Top Ten: 1990

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Gremlins 2: The New Batch [Joe Dante, 1990]:

Edward Scissorhands [Tim Burton, 1990]:

Trust [Hal Hartley, 1990]:

Close-Up [Abbas Kiarostami, 1990]:

Innisfree [José Luis Guerín, 1990]:

Nouvelle vague [Jean-Luc Godard, 1990]:

The Comfort of Strangers [Paul Schrader, 1990]:

No Fear, No Die [Claire Denis, 1990]:

Miller's Crossing [Joel & Ethan Coen, 1990]:

Dick Tracy [Warren Beatty, 1990]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.

Top Ten: 1991

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero [Jean-Luc Godard, 1991]:

The Suspended Step of the Stork [Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1991]:

Only Yesterday [Isao Takahata, 1991]:

The Fisher King [Terry Gilliam, 1991]:

Barton Fink [Joel & Ethan Coen, 1991]:

Kafka [Steven Soderbergh, 1991]:

Europa [Lars von Trier, 1991]:

JFK [Oliver Stone, 1991]:

Jacquot de Nantes [Agnès Varda, 1991]:

The Visitor (aka The Stranger) [Satyajit Ray, 1991]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.

Top Ten: 1992

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery 

Céline [Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992]:

Chasing Butterflies [Otar Iosseliani, 1992]:

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me [David Lynch, 1992]:

Antigone [Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1992]:

Lessons of Darkness [Werner Herzog, 1992]:

Light Sleeper [Paul Schrader, 1992]:

A Sense of History [Mike Leigh, 1992]:

Dream of Light (aka The Quince Tree Sun) [Víctor Erice, 1992]:

Candyman [Bernard Rose, 1992]:

The Crying Game [Neil Jordan, 1992]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.

Top Ten: 1993

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Oh, Woe is Me! (Hélas pour moi) [Jean-Luc Godard, 1993]:

King of the Hill [Steven Soderbergh, 1993]:

Matinee [Joe Dante, 1993]:

Abraham's Valley [Manoel de Oliveira, 1993]:

Manhattan Murder Mystery [Woody Allen, 1993]:

Three Colours: Blue [Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993]:

D'Est (From the East) [Chantal Akerman, 1993]:

Blue [Derek Jarman, 1993]:

Carlito's Way [Brian De Palma, 1993]:

Faraway, So Close! [Wim Wenders, 1993]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.

Top Ten: 1994

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Three Colours: Red [Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994]:

Ed Wood [Tim Burton, 1994]:

Three Colours: White [Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994]:

The Hudsucker Proxy [Joel & Ethan Coen, 1994]:

Through the Olive Trees [Abbas Kiarostami, 1994]:

Bullets Over Broadway [Woody Allen, 1994]:

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana [Aki Kaurismäki, 1994]:

Pulp Fiction [Quentin Tarantino, 1994]:

Sátántangó [Béla Tarr, 1994]:

Ashes of Time + "Redux" [Wong Kar Wai, 1994-2008]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.