Best Films of The 90s (V2) [Poll][Dead]

[Hayden]

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Night On Earth,
Before Sunrise,
The Long Day Closes,
Eternity And A Day—
Not One Less

Eyes Wide Shut,
The Remains of The Day,
The Dreamlife of Angels,
Following Fire,
Walk With Me—
The Wind Will Carry Us,
Through The Olive Trees,

Fireworks,
Night and Day,
After Life,
Naked Dreams,
Whisper Of The Heart,
Bound—

Open Your Eyes—
A Scene At The Sea,
Ocean Waves,
Drifting Clouds,
Raining Stones,
The Quince Tree Sun,
The Eel, The River
A Moment of Innocence,
Life,
And Nothing More…

To Live—
Only Yesterday,
A Brighter Summer Day.


The gist/ rules:

BEA composes a list of our 100 favourite films of the 1990s. (Again! V2!). Remember walking into Blockbuster? I do. Cracking open that plastic VHS case. Rewinding the tape. Remember that? Rewinding a movie? And then the tape got all tangled up and who knows what you were watching and OMG SOMETHING'S ON FIRE I didn't mean to set it on fire my god they're going to charge me an overdue fee maybe I just shouldn't return this and nobody will know— I'll go into hiding! Yes! That's what I'll do. Nobody will know A Bug's Life caught fire— not the Blockbuster manager, not the government, not the FBI, nobody! I'll runaway to the woods where they'll never find me, construct a shelter, a new life! How would they ever track me? Fitbit isn't a thing yet. Ah, the prospects! It's perfect.

All lists will be PMed to me or posted in this thread, maxing out at 100. The final list will be 100 films. I'll be accepting lists of any denotation up to 100. The size of your list determines its weight. Films must be longer than 40 minutes. Films must have an international premiere date between January 1st 1990 and December 31st 1999. Don't throw in something stupid, and we're all good. No fighting.

Documentaries are allowed. Miniseries (i.e. The Civil War) are not. Comedy specials will not be accepted either. Live concerts will be discouraged, but not banned.

The Original List

Lists will also be accepted in IMDb and Letterboxd format. Deadline will be OCTOBER 17th.

Ineligible Releases:
The Civil War (1990)
Cowboy Bebop (1998)
Pride & Prejudice (1995)
Twin Peaks (1990)
The Beatles Anthology (1995)
Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
Baseball (1994)
OK Computer (1997)
House of Cards (1990)
Fishing With John (1991)
Food (1993)
A Close Shave (1995)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988) (This is noted due to the fact it appears on our original 90s list... somehow...)


Eligible Releases:
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Hoop Dreams
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Blue
The Kingdom

Notes:
—More notes will come if things get complicated

[CA Dreamin]

For reference, this is the old list we're updating: https://letterboxd.com/besteverfilms/li...f-the-90s/

Yeah I recall plastic VHS cases, having to rewind them. I also remember my folks buying blank VHS tapes so they could record movies and shows. Good times. Anyway, I'll whip up a 90s watchlist and get something in. Also curious to unearth my list from the first poll. I wonder how outdated that looks now, haha.

[BozoTyrannus]

Well then, here goes my list. I anticipate seeing all the others and becoming enraged at myself for realizing how many I forgot to include.

1. The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang)
2. Satantango (Bela Tarr)
3. Chungking Express (Kar-Wai Wong)
4. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. City of Lost Children (Jean Pierre Jeunet)
7. Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
8. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
9. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
10. Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
11. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
12. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
13. Days of Being Wild (Kar-Wai Wong)
14. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
15. Barton Fink (Coens)
16. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
17. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
18. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
19. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
20. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
21. Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
22. Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland)
23. The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola)
24. Farewell, My Concubine (Kaige Chen)
25. The Voice of the Moon (Federico Fellini)
26. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
27. The River (Tsai Ming-Liang)
28. Underground (Emir Kusturica)
29. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
30. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Nicholas Meyer)
31. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
32. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
33. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
34. Miller's Crossing (Coens)
35. Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
36. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
37. Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)
38. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
39. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
40. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
41. Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
42. Il Postino: The Postman (Michael Radford)
43. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
44. The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)
45. Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
46. Belle Epoque (Fernando Trueba)
47. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
48. Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
49. Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest)
50. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
51. Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
52. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
53. Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
54. After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
55. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
56. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano)
57. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
58. To Live (Zhang Yimou)
59. Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (Pete Hewitt)
60. The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman, etc)
61. Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvatores)
62. A Little Princess (Alfonso Curaon)
63. Chaplin (Richard Attenborough)
64. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
65. Office Space (Mike Judge)
66. A Bug's Life (John Lasseter)
67. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
68. Dark City (Alex Proyas)
69. That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks)
70. Shine (Scott Hicks)
71. Awakenings (Penny Marshall)
72. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
73. Fargo (Coens)
74. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
75. The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)
76. Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker)
77. Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi)
78. The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
79. Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
80. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
81. Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld)
82. Tarzan (Kevin Lima, Chris Buck)
83. Howard's End (James Ivory)
84. Richard III (Richard Loncraine)
85. Hunt for the Red October (John McTiernan)
86. Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
87. A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
88. Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes)
89. Kundun (Martin Scorsese)
90. Topsy Turvy (Mike Leigh)
91. Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
92. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale)
93. Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode)
94. The Mask (Charles Russell)
95. Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
96. Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
97. Nell (Michael Apted)
98. Mr Holland's Opus (Stephen Herek)
99. Waterworld (fight me!)
100. What Dreams May Come (Vincent Ward)
_________________
I wanna take Sean Penn
And take Sean Bean
Put 'em in a blender
And make Sean Pean

[Hayden]

[Hayden]

My personal watchlist for the poll—

Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
The Green Mile (1999)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
My Name Is Joe (1998)
Cure (1997)
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Love Letter (1995)
Good Men Good Women (1995)
Carlito's Way (1993)
The Puppetmaster (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
A Tale of Winter (1992)
The Room (1992) (bar Wavelength, the slowest film I've ever seen— also, it's pretty good)
Orlando (1992)
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
The Blue Kite

And I just got around to watching Exotica (1994) for the first time last night. I'm not sure why, but for some reason I thought I'd already seen it, so I just... never got around to it (it was okay, I think it would've been better 25 years ago)

[Tha1ChiefRocka]

BTW, I think I posted this somewhere a long time ago, but here's my mostly 90s reference list again.

(Of course Ed is at #1 but the rest are totally random.)

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls026616226/

[Hayden]

[BozoTyrannus]

[AwaitingAndrew]

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