Best In Film: 1996
Friday, May 12th, 2006
01) Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)
02) Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
03) When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
04) Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
05) Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
06) Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)
07) Swingers (Doug Liman)
08) Scream (Wes Craven)
09) Flirting with Disaster (David O. Russell)
10) That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks)
Honorable Mention: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (Michael Epstein and Thomas Lennon), Big Night (Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci), The English Patient (Anthony Minghella), Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann), Sydney (P.T. Anderson), Fargo (Coen Brothers), Independence Day (Roland Emmerich), Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou), Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch), The Rock (Michael Bay), Matilda (Danny DeVito), She’s the One (Edward Burns), Kolya (Jan Sverák)
Undiscovered: Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh), Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier), Lone Star (John Sayles), La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne), The Funeral (Abel Ferrara), The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion), Bound (The Wachowski Brothers), The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller), Mother (Albert Brooks), Crash (David Cronenberg), Basquiat (Julian Schnabel), Girl 6 (Spike Lee), Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky), Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne), City of Lost Children (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
Worst of 1996:
01) The Island of Dr. Moreau (John Frankenheimer)
02) Escape from L.A. (John Carpenter)
03) Heaven’s Prisoners (Phil Joanou)
04) Maximum Risk (Ringo Lam)
05) Daylight (Rob Cohen)
06) Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton)
07) Chain Reaction (Andrew Davis)
08) The Arrival (David Twohy)
09) The Ghost and the Darkness (Stephen Hopkins)
10) The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner)
May 28th, 2006 18:38
You know, I just read your new “Best in Film” posts and I thought to myself…hmmm, I wonder if Hamlet was on his 1996 list. Not sure why it popped into my mind but I’m really glad you put it on! I didn’t think you would. Thought maybe you forgot about it. It’s such a brilliant film. Can’t wait for it to arrive on DVD!
May 28th, 2006 18:58
Yeah, it’s a really good movie. I want to watch again when it comes out. Kenneth Brannagh is really good with the Shakespeare films, including “Much Ado About Nothing”, which I put on my list for 1993…I also want to check out the Hamlet movie with Ethan Hawke, that got some good reviews. I have it in my queue so I’ll just have wait awhile for it.