POLL RESULTS: TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 1990's

La Haine (74 points, 3 votes)

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The Crying Game (74 points, 4 votes)

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Sweet and Lowdown (75 points, 6 votes)

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Secrets and Lies (75 points, 4 votes)

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After Life (76 points, 4 votes)

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My wife and I are INFATUATED with Brenda Blethyn's character in "Secrets and Lies"!!!! She's one of the greatest cinematic creations ever.

Taste of Cherry (77 points, 5 votes)

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The Blair Witch Project (78 points, 5 votes)

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"Probably best seen on the big screen, before the hype. Give yourself over to its horror, and you're rewarded with plausible characters not killed for their sins (as in every other horror movie) but merely made the pure victims of a good setup (just like you)."

-- Pete Scholtes

Sean Penn's perf in S&D is absolutely beautiful -- and the ending a heart-rending improvement on La Strada -- but the only Allen '90s films I like a LOT are Husbands & Wives and Deconstructing Harry (neither of which made my cut either).

Kore-eda's new film opens in NYC on Friday.

I was bored out of my skull at the Blair Witch con. A woman came up to me afterwards and asked what happened at the end, and I said "They got our $10."

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Naked Lunch (79 points, 7 votes)

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Anyway, did anyone nominate Last Broadcast? Don't remember seeing it on the list.

Er, no. The great thing about it is how it manages to mix social commentary (the situation of immigrants in the suburbs) with personal drama (especially in the finale, but I won't go into detail about that, don't want to spoil the film).

Yeah, but if there wasn't the witch shit, then it'd be 'some teenagers camping in the woods' and nothing else. They're there because of the witch shit.

There are a lots of psychological thrillers that don't need any supernatural thrills to work, no?

'no', and 'so what?'

And Tuomas, yes, of course. But the reason they were in the woods was to research a myth that they didn't believe in - and we don't believe in - so they are cornered by their own scepticism when things start going all freaky, man. It's an angle (admittedly, one done many times before, but I think it works).

Clueless (79 points, 8 votes)

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"Same light and empathetic tone as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, same familiarity with actual teen life, but with the Heathers Heathers taking center stage, and in a plot out of Jane Austen's Emma. Alicia Silverstone somehow makes getting mugged funny. In fact, she makes just about every real emotion she expresses funny. Later amplified to brilliant slapstick by Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde, but with less reality."

-- Pete Scholtes

"I wonder if Alicia Silverstone is pissed about Reese Witherspoon stealing her career."

-- D. Keebler

*recount suppressed by governmental order, indifference of the press*

okay never mind then

Twelve Monkeys (80 points, 9 votes)

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Buffalo 66 (80 points, 6 votes)

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"Yes, I know he’s a scumbag, but how can you not love a film where the first ten minutes are a portrayal of one man’s valiant quest to have a piss?"

-- emil.y

More probably later tonight.

You mean like Little Caesar, Hawks' Scarface, The Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Godfather Part II...

Look, I like it -- or did the single time I saw it. It's certainly superior to a comic-book parody like Miller's Crossing. The only crime movie I voted for was Goodfellas (and, depending on yr definition, Man Bites Dog).

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Amateur (82 points, 4 votes)

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On 'still' being a gangster movie... in the 8th or 9th decade of the genre, you hafta be revolutionary to impress me, and I think Goodfellas meets that criterion better.

The first half was engrossing, but I think it was the second half that was even more impressive to me. There was something uncanny about the effect of watching those "endless rehearsals" as you called them - I thought it was quite poignant. Somehow the idea that you would work and work to get that perfect moment just right, juxtaposed with the serendipitous and fleeting way those moments actually occur in real life - it kind of erased the division between the mundane and the exceptional. A great, great film - it was #7 on my list.

Hmm, isn't the whole point of the film that he's a scumbag, yet in some odd way we can relate to him. Or maybe that is exactly what you're saying there.

Look, I like it -- or did the single time I saw it. It's certainly superior to a comic-book parody like Miller's Crossing. The only crime movie I voted for was Goodfellas (and, depending on yr definition, Man Bites Dog).

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The difference between the titles you mention and La Haine is that it is *not* a gangster film, it's a film about the youth in poor surburbs - which makes it more poignant and easier to relate to than yer basic crime flick. The key moment in the film is right before the finale, where it is made clear that the protagonists are not gangstas when they - despite the audience expextations - decide not to use the gun after all. Until, of course, they are forced to. The final scene becomes more powerful due to the fact that the person who fires the final shot is the member of the trio most staunchly against violence.

Since B66's release, it has been diminished by the knowledge Gallo was hardly acting in the role. (My fave VG performance is still Arizona Dream.)

FUCK ALL Y'ALL

True.

Re Michael Mann, since I just saw Collateral -- another slick big-screen TV show with a MUCH sillier antagonist than Heat -- fuck him and LA.

99. La Haine
99. The Crying Game
97. Sweet and Lowdown
97. Secrets and Lies
96. After Life
95. Taste of Cherry
94. The Blair Witch Project
92. Naked Lunch
92. Clueless
90. 12 Monkeys
90. Buffalo 66
89. Amateur
84. Happy Together
84. Gummo
84. Gattaca
84. Casino
84. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
83. The Apostle
82. All About My Mother
81. Fucking Amal
79. Out of Sight
79. Leon (aka The Professional)
78. Bottle Rocket
77. Schizopolis
76. Hard Boiled
73. The Straight Story
73. Short Cuts
73. Schindler’s List
72. Drunken Master II
71. Beau Travail
70. Starship Troopers
69. The Butcher Boy
67. LA Confidential
67. Jacob’s Ladder
66. Run Lola Run
64. The Limey
64. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
63. Clerks
62. Topsy Turvy
61. Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
59. Unforgiven
59. Pi
57. Velvet Goldmine
57. The Insider
56. The Shawshank Redemption
55. The Player
54. The City of Lost Children
53. Hoop Dreams
52. Wayne’s World
51. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
50. Ratcatcher
49. Festen (aka The Celebration)
48. The Silence of the Lambs
47. The Matrix
46. Three Colors: Blue
44. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
44. The Nightmare Before Christmas
43. Babe
42. The Usual Suspects
40. Slacker
40. Happiness
39. Fallen Angels
38. Three Colors: Red
37. Before Sunrise
36. Heavenly Creatures
35. Safe
34. The Ice Storm
33. Glengarry Glen Ross
32. Lone Star
30. Waiting for Guffman
30. Miller’s Crossing
29. Delicatessen
28. Toy Story
27. Boogie Nights
25. Jackie Brown
25. Eyes Wide Shut
24. Ed Wood
22. Magnolia
22. Barton Fink
21. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
20. Office Space
19. Three Kings
18. Naked
17. Trainspotting
15. Dead Man
15. Chungking Express
14. The Iron Giant
13. Reservoir Dogs
12. Heat
11. The Thin Red Line
10. Crumb
9. Dazed and Confused
8. Election
7. Being John Malkovich
6. Fargo
5. Groundhog Day
4. The Big Lebowski
3. Goodfellas
2. Rushmore
1. Pulp Fiction

Bad Boy Bubby is pretty damn good.

I remember liking the next film by the same director even better, it was about a small girl who suddenly stops speaking. I wonder if it's available anywhere, I haven't heard anything about it ever since I saw it on a movie festival 10+ years ago.

Was there ever a "top 100 films of the 80s" thread?

Yeah, though I can't remember which film won.

POLL RESULTS: Top 100 Films of the 1980s

Oh yeah, it was Blue Velvet.

wait, where is nekromantik part 2 on this list?

and safe should have been number one.

gattaca??? (???)

plus, no ruby in paradise no credibility.

"i got yer pulp fiction right here, geek!"

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I absolutely remember American Beauty and The Virgin Suicides being in either this list or the 00's list, but they've both somehow disappeared. Oh well.

great thread.

Ahead of this, I would redo one of your ridiculous music polls.

The week's most important election.

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Kinda stunned that a lotta folx like #2 even more than I do, not so much that Democrats don't like Bulworth.

I found it oddly heartwarming when Gremlins 2 made the list.

Did nuthin for me at the time, but y'know, sadistic recycling of pre-adolescent pop images, wow, how exciting.

This was pretty good for a Hall of Fame editorial response to petty reader gripes: "Last time I checked, no one who's seen more than 100 movies actually likes Forrest Gump."

We're all dudes, I know, but some of us are feminists.

found your masthead

morbs did u vote? share your ballot here?

yes, no

glad to see pig in the city there, or anywhere ever

not so much that Democrats don't like Bulworth

Also not surprised to see people with accurately calibrated compasses for comedy don't like Bulworth.

they're too "post-Obama" whatever the frig that means.

(Bulworth is more tragedy than satire from 2012's view)

frankly, I'd readjust my ballot even ten weeks later (I finally resaw a couple on the 100 I'd likely drop altogether now); I'll give you the top 20 tho.

1. A Moment of Innocence
2. The Decalogue
3. Underground
4. Goodfellas
5. Close-Up
6. Cure
7. Rushmore
8. The Butcher Boy
9. Flowers of Shanghai
10. Topsy-Turvy

11. The Portrait of a Lady
12. Paris Is Burning
13. My Own Private Idaho
14. JLG/JLG
15. Groundhog Day
16. Conspirators of Pleasure
17. Being John Malkovich
18. The Iron Giant
19. Slacker
20. Poison

I found it interesting to compare Slant's list with the AVClub one from a few weeks ago.

Bulworth is post-funny.

sadistic recycling of pre-adolescent pop images, wow, how exciting.

my response to Eyes Wide Shut

I had EWS #73, I have no idea if this reclamation by the poll has legs. Or just masks.

My ballot:

1.	Showgirls
2.	Satantango
3.	Eyes Wide Shut
4.	Paris Is Burning
5.	Taste of Cherry
6.	Short Cuts
7.	Carlito's Way
8.	Bitter Moon
9.	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
10.	The Last Bolshevik
11.	Jackie Brown
12.	Breaking the Waves
13.	Crash
14.	Close-up
15.	The Hole
16.	Run Lola Run
17.	Poison
18.	JFK
19.	Serial Mom
20.	My Own Private Idaho
21.	American Movie
22.	Spiritual Voices
23.	Husbands and Wives
24.	Waiting for Guffman
25.	Fargo

It's The Thin Red Line at #1 that I'm bummed about. (I had it at #84.)

1. Crumb
2. Boogie Nights
3. Jackie Brown
4. Rushmore
5. The Virgin Suicides
6. Fargo
7. American Beauty
8. The Straight Story
9. Nixon
10. Smoke
11. The Ice Storm
12. Hoop Dreams
13. Miller’s Crossing
14. Affliction
15. Reservoir Dogs
16. Goodfellas
17. Jungle Fever
18. Short Cuts
19. Boyz n the Hood
20. Blue
21. Dazed and Confused
22. Menace II Society
23. Election
24. Histoire(s) du Cinéma
25. Visions of Light

Yes, I know--American, American, American, American Beauty, American Beauty, etc., etc. Whatever.

i just watched 'affliction' a day or so ago - prob wouldnt crack my top hundred but it's p good

praise of 'bitter moon' is p odd 2 me, maybe need to revisit

I actually remember liking Bitter Moon at the time but thought its current reputation was as a camp curio and was surprised to see it listed.

ILX's Top Films of the 1990s list on Letterboxd:

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Pretty good list looking back at it. My #1 would have been Fargo had I voted at the time.

Huh, I wouldn't have thought Pulp Fiction would win a list on this board.

Some interesting lists here:

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-90s-stars-lists/

ARI ASTER, writer-director (“Midsommar”)
“Goodfellas”
“Eyes Wide Shut”
“Topsy-Turvy”
“Starship Troopers”
“And Life Goes On” (aka “Life, And Nothing More”)
“Defending Your Life”
“Safe”
“The Kingdom” & “The Kingdom II” (aka “Riget” & “Riget II”)
“Raise the Red Lantern”
“The Hudsucker Proxy”

CARRIE COON, actress (“The Gilded Age”)
In chronological order:

“To Sleep With Anger”
“Light Sleeper”
“Naked”
“The Remains of the Day”
“The Story of Qui Ju”
“Chungking Express”
“Three Colors: Blue”
“American Movie”
“Topsy-Turvy”
“35 Up/42 Up” (1991/1998)

ROBERT GREENE, writer, director, editor (“Procession”)
“Frost” (Fred Kelemen)
“A Moment of Innocence” (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
“Beau Travail” (Claie Denis)
“From the East” (Chantal Akerman)
“Belfast, Maine” (Frederick Wiseman)
“After Life” (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
“Happy Together” (Wong Kar Wai)
“Hoop Dreams” (Steve James)
“Paris Is Burning” (Jennie Livingston, et al.)
“How to Live in the German Federal Republic” (Harun Farocki)

SANDI TAN, director (“Shirkers”)
“Bitter Moon”
“Lovers on the Bridge”
“My Own Private Idaho”
“Leolo”
“Boogie Nights”
“The Double Life of Veronique” / “Center Stage” aka “Actress” (tied”)
“In the Heat of the Sun”
“Man on the Moon”
“Portrait of a Lady”
“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me”

Paul Schrader has Affliction on his list; I'd have to agree with him.