Best In Film: 1995
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
01) Nixon (Oliver Stone)
02) Se7en (David Fincher)
03) The American President (Rob Reiner)
04) Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
05) Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
06) The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
07) Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld)
08) Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle)
09) Heat (Michael Mann)
10) Toy Story (John Lasseter)
Honorable Mention: Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen), Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee), Casino (Martin Scorsese), Braveheart (Mel Gibson), Babe (Chris Noonan), Crimson Tide (Tony Scott), The Brothers McMullen (Edward Burns), Safe (Todd Haynes), Clockers (Spike Lee), Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam), Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
Undiscovered: Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin), Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis), Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda), Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo), Antonia (Marleen Gorris), To Die For (Gus Van Sant)
Worst of 1995:
01) Kids (Larry Clark)
02) Fair Game (Andrew Sipes)
03) Mallrats (Kevin Smith)
04) Assassins (Richard Donner)
05) Jonny Mnemonic (Robert Longo)
06) Virtuosity (Brett Leonard)
07) Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher)
08) Dangerous Minds (John N. Smith)
09) Judge Dredd (Danny Cannon)
10) Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
May 17th, 2006 14:01
Boy there were some great movies in 1995. Se7en is not number 1? Wow, you must REALLY like Nixon :) I’m glad Heat is up there, as well as Get Shorty. Ha-ha, Assassins…terrible.
May 17th, 2006 15:13
There were a lot of movies that I didn’t see as well, but I didn’t want to stretch out the Undiscovered list into a paragraph. You never know, this list might change months from now. I had a tough time with the number 1 movie. Se7en is a brilliant film that elevated the crime/thriller genre but I went with Nixon for its sheer scale; it’s truly an epic of filmmaking, great acting, screenwriting, editing…it was definitely a tough decision but I think it’s the right one.