Cinemania

1990

1. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)

2. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)

3. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)

4. Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami)

5. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)

6. Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)

7. To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)

8. Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen)

9. Hairdresser’s Husband (Patrice Leconte)

10. Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano

Honorable Mention: Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne), Trust (Hal Hartley), Wild at Heart (David Lynch), Reversal of Fortune (Schroeder); Miami Blues (Armitage) Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen) Cyrano de Bergerac (Rappeneau) Misery (Reiner) Henry: portrait of a Serial Killer (Mcnaughton)

What’s the Big Deal?: Dances with Wolves, White Hunter, Black heart, The Sheltering Sky, Edward Scissorhands

Need to See: A Tale of Springtime (Rohmer); Bullet in the Head (John Woo) The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley) Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky) The Match Factory Girl (Kaurismaki)

1991

1. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou

2. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai)

3. The Double Life of Veronique (Krystof Kieslowski)

4. Les Amants De Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax)

5. My own Private Idaho (Gus Van Zant)

6. Slacker (Richard Linklater)

7. The Commitments (Alan Parker)

8. Truly, Madly, Deeply (Anthony Minghella)

9. Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)

10. L.627 (Bertrand Tavernier)

Honorable Mention: Barton Fink (Joel Coen), Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro), Cape Fear (Scorsese), Flirting (Duigan), Impromptu

What’s the Big Deal?: Boyz n the Hood (Singleton); Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott)

The Fisher King (Gilliam); JFK (Stone); Toto the Hero (Van Dormael); Poison (Haynes); Europa, Europa (Holland)

Need to See: La Belle Noiseuse (Rivette), Hearts of Darkness (Hickenlooper) A Brighter Summer Day (Yang) Drifting Clouds (Kaurismaki)

1992

1. Un Coeur en Hiver (Claude Sautet)

2. Hard-Boiled (John Woo)

3. Actress (Stanley Kwan)

4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)

5. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)

6. Howard’s End (James Ivory)

7. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)

8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)

9. Candyman (Bernard Rose)

10. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)

Honorable Mention: The Player (Robert Altman) Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley) One False Move (Carl Franklin), Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara), Red Rock West (Dahl); Benny’s Video (Haneke)

Whats the Big Deal?: Basic Instinct (Verhoeven); Living End (Araki); Singles (Crowe); Malcolm X (Lee); Man Bites Dog (Belvaux & Bonzel & Poelvoorde);

Need to See: The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies) Lessons of Darkness (Herzog); The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang); Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai); A Tale of Winter (Rohmer); The Second Heimat (Reitz); Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio) La Sentinelle (Deschplenin) And Life goes on… (Kiarostami) The Quince Tree Sun (Erice)

1993

1. Naked (Mike Leigh)

2. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)

3. Blue (Krzystof Kieslowski)

4. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)

5. Remains of the Day (James ivory)

6. 32 Short Films by Glenn Gould (Francois Gerard)

7. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)

8. Farewell my Concubine (Chen Kaige)

9. Leolo (Lauzon)

10. Calendar (Atom Egoyan)

Honorable Mentions: The Snapper (Frears) The Age of Innocence (Scorsese); The Fugitive (Davis); In the Name of the Father (Sheridan); Iron Monkey (Yuen); The Wedding Banquet (A. Lee) L’America (Gianni Amellio) Schindler’s List

Whats the Big Deal?: A Bronx Tale (De Niro); The Piano (Campion); True Romance (Scott); What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Hallström)

Need to See: The Blue Kite (Tian); Suture (McGehee & Siegel); The Puppetmaster (Hou) Abraham’s Valley (De Oliveira);

1994

1. Red (Krzystof Kieslowski)

2. Ashes of Time (Wong Kar Wai)

3. Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)

4. The Kingdom (Lars Von Trier)

5. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)

6. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)

7. White (Krzystof Kieslowski)

8. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)

9. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

10. To Live (Zhang Yimou)

Honorable Mention: Crooklyn (Spike Lee) Fresh (Yakin); The Last Seduction (Dahl); Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan) Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson) Ed Wood (Tim Burton) Amateur (Hartley); Barcelona (Stillman); Crumb (Zwigoff); Eat Drink Man Woman (A. Lee) Nobody’s Fool (Benton); Quiz Show (Redford) The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont); Spanking the Monkey (Russell)

Whats the Big Deal? Chung King Express (Wong Kar-wai) Four Weddings and a Funeral (Newell); Natural Born Killers (Stone)

Need to See: Before the Rain (Manchevski); Vive L’Amour (Tsai); Sátántangó (Tarr); The Days (Wand Xiao) 71 fragments of a chronology of chance (Michael Haneke)

1995

1. Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

2. Heat (Michael Mann)

3. Hate (Matthieu Kassovitz)

4. Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung)

5. Richard III (Richard Loncraine)

6. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)

7. Underground (Emir Kusturica)

8. La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)

9. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)

10. Safe (Todd Haynes)

Honorable Mention: Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow) Toy Story (John Lasseter) Se7en (David Fincher) Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) Babe (Noonan); Casino (Scorsese); The City of Lost Children (Jeunet & Caro); Clockers (S. Lee) Kids (Clark); The Usual Suspects (Singer) Sense and Sensibility (A. Lee); The White Baloon (Panahi)

Whats the Big Deal?: Underneath (Soderbergh); To Die For (Van Sant); Nixon (Stone); Caro Diario (Nanni Morretti) Leon (Luc Besson) Antonia’s Line (Marleen Gorris) Il Postino (Michael Radford)

Need to See: Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach) Land and Freedom (Ken Loach) Good Men, Good Women (Hou); Salaam Cinema (Makhmalbaf); Queen Margot (Chereau) Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (Sautet) The Neon Bible (Davies)

1996

1. Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)

2. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)

3. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou)

4. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

5. Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)

6. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)

7. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)

8. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)

9. Lone Star (John Sayles)

10. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)

Honorable Mention: Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas) Bound (Wachowski Brothers); Big Night (Tucci & Scott); The Funeral (Ferrara); Fargo (Coen); Trainspotting (Boyle); When We Were Kings (Gast); William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann) Swingers (Doug Liman)

Whats the Big Deal?: The English Patient (Minghella); Flirting With Disaster (Russell) Crash (Cronenberg); The People vs. Larry Flynt (Forman);

Need to See: Capitaine Conan (Tavernier); Drifting Clouds (Kaurismäki); Nénette et Boni (Denis); Ponette (Doillon); A Summer’s Tale (Rohmer); Thieves (Les Voleurs) (Téchiné); The Day the Pig Fell into the Well (Hong Sang-Soo) A Moment of Innocence (Makhmalbaf)

1997

1. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

2. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)

3. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)

4. Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)

5. The River (Tsai Ming-liang)

6. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)

7. The Eel (Shohei Imamura)

8. See the Sea (Francois Ozon)

9. Nil By Mouth (Gary Oldman)

10. Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)

Honorable Mention: Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki) Lost Highway (Lynch); The Ice Storm (Lee); Affliction (Schrader); Henry Fool (Hartley); Fast, Cheap & out of Control (Errol Morris) In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute) The Game (David Fincher) Funny Games (Michael Haneke) Live Flesh (Almodovar) Ulee’s Gold, Open your Eyes (Amenebar) La Vie de Jesus (Dumont)

Whats the Big Deal?: Donnie Brasco (Newell); The Apostle (Duvall); Grosse Pointe Blank (Armitage); Jackie Brown (Tarantino); The Spanish Prisoner (Mamet) Love and Death on Long Island (Kwietniowski); Kundun (Martin Scorsese)

Need to See: Xiao Wu (Jia) The Kingdom II (Von Trier & Arnfred); Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami); The Apple (Makhmalbaf)

1998

1. Attack the Gas Station!

2. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Mallick)

3. Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)

4. The General (John Boorman)

5. Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)

6. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)

7. My Name is Joe (Ken Loach)

8. The Dreamlife of Angels (Eric Zoncka)

9. Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo)

10. The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-Soo)

Honorable Mention: Rushmore (Wes Anderson) Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh) The Big Lebowski (Coen); Happiness (Solondz); ? (Aronofsky); Run Lola Run (Tykwer) A Simple Plan (Raimi); Gods and Monsters (Condon)

Whats the Big Deal?: After Life (Hirozaku Kore-eda) Bulworth (Beatty); Dark City (Proyas); I Stand Alone (Noé); The Idiots (Von Trier); Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg); Shakespeare in Love (Madden); Velvet Goldmine (Haynes) Central Station (Walter Salles) Last Night (Don Mckellar)

Need to See: Late August, Early September (Assayas); The Flowers of Shanghai (Hou) The Hole (Tsai); Dr. Akagi (Imamura);

1999

1. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
2. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
5. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
6. All About my Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
7. Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Audition (Takeshi Miike)
9. Nowhere to Hide (Lee Myung-se)
10. Magnolia (P.T. Anderson)

Honorable Mention: Go (Doug Liman) Jesus’ Son (Alison Maclean) Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) Election (Payne); eXistenZ (Cronenberg); Fight Club (Fincher); The Insider (Mann); The Matrix (Wachowski Bros.) The Limey (Soderbergh); Office Space (Judge) Three Kings (Russell); The Straight Story (Lynch); Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)

Whats the Big Deal?: The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez)

American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (Smith); Boys Don’t Cry (Peirce); Bringing Out the Dead (Scorsese); The Wind Will Carry Us (Kiarostami); Wonderland (Winterbottom) The Virgin Suicides (Coppola) Dogma (Kevin Smith)

Need to See: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (Morris); Leila (Dariush Mehrjui) Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)