Brother’s Keeper – Berlinger & Sinofsky
02. Quince Tree of the Sun – Erice
03. Paradise Lost – Berlinger & Sinofsky
04. La Belle Noiseuse – Jacques Rivette
05. Ulysses’ Gaze – Angelopoulos
06. Eternity and a Day – Angelopoulos
07. Leaving Las Vegas – Figgis
08. Satantango – Tarr
09. Secrets and Lies – Leigh
10. The Scent of Green Papaya – Tran Anh Hung
11. Ratcatcher – Ramsay
12. The Double Life of Véronique – Kieslowski
13. Breaking the Waves – Von Trier
14. Hidden Agenda – Loach
15. Humanité – Dumont
16. Vincent & Theo – Altman
17. Gabbeh – Makhmalbaf
18. Mr. Death – Morris
19. Bells from the Deep – Herzog
20. JLG/JLG Autoportrait de Décembre – Godard

Fargo is my favorite from the 90s. Then:

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Drugstore Cowboy
Lost Highway
Rushmore
Eyes Wide Shut
Kids
Gummo

Forced to choose a single movie, I’d have to go with Heat.

LA BELLA LATOSA de Rivette

1. Goodfellas
2. Boogie Nights
3. Chungking Express
4. JFK
5. Eyes Wide Shut
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Crumb
8. Trainspotting
9. The Thin Red Line
10. Breaking The Waves
11. Rushmore
12. Magnolia
13. The Piano
14. Fight Club
15. Ed Wood
16. Short Cuts
17. The Sweet Hereafter
18. The Shawshank Redemption
19. Naked
20. Barton Fink

1. Gummo
2. Naked
3. The Thin Red Line
4. Princess Mononoke
5. Magnolia
6. Happiness
7. Fight Club
8. Welcome to the Dollhouse
9. Short Cuts
10. Breaking the Waves

Ten Runners Up:

11. Buffalo ‘66
12. American Beauty
13. Dead Man
14. Hard Eight
15. Benny’s Video
16. Fargo
17. The Matrix
18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
19. Being John Malkovich
20. Funny Games

1. Kundun- makes me want to become a better person
2. Pulp Fiction- made me want to become a filmmaker; it’s also really funny to me.
3. A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies/My Voyage to Italy (Tie)- The best film appreciation class ever!
4. Blue— Teaches me why the soul needs liberty
5. Groundhog Day— makes me try to live for other people
6. Ed Wood— shines a light on my life and urges me not to judge myself for the crazy things I love
7. Age of Innocence— greatest symphony of longing and sadness I’ve seen and heard Filmmaking at the highest level
8. Ulysses’ Gaze— made me go to Greece and learn my heritage
9. Point Break— made me try surfing and to become a free thinker (Of course, I can’t surf, and I found out that thinking usually costs me money.)
10. Chungking Express— made me want to become a cinematographer

1. Histoire(s) du cinema (Jean-Luc Godard)

The perfect cinematic summation of the entire 20th century from Jean-Luc Godard himself. A truly overwhelming 228 minutes that contains so much information that multiple viewings are inevitable.

2. 12 Storeys (Eric Khoo)

Living proof that Singaporean cinema has (or had) great potential. 12 Storeys is a remarkable exploration of numerous social issues that treads into powerful emotions and simultaneously parallels various larger issues. A remarkable film that works on many levels. Visually enticing too.

3. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

A film that serves as a documentary about Makhmalbaf, a drama about a policeman and a filmmaker and a lovely tribute to cinema simultaneously. A brief yet thoroughly discursive exploration of cinema, memory and history.

4. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)

Eyes Wide Shut is a dream that is utterly fascinating on a semiotic level and truly beautiful in all technical aspects. This last film is a fitting end to Stanley Kubrick’s illustrious career and his greatest film in my opinion (along with The Killing).

5. The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)

This film is Hong Sang-soo’s self-introduction to the world of cinema. Also, this film is fantastic. Featuring a complex narrative that has no empathy for inattentive viewers and a confident execution of various elements that would become typical Hong motifs, The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well is Hong Sang-soo’s first masterpiece and one of the greatest films of the 1990s.

6. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao Hsien)

An existential documentation of the vapid and languid lives of various people outside the law in Taiwan. Subtle expressions of urban alienation and low-key long takes are what Hou Hsiao Hsien does best, and Goodbye South, Goodbye is graced thoroughly with the application of his masterful touches.

7. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)

A sprawling existential take on death packed with dry humour and fascinating characters. Jim Jarmusch’s acid western is truly transcendental and a great joy to witness.

8. The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaursimaki)

Aki Kaurismaki manages to pull off another black comedy about the depressing conditions that surround the working class. Language fails to communicate for the characters, thus Kaurismaki statures this film with expressive music and cinematography. Socially-conscious dry humour? Sign me up.

9. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)

I am not much of a WKW fan yet I struggled to choose between Happy Together and Chungking Express for this list. The man can make masterpieces if he tries, evidently. Chungking Express is one of these masterpieces. A tale on urban isolation and escapist desires with a musical motif as the cherry on top.

10. The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (Jan Svankmajer)

A short film rounds off this list. My favourite animator Jan Svankmajer made this film immediately after the fall of communism as a personal expression and direct release of all his emotions and thoughts on the repressive regime he had gone through. A testament to the power of the artist and a fitting end to this list.

Highly Honourable “In Retrospect” Mention: The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)

the films that I love the most from the 90s

( in no particular order )

THE SHELTERING SKY ( Bertolucci )
CLOSE-UP ( Kiarostami )
LA BELLE NOISEUSE ( Rivette )
BITTER MOON ( Polanski )
BEYOND THE CLOUDS ( Antonioni , Wenders )
LATCHO DROM ( Gatlif )
SATANTANGO ( Tarr )
DEAD MAN ( Jarmusch )
LOST HIGHWAY ( Lynch )
THE BLACKOUT ( Ferrara )
POLA X ( Carax )
WEST BEIRUT ( Doueiri )
THE THIN RED LINE ( Malick )
THE WIND WILL CARRY US ( Kiarostami )
BEAU TRAVAIL ( Denis )
EYES WIDE SHUT ( Kubrick )

Germany Year Zero
Julian Donkey Boy
Deconstructing Harry
True Crime
The Letter (de oliveros)

1) Pulp Fiction
2) Fight Club
3) Schindler’s List
4) Goodfellas
5) Eyes Wide Shut
6) Seven
7) Three Colors Trilogy
8) Ed Wood
9) The Player
10) Silence of the Lambs
11) Unforgiven
12) Being John Malkovich
13) The Truman Show
14) Naked
15) Breaking the Waves
16) South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
17) The Big Lebowski
18) Reservoir Dogs
19) Glengary Glen Ross
20) Magnolia