Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1997. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1997 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control The Apostle The Ice Storm Princess Mononoke* Henry Fool L.A. Confidential Good Will Hunting Grosse Pointe Blank The Fifth Element The Sweet Hereafter A Taste of Cherry* The Children of Heaven Boogie Nights The Butcher... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1996. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1996 Secrets and Lies Fargo La Promesse* Ponette* Flirting with Disaster Trainspotting Lone Star Waiting for Guffman Big Night Basquiat Bottle Rocket Mars Attacks! Breaking the Waves The Pillow Book James and the Giant Peach Mission: Impossible Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh) When... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1995. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1995 Heat Sense And Sensibility Dead Man Walking Toy Story Smoke Babe Safe Dead Man The City of Lost Children Seven Before Sunrise Kicking and Screaming The Usual Suspects A Little Princess Rob Roy Persuasion 12 Monkeys Casino The Addiction Get Shorty... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1994. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1994 Three Colors: Red Pulp Fiction Vanya on 42nd Street Three Colors: White Chungking Express* Exotica* Quiz Show Hoop Dreams The Hudsucker Proxy The Secret of Roan Inish* Nobody’s Fool To Live Bullets Over Broadway Eat Drink Man Woman Burnt by the... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1993. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1993 Three Colors: Blue What’s Eating Gilbert Grape The Nightmare Before Christmas Naked The Piano In the Name of the Father Fearless The Remains of the Day Schindler’s List Ruby in Paradise The Fugitive King of the Hill Short Cuts Mad Dog... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1992. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1992 The Long Day Closes Unforgiven A River Runs Through It The Crying Game Passion Fish Into the West Strictly Ballroom Glengarry Glen Ross Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography The Player Baraka Bob Roberts Bram Stoker’s Dracula Red Rock West... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1991. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1991 The Double Life of Veronique The Fisher King Barton Fink Delicatessen The Silence of the Lambs Raise the Red Lantern Flirting 35 Up Close to Eden Beauty and the Beast Terminator 2: Judgment Day Until the End of the World Hearts... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1990. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1990 Close-up* Distant Voices, Still Lives* (US DVD release) Miller’s Crossing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Metropolitan Edward Scissorhands Jesus of Montreal GoodFellas Dances with Wolves The Tall Guy Cinema Paradiso* Wild at Heart The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1989. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1989 The Decalogue Henry V The Unbelievable Truth Jesus of Montreal Do the Right Thing The ‘Burbs Crimes and Misdemeanors The Abyss Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Kiki’s Delivery Service Cinema Paradiso sex, lies, and videotape The Tall Guy Heathers Dead... Read more

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1988. In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here. • 1988 Midnight Run My Neighbor Totoro* Distant Voices, Still Lives* Die Hard The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Dangerous Liaisons The Unbearable Lightness of being Grave of the Fireflies* Cinema Paradiso A Fish Called Wanda The Last Temptation of Christ Running on Empty... Read more