1994 Top Ten List
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
U.S. Go Home (Claire Denis)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)
Additional 1994 Films By Rating
The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt)
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
The Kingdom (Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred)
Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
Sátántangó (Tarr Béla)
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
Barcelona (Whit Stillman)
The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen)
Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
Little Odessa (James Gray)
Speed (Jan de Bont)
Good Old Daze (Cédric Klapisch)
Amateur (Hal Hartley)
The Madness of King George (Nicholas Hytner)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the '60s in Brussels (Chantal Akerman)
Grosse Fatigue (Michel Blanc)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Alan Rudolph)
Crooklyn (Spike Lee)
I Like It Like That (Darnell Martin)
It Could Happen to You (Andrew Bergman)
Cobb (Ron Shelton)
Dumb & Dumber (Peter Farrelly)
London (Patrick Keiller)
Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov)
The Getaway (Roger Donaldson)
The Shadow (Russell Mulcahy)
Queen Margot (Patrice Chéreau)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)
Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski)
Blue Sky (Tony Richardson)
The Mask (Chuck Russell)
Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori)
Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
The Professional (Luc Besson)
Stargate (Roland Emmerich)
Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle)
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (Les Blank)
Interview With the Vampire (Neil Jordan)
Clifford (Paul Flaherty)
True Lies (James Cameron)
Nell (Michael Apted)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Wes Craven)
Pret-a-Porter (Robert Altman)
The Crow (Alex Proyas)
Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi)

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.)