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Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« on: April 21, 2011, 09:20:51 PM »
1990
1. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai)
2. Trust (Hal Hartley)
3. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
5. Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner)

Need to see: Goodfellas, Wild at Heart, Close Up, Metropolitan, Miller's Crossing

1991
1. The Silence of the Lambs (Johnathan Demme)
2. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
3. Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4. JFK (Oliver Stone)
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)

Need to see: Raise the Red Lantern, The Double Life of Veronique, My Private Idaho

1992
1. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
2. Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
4. Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
5. Aladdin (Ron Clements and John Musker)

Need to see: Howards End, Hard Boiled, Unforgiven

1993
1. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Salick)
3. Three Colors: Blue (Krzystof Kieslowski)
4. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
5. The War Room (Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker)

Need to see: Schindler's List, Naked, Short Cuts

1994
1. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
3. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Three Colors: White (Krzystof Kieslowski)
5. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)

Need to see: Hoop Dreams, Clerks

1995
1. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
2. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
3. Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
4. Se7en (David Fincher)
5. Babe (Chris Noonan)

Need to see: Marborosi, Safe, Before Sunrise, Casino

1996
1. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
2. The Birdcage (Mike Nichols)
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
4. Independence Day (Roland Emmerich)
5. Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)

Need to see: Trainspotting, Secrets & Lies, Breaking the Waves

1997
1. Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)
2. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfield)
5. Kundun (Martin Scorsese)

Need to see: Amistad

1998
1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
2. The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen)
3. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
4. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
5. The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman)

Need to see: After Life

1999
1. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
2. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
5. Election (Alexander Payne)

Need to see: Eyes Wide Shut


Wooo, so there's part two. Kind of a weak decade for me. Added the need to see feature because of this fact. Will update through the year.
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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 03:09:21 AM »
1990:

1. Miller's Crossing (The Coen Brothers)
2. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
3. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
4. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
5. Archangel (Guy Maddin)

1991:

1. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
2. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. Barton Fink (the Coen Brothers)
4. Les amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax)
5. LA Story (Mick Jackson)

1992:

1. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
2. Hard-Boiled (John Woo)
3. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
4. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)

1993:

1. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
3. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. True Romance (Tony Scott)
5. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)

1994:

1. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Sátántangó (Bela Tarr)
4. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. Drunken Master II (Lau Kar-leung)

1995:

1. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
2. Fallen Angels (Wing Kar-wai)
3. Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
4. Party Girl (Daisy von Scherler Meyer)
5. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)

1996:

1. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
2. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
3. Big Night (Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci)
4. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
5. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)

1997:

1. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
4. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
5. Starship Troopers (Paul Veerhoeven)

1998:

1. The Big Lebowski (The Coen Brothers)
2. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
3. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
4. Histoire(s) du cinema (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Pi (Darren Aronovsky)

1999:

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
3. The Mission (Johnnie To)
4. Fight Club (David Fincher)
5. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 10:18:14 PM »
1990
Goodfellas
Miller’s Crossing
Dreams
Dances With Wolves
The Field

1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Barton Fink
Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua (Raise The Red Lantern)
La Double Vie De Véronique (The Double Life Of Veronique)
The Rocketeer

1992
Unforgiven
Kurenai No Buta (Porco Rosso)
Qiu Yue (Autumn Moon)
Aladdin
The Hand That Rocked The Cradle

1993
Groundhog Day
Manhattan Murder Mystery
The Piano
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm

1994
The Shawshank Redemption
Chung Hing Sam Lam (Chungking Express)
Forrest Gump
The Lion King
Yin Shi Nan Nu (Eat Drink Man Woman)

1995
Babe
Apollo 13
Mimi Wo Sumaseba (Whisper Of The Heart)
Braveheart
To Die For

1996
Crash
Fargo
L’Appartement (The Apartment)
Lone Star
Sydney

1997
Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke)
The Sweet Hereafter
The Ice Storm
The Fifth Element
Chasing Amy

1998
Saving Private Ryan
Perfect Blue
The Big Lebowski
Dark City (Director’s Cut)
The Truman Show

1999
Office Space
Toy Story 2
Ôdishon (Audition)
American Beauty
The Green Mile

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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2011, 10:48:25 PM »
1990
1. Goodfellas
2. Trust
3. Miller's Crossing
4. Close-Up (new)
5. Metropolitan


1991
1. The Lovers on the Bridge
2. The Double Life of Veronique
3. Barton Fink
4. Delicatessen
5. Silence of the Lambs

1992
1. Unforgiven
2. Glengarry Glen Ross
3. The Long Day Closes
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Malcolm X

1993
1. Blue
2. Dazed and Confused
3. Naked
4. Groundhog Day
5. Schindler's List

1994
1. Chungking Express
2. Hoop Dreams
3. Red
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Crumb

1995
1. Underground
2. Fallen Angels
3. Seven
4. Before Sunrise
5. Dead Man

1996
1. Fargo
2. Breaking the Waves
3. Irma Vep
4. A Moment of Innocence
5. Secrets and Lies

1997
1. Boogie Nights
2. The Sweet Hereafter
3. LA Confidential
4. Deconstructing Harry
5. Good Will Hunting

1998
1. Rushmore
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Show Me Love
4. Buffalo '66
5. The Celebration

1999
1. Being John Malkovich
2. American Movie
3. All About My Mother
4. The Matrix
5. American Beauty
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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2011, 01:18:43 AM »
1990

DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong)
TRUST (Hartley)
METROPOLITAN (Stillman)
TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! (Almodovar)
ALL FOR THE WINNER (LAU + Yuen)

1991

A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Yang)
LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF (Carax)
ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata)
POINT BREAK (Bigelow)
VAN GOGH (Pialat)

1992

SIMPLE MEN (Hartley)
PORCO ROSSO (Miyazaki)
HARD BOILED (Woo)
REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai)
BAD LIEUTENANT (Ferrara)

1993

JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Godard)
THREE COLORS: BLUE (Kieslowski)
DAZED AND CONFUSED (Linklater)
A TOUCH OF FEVER (Hashiguchi)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Scorsese)

1994

HOOP DREAMS (James)
AMATEUR (Hartley)
HIGH SCHOOL II (Wiseman)
BARCELONA (Stillman)
THREE COLORS: RED (Kieslowski)

1995

HEAT (Mann)
KIDS (Clark)
FALLEN ANGELS (Wong)
THE DOOM GENERATION (Araki)
SAFE (Haynes)

1996

FARGO (Coens)
LA PROMESSE (Dardennes)
MY SEX LIFE... OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT (Desplechin)
GOD OF COOKERY (Chow)
NENETTE ET BONI (Denis)

1997

HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong)
HENRY FOOL (Hartley)
JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino)
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki)
LIVE FLESH (Almodovar)

1998

RUSHMORE (W. Anderson)
THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (Stillman)
BUFFALO '66 (Gallo)
THE THIN RED LINE (Malick)
SOMBRE (Grandrieux)

1999

ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (Almodovar)
ROSETTA (Dardennes)
BEAU TRAVAIL (Denis)
MAGNOLIA (Anderson)
PEPPERMINT CANDY (Lee)

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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2011, 03:06:55 AM »
1990:
1. An Angel at My Table
2. Goodfellas
3. The Match Factory Girl
4. Close-Up
5. The Grifters

1991:
1. Only Yesterday
2. Härlig är jorden
3. The Double Life of Veronique
4. Barton Fink
5. The Lovers on the Bridge

1992:
1. The Story of Qiu Ju
2. Unforgiven
3. The Long Day Closes
4. Malcolm X
5. The Best Intentions

1993:
1. The Scent of Green Papaya
2. Three Colors: Blue
3. Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers
4. Naked
5. Sonatine

1994:
1. Sátántangó
2. Hoop Dreams
3. Pulp Fiction
4. In the Heat of the Sun
5. Three Colors: Red

1995:
1. Underground
2. Safe
3. Babe
4. Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave
5. Whisper of the Heart

1996:
1. Secrets & Lies
2. A Moment of Innocence
3. Fargo
4. Mother Night
5. Drifting Clouds

1997:
1. Princess Mononoke
2. The Mirror
3. Boogie Nights
4. Mother and Son
5. Funny Games

1998:
1. The Hole
2. The Thin Red Line
3. I Stand Alone
4. Black Cat, White Cat
5. The Silence

1999:
1. American Movie
2. All About My Mother
3. Not One Less
4. 6ixtynin9
5. Rosetta




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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2011, 03:19:22 AM »
1990
1. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
2. Edward Scissorhands (Burton)
3. Home Alone (Columbus)
4. Dances With Wolves (Costner)
5. Wild At Heart (Lynch)

1991
1. Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Cameron)
3. Barton Fink (Coen Brothers)
4. Slacker (Linklater)
5. Delicatessen (Jeunet/Caro)

1992
1. Braindead (Jackson)
2. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
3. Unforgiven (Eastwood)
4. Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara)
5. The Player (Altman)

1993
1. Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
2. Jurassic Park (Spielberg)
3. Schindler's List (Spielberg)
4. True Romance (Scott)
5. Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick)

1994
1. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
2. Ed Wood (Burton)
3. Forrest Gump (Zemeckis)
4. Dumb and Dumber (Farrelly Brothers)
5. Speed (De Bont)

1995
1. Toy Story (Lasseter)
2. Heat (Mann)
3. Seven (Fincher)
4. Casino (Scorsese)
5. Before Sunrise (Linklater)

1996
1. Fargo (Coen Brothers)
2. Pusher (Winding Refn)
3. Bottle Rocket (Anderson)
4. Sling Blade (Thornton)
5. Hard Eight (P.T. Anderson)

1997
1. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)
2. Jackie Brown (Tarantino)
3. Cop Land (Mangold)
4. Donnie Brasco (Newell)
5. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)

1998
1. The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers)
2. The Thin Red Line (Malick)
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam)
4. American History X (Kaye)
5. Wild Things (McNaughton)

1999
1. Magnolia (P.T. Anderson)
2. Toy Story 2 (Lasseter)
3. Fight Club (Fincher)
4. The Straight Story (Lynch)
5. Being John Malkovich (Jonze)

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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2011, 11:38:32 AM »
1990
1. Tremors
2. Misery
3. Goodfellas
4. The Hunt For Red October
5. Quigley Down Under

1991
1. T2
2. JFK
3. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
4. Point Break
5. What About Bob?

1992
1. Glengarry Glen Ross
2. Unforgiven
3. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
4. Baraka
5. Wayne's World

1993
1. Demolition Man
2. The Joy Luck Club
3. Indecent Proposal
4. Naked
5. When a Stranger Calls Back

1994
1. True Lies
2. Endless Summer 2
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Forrest Gump
5. The River Wild

1995
1. Braveheart
2. Goldeneye
3. Casino
4. Heat
5. Sense & Sensibility

1996
1. Star Trek: First Contact
2. Secrets & Lies
3. Jackie Chan's First Strike
4. Happy Gilmore
5. Romeo & Juliet

1997
1. Princess Mononoke
2. Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
3. Jackie Brown
4. Private Parts
5. Career Girls

1998
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Rounders
3. Pi
4. Ronin
5. American History X

1999
1. The Matrix
2. The Insider
3. Pirate of Silicon Valley
4. Office Space
5. Eyes Wide Shut
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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2011, 11:39:25 AM »
1990
1. Dances with Wolves
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Paris is Burning
4. Misery
5. Edward Scissorhands

1991
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Boyz N the Hood
5. Point Break

1992
1. Husbands and Wives
2. Malcolm X
3. Unforgiven
4. The Crying Game
5. Color Adjustment

1993
1. The Wrong Trousers  ;D
2. Schindler's List
3. Groundhog Day
4. The Fugitive
5. In the Name of the Father

1994
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Crumb
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. The Lion King
5. Clerks

1995
1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Pride and Prejudice (BBC)
3. Dead Man Walking
4. Before Sunrise
5. A Close Shave  ;D

1996
1. Fargo
2. Secrets and Lies
3. The People vs. Larry Flynt
4. Get on the Bus
5. Kingpin

1997
1. Princess Mononoke
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Titanic
4. 4 Little Girls
5. The Sweet Hereafter

1998
1. American History X
2. God Said, "Ha!"
3. Primary Colors
4. Pleasantville
5. Out of Sight

1999
1. American Beauty
2. Toy Story 2
3. Being John Malkovich
4. The Straight Story
5. The Matrix

What a delightful decade  :)
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Re: Top Five By Year: 1990-1999
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2011, 06:09:35 PM »
This is from a list I made a while ago, but it only includes American films and I haven't updated it in about a year...

1990
1. Goodfellas
2. Miller's Crossing
3. The Grifters
4. Wild at Heart
5. The Hunt for Red October

1991
1. JFK
2. Barton Fink
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Thelma and Louise
5. The Fisher King

1992
1. Unforgiven
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Glengarry Glen Ross
4. The Player
5. Bad Lieutenant

1993
1. Schindler's List
2. Groundhog Day
3. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
4. Philadelphia
5. A Bronx Tale

1994
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Quiz Show
4. Ed Wood
5. Forrest Gump

1995
1. The Usual Suspects
2. Heat
3. Apollo 13
4. Dead Man Walking
5. Twelve Monkeys

1996
1. Fargo
2. Lone Star
3. Sling Blade
4. Big Night
5. Waiting for Guffman

1997
1. LA Confidential
2. The Ice Storm
3. Boogie Nights
4. Jackie Brown
5. Good Will Hunting

1998
1. The Thin Red Line
2. The Truman Show
3. Out of Sight
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. The Big Lebowski

1999
1. American Beauty
2. Magnolia
3. The Insider
4. Three Kings
5. Being John Malkovich
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