Best/Favorite Films of 1987

1. Babette’s Feast

2. Hope and Glory

3. Raising Arizona

4. Housekeeping

5. Wings of Desire

6. Au revoir, les enfants

7. Under Satan’s Sun

8. Moonstruck

9. Roxanne

10. The Last Emperor

11. 84 Charing Cross Road

12. The Dead

13. Angel Heart

14. Radio Days

15. O.C. and Stiggs

Aria

Black Widow

Blind Date

Broadcast News

Good Morning, Vietnam

House of Games

Made in Heaven

My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend

A Prayer for the Dying

Prince of Darkness

The Sicilian

Siesta

Subway to the Stars

The Untouchables

Who’s That Girl

Full Metal Jacket

Gardens of Stone

Hawaiian Rainbow

The Lighthorsemen

The Living Daylights

Making Mr. Right

Nadine

Tin Men

White of the Eye

Adventures in Babysitting

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Amazon Women on the Moon

Back to the Beach

The Bedroom Window

Best Seller

Beverly Hills Cop II

Blind Chance (see 1981)

The Big Easy

Cry Freedom

Dead of Winter

Empire of the Sun

Evil Dead 2

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Hellraiser

High Season

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

La Bamba

A Month in the Country

P.I. Private Investigations

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

The Princess Bride

RoboCop

The Secret of My Success

September

Someone to Watch Over Me

Spaceballs

Stakeout

The Stepfather

Straight to Hell

Summer School

Tough Guys Don’t Dance

Wall Street

———- still need to see:

The Allnighter

Baby Boom

Beyond Therapy

The Big Town

Border Radio

Buisson ardent

Can’t Buy Me Love

Club Life

Cold Steel

Cross

Cross My Heart

The Cry of the Owl

Dancers

Dark Eyes

Date With an Angel

Dernier ete a Tanger

Dragon Chow

Dutch Treat

L’ete en pente douce

The Family

Flowers in the Attic

The Fourth Protocol

Gaby – A True Story

Good Morning, Babylon

Grand Guignol

Hello Again

The Hidden

Hotel Colonial

Innerspace

Intervista

Ishtar

Kangaroo

Light of Day

Living on Tokyo Time

Long Live the Lady!

Million Dollar Mystery

Le miracule

No Way Out

The Perfect Match

The Pick-up Artist

Positive I.D.

Rachel River

Rocinante

La rumba

Slam Dance

Stacking

Surrender

Suspect

Sweet Lorraine

A Taxing Woman

Terminus

Touch and Go

The Trouble with Spies

The Whales of August

White Mischief

Wish You Were Here

Withnail and I

Best/Favorite Films of 1988

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

2. A Cry in the Dark

3. Another Woman

4. School Daze

5. Eight Men Out

6. A Handful of Dust

7. The Accidental Tourist

8. Married to the Mob

9. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

10. The Legend of the Holy Drinker

11. Mr. North

12. Mississippi Burning

13. Frantic

14. Sunset

15. The Lair of the White Worm

16. Beetlejuice

17. Earth Girls are Easy

18. Cop

19. Who Framed Roger Rabbit

20. Testimony

21. Vampire’s Kiss

22. The Serpent and the Rainbow

23. Cocktail

Coming to America

Da

Masquerade

Scrooged

Stormy Monday

Tequila Sunrise

They Live

Track 29

Zelly and Me

Ashik Kerib

Bad Dreams

The Bengali Night

Bird

Bright Lights, Big City

The Chocolate War

Crossing Delancey

The Dead Pool

Hawaiian Rainbow

Hellbound- Hellraiser II

Madame Sousatzka

My Neighbor Totoro

The Naked Gun

Rain Man

Salome’s Last Dance

Tucker: The Man and his Dreams

The Vanishing

——– films I haven’t yet seen, but look promising:

Alien Nation

Aloha Summer

Astonished

Bat*21

The Bear

The Big Blue

Big Top Pee-Wee

Blackout

Buster

D.O.A.

The Deceivers

Die Hard

Dominick and Eugene

The Dressmaker

Everybody’s All-American

A Few Days with Me

5 Corners

From Hollywood to Deadwood

Full Moon in Blue Water

Funny Farm

Georgia

The Girl in a Swing

The Good Mother

The Great Outdoors

Hanussen

Illegally Yours

The In Crowd

Lady in White

Landscape in the Mist

The Laserman

The Last Temptation of Christ

Little Dorrit

La maschera (The Mask)

Memories of Me

Midnight Run

The Milagro Beanfield War

Miles From Home

Moon Over Parador

Moving

The Music Teacher

Never Say Die

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

Le Palanquin des Larmes

Paperhouse

Patti Rocks

Patty Hearst

Pelle the Conqueror

Pestonjee

Plain Clothes

The Presidio

The Revolving Doors

Running on Empty

Some Girls

South of Reno

Spellbinder

Stealing Home

Sticky Fingers

Switching Channels

Tapeheads

A Taxing Woman’s Return

Things Change

Time of Violence

To Kill a Priest

Twins

Waxwork

Willow

Working Girl

Best/Favorite Films of 1989

1. Field of Dreams

2. Mystery Train

3. Henry V

4. Casualties of War

5. New York Stories

6. The Rainbow

7. The Icicle Thief

8. Say Anything

9. Born on the Fourth of July

10. Glory

11. Do the Right Thing

12. Skin Deep

13. Roselyne et les lions

14. Sea of Love

15. The Big Picture

16. Crimes and Misdemeanors

17. Batman

18. Black Rain (R. Scott)

19. The Fabulous Baker Boys

20. The ‘Burbs

(honorable mention: The Decalogue (tele mini-series)

Always

Back to the Future Part II

Eat a Bowl of Tea

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Johnny Handsome

Kill Me Again

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Licence to Kill

Scandal

Strapless

Third Degree Burn

————- still need to see:

Amanda

Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool

Black Rain (Imamura)

Blaze

Breaking In

Chances Are

Cheetah

China of My Sorrow

Circus Boys

Cold Feet

Conquest of the South Pole

Cousins

Crusoe

Dead Poets’ Society

Dealers

Disorganized Crime

84 Charlie Mopic

Enemies, A Love Story

Farewell to the King

First Date

Ghostbusters II

Gross Anatomy

A Handful of Time

How I Got into College

How To Get Ahead in Advertising

Ice

In Country

In the Belly of the Dragon

Ivan and Alexandra

Jesus of Montreal

The Jeweler’s Shop

The Kerosene Seller’s Wife

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Ladder of Swords

Life and Nothing But

Lobster Man from Mars

Major League

Melancholia

Miss Firecracker

Monsieur Hire

Music Box

My Left Foot

A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba

Out Cold

Physical Evidence

The Prisoner of St. Petersburg

Queen of Hearts

The Rachel Papers

Rituals

Romero

Rooftops

Rude Awakening

Sand Castle

See You in the Morning

The Seventh Continent

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Shocker

Sidewalk Stories

Sitting on a Branch Enjoying Myself

Slaves of New York

Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds

A Story of Boys and Girls

The Tall Guy

Tap

That’s Adequate

Time of the Gypsies

Too Beautiful for You

Triumph of the Spirit

Troop Beverly Hills

True Believer

True Love

Twister

The Unbelievable Truth

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Warm Summer Rain

Water, Wind, Sand

Welcome Home

When Harry Met Sally

When the Whales Came

Who’s Harry Crumb?

The Women on the Roof

Zazie

Best/Favorite Films of 1990

1. Goodfellas

2. Miller’s Crossing

3. Metropolitan

4. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams

5. The Bonfire of the Vanities

6. The Godfather Part III

7. Avalon

8. Texasville

9. Where the Heart Is

10. The Exorcist III

10. Jacob’s Ladder

12. A Tale of Springtime

13. Alice

14. Desperate Hours

15 The Comfort of Strangers

16. Wild at Heart

17. The Russia House

18. Everybody Wins

19. The Two Jakes

20. Bad Influence

Awakenings

Back to the Future III

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

Come See the Paradise

Darkman

Dick Tracy

Edward Scissorhands

Green Card

Gremlins 2

Internal Affairs

Longtime Companion

Madhouse

Mo’ Better Blues

My Blue Heaven

Pacific Heights

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Tales from the Darkside

Taxi Blues

Thousand Pieces of Gold

———- still need to see:

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Backtrack

Betsy’s Wedding

Body Chemistry

Circuitry Man

Close-Up

Coupe de Ville

Cry-Baby

Days of Thunder

Def by Temptation

Europa Europa

Everybody’s Fine

The Fourth War

Funny About Love

The Grifters

Grim Prairie Tales

The Hairdresser’s Husband

Havana

Jit

Joe Versus the Volcano

Ju Dou

Life is Sweet

Love Hurts

May Fools

Memphis Belle

Men Don’t Leave

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Mountains of the Moon

My Father’s Glory

My Mother’s Castle

Nightbreed

Opportunity Knocks

Overexposed

Pastime

Q & A

Sibling Rivalry

Slacker

STagES

Trust

Tune in Tomorrow

Best/Favorite Films of 1991

1. Barton Fink

2. The Double Life of Veronique

3. The Fisher King

4. Jungle Fever

5. Night on Earth

6. Raise the Red Lantern

7. My Own Private Idaho

8. Backdraft

9. The Rocketeer

10. Dogfight

11. L.A. Story

12. Delicatessen

13. Once Around

14. Rhapsody in August

15. Homicide

15. The Quarrel

17. JFK

A Brighter Summer Day

Bugsy

Cape Fear

City Slickers

The Commitments

Dead Again

The Doors

Father of the Bride

Frankie and Johnny

The Hard Way

Hook

Hudson Hawk

Impromptu

King Ralph

Life for Life

The Man in the Moon

Mortal Thoughts

The Naked Gun 2 1/2

Necessary Roughness

The Prince of Tides

Shadows and Fog

Star Trek VI

The Stranger (Agantuk)

The Super

Switch

Thousand Pieces of Gold

29th Street

Until the End of the World

————- still need to see:

La Belle Noiseuse

Billy Bathgate

Book of Love

Boyz n the Hood

Career Opportunities

City of Hope

Close to Eden

Company Business

Convicts

Crooked Hearts

Defending Your Life

Delirious

Doc Hollywood

Flight of the Intruder

Hear My Song

The Indian Runner

The Inner Circle

Iron & Silk

Johnny Stecchino

Late for Dinner

The Marrying Man

Mystery Date

Oscar

Other People’s Money

Pastime

Queens Logic

Rambling Rose

Regarding Henry

Rush

Scenes from a Mall

Soapdish

The Suspended Step of the Stork

Talent for the Game

True Colors

Year of the Gun

Best/Favorite Films of 1992

1. The Stolen Children

2. Damage

3. Chaplin

4. Wind

5. Glengarry Glen Ross

6. A Heart in Winter

7. A River Runs Through It

8. The Player

9. Light Sleeper

10. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

11. Husbands and Wives

12. Jennifer Eight

13. Howards End

14. Raising Cain

15. Rich in Love

16. Singles

17. Noises Off

18. Basic Instinct

19. Scent of a Woman

20 Sneakers

21. My Cousin Vinny

22. Mr. Baseball

23. The Mambo Kings

A Few Good Men

Final Analysis

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Innocent Blood

The Public Eye

Reservoir Dogs

Single White Female

A Stranger Among Us

A Tale of Winter

Unlawful Entry

Back in the USSR

Batman Returns

Boomerang

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Consenting Adults

Hero

The Long Day Closes

Patriot Games

Stay Tuned

Strictly Ballroom

Whispers in the Dark

——— still need to see:

Alan & Naomi

The Babe

Baraka

The Best Intentions

Brain Donors

City of Joy

The Cutting Edge

Deep Cover

Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel

The Distinguished Gentleman

Encino Man

Far and Away

Forever Young

Gas

Gas Food Lodging

Hoffa

Housesitter

The Last of the Mohicans

Leap of Faith

Leolo

Love Field

Mac

Malcolm X

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

A Midnight Clear

Mr. Saturday Night

Night and the City

Passion Fish

A Place for Jazz

A Place in the World

The Power of One

Pushing Hands

Radio Flyer

Roadside Prophets

Ruby

Ruby Cairo

Schtonk!

Shining Through

Simple Men

The Story of Qui Ju

This Is My Life

Toys

Unforgiven

Used People

Best/Favorite Films of 1993

1. Schindler’s List

2. Three Colors: Blue

3. The Joy Luck Club

4. A Bronx Tale

5. King of the Hill

6. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

7. Much Ado About Nothing

8. Short Cuts

9. Little Buddha

10. In Custody

11. True Romance

11. Faraway, So Close!

13. The Remains of the Day

14. Carlito’s Way

15. The Scent of Green Papaya

16. Shadowlands

17. Matinee

18. Sleepless in Seattle

19. Rising Sun

20. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Arizona Dream

Benny & Joon

The Age of Innocence

Army of Darkness

Dave

Dream Lover

Falling Down

Fatal Instinct

The Firm

For the Moment

Groundhog Day

Guilty as Sin

Heaven and Earth

House of Cards

In the Name of the Father

Jurassic Park

Manhattan Murder Mystery

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Pelican Brief

The Piano

Red Rock West

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Romeo is Bleeding

Rudy

The Secret Garden

Sliver

Son of the Pink Panther

Swing Kids

The Temp

The Thing Called Love

Watch It

The Wedding Banquet

—————- still need to see:

Acting on Impulse

The Advocate

Being Human

Bhaji on the Beach

Bodies, Rest & Motion

Body of Evidence

Boiling Point

Born Yesterday

Boxing Helena

Calendar

Calendar Girl

Caro diario

Chain of Desire

Clean, Shaven

Combination Platter

Cool Runnings

The Crush

Dark at Noon

The Dark Half

Deadfall

Ethan Frome

A Far Off Place

Farewell, My Concubine

Fearless

Femme Fatale

Flesh and Bone

For Love or Money

Gettysburg

Hear No Evil

Heart and Souls

Household Saints

Indecent Proposal

The Innocent

Into the West

Jack the Bear

Judgment Night

Kalifornia

Life with Mikey

Lost in Yonkers

Mac

Mad Dog and Glory

Madadayo

Magnificat

Malice

The Man Without a Face

Man’s Best Friend

Map of the Human Heart

Married To It

Mrs. Doubtfire

Mr. Wonderful

Money for Nothing

Morning Glory

Mother’s Boys

The Music of Chance

My Favorite Season

My Life

Needful Things

The Night We Never Met

Olivier, Olivier

A Perfect World

The Pickle

Point of No Return

The Program

The Pros and Cons of Breathing

The Puppetmaster

Raining Stones

Ruby in Paradise

The Sandlot

The Secret Rapture

Sins of the Night

Six Degrees of Separation

Snapdragon

Sommersby

Splitting Heirs

Stefano Quantestorie

Striking Distance

The Summer House

This Boy’s Life

Tombstone

Undercover Blues

Untamed Heart

What’s Love Got to Do with It

Where the Rivers Flow North

The Young Americans

Best/Favorite Films of 1994

1. The Hudsucker Proxy

2. Three Colors: Red

2. Three Colors: White

4. Barcelona

5. Burnt by the Sun

6. Quiz Show

7. Eat Drink Man Woman

8. Lamerica

9. Ed Wood

10. Pulp Fiction

11. Wolf

12. Widows’ Peak

13. Vanya on 42nd Street

14. The Shadow

15. It Could Happen to You

16. The Shawshank Redemption

17. Disclosure

Beverly Hills Cop III

Black Beauty

Blue Chips

Bullets Over Broadway

Clear and Present Danger

Color of Night

Forrest Gump

Immortal Beloved

In the Mouth of Madness

The Lion King

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Maverick

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

A Pure Formality

Rapa Nui

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

Shallow Grave

To Live

——— still need to see:

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Amateur

Angie

Art Deco Detective

Backbeat

Bad Girls

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Before the Rain

Being Human

Blink

Blown Away

Blue Sky

The Browning Version

Bulletproof Heart

A Business Affair

Camilla

Car 54, Where are You?

Carolina at Midnight

China Moon

Chungking Express

Clean Slate

The Client

Cobb

Crooklyn

Death and the Maiden

Double Happiness

Dragstrip Girl

8 Seconds

L’Enfer

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Exotica

The Favor

Golden Gate

A Good Man in Africa

Greedy

Grosse Fatigue (Dead Tired)

I.Q.

I Love Trouble

I’ll Do Anything

Imaginary Crimes

Inevitable Grace

The Inkwell

Intersection

Interview With the Vampire

It Runs in the Family

Jimmy Hollywood

The Jungle Book

The Last Seduction

Legends of the Fall

Little Women

Love Affair

Miracle on 34th Street

Mixed Nuts

Muriel’s Wedding

My Life’s in Turnaround

Naked in New York

Nell

The New Age

Nobody’s Fool

North

Oleanna

Only You

PCU

The Pagemaster

The Paper

A Passion to Kill

Playmaker

Pontiac Moon

Pret-a-Porter

Princess Caraboo

Queen Margot

Radioland Murders

Rampo (The Mystery of…)

Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker

Red Rock West

The Ref

Renaissance Man

Second Best

The Secret of Roan Inish

The Secret Rapture

Silent Fall

Silent Tongue

A Simple Twist of Fate

Sirens

Spanking the Monkey

Speechless

Talk

Terminal Velocity

There Goes My Baby

Threesome

Through the Olive Trees

Trapped in Paradise

Traps

Trial by Jury

The War

Whale Music

When a Man Loves a Woman

Witch Hunt

With Honors

Wyatt Earp

Best/Favorite Films of 1995

1. Braveheart

2. Twelve Monkeys

3. Kicking and Screaming

4. A Little Princess

5. Sense and Sensibility

6. Rendezvous in Paris

7. Nelly et M. Arnaud

8. Heat

9. Beyond Rangoon

10. Mighty Aphrodite

11. Smoke

12. Devil in a Blue Dress

12. The Usual Suspects

14. Before Sunrise

15. The City of Lost Children

16. The Horseman on the Roof

Apollo 13

Batman Forever

Casino

Casper

La Ceremonie

Clockers

Copycat

Don Juan DeMarco

The Fantasticks

GoldenEye

Jade

Sabrina

Safe

Seven

To Die For

The Underneath

Village of the Damned

———– still need to see:

The American President

Angels and Insects

An Awfully Big Adventure

Beyond the Clouds

Blue in the Face

The Blue Villa

Carrington

Circle of Friends

Coldblooded

Congo

The Convent (O Convento)

The Crossing Guard

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Empire Records

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain

Fallen Angels

First Knight

Flamenco

Forget Paris

French Kiss

Funny Bones

Get Shorty

Gold Diggers

Homage

Home for the Holiday

Jefferson in Paris

Jumanji

Leaving Las Vegas

Living in Oblivion

Lord of Illusions

Magic in the Water

Miami Rhapsody

A Midwinter’s Tale

Moonlight and Valentino

Mute Witness

The Net

Never Talk to Strangers

Nick of Time

Nine Months

Picture Bride

Restoration

Rob Roy

The Run of the Country

Search and Destroy

Shanghai Triad

The Star Maker

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

Steal Big, Steal Little

Strange Days

Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead

Three Wishes

Two Bits

Ulysses’ Gaze

Under the Hula Moon

Underground

Virtuosity

A Walk in the Clouds

While You Were Sleeping

The White Balloon

Wild Bill

Best/Favorite Films of 1996

1. Breaking the Waves

2. Jerry Maguire

3. Bottle Rocket

4. Fargo

5. Lone Star

5. A Summer’s Tale

7. Hamlet

8. The Whole Wide World

9. Evita

10. Hard Eight

11. Sling Blade

12. That Thing You Do!

13. Flirting with Disaster

14. Big Night

15. Kansas City

Fly Away Home

The Frighteners

Grace of My Heart

Mission: Impossible

Stealing Beauty

———- films I haven’t seen yet, but look promising:

L’Appartement

At Full Gallop

Citizen Ruth

City Hall

Dragonheart

Ed’s Next Movie

The Elective Affinities

The English Patient

Hamsun

James and the Giant Peach

The King of Masks

Michael Collins

The Pompatus of Love

Ponette

The Portrait of a Lady

La Promesse

Ridicule

Shall We Dance

Sleepers

The Spitfire Grill

Star Trek: First Contact

Throwing Down

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

Trees Lounge

The Van

The Wind in the Willows