Can it be? Another top-ten list? I see that I am only one B+ [high] or higher film away from being able to compile my 1996 top ten list. During an upcoming weekend sans Kimberly, I would like this list to go forth to the world.
These are the 1996 films that have crossed my retinas:
101 Dalmatians (Herek)
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (Stones)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (Judge)
Big Night (Scott/Tucci)
The Birdcage (Nichols)
Bottle Rocket (Anderson)
Breaking the Waves (von Trier)
Chungking Express (Kar-wai)
Citizen Ruth (Payne)
The Crucible (Hytner)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
Down Under the Big Top (Taylor)
Everyone Says I Love You (Allen)
Fargo (Coen)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Trousdale/Wise)
Independence Day (Emmerich)
Jerry Maguire (Crowe)
Lone Star (Sayles)
Microcosmos (Nuridsany/Pérennou)
A Moment of Innocence (Makhmalbaf)
Muppet Treasure Island (Henson)
The Nutty Professor (Shadyac)
One Fine Day (Hoffman)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Berlinger/Sinofsky)
A Perfect Candidate (Cutler/Van Taylor)
Phenomenon (Turteltaub)
Ridicule (Leconte)
Secrets and Lies (Leigh)
Sgt. Bilko (Lynn)
Shine (Hicks)
Sling Blade (Thornton)
A Summer’s Tale (Rohmer)
The Substitute (Mandel)
That Thing You Do! (Hanks)
Tin Cup (Shelton)
Twister (de Bont)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz)
The White Balloon (Panahi)
And here are some films I'm considering watching:
The English Patient (Anthony Minghella) [Ed, Annie: I know you hate it, but I ought to see it, you know?]
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Land and Freedom (Ken Loach)
Mother (Albert Brooks)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
A Single Girl (Benoît Jacquot)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
But none of the films on the second list (except maybe A Single Girl) really excites me in theory, and thus I am accepting nominations for 1996 films to be seen that weekend. Please help.
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
