Movies To See (and x=Seen) 1994 1993 xDamage - Jeremy Irons xPassion Fish - Sayles The Remains of the Day xThe Crying Game - Stephen Rea Riff Raff - Ken Loach (Brit) Amos & Andrew - Nicolas Cage El Mariachi - audience award, Sundance xGroundhog Day xMad Dog & Glory xVenice, Venice - Henry Jaglom Strictly Ballroom xThe Last Days of Chez Nous xIndecent Proposal xBenny & Joon - Johnny Depp xBodies, Rest & Motion - 20 somethings Watch It - 20 somethings The Night We Never Met - 20 somethings *Map of the Human Heart - Jeanne Moreau & eskimo Dave - Kevin Kline as President Sliver xWide Sargasso Sea xThe Piano Basic Instinct xAdams Family Values xWayneıs World xThe Wedding Banquet The Real McCoy - Kim Bassinger, Val Kilmer 1994 ------------------------------------------------ (Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (Jim Carrey) Life on a String (did before Farewell My Concubine) Reality Bites GenX xShadowlands My Father My Hero Depardieu comedy xNaked (Mike Leigh) xLegends of the Fall Nell xHoop Dreams xBefore Sunrise xFirst Knight (Richard Guere) ! Boys on the Side Return of the Vampire A Walk in the Clouds (by ³Like Water for Chocolate² director) Wolf (Nicholson) xLove & Human Remains (Denys Arcand) xJefferson in Paris xMadness of King George xSex and Zen xBlue - Kieslowski (w Juliette Binoche) xNaked - Mike Leigh xIn the Name of the Father - Daniel Day Lewis xThe Scent of Green Papaya - Sundance xBackbeat - Sundance xReality Bites The Last of England - Derek Jarman Heaven and Earth - Oliver Stone xFaraway, So Close - Wim Wenders xWhatıs Eating Gilbert Grape - Johnny Depp Summer xA Bronx Tale xThe Ref? Croc Dundee II China Moon xAvalon (Aidan Quinn) Total Recall (Schwarznager) A Man in Love (Peter Coyote) Red Rock West xSalmonberries - k.d.lang The Hudsucker Proxy xLife on a String - Chinese Angie - Geena Davis xBelle Epoque xGuarding Tess - Shirley MacLaine & Nicolas Cage xSirens xThe Ref xBitter Moon - Roman Polanski (w Peter Coyote) xFour Weddings & a Funeral - Hugh Grant Being Human - Robin Williams (five tales) (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (House of the Spirits - from Allendeıs book (Jeremy Irons) xKika - Almodovar xTale of Winter - Rohmer Crooklyn - Spike Lee Helas Pour Moi - Godard w Depardieu (remake of Wenders?) xBhaji on the Beach Go Fish - lesbian xForrest Gump *My Lifeıs in Turnaround Raining Stones - Ken Loach (Brit) It Could Happen to You - Nicolas Cage & Rosie Perez lottery Three of Hearts - lesbian hire gigolo xThe Mask - w Jim Carrey xEat Drink Man Woman (Chinese Amer) xBarcelona xTotally F**ed Up (Natural Born Killers _ Oliver Stone Spanking the Monkey The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Shawshank Redemption Sleep With Me The New Age - Judy Davis The Browning Version (Albert Finney) A Place in the World xPulp Fiction xJarmusch: Down By Law ! (Tom Waits) xWhat Happened Was - the bad date xDream Girls (Japan) xMod Fuck Explosion (Japan) yuch I Donıt Want to Talk About It - Mastroianni & dwarf girl (Brazil) The Lisa Theory (³love SF style²) Interview With The Vampire - Brad Pitt xLatcho Drom Caro Diario - Ital/Nanni Moretti Beauty and the Beast animation (for adults too) Romeo Is Bleeding xAltered States - ³sexy² xValley of the Dolls t.c.: Fear of a Black Hat xIntersection (Richard Gere) * 1995 ---------------------------------------------- Persuasion - Jane Austen Get Shorty The Usual Suspects The Crossing Guard (Jack Nicholson) 1996 ------------------------------------------------ Cyclo (Vietnam / did Scent of Green Papaya) SEE Jade (³Outsizzles Basic Instinct²) Virtuosity ? Dead Man ? (Jim Jarmusch / Johnny Depp) but tedious Halfmoon (Paul Bowles) Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles Tin Cup (Sragow rave) Freeway (sex) Last Man Standing Cold Comfort Farm (UK) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Uma Thurman) see already Michael Collins (Ireland) The Whole Wide World (Sragow rave) Lepa Sela, Lepo Gore (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) Serbia SEE THIS 1997 ³movie drought² - must mean 95-96 ------------------ The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James ) (Joan Campion dir.) The Designated Mourner The Van Dream with the Fishes The Watermelon Woman The Devilıs Advocate Matter of Life and Death a/k/a Stairway to Heaven RAVE Rough Magic RAVE (also did 1987 High Season) RAVE Follow the Bitch A Scottish Tale Jackie Chan²s First Strike Tracy & Hepburn Adamıs Rib 1998 get all of these -------------------------------------------------- Nenette et Boni Genealogies of a Crime Mother and Son SFIFF97 hit Swept From the Sea B-Monkey Oliver Assayas (did Irma Vep): A New Life, Paris at Dawn, Cold Water Dark City Mr. Nice Guy - Jackie Chan Character (Dutch) The Butcher Boy The Object of my Affection Out of Sight Your Friends and Neighbors (did In the Company of Men) Slums of Beverly Hills Western Rush Hour (Jackie Chan) Chalk Brother (Russian) Celebrity (Woody Allen) La Separation (French) Unmade Beds from 1996 - Three Lives and Only One Death Mulan (anim) from 1985 - Tim Burtonıs first: Pee-weeıs Big Adventure Dancing at Lughnasa 1999 ---------------------------------------------------- Un Air de Famille (did: When the Cats Away) Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, Iran) Rushmore (Bill Murray) God Said, ³Ha!² from 1974 Straight Time w Dustin Hoffman 20 Dates Seventh Heaven (French) Metroland 60s Hideous Kinky 60s Private Confessions (Bergman wrote, Liv Ullman dir.) The Dreamlife of Angels (French) ³best of year about adolescence² The Swindle (Rien Ne Va Plus) (French) - Chabrol Besieged - Bertolucci Buena Vista Social Club Big Daddy (funny) American Pie from 1996: The Whole Wide World The Velocity of Gary Trick My Life So Far (Scotch) Jeanne and the Perfect Guy Twin Falls Idaho Xiu Xiu: The Send-Down Girl The Insider The Straight Story yes My Son the Fanatic (Hanif Kureishi) Destiny - Youssef Chahine SEE Tea with Mussolini The King of Masks (China) Get Bruce! Kasaba (Turkey) The Children of Chabannes Ichigensan Beyond the Clouds - Antonioni 1995 ³2 of the 3 sex scenes are amazing² Breakfast of Champions (from Vonnegut novel) Cradle Will Rock ? Tom Robbins - celebrating 1930s idealist folk theater The Talented Mr. Ripley ³interminable but wonderfully creepy² The Cider House Rules ³wit² (John Irving novel) Magnolia ? Liberty Heights Jewish Baltimore in 1954 Princess Mononoke (anim) Mansfield Park - Jane Austen ³steamy² The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan - did Crying Game) ? An Ideal Husband ? (Oscar Wilde) Bringing Out the Dead ³one of best of the year² The Sixth Sense ? 2000 -------------------------------------------------- Heart of Light Vers la Mer (To the Sea) Danube River SFW 2/16-22 Bronte A Moment of Innocence & The Silence - Iranian The Ninth Gate - Polanski (Johnny Depp) Kirkou and the Sorceress My Best Friend (Herzog on Kinski) Such a Long Journey (Indian) The Terrorist (India) Two Women (Iran) Waking the Dead Romeo Must Die Hong Kong style at Oakland watefront The Road to El Dorado (anim) The Color of Paradise (did: Children of Heaven) Deterrence politicians caught in roadhouse East-West Deneuve ` East is East SEE The Last September Gladiator ? Beau Travail (Fr) Joe Gouldıs Secret <------- Where the Money Is (Paul Newman) Sausalito <------- Titan A.E. (sci fi anim) <----- American Gypsy It Happened Here Chicken Run T.C. July 2000 ------- Portraits Chinoise Shanghai Noon (Jackie Chan) Groove ? Sunshine ? Boys & Girls ? The Five Senses ? The Tic Code The Tao of Steve An Affair of Love ? Imposter Loving Jezebel Mad About Mambo ? Solomon & Gaenor Went to Coney Island . . . ? Alice and Martin ? Restless ? The Story of O From Cannes May 2000: In the Mood for Love Maggie Cheung (erlier: Days of Being Wild) Les Destinees sentimentales Fr: Oliver Assayas Yi-Yi (A one and a two) A la Verticale dıete (Height of summer) Viet family Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Koroshi Gohatoo (Taboo) Eureka - Japan Die Unberuhrbare (No place to go) - German