Poll

What are your top five?

Goodfellas
6 (11.1%)
Close-Up
3 (5.6%)
Paris Is Burning
1 (1.9%)
Dances with Wolves
2 (3.7%)
American Dream
1 (1.9%)
Edward Scissorhands
2 (3.7%)
Misery
1 (1.9%)
Awakenings
0 (0%)
Miller's Crossing
6 (11.1%)
Dreams
1 (1.9%)
Ju Dou
1 (1.9%)
Everybody's Fine
0 (0%)
Strangers in Good Company
0 (0%)
Freeze Die Come to Life
0 (0%)
Dezha vyu
0 (0%)
Europa Europa
0 (0%)
Bullet in the Head
0 (0%)
Branches of the Tree
0 (0%)
The Godfather: Part III
1 (1.9%)
The Hunt for Red October
2 (3.7%)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1 (1.9%)
Days of Being Wild
0 (0%)
Cyrano de Bergerac
1 (1.9%)
An Angel at My Table
2 (3.7%)
The Match Factory Girl
3 (5.6%)
My Father's Glory
0 (0%)
My Mother's Castle
0 (0%)
Journey of Hope
0 (0%)
Larks on a String
0 (0%)
Home Alone
1 (1.9%)
Total Recall
0 (0%)
Jacob's Ladder
1 (1.9%)
Life Is Sweet
0 (0%)
Metropolitan
1 (1.9%)
Trust
3 (5.6%)
The Nasty Girl
0 (0%)
Korczak
0 (0%)
Echoes From a Somber Empire
0 (0%)
Taxi Blues
0 (0%)
Song of the Exile
0 (0%)
Back to the Future Part III
1 (1.9%)
The Field
0 (0%)
La Femme Nikita
0 (0%)
The Hairdresser's Husband
0 (0%)
A Tale of Springtime
1 (1.9%)
State of Grace
0 (0%)
Reversal of Fortune
0 (0%)
Truly Madly Deeply
0 (0%)
Avalon
0 (0%)
I Hired a Contract Killer
1 (1.9%)
Mountains of the Moon
0 (0%)
The Long Walk Home
0 (0%)
¡Ay, Carmela!
0 (0%)
Open Doors
0 (0%)
The Second Circle
0 (0%)
Sink or Swim
0 (0%)
Wild at Heart
1 (1.9%)
Pump Up the Volume
1 (1.9%)
Tremors
3 (5.6%)
Die Hard 2
0 (0%)
Vincent & Theo
0 (0%)
To Sleep with Anger
0 (0%)
Nouvelle vague
1 (1.9%)
The Asthenic Syndrome
0 (0%)
Pretty Woman
0 (0%)
Ghost
0 (0%)
The Grifters
0 (0%)
King of New York
0 (0%)
Presumed Innocent
0 (0%)
The Cherry Orchard
0 (0%)
Archangel
0 (0%)
White Hunter Black Heart
0 (0%)
House Party
1 (1.9%)
Bad Influence
0 (0%)
Joe Versus the Volcano
0 (0%)
The Complaint of an Empress
1 (1.9%)
The Disenchanted
1 (1.9%)
Arachnophobia
2 (3.7%)

Total Members Voted: 12

Author Topic: Best Film of 1990  (Read 12126 times)

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #40 on: December 14, 2008, 01:49:37 PM »
Hey guys, I have a great story for you! Ok. One guy is a small-time gangster. He wants to be in charge of everything and he pursues this goal with all of his energy. On the way he meets and makes friends with other typical gangsters. They yell and beat people up. They also start selling cocaine but then start to do it themselves! Once he reaches the top he can't stay on top and he quickly falls down to as low or lower than he was before. Also there are good musics and some slightly interesting camera stuff. And caricatures. Actually, you know what? Screw it. No real characters for this movie. Instead of having people we can relate to or people that make intelligent decisions let's just have them be "larger than life". That way they will be memorable! Awesome!

you don't know a lot of gangsters do ya?

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #41 on: January 11, 2009, 12:30:10 PM »
Goodfellas
What? What are you talking about? It's girls and spaghetti. We love girls and spaghetti.

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #42 on: December 28, 2010, 09:54:46 AM »
1. An Angel at My Table
2. Goodfellas
3. The Match Factory Girl
4. House Party
5. Miller's Crossing

Honorable: Industrial Symphony No. 1, To Sleep with Anger

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #43 on: December 28, 2010, 12:35:21 PM »
1. GoodFellas
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Miller’s Crossing
4. The Hunt For Red October
5. Jacob’s Ladder

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #44 on: September 06, 2014, 12:20:13 AM »
          5 Stars
1.   Goodfellas

          4 Stars
2.   The Hunt For Red October
3.   American Dream

          3 ½ Stars
4.   Close-Up
5.   Dances With Wolves
6.   Arachnophobia

          3 Stars
7.   Total Recall
8.   Bullet in the Head
9.   Pump Up the Volume
10.   Ghost
11.   Edward Scissorhands
12.   The Adv. Of Ford Fairlane
13.   Flatliners
14.   Die Hard 2: Die Harder
15.   The Exorcist III: Legion
16.   Days of Being Wild
17.   Misery
18.   Presumed Innocent
19.   Bad Influence
20.   Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
21.   Tremors
22.   El Diablo
23.   The Match Factory Girl
24.   Cyrano de Bergerac
25.   Awakenings

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #45 on: April 21, 2015, 12:39:03 AM »
Out of 63 films. Top shame is Close Up. Pretty Woman is the most mainstream film I haven't seen.

1.   Metropolitan
2.   Tremors
3.   Dreams
4.   The Cherry Orchard
5.   Dances With Wolves
6.   Miller’s Crossing
7.   Pump Up The Volume
8.   Awakenings
9.   Truly Madly Deeply
10.   Memphis Belle
11.   Home Alone
12.   The Godfather Part III
13.   Misery
14.   Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
15.   Paris Is Burning
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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #46 on: April 21, 2015, 10:59:11 AM »
1. An Angel at My Table
2. Goodfellas
3. The Match Factory Girl
4. House Party
5. Miller's Crossing

Honorable: Industrial Symphony No. 1, To Sleep with Anger

1. An Angel at My Table
2. Goodfellas
3. The Match Factory Girl
4. House Party
5. Close-Up

Add My Father's Glory, My Mother's Castle and The Grifters to HM.  I probably wouldn't call Industrial Symphony an HM any more.

Biggest shame: Cyrano de Bergerac (and technically Pretty Woman, but I've seen a good portion of it)
Most popular I haven't seen: Back to the Future Part III

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #47 on: October 19, 2016, 04:11:15 PM »
1. Close-Up
2. Metropolitan
3. Jacob's Ladder
4. Miller's Crossing
5. Days of Being Wild
6. Misery
7. The Hunt for Red October
8. Nikita
9. Edward Scissorhands
10. An Angel at My Table
11. Die Hard 2
12. The Rescuers Down Under
13. Dreams
14. Dances with Wolves
15. Hamoun
16. Total Recall
17. Home Alone
18. Goodfellas
19. Back to the Future Part III

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #48 on: August 18, 2017, 11:04:15 PM »
New poll. Vote for your top five!

Previous results for best single film:

Film
          Votes         
Goodfellas
14
Miller's Crossing
13
Edward Scissorhands
3
Days of Being Wild
3
Total Recall
2
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
1
Kindergarton Cop
1
Close Up
1
King of New York
1
Dances With Wolves
1
Back To The Future Part III
1
Trust
1

The options here seemed a lot easier to trim down than most of the late 80s years.

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Re: Best Film of 1990
« Reply #49 on: August 18, 2017, 11:40:38 PM »
Die Klage der Kaiserin (AKA The Complaint of an Empress, Pina Bausch)
Trust (Hartley)
Nouvelle vague (Godard)
La désenchantée (AKA The Disenchanted, Benoît Jacquot)
A Tale of Springtime (Rohmer)

Bausch and Jacquot are not in the poll.

HM: Wild at Heart (Lynch), The Time is Out of Joint (Christoph Rüter), The Match Factory Girl (Kaurismäki), Hamlet (Zeffirelli)

Needs revisit: I Hired a Contract Killer (Kaurismäki)