1990
The Ages of Lulu (Spain…Bigas Luna)
Alexandra Encore (Egypt…Youssef Chahine)
All the Vermeers in New York (US…Jon Jost)
An Angel at My Table (New Zealand…Jane Campion)
Archangel (Canada…Guy Maddin)
Ay! Carmela (Spain…Carlos Saura)
Back to the Future: Part III (US…Robert Zemeckis)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Iran…Bahram Beizai)
Begotten (US…E.Elias Merhige)
Boiling Point (Japan…Takeshi Kitano)
The Branches of the Tree (India…Satyajit Ray)
Bullet in the Head (Hong Kong…John Woo)
La Captive au Désert (France…Raymond Depardon)
C’est la Vie! (France…Diane Kurys)
La Château de ma Mère (France…Yves Robert)
The Civil War (US…Ken Burns)
Close-Up (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)
Coupe de Ville (US…Joe Roth)
Cyrano de Bergerac (France…Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Daddy Nostalgie (France…Bertrand Tavernier)
Dances With Wolves: Special Edition (US (1991)…Kevin Costner)
Days of Being Wild (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)
Diary for My Father and Mother (Hungary…Márta Mészáros)
The Disenchanted (France…Benoit Jacquot)
Dreams (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)
Drop the Dead Donkey (UK (until 1998)…various)
Edward Scissorhands (US…Tim Burton)
Escape from the Liberty Cinema (Poland…Wojciech Marczewski)
Europa, Europa (West Germany/Poland…Agnieszka Holland)
La Gloire de Mon Père (France…Yves Robert)
The Godfather Part Three: Special Edition (US (1991)…Francis Ford Coppola)
GoodFellas (US…Martin Scorsese)
The Grifters (US…Stephen Frears)
The Hairdresser’s Husband (France…Patrice Leconte)
Hidden Agenda (UK…Ken Loach)
Homework (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)
House of Cards (UK…Paul Seed)
I, the Worst of All (Argentina…Maria Luisa Bemberg)
Ju Dou (China…Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang)
Korczak (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)
Life is Sweet (UK…Mike Leigh)
Life: West Germany (West Germany…Harun Farocki)
The Match Factory Girl (Finland…Aki Kaurismäki)
Meteo (Hungary…András Metory Mész)
Metropolitan (US…Whit Stillman)
Miller’s Crossing (US…Joel Coen)
Mr & Mrs Bridge (US/UK…James Ivory)
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Japan (until 1991)…Hideaki Anno, etc.)
Nikita (France…Luc Besson)
No Fear, No Die (France…Claire Denis)
No, or the Vainglory of Command (Portugal/France…Manoel de Oliveira)
Nouvelle Vague (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
Oranges are not the Only Fruit (UK…Beeban Kidron)
Poison (US…Todd Haynes)
Privilege (US…Yvonne Rainer)
Reversal of Fortune (US…Barbet Schroeder)
Riff Raff (UK…Ken Loach)
The Second Circle (Russia…Aleksandr Sokurov)
Seinfeld (US (until 1998)…various)
The Sheltering Sky (US…Bernardo Bertolucci)
A Short Love Affair (South Korea…Jang Seon-woo)
Singapore Sling (Greece…Nikos Nikolaidis)
Sitting on a Branch Enjoying Myself (Czechoslovakia…Juraj Jakubisko)
Taxi Blues (Russia/France…Pavel Loungine)
The Third Genius (UK…Kevin Brownlow, David Gill)
Tilai (Burkino Faso…Idrissa Ouedraogo)
To Sleep With Anger (US…Charles Burnett)
Tongues United (US…Marlon Riggs)
Total Recall (US…Paul Verhoeven)
Truly, Madly, Deeply (UK…Anthony Minghella)
Trust (US…Hal Hartley)
Twin Peaks (US (until 1991)…David Lynch & various)
Urotsukidoji II: Legend of the Demon Womb (Japan…Hidaki Takayama)
La Valse (Japan…Akio Jissoji)
Wild at Heart (US…David Lynch)
A Woman’s Revenge (France…Jacques Doillon)
1991
Adorable Lies (Cuba…Gerardo Chijona)
Les Amants du Pont Neuf (France…Leos Carax)
Autobus (France…Eric Rochant)
Barton Fink (US…Joel Coen)
Beauty and the Beast (US…Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)
La Belle Noiseuse (France…Jacques Rivette)
The Best Intentions (TV version) (Sweden…Bille August)
Bhopal (India…Tapan Bosé)
Billy Bathgate (US…Robert Benton)
Black Robe (Canada…Bruce Beresford)
Boyz N the Hood (US…John Singleton)
A Brighter Summer Day (Taiwan…Edward Yang)
Bugsy (US…Barry Levinson)
Cabeza de Vaca (Mexico…Nicolás Echevarria)
Cape Fear (US…Martin Scorsese)
Children of Nature (Iceland…Fridrik Thór Fridriksson)
City of Hope (US…John Sayles)
City Slickers (US…Ron Underwood)
Clarissa (UK…Robert Bierman)
Un Coeur en Hiver (France…Claude Sautet)
The Commitments (UK/Ireland…Alan Parker)
Daughters of the Dust (US…Julie Dash)
Delicatessen (France…Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro)
The Double Life of Véronique (France/Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Europa(Germany/Denmark…Lars von Trier)
The Fall of Otrar (Russia…Ardak Amirkulov)
La Frontera (Chile…Ricardo Larrain)
G.B.H. (UK…Robert Young)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (US…Fax Bahr, George Hickenloper)
Homicide (US…David Mamet)
I Don’t Hear the Guitar Any More (France…Philippe Garrel)
JFK: director’s cut (US (1992)…Oliver Stone)
Kasba (India…Kumar Shahani)
Legacy (UK…Peter Spry-Everton)
Life for Life (Poland…Krzysztof Zanussi)
Light Sleeper (US…Paul Schrader)
Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico…Alfonso Arau)
Lovers (Spain…Vicente Aranda)
The Man in the Moon (US…Robert Mulligan)
Merci la Vie (France…Bertrand Blier)
My Own Private Idaho (US…Gus van Sant)
My Sons (Japan…Yoji Yamada)
Naked Lunch (Canada…David Cronenberg)
Night and Day (Belgium…Chantal Akerman)
Once Upon a Time in China (Hong Kong…Tsui Hark)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenovich (France…Chris Marker)
Only Yesterday (Japan…Isao Takahata)
Paris Trout (US…Stephen Gyllenhaal)
Prime Suspect (UK (until 2006)…Christopher Menaul, various)
Proof (Australia…Jocelyn Moorhouse)
Prospero’s Books (UK…Peter Greenaway)
A Question of Attribution (UK…John Schlesinger)
Raise the Red Lantern (China…Zhang Yimou)
The Rapture (US…Michael Tolkin)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (US…Kevin Reynolds)
Saviour of the Soul (Hong Kong…David Lai, Cory Yuen)
Sex and Zen (Hong Kong…Michael Mak)
The Silence of the Lambs (US…Jonathan Demme)
Slacker (US…Richard Linklater)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (US…Nicholas Meyer)
The Suspended Step of the Stork (Greece…Theo Angelopoulos)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (US…James Cameron)
Tetsuo II: Bodyhammer (Japan…Shinya Tsukamoto)
Thelma and Louise (US…Ridley Scott)
Three Days (USSR…Sharunas Bartos)
Toto le héros (Belgium/France…Jaco van Dormael)
Urga (Russia…Nikita Mikhalkov)
Van Gogh (France…Maurice Pialat)
A Woman’s Tale (Australia…Paul Cox)
World of Glory (Sweden…Roy Andersson)
Zirneklis (Latvia/USSR…Vasili Mass)
1992
Actress (Hong Kong…Stanley Kwan)
Aileen Wuernos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (UK…Nick Broomfield)
Aladdin (US…John Musker, Ron Clements)
And Life Goes On… (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)
Autumn Moon (Hong Kong…Clara Law)
Bad Lieutenant (US…Abel Ferrara)
Basara: The Princess Goh (Japan…Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Basic Instinct (US…Paul Verhoeven)
The Blue Eyes of Yonta (Guinea-Bissau…Flora Gomes)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (US…Francis Ford Coppola)
The Camomile Lawn (UK…Peter Hall)
Chaplin (UK…Richard Attenborough)
Conte d’Hiver (France…Eric Rohmer)
Cronos (Mexico…Guillermo del Toro)
The Crying Game (UK…Neil Jordan)
Damage (UK/France…Louis Malle)
Dialogue (Japan…Akio Jissoji)
Dragon Inn (Hong Kong…Raymond Lee, Ching Siu-Tung, Tsui Hark)
The Fencing Master (Spain…Pedro Olea)
Fishing With John (US…John Lurie)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (US…Ridley Scott)
Ghostwatch (UK…Lesley Manning)
Glengarry Glen Ross (US…James Foley)
God is My Witness (India…Mukul Anand)
Guelwaar (Senegal/France…Ousmene Sembene)
Hard Boiled (Hong Kong…John Woo)
Heimat 2 (Germany…Edgar Reitz)
Heya (Japan…Shion Sono)
Hoffa (US…Danny de Vito)
House of Angels (Sweden…Colin Nutley)
Howards End (UK…James Ivory)
Husbands and Wives (US…Woody Allen)
Hyenas (Senegal…Djibril Diop Mambéty)
It Wasn’t Love (US…Sadie Benning)
The Larry Sanders Show (US (until 1998)…various)
The Last Bolshevik (France…Chris Marker)
The Last of the Mohicans (US…Michael Mann)
Leolo (Canada…Jean-Claude Lauzon)
Lessons of Darkness (France/Germany…Werner Herzog)
The Long Day Closes (UK…Terence Davies)
The Lover (France/UK…Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Malcolm X (US…Spike Lee)
Man Bites Dog (Belgium…Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel)
A Midnight Clear (US…Keith Gordon)
Midori (Japan…Hiroshi Marada)
Naked Killer (Hong Kong…Wong Jing)
The Oil-Hell Murder (Japan…Hideo Gosha)
Olivier, Olivier (France…Agnieszka Holland)
One False Move (US…Carl Franklin)
Orlando (UK…Sally Potter)
A Place in the World (Argentina…Adolfo Aristarain)
The Player (US…Robert Altman)
Porco Rosso (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)
The Quince Tree Sun (Spain…Victor Erice)
Reservoir Dogs (US…Quentin Tarantino)
Romper Stomper (Australia…Geoffrey Wright)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (US…Ernie Gehr)
Singles (US…Cameron Crowe)
Sneakers (US…Phil Alden Robinson)
The Story of Qiu Ju (China…Zhang Yimou)
The Strange Tale of Oyuki (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)
Strictly Ballroom (Australia…Baz Luhrmann)
Sunday’s Children (Sweden…Daniel Bergman)
Sweet Emma, Dear Bobe (Hungary…István Szábo)
Tokyo Decadence (Japan…Ryu Murakami)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (US…David Lynch)
The Undeclared War (France…Bertrand Tavernier)
Unforgiven (US…Clint Eastwood)
Urotsukidoji III: Return of the Overfiend (Japan…Hidaki Takayama, Toshio Maeda)
Visions of Light (US…Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels)
1993
Abraham’s Valley (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)
The Age of Innocence (US…Martin Scorsese)
All Under the Moon (Japan…Yoichi Sai)
The Ark (UK…Molly Dineen)
The Baby of Mâcon (UK…Peter Greenaway)
Bad Boy Bubby (Australia…Rolf de Heer)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (US…Eric Radomski, Bruce W.Timm)
Blood In, Blood Out (US…Taylor Hackford)
Blue (UK…Derek Jarman)
The Blue Kite (China/Hong Kong…Tian Zhuangzhuang)
The Boot (Iran…Mohammad Ali Talebi)
The Bride With the White Hair (Hong Kong…Ronny Yu)
A Bronx Tale (US…Robert de Niro)
Clean, Shaven (US…Lodge Kerrigan)
Cracker (UK (until 1996)…various)
D.W.Griffith – Father of Film (UK…Kevin Brownlow, David Gill)
Dazed and Confused (US…Richard Linklater)
Dying at a Hospital (Japan…Jun Ichikawa)
Falling Down (US…Joel Schumacher)
Farewell, My Concubine (China/Hong Kong…Chen Kaige)
Fearless (US…Peter Weir)
Frasier (US (until 2004)…various)
The Fugitive (US…Andrew Davis)
Germinal (France…Claude Berri)
Gettysburg (US…Ronald F.Maxwell)
Groundhog Day (US…Harold Ramis)
In the Name of the Father (UK…Jim Sheridan)
Jurassic Park (US…Steven Spielberg)
King of the Hill (US…Steven Soderbergh)
Latcho Drom (France…Tony Gatlif)
Lipstick on Your Collar (UK…Renny Rye)
Moving (Japan…Shinji Somai)
Much Ado About Nothing (UK…Kenneth Branagh)
La Naissance de l’Amour (France…Philippe Garrel)
Naked (UK…Mike Leigh)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (US…Henry Selick)
Philadelphia (US…Jonathan Demme)
The Piano (New Zealand…Jane Campion)
The Puppetmaster (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Raining Stones (UK…Ken Loach)
Red Rock West (US…John Dahl)
The Red Squirrel (Spain…Julio Medem)
The Remains of the Day (UK…James Ivory)
Les Roseaux Sauvages (France…André Techine)
Ruby in Paradise (US…Victor Nunez)
The Scent of Green Papaya (France/Vietnam…Tran Anh Hung)
Schindler’s List (US…Steven Spielberg)
Seopyeonje (South Korea…Im Kwon-Taek)
Seventh Horse of the Sun (India…Shyam Benegal)
Shadowlands (UK…Richard Attenborough)
Short Cuts (US…Robert Altman)
Six Degrees of Separation (US…Fred Schepisi)
Sleepless in Seattle (US…Nora Ephron)
The Slingshot (Sweden…Ake Sandgren)
The Snapper (UK…Stephen Frears)
Sonatine (Japan…Takeshi Kitano)
Stalingrad (Germany…Joseph Vilsmaier)
Three Colours: Blue (France/Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Three Colours: White (France/Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Time Indefinite (US…Ross McElwee)
True Romance (US…Tony Scott)
The Untold Story (Hong Kong…Danny Lee, Herman Yau)
The War Room (US…D.A.Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus)
The Wedding Banquet (Hong Kong/US…Ang Lee)
The Wrong Trousers (UK…Nick Park)
The X Files (US (until 2002)…various)
1994
Amateur (US…Hal Hartley)
The Amorous Lotus Pan (Hong Kong…Li Han Hsiang)
Ashes of Time (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)
Bab El-Oued City (Morocco…Merzak Allouache)
Baseball (US…Ken Burns)
Before the Rain (Macedonia/UK/France…Milcho Manchevski)
A Borrowed Life (Taiwan…Wu Jien-Wen)
The Boys of St Vincent (Canada…John N.Smith)
Bullets Over Broadway (US…Woody Allen)
Burnt by the Sun (Russia…Nikita Mikhalkov)
Casa de Lava (Portugal…Pedro Costa)
Chinese Torture Chamber Story (Hong Kong…Bosco Lam)
Chungking Express (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)
Clerks (US…Kevin Smith)
Confucian Confusion (Taiwan…Edward Yang)
The Corridor (Germany…Sharunas Bartas)
Crows (Poland…Dorota Kedzierzawska)
Crumb (US…Terry Zwigoff)
The Day Today (UK…Andrew Gillman)
Dear Diary (Italy…Nanni Moretti)
Death and the Maiden (US…Roman Polanski)
Dieu sait quoi (France…Jean-Daniel Pollet)
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Hong Kong…Ang Lee)
Ed Wood (US…Tim Burton)
Elisa (France…Jean Becker)
Enthusiasm (Russia…Kira G.Muratova)
Ermo (China…Zhou Xiaowen)
Exotica (Canada…Atom Egoyan)
The Fast Show (UK (until 2001)…various)
Faust (Czechoslovakia/UK…Jan Svankmajer)
Forrest Gump (US…Robert Zemeckis)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (UK…Mike Newell)
Friends (US (until 2004)…various)
Go Fish (US…Rose Troche)
Great Conqueror’s Concubine: Parts I & II (China…Stephen Shin)
Heavenly Creatures (New Zealand…Peter Jackson)
Hoop Dreams (US…Steve James)
The Hudsucker Proxy (US…Joel Coen)
In the Heat of the Sun (China…Jiang Wen)
An Interview with Dennis Potter (UK…Tom Poole)
Interview with the Vampire (US…Neil Jordan)
Jeanne la Pucelle: Parts I & II (France…Jacques Rivette)
The Kingdom (Denmark…Lars Von Trier, Morton Arnfred)
Lamerica (Italy…Gianni Amelio)
The Last Seduction (US…John Dahl)
Leon: Version Longue (US/France…Luc Besson)
Life is Like a Rolling Stone (Japan…Tatsumi Kumashiro)
The Life of Private Chonkin (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Menzel)
The Lion King (US…Roger Allers, Ron Minkoff)
Little Women (US…Gillian Armstrong)
London (UK…Patrick Keiller)
The Madness of King George (UK…Nicholas Hytner)
Martin Chuzzlewit (UK…Pedr James)
Middlemarch (UK…Anthony Page)
My So-Called Life (US (until 1995)…various)
Natural Born Killers: the director’s cut (US (1995)…Oliver Stone)
Une Nouvelle Vie (France…Olivier Assayas)
Once Were Warriors (New Zealand…Lee Tamahori)
Il Postino (Italy…Michael Radford)
Priest (UK…Antonia Bird)
Pulp Fiction (US…Quentin Tarantino)
Quiz Show (US…Robert Redford)
La Reine Margot: Version Longue (France…Patrice Chereau)
Sátántangó (Hungary…Béla Tarr)
The Seven Wonders of the World (UK…Peter Spry-Everton)
Shallow Grave (UK…Danny Boyle)
The Shawshank Redemption (US…Frank Darabont)
The Silences of the Palace (France/Tunisia…Mufida Tlatli)
Six Days, Six Nights (France…Diane Kurys)
Speed (US…Jan de Bont)
Takin’ Over the Asylum (UK…David Blair)
Three Colours: Red (France/Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Through the Olive Trees (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)
The Tit and the Moon (Spain…Bigas Luña)
To Live (China…Zhang Yimou)
Urotsukidoji IV: Inferno Road (Japan…Hidaki Takayama)
Vanya on 92nd Street (US…Louis Malle)
Vive l’Amour (Taiwan…Tsai Ming-Liang)
Wyatt Earp (US…Lawrence Kasdan)
1995
The Addiction (US…Abel Ferrera)
Angels & Insects (UK…Philip Haas)
Antonia’s Line (Netherlands…Marleen Gorris)
Anything Can Happen (Poland…Marcel Lozinski)
Apollo 13 (US…Ron Howard)
Babe (Australia…Chris Noonan)
Before Sunrise (US…Richard Linklater)
Beyond the Clouds (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)
Blush (China/Hong Kong…Li Shaohong)
The Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride (India…Aditya Chopra)
Braveheart (US…Mel Gibson)
The Bridges of Madison County (US…Clint Eastwood)
Carrington (UK…Christopher Hampton)
Casino (US…Martin Scorsese)
La Cérémonie (France…Claude Chabrol)
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora’s Box (Hong Kong…Jeffrey Lau)
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (Hong Kong…Jeffrey Lau)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (UK…Kevin Brownlow, David Gill)
A Close Shave (UK…Nick Park)
Clueless (US…Amy Heckerling)
The Confessional (France…Robert Lepage)
Cyclo (Vietnam…Tran Anh-hung)
Dead Man (US…Jim Jarmusch)
Dead Man Walking (US…Tim Robbins)
The Death of Yugoslavia (UK…Angus McQueen)
Deep River (Japan…Kei Kumai)
Dolores Claiborne (US…Taylor Hackford)
The Doom Generation (US…Gregg Araki)
A Dream, What Else? (Germany…Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
England, My England (UK…Tony Palmer)
Fallen Angels (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)
Father Ted (UK (until 1998)…Declan Lowney)
Forgotten Silver (New Zealand…Costa Botes, Peter Jackson)
French Twist (France…Josiane Balasko)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (US…Mark Rappaport)
Le Garcu (France…Maurice Pialat)
Get Shorty (US…Barry Sonnenfeld)
Ghost in the Shell (Japan…Mamoru Oshii)
Good Men, Good Women (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
La Haine (France…Mathieu Kassovitz)
Hearts and Minds (UK…Stephen Whittaker)
Heat (US…Michael Mann)
A Hot Roof (South Korea…Lee Min-Yong)
Institute Benjamenta (UK…The Brothers Quay)
Kids (US…Larry Clark)
Land and Freedom (UK/Spain…Ken Loach)
The Last Gasp (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
A Last Note (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)
Leaving Las Vegas (US…Mike Figgis)
A Little Princess (US…Alfonso Cuáron)
Love Lessons (Sweden…Bo Widerberg)
Love Letter (Japan…Shunji Iwai)
Maborosi (Japan…Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
Les Misérables (France…Claude Lelouch)
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (France…Claude Sautet)
The Neon Bible (US/UK…Terence Davies)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japan (until 1996)…Hideaki Anno)
Nixon: the director’s cut (US (2010)…Oliver Stone)
People’s Century (UK (until 1999)…Angus MacQueen and various)
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (UK/US…Michael Henry Wilson, Martin Scorsese)
Persuasion (UK…Roger Michell)
The Pillow Book (UK…Peter Greenaway)
Pride and Prejudice (UK …Simon Langton)
Richard III (UK…Richard Loncraine)
Safe (US…Todd Haynes)
Salaam Cinema (Iran…Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Scratch and Crow (US…Helen Hill)
A Self-Made Hero (France…Jacques Audiard)
Sense and Sensibility (US/UK…Ang Lee)
Se7en (US…David Fincher)
Shall We Dance? (Japan…Masayuki Suo)
Shanghai Triad (China…Zhang Yimou)
Showgirls (US…Paul Verhoeven)
A Single Girl (France…Benoit Jacquot)
Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead (US…Gary Fleder)
To Die For (US…Gus Van Sant)
Tokyo Fist (Japan…Shinya Tsukamoto)
Toy Story (US…John Lasseter)
Twelve Monkeys (US…Terry Gilliam)
Ulysses Gaze (Greece…Theo Angelopoulos)
Underground: Extended Version (Yugoslavia…Emir Kusturica)
Up Down Fragile (France…Jacques Rivette)
The Usual Suspects (US…Bryan Singer)
When it Rains (US…Charles Burnett)
Whisper of the Heart (Japan…Yoshifumi Kondo)
The White Balloon (Iran…Jafar Panahi)
Wild Side: the director’s cut (US/UK (1999)…Donald Cammell)
Zero Kelvin (Norway…Hans Petter Moland)
1996
Un Air de Familie (France…Cédric Klapisch)
L’Appartement (France…Gilles Mimouni)
Big Night (US…Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci)
Bound (US…Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski)
Brassed Off (UK…Mark Herman)
Breaking the Waves (Denmark/UK…Lars Von Trier)
Carried Away (US…Bruno Barreto)
Cold Lazarus (UK…Renny Rye)
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Hong Kong…Peter Chan)
Crash (Canada…David Cronenberg)
The Crucible (US…Nicholas Hytner)
Deep Crimson (Mexico…Arturo Ripstein)
Destiny (Egypt…Youssef Chahine)
The English Patient (UK/US…Anthony Minghella)
Everyone Says I Love You (US…Woody Allen)
Evita (US…Alan Parker)
Fargo (US…Joel Coen)
Foreign Land (Brazil/Portugal…Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas)
Freeway (US…Matthew Bright)
Gabbeh (Iran…Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Grace of My Heart (US…Allison Anders)
Habit (US…Larry Fessenden)
Hamlet (UK…Kenneth Branagh)
Hamsun (Sweden/Norway…Jan Troell)
Hide and Seek (US…Su Friedrich)
Hillsborough (UK…Charles McDougall)
Irma Vep (France…Olivier Assayas)
Jerry Maguire (US…Cameron Crowe)
Jude (UK…Michael Winterbottom)
Karaoke (UK…Renny Rye)
Kids’ Return (Japan…Takeshi Kitano)
The King of Masks (Hong Kong…Wu Tian-ming)
Kolya (Czech Republic…Jan Sverak)
Life at a Gallop (Poland…Krzysztof Zanussi)
Lone Star (US…John Sayles)
Ma Vie Sexuelle (France…Arnaud Desplechin)
Mahjong (Taiwan…Edward Yang)
Man of the Story (India…Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
Michael Collins (US/UK…Neil Jordan)
A Moment of Innocence (Iran…Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Mother Night (US…Keith Gordon)
Our Friends in the North (UK…Pedr James, Simon Cellan Jones, Stuart Urban)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at the Robin Hood Hills (US…Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
The People Vs Larry Flynt (US…Milos Forman)
Picnic (Japan…Shunji Iwai)
Ponette (France…Jacques Doillon)
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbia…Srdjan Dragojevic)
Prisoner of the Mountains (Russia…Sergei Bodrov)
La Promesse (Belgium…Jean-Luc Dardenne, Pierre Dardenne)
Ridicule (France…Patrice Leconte)
Scream (US…Wes Craven)
Secrets and Lies (UK…Mike Leigh)
Sex and Zen II (Hong Kong…Man Kei Chin)
Shine (Australia…Scott Hicks)
Sling Blade (US…Billy Bob Thornton)
Star Trek: First Contact (US…Jonathan Frakes)
The Suicide (Canada…Gregg Bordowitz)
Swallowtail Butterfly (Japan…Shinji Iwai)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (UK…Mike Barker)
This Life (UK (until 1997)…various)
Three Lives and Only One Death (France…Raoul Ruiz)
Trainspotting (UK…Danny Boyle)
Les Voleurs (France…André Téchine)
The West (US…Stephen Ives, Ken Burns)
When the Cat’s Away (France…Cédric Klapisch)
When We Were Kings (US…Leon Gast)
Will it Snow for Christmas? (France…Sandrine Veysset)
William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (US…Baz Luhrmann)
The Wind of Changes (UK…Jeff Mulloy)
Without Memory (Japan…Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
1997
Affliction (US…Paul Schrader)
Ally McBeal (US (until 2002)…various)
The Apostle (US…Robert Duvall)
As Good as it Gets (US…James L.Brooks)
Boogie Nights (US…Paul Thomas Anderson)
Le Bossu (France…Philippe de Broca)
Brass Eye (UK (also 2001)…Michael Cumming)
Brother (Russia…Alexei Balabanov)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (US (until 2003)…Joss Whedon & various)
The Butcher Boy (Ireland…Neil Jordan)
Buud Yami (Burkina Faso…Gaston Kaboré)
The Children of Heaven (Iran…Majid Majidi)
Career Girls (UK…Mike Leigh)
Chasing Amy (US…Kevin Smith)
Croupier (UK…Mike Hodges)
Cure (Japan…Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
A Dance to the Music of Time (UK…Christopher Morahan, Alvin Rakoff)
Donnie Brasco: director’s cut (US (2007)…Mike Newell)
The Eel (Japan…Shohei Imamura)
Face/Off (US…John Woo)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (US…Errol Morris)
Film of Her (US…Bill Morrison)
Four Little Girls (US…Spike Lee)
The Full Monty (UK…Peter Cattaneo)
Funny Games (Austria…Michael Haneke)
Gallivant (UK…Andrew Kötting)
The Game (US…David Fincher)
Gattaca (US…Andrew Niccol)
Good Will Hunting (US…Gus Van Sant)
Grosse Pointe Blank (US…George Armitage)
Gummo (US…Harmony Korine)
Hana Bi (Japan…Takeshi Kitano)
Happy Go Lucky (Japan…Tetsuya Nakashima)
Happy Together (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)
The Ice Storm (US…Ang Lee)
In the Company of Men (US…Neil LaBute)
In the Presence of Clowns (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Insomnia (Sweden…Erik Skjoledbjærg)
Iruvar (India…Mani Ratnam)
Jackie Brown (US…Quentin Tarantino)
Journey to the Beginning of the World (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)
The Kingdom II (Denmark…Lars Von Trier, Morton Arnfred)
Kundun (US…Martin Scorsese)
L.A. Confidential (US…Curtis Hanson)
The Lakes (UK (until 1999)…Peter Blair, Roberto Bangura, Bill Anderson, David Moore, Sallie Aprahamian)
Lawn Dogs (US…John Duigan)
Level Five (France/Japan…Chris Marker)
Life is Beautiful (Italy…Roberto Benigni)
Live Flesh (Spain…Pedro Almodóvar)
Lolita (US/France…Adrian Lyne)
Lost Highway (US…David Lynch)
Men in Black (US…Barry Sonnenfeld)
Men With Guns (US…John Sayles)
Mrs Brown (UK…John Madden)
Mother and Son (Russia…Aleksandr Sokurov)
The Nazis: A Warning from History (UK…Laurence Rees)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion (Japan…Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki)
Nil by Mouth (UK…Gary Oldman)
The Old Lady and the Pigeons (France…Sylvain Chomet)
Open Your Eyes (Spain…Alejandro Aménabar)
The Opium War (China…Xie Jin)
Perfect Blue (Japan…Satoshi Kon)
Princess Mononoke (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)
The River (Taiwan…Tsai Ming-Liang)
The Second Civil War (US…Joe Dante)
Secret Defense (France…Jacques Rivette)
South Park (US (until ?)…various)
Starship Troopers (US…Paul Verhoeven)
The Sweet Hereafter (Canada….Atom Egoyan)
A Taste of Cherry (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)
The Thief (Russia…Pavel Chukhrai)
Timeless, Bottomless (Bad Movie) (South Korea…Jang Sun-Woo)
Titanic (US…James Cameron)
Tom Jones (UK…Metin Huseyin)
Train of Shadows (Spain…José Luis Guerin)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (Canada…Guy Maddin)
Ulee’s Gold (US…Victor Nunez)
Under the Skin (UK…Carine Adler)
La Vie de Jesus (France…Bruno Dumont)
Wednesday (Russia…Viktor Kossokovsky)
The Wings of the Dove (UK…Iain Softley)
Xiao Wu (China…Zhang-ke Jia)
1998
A (Japan…Tatsuya Mori)
After Life (Japan…Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
American History X (US…Tony Kaye)
The Apple (Iran…Samira Makhmalbaf)
Bag of Rice (Iran…Mohammad Ali Talebi)
Begging for Love (Japan…Hideyuki Hirayama)
Besieged (Italy/UK…Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Big Lebowski (US…Joel Coen)
Black Cat, White Cat (Yugoslavia…Emir Kusturica)
Bread Day (Russia…Sergei Dvortsevoy)
Buena Vista Social Club (Germany…Wim Wenders)
Buffalo ’66 (US…Vincent Gallo)
Bulworth (US…Warren Beatty)
Cabaret Balkan (France/Greece/Macedonia…Goran Paskaljevic)
Central Station (Brazil…Walter Salles)
Conte d’Automne (France…Eric Rohmer)
The Count of Monte Cristo (France…Josée Dayan)
Dandy Dust (UK/Austria…A.Hans Scheirl)
Dark City: the director’s cut (US/Australia (2008)…Alex Proyas)
Destiny (Egypt…Youssef Chahine)
Le Diner de Cons (France…Francis Weber)
Dr Akagi (Japan…Shohei Imamura)
The Dream Life of Angels (France…Erick Zonca)
Earth Story (UK…Danielle Peck, Simon Singh)
Elizabeth (UK…Shekhar Kapur)
Les Enfants du Marais (France…Jean Becker)
L’Ennui (France…Cédric Kahn)
Eternity and a Day (Greece…Theo Angelopoulos)
Eyes of the Spider (Japan…Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Festen (Denmark…Thomas Vinterberg)
The Flowers of Shanghai (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Fucking Amal (Sweden/Denmark…Lukas Moodysson)
Fufu the Worldweary (Japan…Yuri Obitani)
The General (Ireland…John Boorman)
Gods and Monsters (US…Bill Condon)
Happiness (US…Todd Solondz)
High Art (US…Lisa Cholodenko)
Histoire(s) du Cinema (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
The Idiots (Denmark…Lars Von Trier)
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (UK…David Wallace)
Inquietude (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Japan…Hiroyaki Okura)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (Russia…Aleksei German)
The Last Days of Disco (US…Whit Stillman)
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (UK…Guy Ritchie)
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Spain…Julio Medem)
The Mask of Zorro (US…Martin Campbell)
Mother of 1084 (India…Govind Nihalini)
My Name is Joe (UK…Ken Loach)
New Rose Hotel (US…Abel Ferrera)
Of Freaks and Men (Russia…Alexei Balabanov)
The Opposite of Sex (US…Don Roos)
Our Mutual Friend (UK …Julian Faring)
Out of Sight (US…Steven Soderbergh)
π (US…Darren Aronofsky)
The Planets (UK…James Younger, Jacqueline Smith)
Pleasantville (US…Gary Ross)
The Power of Kangwon Province (South Korea…Hong Sang-soo)
Ring (Japan…Hideo Nakata)
Run, Lola, Run (Germany…Tom Tykwer)
Rushmore (US…Wes Anderson)
Satya (India…Ram Gopal Varma)
Saving Private Ryan (US…Steven Spielberg)
The Serpent’s Path (Japan…Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Seul Contre Tous (France…Gaspar Noé)
Sex and the City (US (until 2004)…various)
Shakespeare in Love (US/UK…John Madden)
A Simple Plan (US…Sam Raimi)
Sombre (France…Philippe Grandrieux)
There’s Something About Mary (US…Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly)
The Thin Red Line (US…Terrence Malick)
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (France…Patrice Chereau)
The Truman Show (US…Peter Weir)
Twilight (US…Robert Benton)
Vanity Fair (UK…Marc Munden)
The Wedding Singer (US…Frank Coraci)
The Wounds (Yugoslavia…Srdjan Dragojevic)
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Hong Kong…Joan Chen)
1999
All About my Mother (Spain…Pedro Almodóvar)
American Beauty (US…Sam Mendes)
American Pie (US…Paul Weitz)
Angel (US (until 2004)…various)
Aristocrats (UK…David Caffrey)
Audition (Japan…Takashi Miike)
Beau Travail (France…Claire Denis)
Being John Malkovich (US…Spike Jonze)
The Blair Witch Project (US…Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
Boys Don’t Cry (US…Kimberley Peirce)
Bringing out the Dead (US…Martin Scorsese)
Chaos (Japan…Hideo Nakata)
The Cider House Rules (US…Lasse Hallström)
David Copperfield (UK…Simon Curtis)
Demon Warrior Koji (Japan…Yasunori Urata)
Despite All That (Japan…Shinji Imaoka)
Dick (US…Andrew Fleming)
Dogma (US…Kevin Smith)
East is East (UK…Damien O’Donnell)
Election (US…Alexander Payne)
Eyes Wide Shut (US…Stanley Kubrick)
Fantasia 2000 (US…James Algar, Gaetan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi)
Fight Club (US…David Fincher)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (US…Jim Jarmusch)
The Girl on the Bridge (France…Patrice Leconte)
Go (US…Doug Liman)
Gohatto (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)
Himalaya (France/Nepal…Eric Valli)
Holy Smoke (Australia…Jane Campion)
L’Humanité (France…Bruno Dumont)
The Insider (US…Michael Mann)
It All Starts Today (France…Bertrand Tavernier)
The Last Days (US…James Moll)
Lies (South Korea…Jang Sun-woo)
The Limey (US…Steven Soderbergh)
The Little Girl Who Stole the Sun (Senegal…Djibril Diop Mambéty)
Lord’s Lantern in Budapest (Hungary…Miklós Jancsó)
The Matrix (US…Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski)
Magnolia (US…Paul Thomas Anderson)
Mifune (Denmark…Soren Kragh-Jacobsen)
The Mission (Hong Kong…Johnnie To)
My Neighbours the Yamadas (Japan…Isao Takahata)
Oliver Twist (UK…Renny Rye)
Outer Space (Austria…Peter Tscherkassky)
Peppermint Candy (South Korea…Lee Chang-dong)
Public Housing (US…Frederick Wiseman)
Queer as Folk (UK (until 2000)…various)
Ratcatcher (UK…Lynne Ramsay)
Ride With the Devil (US…Ang Lee)
Romance (France…Catherine Breillat)
A Room for Romeo Brass (UK…Shane Meadows)
Rosetta (Belgium/France…Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
Shooting the Past (UK…Stephen Poliakoff)
Shower (China…Zhang Yang)
Sicilia! (France…Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet)
The Sixth Sense (US…M.Night Shyamalan)
The Sopranos (US (until 2007)…various)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (US…Trey Parker)
Spaced (UK (until 2001)…Edgar Wright)
The Straight Story (US…David Lynch)
Sweet and Lowdown (US…Woody Allen)
The Talented Mr Ripley (US…Anthony Minghella)
10 Things I Hate About You (US…Gil Junger)
Three Kings (US…David O’Russell)
Time Regained (France…Raoul Ruiz)
Titus (US…Julie Taymor)
Topsy Turvy (UK…Mike Leigh)
Toy Story 2 (US…Ash Brannon, John Lasseter)
The Virgin Suicides (US…Sofia Coppola)
Walking with Dinosaurs (UK…Jasper James)
The War Zone (UK…Tim Roth)
Water Drops on Burning Rocks (France…François Ozon)
The West Wing (US (until 2006)…various)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)
Wisconsin Death Trip (UK/US…James Marsh)
With Fire and Sword (Poland…Jerzy Hoffman)
Wives and Daughters (UK…Nicholas Renton)
Really interesting blog thanks!
There is at least one more (even if it was really bad):
Waterworld – 1995
No “Phantom Menace”? Look, I know that I’m alone in admiring that film, but you’ve got to admit that it was one of THE releases of 1999, and moreover influential in popularizing the trend of prequels and reboots, over the years. And frankly, I can seriously say it’s more worth watching than a handful of movies on that list.
I mean, “The Cider House Rules”? Really? Eh. We all have our own tastes.
A few people gave The Cider House Rules high marks, hence including it, there are some films on these timelines I don’t care for, but it’s not just for me.
Phantom Menance was atrocious anyway. Saying it’s one of the releases of 1999 is like saying Superman Returns was one of THE releases of 2006. Er, don’t think so…
I liked THE CIDER HOUSE RULES. Is that a surprise?
And be polite to Bob Clark. the man has been carrying the site, bless his soul!
Well, to my eyes it’s no worse than one or two movies I see scrambling around this list, and a fair deal better than “Superman Returns”. I’m not looking to change anything here, just saying that it’s a fairly big elephant in the room for 1999. Like it or not, it’s probably one of the most debated films of the past ten years.
But you’re entitled to your opinion. I mean hell, you’ve got “South Park” up there. I’ll never understand that, no matter how popular it is.
And no, Sam, it doesn’t surprise me that you like “Cider House”. But it doesn’t dissappoint me, either.
Yeah, but you’ve got Back to the Future Part III on there!
Not to mention two of the least memorable “Star Trek”. Yes, “First Contact” is probably the best of the TNG movies, but that’s saying very little, and “Undiscovered Country” is a middling Original Crew effort, at best.