Sunday, August 5, 2007

1991

1. Barton Fink- Joel Coen
2. La Belle Noiseuse- Jacques Rivette
3. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf- Léos Carax
4. A Grand Day Out- Nick Park [short]
5. JFK- Oliver Stone
6. Jacquot de Nantes- Agnes Varda
7. The Double Life of Veronique- Krzystzof Kieslowski
8. One False Move- Carl Franklin
9. Van Gogh- Maurice Pialat
10. Slacker- Richard Linklater
11. Poison- Todd Haynes
12. Dead Again- Kenneth Branagh
13. Defending Your Life- Albert Brooks
14. Naked Lunch- David Cronenberg
15. Hearts of Darkness- Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, and Eleanor Coppola
16. Delicatessen- Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
17. Hear My Song- Peter Chelsom
18. Dogfight- Nancy Savoca

Other notable shorts: A Place Called Lovely (Sadie Benning), Rear Window (Ernie Gehr)

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan), Jungle Fever (Spike Lee), The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan), Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow), Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella)

Need to see: Ambition (Hal Hartley), And Life Goes On… (Abbas Kiarostami), Begotten (E. Elias Merhige), Black Robe (Bruce Beresford), Bright Angel (Michael Fields), A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang), City of Hope (John Sayles), Edward II (Derek Jarman), Flirting (John Duigan), Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard), The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch), Let Him Have It (Peter Medak), A Little Stiff (Caveh Zahedi and Greg Watkins), Night and Day (Chantal Akerman), Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark), The Prince of Tides (Barbra Streisand), The Rapture (Michael Tolkin), Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr), Solo con tu pareja (Alfonso Cuaron), Swordsman II (Ching Siu-Tung), Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley), Toto le Heros (Jaco von Dormael), Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)

Academy Awards, USA: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Commitments
César Awards, Best Film: Tous les matins du monde (Alain Corneau)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Barton Fink
Venice, Golden Lion: Close to Eden (Nikita Mikhalkov)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The House of Smiles (Marco Ferreri)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Poison
Toronto, Audience Award: The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)

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