The Double Life of Veronique(Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Additional 1991 Films By Rating
Van Gogh(Maurice Pialat)
Proof(Jocelyn Moorhouse)
Delusion(Carl Colpaert)
Madonna: Truth or Dare(Alek Keshishian)
Naked Lunch(David Cronenberg)
My Own Private Idaho(Gus Van Sant)
Hot Shots!(Jim Abrahams)
Poison(Todd Haynes)
35 Up(Michael Apted)
Paris Awakens(Olivier Assayas)
Europa(Lars von Trier)
Cape Fear(Martin Scorsese)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day(James Cameron)
Night on Earth(Jim Jarmusch)
The Addams Family(Barry Sonnenfeld)
Jag Mandir(Werner Herzog)
The Silence of the Lambs(Jonathan Demme)
The Fisher King(Terry Gilliam)
The Inland Sea(Lucille Carra)
Beauty and the Beast(Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
Boyz n the Hood(John Singleton)
Point Break(Kathryn Bigelow)
JFK(Oliver Stone)
L.A. Story(Mick Jackson)
Once a Thief(John Woo)
A Brighter Summer Day(Edward Yang)
Until the End of the World(Wim Wenders)
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey(Pete Hewitt)
Highway 61(Bruce McDonald)
Father of the Bride(Charles Shyer)
The Last Boy Scout(Tony Scott)
Sólo con tu pareja(Alfonso Cuarón)
The Five Heartbeats(Robert Townsend)
Fried Green Tomatoes(Jon Avnet)
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 Adjuster (Egoyan); At Play
in the Fields of the Lord (Babenco); Backdraft (Howard);
Billy Bathgate (Benton); Black Robe (Beresford); A Brief
History of Time (Morris); Bugsy (Levinson); Career
Opportunities (Gordon); City of Hope (Sayles); City
Slickers (Underwood); Class Action (Apted); Close My
Eyes (Poliakoff); Close to Eden (Mikhalkov);
Danzón (Novaro); Daughters of the Dust (Dash);
Dead Again (Branagh); Defending Your Life (Brooks);
Doc Hollywood (Caton-Jones); The Doctor (Haines);
Dogfight (Savoca); The Doors (Stone); Especially on
Sunday (Tornatore/Bertolucci/Tullio Giordana); Eve of
Destruction (Gibbins); Flight of the Intruder (Milius);
Flirting (Duigan); For the Boys (Rydell); Frankie and
Johnny (Marshall); Garden of Scorpions (Kovalov); Germany
Year 90 Nine Zero (Godard); Grand Canyon (Kasdan); Guilty
by Suspicion (Winkler); Hangin' With the Homeboys (Vasquez);
The Hard Way (Badham); He Said, She Said (Kwapis & Silver);
Hear My Song (Chelsom); Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's
Apocalypse (Bahr & Hickenlooper); High Heels
(Almodóvar); Highway Patrolman (A. Cox); Hook
(Spielberg); The Hours and Times (Münch); Hudson Hawk
(Lehmann); Impromptu (Lapine); Jacquot de Nantes (Varda);
Jungle Fever (Lee); Kafka (Soderbergh); King Ralph
(Ward); Late for Dinner (Richter); Let Him Have It (Medak);
Life on a String (Chen); Little Man Tate (Foster);
Lovers (Aranda); The Man in the Moon (Mulligan);
Mediterraneo (Salvatores); Meet the Applegates
(Lehmann); Meeting Venus (Szabó); Men of Respect
(Reilly); Mississippi Masala (Nair); Mortal Thoughts
(Rudolph); My Girl (Zieff); The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of
Fear (Zucker); Not Without My Daughter (Gilbert); The
Object of Beauty (Lindsay-Hogg); Once Around (Hallström);
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui); Other People's Money
(Jewison); Pastime (Armstrong); The Prince of Tides
(Streisand); Prospero's Books (Greenaway); A Rage in Harlem
(Duke); Rambling Rose (Coolidge); Rhapsody in August
(Kurosawa); Riff-Raff (Loach); The Rocketeer (Johnston);
Rush (Zanuck); Scenes From a Mall (Mazursky); The Search
for Signs of Inteligint Life in the Universe (Bailey); Sex, Drugs,
Rock & Roll (McNaughton); Shadows and Fog (Allen); Sleeping
With the Enemy (Ruben); Soapdish (Hoffman); Star Trek VI:
The Undiscovered Country (Meyer); Straight out of Brooklyn
(Rich); Surviving Desire (Hartley); Thousand Pieces of Gold
(Kelly); Toto le héros (Van Dormael); Tous les matins du
monde (Corneau); Voyager (Schlöndorff); What About
Bob? (Oz); Where Angels Fear to Tread (Sturridge); White
Fang (Kleiser); A Woman's Tale (P. Cox)
As yet unseen:A Little Stiff (Watkins
& Zahedi); New Jack City (Van Peebles); Operation Condor
(Chan); Side/Walk/Shuttle (Gehr)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.