POLL RESULTS: TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 1990's

99. La Haine
99. The Crying Game
97. Sweet and Lowdown
97. Secrets and Lies
96. After Life
95. Taste of Cherry
94. The Blair Witch Project
92. Naked Lunch
92. Clueless
90. 12 Monkeys
90. Buffalo 66
89. Amateur
84. Happy Together
84. Gummo
84. Gattaca
84. Casino
84. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
83. The Apostle
82. All About My Mother
81. Fucking Amal
79. Out of Sight
79. Leon (aka The Professional)
78. Bottle Rocket
77. Schizopolis
76. Hard Boiled
73. The Straight Story
73. Short Cuts
73. Schindler’s List
72. Drunken Master II
71. Beau Travail
70. Starship Troopers
69. The Butcher Boy
67. LA Confidential
67. Jacob’s Ladder
66. Run Lola Run
64. The Limey
64. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
63. Clerks
62. Topsy Turvy
61. Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
59. Unforgiven
59. Pi
57. Velvet Goldmine
57. The Insider
56. The Shawshank Redemption
55. The Player
54. The City of Lost Children
53. Hoop Dreams
52. Wayne’s World
51. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
50. Ratcatcher
49. Festen (aka The Celebration)
48. The Silence of the Lambs
47. The Matrix
46. Three Colors: Blue
44. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
44. The Nightmare Before Christmas
43. Babe
42. The Usual Suspects
40. Slacker
40. Happiness
39. Fallen Angels
38. Three Colors: Red
37. Before Sunrise
36. Heavenly Creatures
35. Safe
34. The Ice Storm
33. Glengarry Glen Ross
32. Lone Star
30. Waiting for Guffman
30. Miller’s Crossing
29. Delicatessen
28. Toy Story
27. Boogie Nights
25. Jackie Brown
25. Eyes Wide Shut
24. Ed Wood
22. Magnolia
22. Barton Fink
21. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
20. Office Space
19. Three Kings
18. Naked
17. Trainspotting
15. Dead Man
15. Chungking Express
14. The Iron Giant
13. Reservoir Dogs
12. Heat
11. The Thin Red Line
10. Crumb
9. Dazed and Confused
8. Election
7. Being John Malkovich
6. Fargo
5. Groundhog Day
4. The Big Lebowski
3. Goodfellas
2. Rushmore
1. Pulp Fiction

Bad Boy Bubby is pretty damn good.

I remember liking the next film by the same director even better, it was about a small girl who suddenly stops speaking. I wonder if it's available anywhere, I haven't heard anything about it ever since I saw it on a movie festival 10+ years ago.

Was there ever a "top 100 films of the 80s" thread?

Yeah, though I can't remember which film won.

POLL RESULTS: Top 100 Films of the 1980s

Oh yeah, it was Blue Velvet.

wait, where is nekromantik part 2 on this list?

and safe should have been number one.

gattaca??? (???)

plus, no ruby in paradise no credibility.

"i got yer pulp fiction right here, geek!"

http://home.comcast.net/~flickhead/thelma001.jpg

I absolutely remember American Beauty and The Virgin Suicides being in either this list or the 00's list, but they've both somehow disappeared. Oh well.

great thread.

Ahead of this, I would redo one of your ridiculous music polls.

The week's most important election.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/the-100-best-films-of-the-1990s/334

Kinda stunned that a lotta folx like #2 even more than I do, not so much that Democrats don't like Bulworth.

I found it oddly heartwarming when Gremlins 2 made the list.

Did nuthin for me at the time, but y'know, sadistic recycling of pre-adolescent pop images, wow, how exciting.

This was pretty good for a Hall of Fame editorial response to petty reader gripes: "Last time I checked, no one who's seen more than 100 movies actually likes Forrest Gump."

We're all dudes, I know, but some of us are feminists.

found your masthead

morbs did u vote? share your ballot here?

yes, no

glad to see pig in the city there, or anywhere ever

not so much that Democrats don't like Bulworth

Also not surprised to see people with accurately calibrated compasses for comedy don't like Bulworth.

they're too "post-Obama" whatever the frig that means.

(Bulworth is more tragedy than satire from 2012's view)

frankly, I'd readjust my ballot even ten weeks later (I finally resaw a couple on the 100 I'd likely drop altogether now); I'll give you the top 20 tho.

1. A Moment of Innocence
2. The Decalogue
3. Underground
4. Goodfellas
5. Close-Up
6. Cure
7. Rushmore
8. The Butcher Boy
9. Flowers of Shanghai
10. Topsy-Turvy

11. The Portrait of a Lady
12. Paris Is Burning
13. My Own Private Idaho
14. JLG/JLG
15. Groundhog Day
16. Conspirators of Pleasure
17. Being John Malkovich
18. The Iron Giant
19. Slacker
20. Poison

I found it interesting to compare Slant's list with the AVClub one from a few weeks ago.

Bulworth is post-funny.

sadistic recycling of pre-adolescent pop images, wow, how exciting.

my response to Eyes Wide Shut

I had EWS #73, I have no idea if this reclamation by the poll has legs. Or just masks.

My ballot:

1.	Showgirls
2.	Satantango
3.	Eyes Wide Shut
4.	Paris Is Burning
5.	Taste of Cherry
6.	Short Cuts
7.	Carlito's Way
8.	Bitter Moon
9.	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
10.	The Last Bolshevik
11.	Jackie Brown
12.	Breaking the Waves
13.	Crash
14.	Close-up
15.	The Hole
16.	Run Lola Run
17.	Poison
18.	JFK
19.	Serial Mom
20.	My Own Private Idaho
21.	American Movie
22.	Spiritual Voices
23.	Husbands and Wives
24.	Waiting for Guffman
25.	Fargo

It's The Thin Red Line at #1 that I'm bummed about. (I had it at #84.)

1. Crumb
2. Boogie Nights
3. Jackie Brown
4. Rushmore
5. The Virgin Suicides
6. Fargo
7. American Beauty
8. The Straight Story
9. Nixon
10. Smoke
11. The Ice Storm
12. Hoop Dreams
13. Miller’s Crossing
14. Affliction
15. Reservoir Dogs
16. Goodfellas
17. Jungle Fever
18. Short Cuts
19. Boyz n the Hood
20. Blue
21. Dazed and Confused
22. Menace II Society
23. Election
24. Histoire(s) du Cinéma
25. Visions of Light

Yes, I know--American, American, American, American Beauty, American Beauty, etc., etc. Whatever.

i just watched 'affliction' a day or so ago - prob wouldnt crack my top hundred but it's p good

praise of 'bitter moon' is p odd 2 me, maybe need to revisit

I actually remember liking Bitter Moon at the time but thought its current reputation was as a camp curio and was surprised to see it listed.

ILX's Top Films of the 1990s list on Letterboxd:

https://boxd.it/2bG6m

Pretty good list looking back at it. My #1 would have been Fargo had I voted at the time.

Huh, I wouldn't have thought Pulp Fiction would win a list on this board.

Some interesting lists here:

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-90s-stars-lists/

ARI ASTER, writer-director (“Midsommar”)
“Goodfellas”
“Eyes Wide Shut”
“Topsy-Turvy”
“Starship Troopers”
“And Life Goes On” (aka “Life, And Nothing More”)
“Defending Your Life”
“Safe”
“The Kingdom” & “The Kingdom II” (aka “Riget” & “Riget II”)
“Raise the Red Lantern”
“The Hudsucker Proxy”

CARRIE COON, actress (“The Gilded Age”)
In chronological order:

“To Sleep With Anger”
“Light Sleeper”
“Naked”
“The Remains of the Day”
“The Story of Qui Ju”
“Chungking Express”
“Three Colors: Blue”
“American Movie”
“Topsy-Turvy”
“35 Up/42 Up” (1991/1998)

ROBERT GREENE, writer, director, editor (“Procession”)
“Frost” (Fred Kelemen)
“A Moment of Innocence” (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
“Beau Travail” (Claie Denis)
“From the East” (Chantal Akerman)
“Belfast, Maine” (Frederick Wiseman)
“After Life” (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
“Happy Together” (Wong Kar Wai)
“Hoop Dreams” (Steve James)
“Paris Is Burning” (Jennie Livingston, et al.)
“How to Live in the German Federal Republic” (Harun Farocki)

SANDI TAN, director (“Shirkers”)
“Bitter Moon”
“Lovers on the Bridge”
“My Own Private Idaho”
“Leolo”
“Boogie Nights”
“The Double Life of Veronique” / “Center Stage” aka “Actress” (tied”)
“In the Heat of the Sun”
“Man on the Moon”
“Portrait of a Lady”
“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me”

Paul Schrader has Affliction on his list; I'd have to agree with him.