I am delighted to have participated in Slant Magazine's feature on the
top 100 films of the 1990s which has now gone live. I contributed blurbs for films number 81, 73, 60, 48, 37, 29 and 12 in addition to voting in the selection process.
My personal list of the top 100 films of that decade, which I submitted for consideration in the poll, is below:
1. Central
Park
2. A Brighter
Summer Day
3. Goodbye
South, Goodbye
4. Center
Stage (Actress)
5. Satantango
6. Public
Housing
7. Jungle
Fever
8. Safe
9. The Mirror
10. The River
11. To Sleep
with Anger
12. Naked
13. Through
the Olive Trees
14. The Puppetmaster
15. Vive
L’Amour
16. Beloved
17. Bitter
Moon
18. Eyes Wide
Shut
19. Cold Water
20. The
Straight Story
21. White
Hunter, Black Heart
22. Abraham’s
Valley
23. Rosetta
24. Secret
Defense
25. Those Who
Love Me Can Take the Train
26. Rebels of
the Neon God
27. The Power
of Kangwon Province
28. Mother and
Son
29. A Moment
of Innocence
30. In the
Heat of the Sun
31. Life, and
Nothing More
32. American
Dream
33. A
Confucian Confusion
34. The Last
Bolshevik
35. Lessons of
Darkness
36. Maborosi
37. Dead Man
38. Husbands
and Wives
39. Twin
Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
40. Drifting
Clouds
41. Close-Up
42. From the
East
43. Clean,
Shaven
44. The
Decalogue
45. Late
August, Early September
46. Hoop
Dreams
47. Lovers on
the Bridge
48. Hard
Boiled
49. The Hole
50. The Player
51. My Own
Private Idaho
52. Eternity
and a Day
53. Good Men,
Good Women
54. Zoo
55. Secrets and Lies
56. The Last Days of Disco
57. Histoire(s) du Cinéma
58. The Crying Game
59. Fallen Angels
60. Ladybird, Ladybird
61. Crash
62. All the Vermeers in New York
63.The Long Day Closes
64. Mother
65. Xiao Wu (Pickpocket)
66. Princess Mononoke
67. Totally F****d Up
68. Breaking the Waves
69. Voyage to the Beginning of the World
70. Before Sunrise
71. Short Cuts
72. Blue (Jarman)
73. Underground
74. Faust
75. I Can’t Sleep
76. Get on the Bus
77. Wild Reeds
78. Matinee
79. The Bridges of Madison County
80. La Haine
81. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
82. Life is Sweet
83. Rock Hudson’s Home Movies
84. Days of Being Wild
85. High School II
86. La Promesse
87. Sling Blade
88. Mahjong
89. eXistenZ
90. Calendar
91. The Dreamlife of Angels
92. Clueless
93. Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
94. Charisma
95. Career Girls
96. The Glass Shield
97. Irma Vep
98. Flowers of Shanghai
99. Careful
100. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Awards season is now underway and with it the onslaught of overwrought Oscar-bait - some of which isn't half bad. Among the contenders, I consider Joe Wright's semi-successful take on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Also of note among the below links, a profile of Variety's annual Power of Comedy benefit event.
