Sunday, August 5, 2007

1990

1. GoodFellas- Martin Scorsese
2. Close-Up- Abbas Kiarostami
3. Life Is Sweet- Mike Leigh
4. Miami Blues- George Armitage
5. The Match Factory Girl- Aki Kaurismäki
6. The Grifters- Stephen Frears
7. The Nasty Girl- Michael Verhoeven
8. After Dark, My Sweet- James Foley
9. American Dream- Barbara Kopple
10. Miller's Crossing- Joel Coen
11. Edward Scissorhands- Tim Burton
12. An Angel at My Table- Jane Campion
13. Reversal of Fortune- Barbet Schroeder

Notable shorts: If Every Girl Had a Diary (Sadie Benning); Me and Rubyfruit (Sadie Benning); Jollies (Sadie Benning)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Darkman (Sam Raimi), The Freshman (Andrew Bergman), No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis), Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci), Tremors (Ron Underwood), White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)

Need to see: All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost), Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano), Branches of the Tree (Satyajit Ray), Daddy Nostalgia (Bertrand Tavernier), The Disenchanted (Benoit Jacquot), Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (David Lynch), Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel), The Madonna and the Dragon (Sam Fuller), Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard), Once a Thief (John Woo), Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston), Quick Change (Howard Franklin and Bill Murray), Revenge (Tony Scott), Riff Raff (Ken Loach), Singapore Sling (Nikos Nikolaidis), Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich), Sure Fire (Jon Jost), To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett), Trust (Hal Hartley), The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley), Uranus (Claude Berri)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Goodfellas
César Awards, Best Film: Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
Venice, Golden Lion: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Music Box (Costa-Gavras) and Larks on a String
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris, Jr.)
Toronto, Audience Award: Cyrano de Bergerac

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