Dan Sallitt's Favorite Films of
the 1990s, by International Release Date
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1999
1. M/OTHER (Nobuhiro Suwa,
Japan)
2. TOPSY-TURVY
(Mike Leigh, UK)
3. LA PUCE
(Emmanuelle Bercot, France)
4. HAUT LES
COEURS! (Solveig Anspach, France)
5. RETURN OF THE IDIOT (Sasa Gedeon, Czech Republic)
6. ONE
MORE DAY (Babak Payami, Iran)
7. THE SOPRANOS
first episode (David Chase,
USA)
8. IDLE RUNNING
(Janez Burger, Slovenia)
9. FLOWERS
FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Iciar Bollain,
Spain)
10. THE BLAIR
WITCH PROJECT (Daniel Myrick
and Eduardo Sanchez, USA)
11. SILVIA
PRIETO (Martin Rejtman, Argentina)
12. L'HUMANITE
(Bruno Dumont, France)
13. THREE
KINGS (David O. Russell, USA)
14. ROMANCE
(Catherine Breillat, France)
15. WOJACZEK
(Lech Majewski, Poland)
16. EVERY
DAY HERE (Frazer Bradshaw,
USA)
17. PETITS
FRERES (Jacques Doillon, France)
18. ELECTION
(Alexander Payne, USA)
19. OFFICE
SPACE (Mike Judge, USA)
20. THE LADY
OF THE HOUSE (Rituparno Ghosh, India)
21. MOLOCH (Aleksandr Sokurov,
Germany/Russia)
22. BREAKFAST
OF CHAMPIONS (Alan Rudolph,
USA)
23. RATCATCHER
(Lynne Ramsay, UK)
1998
1. THE FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI
(Hou Hsiou-Hsien, Taiwan)
2. PRAISE
(John Curran, Australia)
3. ABERDEEN
(Kathy Fehl and Ian Teal, USA)
4. ANOTHER DAY IN
PARADISE (Larry Clark, USA)
5. SHOW ME LOVE
(FUCKING AMAL) (Lukas Moodysson,
Sweden)
6. THE
SCHOOL OF FLESH (Benoit Jacquot, France)
7. THE
APPLE (Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran)
8. THE HOLE
(Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
9.
THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-Soo, South
Korea)
10.
THREE BUSINESSMEN (Alex Cox,
USA)
11.
LAST NIGHT (Don McKellar, Canada)
12. OUTSKIRTS (Petr Lutsik, Russia)
13.
RUN LOLA RUN (Tom Tykwer, Germany)
14. THE FLIGHT OF THE BEE (Jamshed Usmonov and Biong Hun Min,
Tajikistan/South Korea)
15.
THE THIN RED LINE (Terrance Malick,
USA)
16.
DR. AKAGI (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
17.
THE BOOK OF LIFE (Hal Hartley,
USA)
18. CHRISTMAS
IN AUGUST (Hur Jin-ho, South Korea)
19. RADIATION
(Michael Galinsky and Suki
Hawley, USA)
1997
1. THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-Liang,
Taiwan)
2. BROTHER
(Alexei Balabanov, Russia)
3. LIVE
FLESH (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
4. IN THE
COMPANY OF MEN (Neil LaBute, USA)
5. CAREER
GIRLS (Mike Leigh, UK)
6. SAME
OLD SONG (Alain Resnais, France)
7. A
TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran)
8. SUZAKU (Naomi Kawase, Japan)
9. HAPPY
TOGETHER (Wong Kar-Wei, Hong
Kong)
10. HENRY
FOOL (Hal Hartley, USA)
11. THE
EYE OF GOD (Tim Blake Nelson, USA)
12. LA
VIE DE JESUS (Bruno Dumont,
France)
13. JACKIE
BROWN (Quentin Tarantino,
USA)
14. THE PRINCE
OF HOMBURG (Marco Bellochio, Italy)
15. THE ROCKING-HORSE
WINNER (Michael Almereyda, USA)
16.
FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL
(Errol Morris, USA)
17. GREEN FISH (Lee Chang-Dong, South Korea)
18.
LITTLE SHOTS OF HAPPINESS (Todd
Verow, USA)
19.
BARBARA (Nils Malmros, Denmark)
20.
XIAO WU (Jia Zhang Ke, China)
21. PRONTO (Jim McBride, USA)
1996
1. PARFAIT AMOUR! (Catherine
Breillat, France)
2. LA PROMESSE
(Dardenne Bros., Belgium)
3. HOW I
STARTED AN ARGUMENT...(MY SEX LIFE)
(Arnaud Desplechin, France)
4. PONETTE (Jacques Doillon,
France)
5. FLIRTING
WITH DISASTER (David O. Russell,
USA)
6.
THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-Soo, South
Korea)
7. FARGO
(Joel Coen, USA)
8. THE DELTA
(Ira Sachs, USA)
9. ELECTIVE
AFFINITIES (Taviani Bros., Italy)
10. BEAVIS
AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA (Mike
Judge, USA)
11. BREAKING
THE WAVES (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
12. SECRETS
AND LIES (Mike Leigh, UK)
13. CONTE
D'ETE (Eric Rohmer, France)
14. KANSAS
CITY (Robert Altman, USA)
15. BERENICE (Michael Gitlin,
USA)
16. THE FRUIT
OF THY WOMB (Barbara Albert, Austria)
1995
1. LA CEREMONIE (Claude
Chabrol, France)
2. SAFE (Todd
Haynes, USA)
3. KIDS (Larry
Clark, USA)
4. AN
AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE (Mike Newell,
UK)
5. EN
AVOIR (OU PAS) (Laetitia Masson,
France)
6. DEAD
MAN WALKING (Tim Robbins, USA)
7. LE
GARCU (Maurice Pialat, France)
8. INDIAN SUMMER
(Saša Gedeon, Czech Republic)
9. DEVIL
IN A BLUE DRESS (Carl Franklin, USA)
10. A SINGLE GIRL (Benoit
Jacquot, France)
11. ON THE
BEAT (Ning Ying, China)
12. LES RENDEZVOUS DE PARIS
(Eric Rohmer, France)
13. FLIRT
(Hal Hartley, USA)
14. NOTES
FROM UNDERGROUND (Gary Walkow,
USA)
1994
1. SPANKING THE MONKEY (David
O. Russell, USA)
2. AN UNFORGETTABLE
SUMMER (Lucian Pintilie,
Romania/France)
3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL AT THE END OF THE 1960s IN
BRUSSELS (Chantal Akerman, France)
4. JOAN THE MAID (Jacques
Rivette, France)
5. CROOKLYN
(Spike Lee, USA)
6. UNCOVERED (Jim McBride, UK/Spain)
7. NADJA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
8. SIRENS
(John Duigan, Australia)
9. PULP
FICTION (Quentin Tarantino,
USA)
10. CLEAN,
SHAVEN (Lodge Kerrigan, USA)
11. EXOTICA
(Atom Egoyan, Canada)
12. L'ENFER
(Claude Chabrol, France)
13. PASSIONS (Kira Muratova, Russia)
14. RHYTHM
THIEF (Matthew Harrison, USA)
15. VIVE
L'AMOUR (Tsai Ming-Liang,
Taiwan)
16. LITTLE
ODESSA (James Gray, USA)
17. NYC
3/94 (Hal Hartley, USA)
1993
1. NAKED (Mike Leigh, UK)
2. MOVING
(Shinji Somai, Japan)
3.
THE YOUNG WERTHER (Jacques Doillon,
France)
4.
THE TREE, THE MAYOR, AND THE MEDIATHEQUE
(Eric Rohmer, France)
5.
DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (Todd Haynes,
USA)
6.
LES HISTOIRES D'AMOUR FINISSENT
MAL EN GENERAL (Anne Fontaine, France)
7.
THE DAYS (Wang Xiaoshuai, China)
8. DAZED
AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater,
USA)
9. DIARY
OF A MANIAC (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
10. BEING
HUMAN (Bill Forsyth, UK)
11. THE WRONG
MAN (Jim McBride, USA)
12. THE PUPPETMASTER
(Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan)
13. THE BOYS
OF ST. VINCENT'S (John N. Smith,
Canada)
14. STRANGE
WEATHER (Peggy Ahwesh, USA)
15. GROSS
MISCONDUCT: THE LIFE OF BRIAN
SPENCER (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
1992
1. BAD LIEUTENANT (Abel
Ferrara, USA)
2. HIGHWAY
PATROLMAN (Alex Cox, Mexico)
3.
STOLEN CHILDREN (Gianni Amelio,
Italy)
4.
HOWARD'S END (James Ivory, UK)
5.
ANOTHER GIRL, ANOTHER PLANET
(Michael Almereyda, USA)
6.
THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies,
UK)
7.
SAVAGE NIGHTS (Cyril Collard, France)
8.
EQUINOX (Alan Rudolph, USA)
9. THE
MYSTERY OF FERNS (Rachid Malikov,
Uzbekistan)
10.
LORENZO'S OIL (George Miller,
USA)
11. EMBRACING (Naomi Kawase, Japan)
12.
THE OAK (Lucian Pintilie, Romania)
13. LOSS
IS TO BE EXPECTED (Ulrich
Seidl, Austria)
14. A TALE OF WINTER (Eric
Rohmer, France)
15.
PASSAGES (Yilmaz Arslan, Germany)
16.
SIMPLE MEN (Hal Hartley, USA)
17.
UN COEUR EN HIVER (Claude Sautet, France)
LA SENTINELLE
(Arnaud Desplechin, France)
1991
1. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal
Hartley, USA)
2. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
3. AND
LIFE GOES ON.... (Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran)
4. AMBITION
(Hal Hartley, USA)
5. NAKED
LUNCH (David Cronenberg, Canada)
6. THEORY
OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley, USA)
7. LIFE IS SWEET (Mike
Leigh, UK)
8. VAN
GOGH (Maurice Pialat, France)
9. DROP DEAD
FRED (Ate de Jong, UK/USA)
10. LES AMANTS
DU PONT-NEUF (Leos Carax, France)
11. YOUNGSTERS
(Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
12. BRIGHT
ANGEL (Michael Fields, USA)
13. PARIS
TROUT (Stephen Gyllenhaal,
USA)
14. CHEB (Rachid
Bouchereb, Algeria/France)
15. BLOOD
TIES (Jim McBride, USA)
16. FLIRTING
(John Duigan, Australia)
1990
1. TRUST (Hal Hartley, USA)
2. MIAMI
BLUES (George Armitage, USA)
3. METROPOLITAN
(Whit Stillman, USA)
4. LA DISCRETE
(Christian Vincent, France)
5. THE UNBELIEVABLE
TRUTH (Hal Hartley, USA)
6. LE PETIT CRIMINEL
(Jacques Doillon, France)
7. THE SHELTERING SKY
(Bernardo Bertolucci, UK/Italy)
8. SALE
COMME UNE ANGE (Catherine Breillat,
France)
9. MILLER'S CROSSING
(Joel Coen, USA)
10. LE MARIAGE BLANC
(Christine Carriere, France)
11. HOUSE
PARTY (Reginald Hudlin, USA)
12. MR. AND
MRS. BRIDGE (James Ivory, UK/USA)
13. MEN DON'T
LEAVE (Paul Brickman, USA)
14. LOVE AT
LARGE (Alan Rudolph, USA)
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