1992 Poll 2.0

[Lencho of the Apes]

Thanks to St Gloede for recommending De Nnorderlingen and to Flip for Man Bites Dog. Both very striking movies. I was also kinda excited by Alex Cox's Death And The Compass, but not sure it qualifies -- it was a TV episode in 1992, expanded to feature length in 1996, possibly using additional 1992 footage.

[rischka]

i'll have to reconfigure my list but i've just seen another girl another planet (almereyda) what a crazy artifact, originally shot on a pixel-vision toy camera







pure 90s hipster - strong 'slacker' vibe. enjoyed very much. A++ soundtrack!!

[rischka]

taiga - ottinger
life and nothing more... - kiarostami
quince tree sun/a dream of light - erice
the oak - pintilie
north on evers - benning

celine - brisseau
the long day closes - davies
surviving desire - hartley
videograms of a revolution - farocki/ujica
orlando - potter

chasing butterflies - iosseliani
antigone - straub/huillet
porco rosso - miyazaki
hyenas - mambety
rebels of the neon god - tsai

kairat - omirbayev
the last dive - monteiro
another girl another planet - almereyda
moon warriors - sammo
la vie de boheme - kaurismaki

[Monsieur Arkadin]

i'll have to reconfigure my list but i've just seen another girl another planet (almereyda) what a crazy artifact, originally shot on a pixel-vision toy camera

Oh! I'm glad you also dug it. I found it last year by accident looking through Mary B Ward's filmography after loving Hartley's Surviving Desire and was mildly blown away by it.

[rischka]

i want to watch surviving desire now too

amazing adding it to my list



the dancing i've been rationing hartley for some years. still have the unbelievable truth and amateur to see

[cinesmith]

4 tiers

A Heart in Winter (Claude Sautet)
Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
Careful (Guy Maddin)
Bitter Moon (Roman PolanskI)
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro)

Howards End (James Ivory)
Olivier, Olivier (Agnieszka Holland)
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarentino)
Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)

Minbo (Juzo Itami)
Tokyo Decadence (Ryû Murakami)
Hard Boiled (John Woo)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
Like Water for Chocolate (Alfonso Arau)

Europa (Lars Von Trier)
One False Move (Carl Franklin)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schraeder)
A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)

I was in film school and managing at a video store in 92' Not sure if it's my highest views for releases in a single year but I've seen 300. I didn't find it to be as significant as the releases from the following two years but these are all favs. There's still a number of contenders that I've not seen (ie. Stolen Children, Rebels of a Neon God, The Oak) but I don't expect to be able to get to them in the next 4 days.

[Angel]

Basic Instinct
Belle Epoque
Daens
De noorderlingen (The Northerners)
Dracula
El maestro de esgrima (The Fencing Master)
Hero
Il ladro di bambini (The Stolen Children)
Innocent Blood
Je pense à vous (Thinking of You)
Le petit prince a dit (And the Little Prince Said)
Medicine Man
One False Move
The Crying Game
The Last of the Mohicans
Tuhlaajapoika (The Prodigal Son)
Un coeur en hiver (A Heart in Winter)
Un lugar en el mundo (A Place in the World)
Vacas (Cows)
Wu yan de shan qiu (Hill of No Return)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/Lbxd/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
Aladdin
El sol del membrillo
Hyènes
Lat sau san taam
Malcolm X
Orlando
Reservoir Dogs
Scent of a Woman
The Long Day Closes
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Unforgiven
Zendegi va digar hich

[mesnalty]

Orlando (Potter)
The Long Day Closes (Davies)
Celine (Brisseau)
Heimat 2: Chronicle of a Generation (Reitz)
Tribulation 99 (Baldwin)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch)
A Heart in Winter (Sautet)
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Rappaport)
Taiga (Ottinger)

The Player (Altman)
The Quince Tree Sun (Erice)
The Amazonian Angel (Klonaris and Thomadaki)
Malcolm X (Lee)
Antigone (Straub-Huillet)

[ole dole doff]

https://kinometer.com/?list=537

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (Karel Vachek, 1992, 207m)
Losses to Be Expected (Ulrich Seidl, 1992, 118m) ... damn IMDb 1993 (anyway)
Jakub (Jana Ševčíková, 1992, 65m)
Prague, March 1992 (Angela Schanelec, 1992, 14m)
Traces of Smoke (Frans van de Staak, 1992, 105m)
Never Sleep Again (Pia Frankenberg, 1992, 92m)
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds (Michael Blackwood, 1992, 29m)

Autumn Snow (Valdas Navasaitis, 1992, 17m)
Earth of the Blind (Audrius Stonys, 1992, 24m)
Once Upon a Time, Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1992, 90m)
Visions and Marvels of Christianity (Raúl Ruiz, 1992, 20m)
Carnival in Q'eros (John Cohen, 1992, 32m)
The Beach (Patrick Bokanowski, 1992, 12m)
Colourette (Bärbel Freund, Rainer Bellenbaum, 1992, 20m)

[Silga]

Final list:

Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
Howards End (James Ivory)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)

Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)
Hoffa (Danny DeVito)
Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)

Boomerang (Reginald Hudlin)
Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
Consenting Adults (Alan J. Pakula)
Candyman (Bernard Rose)
Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins)

El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Curtis Hanson)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola)
Universal Soldier (Roland Emmerich)
White Sands (Roger Donaldson)

[karl]

Pretty much what I typed at the start:

The Oak (Pintilie)
The Thief of Children aka Stolen Children (Amelio)
Hill of No Return (Wang)
Quince Tree Sun (Erice)

Travelers (Beizai)
Dream of Russia (Satō)
Life and Nothing More (Kiarostami)
The Need (Davoudnejad)

A Heart in Winter (Sautet)
The Best Intentions (movie version) (August)
Waltz on the Petschora (Gogoberidze)
The Long Day Closes (Davies)

Kairat (Omirbaev)
Our Twisted Hero (Park)
Ripples across Stagnant Water (Ling)
Herzsprung (Misselwitz)

A Place in the World (Aristarain)
Child of Man (Streičs)
Guelwaar (Sembène)
Baduk (Majidi)

[wba]

https://kinometer.com/?list=537

Prague, March 1992 (Angela Schanelec, 1992, 14m)

Is listed as 2023 on ImdB

[ole dole doff]

https://kinometer.com/?list=537

Prague, March 1992 (Angela Schanelec, 1992, 14m)

Is listed as 2023 on ImdB

insane (one more reason to hate IMDb)

[wba]

https://kinometer.com/?list=537

Prague, March 1992 (Angela Schanelec, 1992, 14m)

Is listed as 2023 on ImdB

insane (one more reason to hate IMDb)

I don't think they are doing it on purpose. All movie databases have some wrong dates and entries.

[ofrene]

A Tale of Winter
Life, and Nothing More…
The Long Day Closes
Unforgiven

Quince Tree of the Sun / Dream of Light
Hyenas
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Videograms of a Revolution

Bad Lieutenant
La Vie de Boheme
Rebels of the Neon God
The Last Dive

Celine
Malcolm X
Orlando
The Stolen Children

Basic Instinct
Hard Boiled
Noises Off
Lessons of Darkness