1993 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favorite films from 1993 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible as yet (pending revision of the present scoring system)

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers (in the present scoring system)

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline. Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and are not guaranteed inclusion on the final list.

Deadline for 1993 lists will be Sunday, October 31st at around midnight EDT.

[flip]

i'm downgrading some famous films from this year that i saw a long time ago when i was first getting into film and that i suspect i might not think so highly of now, maybe now is a good time to rewatch some of those though


Moving (Shinji Somai)
Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (Michael Ritchie)
The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

The Boot (Mohammad-Ali Talebi)
Fiorile (Taviani Brothers)
A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman)

Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica)
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
Green Snake (Tsui Hark)

True Romance (Tony Scott)
Fear of a Black Hat (Rusty Cundieff)
Odds and Evens (Bakhtiar Khoudoynazarov)
Poirot: Dead Man's Mirror (Brian Farnham)

Naked (Mike Leigh)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Tryst Haunt (Stan Brakhage)

[Silga]

[provisional list deleted]

[greennui]

The 90's year with the least amount of favourites for me, hoping to change that!

The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg)
Totally Fucked Up (Gregg Araki)
I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (Sarah Jacobson)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
The Bed You Sleep In (Jon Jost)
Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara)
Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri)¨
Blue (Derek Jarman)

Łódź Symphony (Peter B. Hutton)
A Day in the Life of a Consumer (Harun Farocki)
Naked (Mike Leigh)
Poetic Justice (John Singleton)
Oh, Woe Is Me (Jean-Luc Godard)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
The Line, the Cross & the Curve (Kate Bush)
Tokyo Blood (Gakuryû Ishii)
The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
Slon Tango (Chris Marker)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (Duwayne Dunham)
Dr. Devious: More Dance in Cyberspace

[karl]

OK heres what I got.

The date for SHACKLES (Nansalmaagin Uranchimeg) is 1993 on LB, 1998 on IMDb, and various other dates online (1994, even 1991), so who knows. Otherwise I'd have two Mongol films on here, an unusual situation to say the least. The second, RUNNING ANTELOPE (I. Nyamgavaa), ain't on IMDb at all but is listed as a 1993 on the director's Wikipedia page - according to which it also turned up at the 1994 Berlin festival - so I'm gonna go ahead and put that on in there. Someone subbed it, sorta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeNqv4D4Zi8

Seopyonje
Farewell My Concubine
Naked
Remains of the Day
Scent of Green Papaya
To the Starry Island
Calendar
Sara (Mehrjui)
Passage to Buddha (Jang)
Nastya (Daneliya)
The Fog (Kamieńska)
In a Remote Place (Tneg)
Running Antelope

etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdjwD4jW4XY

[oscarwerner]

Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme)
Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
---
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström)
Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
True Romance (Tony Scott)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
-----
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
The Secret Garden (Agnieszka Holland)
----
Naked (Mike Leigh)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier)
This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)

[pabs]

Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski)
Farewell My Concubine (Kaige)
The Scent of Green Papaya (Hung)
Short Cuts (Altman)
Naked (Leigh)
Groundhog Day (Ramis)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen)

[---]

"Frank's Cock" (Mike Hoolboom, 1993)
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa, 1993)
Ocean Waves (Tomomi Mochizuki, 1993)

"Stuff" (Johnny Depp/Gibby Haynes, 1993
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (Alanis Obomsawin, 1993)
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
Falling Down (Joel Schumacher, 1993)
Faraway, So Close! (Wim Wenders, 1993)

Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan, 1993)
"Life" (Artavazd Peleshyan, 1993)
"Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo" (Jean-Luc Godard, 1993)
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993)
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (Éric Rohmer, 1993)

The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker, 1993)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)
Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma, 1993)
The Potluck and the Passion (Cheryl Dunye, 1993)
An Untitled Portrait (Cheryl Dunye, 1993)

[grabmymask]

kinda lackluster year imo. unranked.

Blue (Derek Jarman)
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To)
I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (Sarah Jacobson)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Adam Marcus)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
Matinee (Joe Dante)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Red Spirit Lake (Charles Pinion)
Stein/Licht (Rudiger Neumann)

[Holdrüholoheuho]

ballot...
APOSTLE OF RUINS (Audrius Stonys)
BLUE (Derek Jarman)
THE SANDMAN (Eckhart Schmidt)
THE TREE, THE MAYOR AND THE MEDIATHEQUE (Éric Rohmer)
THE END OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN PARLIAMENT (Pavel Koutecký)
THE COUPLE IN THE CAGE: GUATIANAUI ODYSSEY (Paula Heredia, Coco Fusco)
THE CEMENT GARDEN (Andrew Birkin)
SOUR DEATH BALLS (Jessica Yu)
BRIGIT HAVE A SHOWER, LONDON (FILMSCRIBBLES 2) (Anja Czioska)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Mara Mattuschka)

BEASTS (Csaba Varga, Igor Lazin)
WITTGENSTEIN (Derek Jarman)
VISACÍ ZÁMEK 1982-2007 (Petr Zelenka)
CLEAN, SHAVEN (Lodge Kerrigan)
HORROR STORY (Jaroslav Brabec)
RULE A GREAT COUNTRY AS YOU WOULD FRY SMALL FISH (Alexander Kluge)
A PROVEN PARTNER (Jürgen Reble)
FOOD (Jan Švankmajer)
WINTER JOURNEY (Robert Cahen)
I'M 27 (Jan Peters)

-------------------------------------------------

in the last few yrs, logged (11!)...
THE TREE, THE MAYOR AND THE MEDIATHEQUE (Éric Rohmer)
A PROVEN PARTNER (Jürgen Reble)
UNTITLED PORTRAIT (Cheryl Dunye)
SPIN (Nobuhiro Aihara)
RULE A GREAT COUNTRY AS YOU WOULD FRY SMALL FISH (Alexander Kluge)
EVERYTHING I LIKE (Martin Šulík)
BEASTS (Csaba Varga, Igor Lazin)
MAX ERNST AND THE SURREALIST REVOLUTION (Jeremy Cooper)
APOSTLE OF RUINS (Audrius Stonys)
RED WHITE & BLUE (Connie Coleman, Alan Powell)
THE SANDMAN (Eckhart Schmidt)
I'M 27 (Jan Peters)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Mara Mattuschka)
BRIGIT HAVE A SHOWER, LONDON (FILMSCRIBBLES 2) (Anja Czioska)
ZERO DEGREES LATITUDE (Steve Fagin)
THE NIGHT OF CANDLES (Robert Cahen)
WINTER JOURNEY (Robert Cahen)
THE COUPLE IN THE CAGE: GUATIANAUI ODYSSEY (Paula Heredia, Coco Fusco)

in a more distant past, watched (6!)...
THE NANNY (Various)
THE INHERITANCE OR FUCKOFFGUYSGOODDAY (Věra Chytilová)
TRUE ROMANCE (Tony Scott)
INDECENT PROPOSAL (Adrian Lyne)
CLIFFHANGER (Renny Harlin)
THE CEMENT GARDEN (Andrew Birkin)
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (Nora Ephron)
HORROR STORY (Jaroslav Brabec)
HATED: GG ALLIN & THE MURDER JUNKIES (Todd Phillips)
THE CRUSH (Alan Shapiro)
CLEAN, SHAVEN (Lodge Kerrigan)
CHILD MURDERS (Ildikó Szabó)
CALENDAR (Atom Egoyan)
WITTGENSTEIN (Derek Jarman)
BELLS FROM THE DEEP (Werner Herzog)
VISACÍ ZÁMEK 1982-2007 (Petr Zelenka)
THE JUNKY'S CHRISTMAS (Nick Donkin, Melodie McDaniel)
I KILLED MY LESBIAN WIFE, HUNG HER ON A MEATHOOK, AND NOW I HAVE A THREE PICTURE DEAL AT DISNEY (Ben Affleck)
FOOD (Jan Švankmajer)
89MM FROM EUROPE (Marcel Lozinski)
BIG BEAT (Jan Hřebejk)
FALLING DOWN (Joel Schumacher)

watched for the poll (3!)...
NIETZSCHE POPS (Ben Hillman)
THE EGG (Hans Georg Andres)
DON'T - DER ÖSTERREICHFILM (Martin Arnold)
THE TRAIL OF A PIG (Gianluigi Toccafondo)
5/ ANGELA & VIRIL (Steven Shainberg)
ALICE & VIRIL (Steven Shainberg)
I SALUTE THEE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard)
FINNMUNKA (Sami Van Ingen)
BLOOD CLIP (Pipilotti Rist)
10/ THE GARDEN (István Orosz)
TUK-TUK (Konstantin Bronzit)
SOUR DEATH BALLS (Jessica Yu)
BRITANNIA (Joanna Quinn)
N+2 (Ivan Maksimov)
15/ BOLERO (Ivan Maksimov)
DREAM (Hieronim Neumann)
GIRL FROM MOUSH (Gariné Torossian)
BLUE (Derek Jarman)
THE DANDELION CROWN (Klaas Rusticus)
20/ THE END OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN PARLIAMENT (Pavel Koutecký)

watchlist...
KISHO KUROKAWA: FROM METABOLISM TO SYMBIOSIS (Michael Blackwood)

[DT.]

Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica)
The Baby of Macon (Peter Greenaway)
Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan)
Faraway, So Close! (Wim Wenders)
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige)
Je vous salue, Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
The Man by the Shore (Raoul Peck)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
Menace II Society (Albert and Allen Hughes)
Moving (Shinji Somai)
Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
Naked (Mike Leigh)
Patlabor 2: The Movie (Mamoru Oshii)
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)

Want to watch:

The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti)
Cronos (Guillermo Del Toro)
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)
From the East (Chantal Akerman)
Matinee (Joe Dante)
Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri)
Red Rock West (John Dahl)
Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais)
Sopyonje (Im Kwon-taek)
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (Eric Rohmer)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Highly

Blue - Jarman
Dollar Mambo - Leduc
The extras
Fresa Y Chocolate - Gutierrez Alea
Green Snake - Tsui Hark
A Night In Nude -

Slightly

Un Ano Perdido - gerardo lara
Arizona Dream - Kusturica
Cronos - del Toro
Principio Y Fin - Ripstein

[ofrene]

Thus far..

Abraham’s Valley
From the East
Moving
Smoking / No Smoking
The Age of Innocence

A Perfect World
Short Cuts
The Puppetmaster
The Remains of the Day
The Wrong Trousers

Groundhog Day
Jurassic Park
The Last Bolshevik
The Piano
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque

[...]

I have the year as a good one, but with many of the movies unseen for many years now, so hard to tell whether I'd feel differently about them now. Still, the US trend towards more independentesque filmmaking again, after a decade in decline, allowed for some more unusual movies to be made by directors who could have done more in the arty mainstream film side had not the window closed so soon after being opened again, with studios flattening out the artiness to the more standard feel good award chasing adult oriented flicks before the next big wave of juvenilia again took over. It's a a bit like a more subdued version of the early seventies into the eighties, but where that game had already been played so the studios weren't in a panic about it.

Sure choices:
Household Saints
Latcho Drom
Calendar

Likely possibilities:
Sonatine
The Cement Garden
Helas por moi
The Bride with White Hair
Flesh and Bone
Green Snake
The Puppetmaster
Music of Chance

Not unlikely:
The Legend
Groundhog Day
The Piano
Abraham's Valley
Wittgenstein
Body Snatchers
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Naked
Moving
Farewell My Concubine
The Blue Kite
Germinal
In the Name of the Father
The Secret Garden
Women from the Lake of Secret Souls
Painted Skin
Accione Mutante
Two Small Bodies
Mad Dog and Glory
Patlabor 2

Possibly:
Red Rock West
The Wedding Banquet
Stalingrad
Suture
The Heroic Trio
My Favorite Season
Eagle Shooting Heroes
Hail Sarajevo
Age of Innocence
Iron Monkey
Tai Chi Master
Blue
Rising Sun
Wilder Napalm
M Butterfly
Gettysburg
The Anchoress
The Thief and the Cobbler
A Perfect World
King of the Hill
Ballad of Little Joe
Mille Bolle Blu
Baby of Macon
Romeo is Bleeding
The Wrong Man
Hotel Room
Leprechaun

[nrh]

A Night in Nude (Takashi Ishii)
Carlito's Way (Brian DePalma)
When Pigs Fly (Sara Driver)
Haruka, Nostalgia (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Green Snake (Tsui Hark)

Antareen (Mrinal Sen)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
Patlabor 2 (Mamoru Oshii)
Parpaillon (Luc Moullet)
A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)

The Puppet Master (House Hsiao Hsien)
The Birth of Love (Philippe Garrel)
Painted Skin (King Hu)
Gentleman (Shankar)
Gaayam (Ram Gopal Varma)

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (Marco Bellocchio)
Helas Pour Moi (Jean-Luc Godard)
Rudaali (Kalpana Lajmi)
Manichitrathazhu (Fazil)
Tales from the Planet Koltaka (Ruchir Joshi)

Damini (Rajkumar Santoshi)
Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira)
Der Fahnder: Nachtwache (Dominik Graf)
Blue (Derek Jarman)
Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman)

lots i haven't seen, shinji somai's moving is probably at the top of that list...

[Holdrüholoheuho]

1993 poll No12:
SOUR DEATH BALLS (Jessica Yu)

finally a decent 1993 film!
not like all those "sour death balls" i watched so far.

https://vimeo.com/66665854

[Lencho of the Apes]

Short Cuts, By Altman... So, every m/f relationship is a gynocide waiting to happen? Pretty grim.

Tangentially, 1993's a pretty good year for horror...

[grabmymask]

1993's a pretty good year for horror...

It’s alright. It’s got nothing on ‘92 tho.

[St. Gloede]

I have to admit, 1993 is one of the years that makes me miss the old system with the undisputed number 1 - which is almost ever the case - but everything else falls far, far behind Hélas pour moi. Oh well - I'll go with the 4/4/4/4/4 system for maximum payout - and highlight the excellent and overlooked wordless and claustrophobic near-masterpiece Libera me as well.

Hélas pour moi (1993, Jean-Luc Godard)
Libera me (1993, Alain Cavalier)
Smoking/No Smoking (1993, Alain Resnais)
Short Cuts (1993, Robert Altman)
-
Trois couleurs: Bleu / Three Colors: Blue (1993, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Mùi du du xanh / The Scent of Green Papaya (1993, Tran Anh Hung)
Le tombeau d'Alexandre / The Last Bolshevik (1993, Chris Marker)
The Baby of Mâcon (1993, Peter Greenaway)
-
L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993, Éric Rohmer)
The Age of Innocence (1993, Martin Scorsese)
Carlito's Way (1993, Brian De Palma)
A Perfect World (1993, Clint Eastwood)
-
Ba wang bie ji / Farewell My Concubine (1993, Kaige Chen)
Tombstone (1993, George P. Cosmatos)
Ma saison préférée / My Favorite Season (1993, André Téchiné)
Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
-
Lady Chatterley (1993, Ken Russell)
Die Rebellion (1993, Michael Haneke)
D'Est (1993, Chantal Akerman)
Waga jinsei saiaku no toki / The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993, Kaizô Hayashi)

Do note, many of these have not been seen in a long time. I am particularly interested in how The Age of Innocence would hold up, as I have since read (and LOVED) the book. The Colour trilogy is also high on my rewatch list.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

4/4/4/4/4/4

FYI: This is 24 movies, so I'll have to discount the final four.

[St. Gloede]

Thanks. Cut.

[deepbluefunk]

Edited:

Naked (Mike Leigh)
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige)
32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Girard)
Fearless (Peter Weir)

The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi)

Green Snake (Tsui Hark)
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
Killing Zoe (Roger Avary)
Three Colors: Blue: (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

True Romance (Tony Scott)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Blue (Derek Jarman)

Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara)
The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang)
The Buddha of Suburbia (Roger Michell)

[Angel]

A Bronx Tale
A Perfect World
Antareen (The Confined)
Carlito's Way
Caro diario (Dear Diary)
Cliffhanger
Falling Down
Flesh and Bone
Gettysburg
In the Line of Fire
La scorta (The Escort)
Lan feng zheng (The Blue Kite)
Last Action Hero
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Red Rock West
Romeo Is Bleeding
The Fugitive
The Snapper
True Romance
Xi yan (The Wedding Banquet)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
Ba wang bie ji
Bound by Honor
Dazed and Confused
D'Est
Groundhog Day
In the Name of the Father
Jurassic Park
Le tombeau d'Alexandre
Naked
Schindler's List
Short Cuts
The Age of Innocence
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Piano
Trois couleurs: Bleu
Xi meng ren sheng

To see before the deadline:
Die tödliche Maria
Household Saints
Kådisbellan
Onnen maa

Wanted:
L'écrivain public
Marcides
Perempuan, Isteri, dan Jalang

[sally]

groundhog day (ramis)
hélas pour moi (godard)
kosh ba kosh (bakhtyar khudojnazarov)
łódź symphony (hutton)
apostle of ruins (stonys)
for fun (ning ying)
the forbidden quest (peter delpeut)
les enfants jouent à la russie (godard)
the women from the lake of scented souls (xie fei)
the bed you sleep in (jon jost)
the strategy of the snail (sergio cabrera)
the birth of love (garrel)
l'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (rohmer)
abraham's valley (MdO)
d'est (akerman)
caro diario (nanni moretti)
anchoress (chris newby)
blue (jarman)
smoking/no smoking (resnais)
je vous salue, sarajevo (godard)

to watch:
au nom du christ (roger gnoan m'bala)
all under the moon (yoichi sai)

[dominicano1970]

The Beginning and the End (Ripstein)
Body Snatchers (Ferrara)
Carlito's Way (De Palma)
Caro diario (Moretti)
The Diary of Lady M (Tanner)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen)
Mercedes (Nasrullah)
A Perfect World (Eastwood)
Raining Stones (Loach)
The Thing Called Love (Bogdanovich)

Abraham's Valley (De Oliveira)
A Bronx Tale (De Niro)
Flesh and Bone (Kloves)
Green Snake (Tsui)
Groundhog Day (Ramis)
My Favorite Season (Techine)
The Remains of the Day (Ivory)
Schindler's List (Spielberg)
Short Cuts (Altman)
Sopyonje (Im)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Ichikawa's Fusa was really good, and no-one here seems to have seen it. Fewer views on LB than Cruces Sobre El Yermo..

[wba]

Final List

Films seen: 110+

I actually DID watch some 1993 films during the last months (and weeks), though that was rather a coincidence, as I usually do not watch films for polls (full disclosure: non of them made it into the list).
Still, a weird year for me, as it's one of those years where I've seen some of my favorites a loooong time ago.

As I have over 40 favorites from this year, it was very hard choosing a mere 20, so I mostly kicked out those I hadn't seen for a long time...


5 tiers

Flesh and Bone (Steve Kloves, USA)
Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin, USA/Italy/France/Japan)
Sommersby (Jon Amiel, USA)
Le jeune Werther "Young Werther" (Jacques Doillon, France)

Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma, USA)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, USA)
Mad Dog and Glory (John McNaughton, USA)

Le tombeau d'Alexandre "The Last Bolshevik" (Chris Marker, France/Finland)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, USA)
The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, UK)
Die Sonnengöttin "The Sun Goddess" (Rudolf Thome, Germany)

Umi ga kikoeru "Ocean Waves" (Tomomi Mochizuki, Japan)
A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood, USA)
Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica, USA/France)
Lan feng zheng "The Blue Kite" (Zhuangzhuang Tian, China/Hong Kong)

Fearless (Peter Weir, USA)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
Sniper (Luis Llosa, USA/Peru)
M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg, USA/Canada)

[wba]

Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miruka? Yoko kara miruka? / Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (1993, Shunji Iwai)

this wonderful film is listed as 1995 on Imdb.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Hey, Greg -- isn't it odd how there's a cluster of movies this year where the nuke-fam father becomes a darkside shadow of himself and returns to the family unit to destroy it? Clean, Shaven... Falling Down... The Dark Half...

The Stepfather was '87... Are there others?

[rischka]

oh is this when society turned against (straight) white guys?? i've been trying to remember...

/s/ i don't want to make a list as i didn't watch anything so it would be my same list from last time probably