{"id":92656,"date":"2013-11-02T21:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T03:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=92656"},"modified":"2014-07-04T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T01:12:32","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1996","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1996.<\/p>\n

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Red = Treasures
\n<\/span>Purple = Favorites
\n<\/span>Blue = Achievements
\n<\/span>Gray = Decent\/Noteworthy
\n<\/span>Green = Unseen or Undecided<\/span>
\n* = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.<\/strong>
\n\u2022<\/p>\n

1996<\/h2>\n

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    \n
  1. Secrets and Lies<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Fargo<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. La Promesse*<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Ponette*<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Waiting for Guffman<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Flirting with Disaster<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Trainspotting<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Lone Star<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Dead Man<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Bottle Rocket<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Big Night<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Basquiat<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Mars Attacks!<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Breaking the Waves<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. The Pillow Book<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. James and the Giant Peach<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Mission: Impossible<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh)<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. When We Were Kings*<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. The Whole Wide World<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Sling Blade<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Paradise Lost: The Child murders at Robin Hood Hills<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Shall We Dance?<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Shine<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Everyone Says I Love You<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. The Crucible<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    • The Cable Guy<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Jerry McGuire<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Stealing Beauty<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The King of Masks<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The English Patient<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Romeo + Juliet<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Portrait of a Lady<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Looking for Richard<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Emma<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Fly Away Home<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Jude<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1996<\/h6>\n
      A Chef in Love<\/span>
      \n A Couch in New York (Chantal Akerman)<\/span>
      \n A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)<\/span>
      \n A Question of Trust<\/span>
      \n A Self-Made Hero (Jacques Audiard)<\/span>
      \n A Summer\u2019s Tale (Eric Rohmer)<\/span>
      \n Beautiful Thing (Hettie Macdonald)<\/span>
      \n Beavis and Butt-head Do America (Mike Judge)<\/span>
      \n Berenice (Michael Gitlin)<\/span>
      \n Beyond Silence<\/span>
      \n Blood & Wine<\/span>
      \n Bound (Lana and Andy Wachowski)<\/span>
      \n Brigands \u2013 Chapter VII (Otar Iosseliani)<\/span>
      \n Capitaine Conan (Bertrand Tavernier)<\/span>
      \n Carla\u2019s Song<\/span>
      \n Chronicle of a Disappearance (Elia Suleiman)<\/span>
      \n Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)<\/span>
      \n Crash (David Cronenberg)<\/span>
      \n Dead Sure aka The Insurance Agent (Tikoy Aguiluz)*<\/span>
      \n Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein)<\/span>
      \n Elective Affinities (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)<\/span>
      \n Encore (Pascal Bonitzer)<\/span>
      \n Fly Away Home<\/span>
      \n Freeway (Matthew Bright)<\/span>
      \n Gabbeh (Moshen Makhmalbaf)<\/span>
      \n Get on the Bus (Spike Lee)<\/span>
      \n Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/span>
      \n Hamsun (Jan Troell)<\/span>
      \n Hard Core Logo (Bruce McDonald)<\/span>
      \n Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)<\/span>
      \n Hommes, femmes, mode d\u2019emploi<\/span>
      \n Improvisation<\/span>
      \n Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)<\/span>
      \n Kansas City (Robert Altman)<\/span>
      \n Kids Return (Takeshi Kitano)<\/span>
      \n Kolya<\/span>
      \n L\u2019Appartement<\/span>
      \n Les voleurs (Andre Techine)<\/span>
      \n Love Serenade (Shirley Barrett)<\/span>
      \n Mahjong<\/span>
      \n Manny & Lo (Lisa Krueger)<\/span>
      \n Marvin\u2019s Room<\/span>
      \n Mary Reilly<\/span>
      \n Matilda (Danny DeVito)<\/span>
      \n Michael Collins (Neil Jordan)<\/span>
      \n Microcosmos<\/span>
      \n Mon Homme (Bertrand Blier)<\/span>
      \n Mother<\/span>
      \n My Sex Life or: How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin)<\/span>
      \n N\u00e9nette et Boni (Claire Denis)<\/span>
      \n Nightjohn (Charles Burnett)<\/span>
      \n Normal Life (John McNaughton)<\/span>
      \n Oriental Elegy (Aleksandr Sokurov)<\/span>
      \n Parfait amour! (Catherine Breillat)<\/span>
      \n Party (Manoel de Oliveira)<\/span>
      \n Pretty Village Pretty Flame<\/span>
      \n Prisoner of the Mountain (Sergei Bodov)<\/span>
      \n Remembrances of Kansas City Swing<\/span>
      \n Ridicule (Patrice Leconte)<\/span>
      \n Robert Altman\u2019s Jazz \u201934:<\/span>
      \n Small Faces<\/span>
      \n Study of a River<\/span>
      \n Swingers<\/span>
      \n Temptress Moon (Chen Kaige)<\/span>
      \n The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)<\/span>
      \n The Delta (Ira Sachs)<\/span>
      \n The Funeral (Abel Ferrara)<\/span>
      \n The Leopard Son<\/span>
      \n The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story<\/span>
      \n The Other Side of Sunday<\/span>
      \n The People vs. Larry Flynt<\/span>
      \n The Quiet Room (Rolf de Heer)<\/span>
      \n The Suicide<\/span>
      \n The Sunchaser (Michael Cimino)<\/span>
      \n The Wind in the Willows<\/span>
      \n The Winner (Alex Cox)<\/span>
      \n Three Lives and Only One Death (Raul Ruiz)<\/span>
      \n Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)<\/span>
      \n To Have and to Hold (John Hillcoat)<\/span>
      \n Trees Lounge<\/span>
      \n Un air de famille (Cedric Klapisch)<\/span>
      \n Walking and Talking (Nicole Holofcener)<\/span>
      \n Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)<\/span>
      \n When It Rains (Charles Burnett)<\/span>
      \n Will It Snow for Christmas?<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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