http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2007/06/best-of-nineties.html#comments
--I didn’t know about the Shamus’s site before, but I got curious after reading about it here, so I looked into his old site and I feel very very scared, because it is written in Thai, and the whole contents make no sense. Some contents are about Thai history, some are about Thai Tschools or universities. I don’t know exactly what happened to that site. I just hope that the site is not hacked by some Thai psychos.
--I agree with many films mentioned above, including:
1.ALPSEE (1995, Matthias Mueller) in Mike Hoolboom's list
2.FAME WHORE (1997, Jon Moritsugu) in Ed Halter's list
3.MY SEX LIFE...OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT (1996, Arnaud Desplechin) in Manohla Dargis' list
4.THE NASTY GIRL (1990, Michael Verhoeven) in Gareth's list
5.THE REFLECTING SKIN (1990, Philip Ridley) in Cinebeats' list
6.RIVER OF GOLD (1998, Paulo Rocha) in JPM's list
I haven't seen this film, but I have seen one film by Paulo Rocha. It is THE ROOT OF THE HEART (2000), and it is one of my most favorite films seen in 2005. Some parts of THE ROOT OF THE HEART remind me of Derek Jarman and Ulrike Ottinger.
7.SOMBRE (1998, Philippe Grandrieux) in Nicole Brenez's list
8.SWORDSMAN II (1992, Ching Siu-tung, Stanley Tong) in Shelly Kraicer's list
9.THESIS (Alejandro Amenabar) in Dave's list
10.VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION (1992, Harun Farocki) in Albert Wu's list
--There are many films in 1990's which I wish I could have seen. These are my 1990's film wish list:
1.A WOMAN'S TALE (1991, Paul Cox, Australia)
2.THE BISHOP'S STORY (1995, Bob Quinn, Ireland)
3.FRAGMENTS OF LIFE (1999, Francois L. Woukoache, Cameroon)
4.ON BOYS, GIRLS AND THE VEIL (1995, Yousry Nasrallah, Egypt)
5.THREE BRIDGES ON A RIVER (1999, Jean-Claude Biette, France)
6.THE PARTY – NATURE MORTE (1991, Cynthia Beatt, Germany)
7.THE HAIR OPERA (1992, Yuri Obitani, Japan)
8.BLUE BLACK PERMANENT (1992, Margaret Tait, UK)
9.JOAN SEES STARS (1993, Joan Braderman + Dana Master, USA)
10.MODULATIONS (1998, Iara Lee, USA)
--Films about children, teenagers or young adults I love in the 1990's include:
1.ADEUS, PAI (GOODBYE, FATHER) (1996, Luis Filipe Rocha, Portugal)
Heartbreaking father-and-son relationship
2.L'APPAT (1995, Bertrand Tavernier)
3.AUGUST IN THE WATER (1995, Sogo Ishii)
Sci-fi, X-Files, mysterious. I don't understand this film, but I love it.
4.BEAUTIFUL THING (1996, Hettie Macdonald, UK)
I think this film forms an unintentional trilogy with TWO OF US (1987, Roger Tonge, UK) and GET REAL (1998, Simon Shore, USA) as gay coming-of-age trilogy.
5.THE CHERRY ORCHARD (1990, Shun Nakahara)
Lesbian film about girls who rehearse together for the play The Cherry Orchard
6.DARKNESS AND LIGHT (1999, Chang Tso-chi, Taiwan)
7.DAUGHTER (SIA DAI) (1996, Chatrichalerm Yukol, Thailand)
This film is about the problem of drug addiction among schoolgirls.
8.SOUS-SOL (1996, Pierre Gang, Canada)
9.TOKYO KYODAI (1995, Jun Ichikawa)
10.WELTMEISTER (WORLD MASTER) (1994, Zoran Solomun, Germany)
--And now, this is my favorite 1990's films list. This list is not my "most" favorite films of 1990's, because my most favorite are not very different from the films other people have already mentioned. These are just the names of the films I love very much. I name only one country per film in this list.
1.MOEBIUS (1996, Gustavo Mosquera R. , Argentina)
2.KISS OR KILL (1997, Bill Bennett, Australia)
3.FEAR OF HEIGHTS (1994, Houchang Allahyari, Austria)
4.THE CARRIERS ARE WAITING (1999, Benoit Mariage, Belgium)
5.LAST NIGHT (1998, Don McKellar, Canada)
6.NANJING 1937 (1995, Wu Ziniu, China)
7.RETURN OF THE IDIOT (1999, Sasa Gedeon, Czech)
8.BLINDFOLDED (1999, Matti Ijas, Finland)
9.FORGET ME (1994, Noemie Lvovsky, France)
10.COLD HOMELAND (1995, Volker Koepp, Germany)
11.THE BACHELOR (1997, Nikos Panayotopoulos, Greece)
12.CROSS HARBOUR TUNNEL (1999, Lawrence Wong, Hong Kong)
13....AND THE MOON DANCES (1995, Garin Nugroho, Indonesia)
14.ELVIS AND MARILYN (1998, Armando Manni, Italy)
15.DYING AT A HOSPITAL (1993, Jun Ichikawa, Japan)
16.THE CORRIDOR (1994, Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania)
17.THE CHERRY PICK (1996, Arno Kranenborg, Netherlands)
18.LOVE STORIES (1997, Jerzy Stuhr, Poland)
19.DAY OF THE FULL MOON (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov, Russia)
20.ANTARTIDA (1995, Manuel Huerga, Spain)
21.IL CAPITANO (1991, Jan Troell, Sweden)
22.THE PERSONALS (1998, Chen Kuo-fu, Taiwan)
23.MAE NAK (1997, Pimpaka Towira, Thailand)
24.PRIEST (1994, Antonia Bird, UK)
25.THE LOVE MACHINE (1999, Gordon Eriksen, USA)
Amy Taubin wrote about this film in villagevoice.com
The photo below comes from the Dutch film THE CHERRY PICK (1996, Arno Kranenborg, A+)
http://www.filmkrant.nl/av/org/filmkran/archief/fk174/174main.html
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