1990: Overstreet’s Favorite Films

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1990: Overstreet’s Favorite Films 2014-07-03T22:26:07-06:00 Jeffrey Overstreet

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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.

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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 Lover
Cry Baby
The Hairdresser’s Husband
Cyrano de Bergerac
Jacob’s Ladder
The Godfather Part III
The Sheltering Sky
After Dark, My Sweet
Henry and June
Hamlet
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
La Femme Nikita
Joe Versus the Volcano
Trust
Mr. And Mrs Bridge
Vincent and Theo
Dick Tracy
Monsieur Hire
Eating

Presumed Innocent
My Father’s Glory
My Mother’s Castle
The Field
Ju Dou
The Hunt for Red October
The Grifters
Reversal of Fortune

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1990

A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer) To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett) Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost) American Dream An Angel at My Table Archangel (Guy Maddin) Autobus Avalon Awakenings Ay, Carmela! Bad Influence (Curtis Hanson) Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano) C’est la vie Daddy Nostalgia Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai) Desperate Hours (Michael Cimino) Europa Europa Everybody’s Fine (Giuseppe Tornatore) H H-2 Worker Hamlet Havana Hidden Agenda How to Live in the German Federal Republic Internal Affairs (Mike Figgis) Jacques Rivette – Le veilleur (Claire Denis and Serge Daney) Journey of Hope King of New York (Abel Ferrara) La discrete (Christian Vincent) Larks on a String Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel) Le mariage blanc (Christine Carriere) Le petit criminel (Jacques Doillon) Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh) Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones Longtime Companion Love at Large (Alan Rudolph) Men Don’t Leave (Paul Brickman) Miami Blues (George Armitage) Milou in May Mountains of the Moon No Fear, No Die No, or the Vain Glory of Command Nouvelle vague (Jean-Luc Godard) One Hour Open Doors (Gianni Amelio) Pacific Heights (John Schlesinger) Paris Is Burning Plymptoons Queen of Temple Street (Lawrence Ah Mon) Quick Change (Howard Franklin and Bill Murray) Requiem for Dominic Riff-Raff Shi no Toge Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich) Song of the Exile Stella Sure Fire (Jon Jost) Taxi Blues Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich) The Ambulance The Confession The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty) The Famine Within The Handmaid’s Tale (Volker Schlondorff) The Hot Spot (Dennis Hopper) The Krays The Long Walk Home The Madonna and the Dragon (Samuel Fuller) The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki) The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven) The Two Jakes Tilai To Sleep with Anger Tongues Untied Where the Heart Is (John Boorman) White Hunter Black Heart (Clint Eastwood) White Palace

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