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, Czechoslovakia)
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)
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. FLIRTING
WITH DISASTER (David O. Russell,
USA)
5. THE DAY
A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-Soo, South Korea)
6. FARGO
(Joel Coen, USA)
7. THE DELTA
(Ira Sachs, USA)
8. ELECTIVE AFFINITIES
(Taviani Bros., Italy)
9. BEAVIS AND
BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA (Mike
Judge, USA)
10. BREAKING
THE WAVES (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
11. PONETTE
(Jacques Doillon, France)
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. DEVIL
IN A BLUE DRESS (Carl Franklin, USA)
9. A SINGLE
GIRL (Benoit Jacquot, France)
10. ON THE BEAT (Ning
Ying, China)
11. LES RENDEZVOUS DE PARIS (Eric
Rohmer, France)
12. FLIRT (Hal
Hartley, USA)
13. 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. NADJA (Michael
Almereyda, USA)
7. SIRENS
(John Duigan, Australia)
8. PULP FICTION
(Quentin Tarantino, USA)
9. CLEAN,
SHAVEN (Lodge Kerrigan, USA)
10. EXOTICA
(Atom Egoyan, Canada)
11. L'ENFER
(Claude Chabrol, France)
12. PASSIONS (Kira Muratova, Russia)
13. RHYTHM
THIEF (Matthew Harrison, USA)
14. VIVE L'AMOUR
(Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
15. LITTLE
ODESSA (James Gray, USA)
16. 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. AND LIFE
GOES ON.... (Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran)
3. AMBITION
(Hal Hartley, USA)
4. NAKED LUNCH
(David Cronenberg, Canada)
5. THEORY
OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley, USA)
6. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
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. THE SHELTERING
SKY (Bernardo Bertolucci, UK/Italy)
7. LE PETIT CRIMINEL
(Jacques Doillon, France)
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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