Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould(François Girard)
Schindler's List(Steven Spielberg)
The Remains of the Day(James Ivory)
Dazed and Confused(Richard Linklater)
King of the Hill(Steven Soderbergh)
Malice(Harold Becker)
The Nightmare Before Christmas(Henry Selick)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape(Lasse Hallström)
Additional 1993 Films By Rating
Short Cuts(Robert Altman)
The War Room(Chris Hegedus & D A Pennebaker)
The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk(Cory Yuen)
Much Ado About Nothing(Kenneth Branagh)
Clean, Shaven(Lodge H. Kerrigan)
The Fugitive(Andrew Davis)
Sommersby(Jon Amiel)
Carlito's Way(Brian De Palma)
The Age of Innocence(Martin Scorsese)
Fearless(Peter Weir)
Fiorile(Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
Hard Target(John Woo)
Sonatine(Takeshi Kitano)
Jurassic Park(Steven Spielberg)
Searching for Bobby Fischer(Steven Zaillian)
Sopyonje(Im Kwon-taek)
The Thief and the Cobbler(Richard Williams)
Farewell My Concubine(Chen Kaige)
Demolition Man(Marco Brambilla)
The Piano(Jane Campion)
First Love(Lee Myung-se)
Addams Family Values(Barry Sonnenfeld)
True Romance(Tony Scott)
Tombstone(George P. Cosmatos)
A Perfect World(Clint Eastwood)
Wittgenstein(Derek Jarman)
The Baby of Mâcon(Peter Greenaway)
Totally F***ed Up(Gregg Araki)
Sleepless in Seattle(Nora Ephron)
Untamed Heart(Tony Bill)
Kalifornia(Dominic Sena)
Last Action Hero(John McTiernan)
The Rebellion(Michael Haneke)
Menace II Society(The Hughes Brothers)
Blue(Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights(Mel Brooks)
Valley of Abraham(Manoel de Oliveira)
Body Snatchers(Abel Ferrara)
Hélas pour moi(Jean-Luc Godard)
When a Stranger Calls Back(Fred Walton)
Point of No Return(John Badham)
Mrs. Doubtfire(Chris Columbus)
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not presumptively
among my top 10):The Adventures of Huck Finn (Sommers);
The Advocate (Megahey); Alive (Marshall); Arizona
Dream (Kusturica); Bad Behavior (Blair); The Ballad of
Little Jo (Greenwald); Benny & Joon (Chechik); Blue
(Jarman); The Blue Kite (Tian); Breakable (Yamaguchi); A
Bronx Tale (De Niro); Calendar (Egoyan); Caro diario
(Moretti); City Unplugged (Järvilaturi); Cliffhanger
(Harlin); Cool Runnings (Turteltaub); Dave (Reitman);
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (Cohen); Dreaming of Rita
(Lindström); Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Van Sant);
Falling Down (Schumacher); The Firm (Pollack); Flesh and
Bone (Kloves); Free Willy (Wincer); Germinal (Berri);
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (Dunham); Hot Shots!
Part Deux (Abrahams); I Don't Want to Talk About It (Bemberg);
In the Line of Fire (Petersen); In the Name of the Father
(Sheridan); The Joy Luck Club (Wang); Kaspar Hauser (Sehr);
Latcho Drom (Gatlif); Lost in Yonkers (Coolidge); M.
Butterfly (Cronenberg); Ma saison
préférée (Téchiné); Mad Dog and
Glory (McNaughton); Madadayo (Kurosawa); The Man by the
Shore (Peck); The Man Without a Face (Gibson); Manhattan
Murder Mystery (Allen); Matinee (Dante); Mr. Wonderful
(Minghella); The Music of Chance (Haas); My Life and Times With
Antonin Artaud (Mordillat); A New Life (Assayas); The
November Men (Williams); Philadelphia (Demme); The
Puppetmaster (Hou); Raining Stones (Loach); Red Rock
West (Dahl); Road Scholar (Weisberg); Romeo Is Bleeding
(Medak); Ruby in Paradise (Nunez); Rudy (Anspaugh); The
Scent of Green Papaya (Tran); The Secret Garden (Holland);
Shadowlands (Attenborough); Sirens (Duigan); Six Degrees
of Separation (Schepisi); The Slingshot (Sandgren);
Smoking/No Smoking (Resnais); The Snapper (Frears); Son
of the Shark (Merlet); The Summer House (Hussein);
Suture (McGehee & Siegel); This Boy's Life (Caton-Jones);
To the Starry Island (Park); The Tree, the Mayor and the
Méldiathèque (Rohmer); The Vanishing (Sluizer);
Wayne's World 2 (Surjik); The Wedding Banquet (Lee);
What's Love Got to Do With It (Gibson); The Wonderful, Horrible
Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Müller)
As yet unseen:Green Snake (Tsui);
The Heroic Trio (To); Iron Monkey (Yuen); Kika
(Almodóvar)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.