Official Nominations Suggestion Thread for Top 100 1990's Films Poll

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Army of Darkness - best of the Evil Dead
Audition - crazy and tight Miike
The Blue Kite - best of the early 90's bunch of Chinese social epics
Crash - Cronenberg incorrigible = great
Elizabeth - it just fucking works; I could watch this on infinite repeat
The English Patient - say what you will, I liked it
Eternity and a Day - not for everyone, but haunting beyond what any horror could do
Flatliners - the only good Schumacher
Funny Games - if de Sade made films...
Grand Canyon - I favored City of Hope over this (which I chose), but I'd love to see it in the pool
I Love a Man in Uniform - less well-known Canadian film worth a view or two
In the Mouth of Madness - Carpenter's best of the decade
Insomnia - forget Pacino, Skarsgaard kills him in this one
Jude - Eccleston has yet to top it...maybe Winterbottom too...ouch, bloody birth scenes
Limbo - another overlooked Sayles film
Man Bites Dog - best mockumentary ever?
Natural Born Killers - Stone unfettered...miles gloriosus (and it works)
Nixon - Stone's opera/passion play (and it almost works)
Serial Mom - give in to it, as you want to
Strictly Ballroom - Luhrmann yet to top this, where his self-consciousness serves to laugh at itself, rather than vaunt self-importance
Three Kings - if you need me to explain, it's not worth the effort
Time Regained - the only Proust adaptation remotely close to decent. Too many shining performances...
U-Turn - Billy Bob Thornton playing Twister alone...
Velvet Goldmine - I always find another layer when I watch it.

And those are mine for the moment.

A Moment of Innocence
The Oak
Guelwaar
Satantango
Yi Yi
Lamerica
Genealogies of a Crime
Les Voleurs
Ma Saison Preferee
Three Lives and Only One Death
The Eel
Deep Crimson
Totally F***ed Up
Europa Europa
The Puppetmaster
City of Sadness
A Brighter Summer Day

Unfashionable movies that are better than any of the crap made by the Coens in the '90s:

Bulworth
Nobody's Fool
A River Runs Through It
White Hunter, Black Heart
Amistad
The Age of Innocence
Jungle Fever
Little Buddha
A Little Princess
Deconstructing Harry
The Best Intentions (Ullmann / Bergman)
The Sixth Sense

A more consistent and illuminating series than Kieslowski's Three Colors: Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons.

No. A smart kindred sequel to "Shampoo" and way funnier than those bush-league Chris Guest movies; a satire with the balls for a big subject. "Nina Nina, the finest girl that I ever seena..."

I wholeheartedly agree

Unfashionable movies that are better than any of the crap made by the Coens in the '90s:

Bulworth

certainly underrated and better than anything but Fargo, but my problems with that movie (which I like less than Bulworth) are largely matters of taste. it's overrated by most people, but underrated by people like me who dislike the Coens.

I find it hard to compile lists in this manner--the first movie that comes to mind though (and probably what I'd pick as my #1 regardless) is Hana-Bi (Fireworks).

internal affairs you lunatics!!!

you heard the man

The American version of Insomnia is an '00s movie, though.

I've seen Europa Europa, Dr Morbius, and at one time it was on my Top 100. That's a wonderful movie, actually. I'll have to check out the others...

The Vanishing (Netherlands version, released in the U.S. in 1990/91; George Sluizer, 1990)

And unless anyone nominates any of these, I'll choose two from among the following tomorrow:

American Movie
American Job (barely released, but hilarious)
Bad Lieutenant
Booty Call
Clerks
Crash
El Mariachi (the making-of book = also awesome)
Fear of a Black Hat
Flirting With Disaster
Good Will Hunting
La Femme Nikita
Hard Eight
Husbands and Wives
In the Name of the Father
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Men in Black
Metal and Melancholy (great documentary about cab drivers in Lima)
The Matrix
Mon Homme
Point Break (cheeseball masterpiece stands up as well as Heat)
Schindler's List
Seven
The Sixth Sense

Looking over the above, I might theorize that most of us tend to save comedies, horror, and action for way further down our lists.

Kilmer/Holliday is tied for my favorite performance ever with the Sheriff of Nottingham's henchman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

No one for Tsai Ming-liang? all on DVD, I believe:

Rebels of the Neon God '92
Vive l'Amour '94
The River '97
The Hole '98

Alan Rudolph, anyone?

Mortal Thoughts '91
Equinox '92
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle '94
Afterglow '97
Breakfast of Champions '99

gahhh. I hope someone nominates this...

gahhh. I hope someone nominates these...

I'd have loved to help, but I haven't seen any '90s Tsai.