Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1991

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.

Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
*** = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.**

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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 of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
La Belle Noiseuse
My Own Private Idaho
JFK
The Commitments
Grand Canyon
L.A. Story
The Adjuster
Proof
The Doors
The Addams Family
Fried Green Tomatoes
Impromptu

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1991

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang) A Little Stiff (Greg Watkins and Caveh Zahedi) A Woman’s Tale (Paul Cox) Blood Ties (Jim McBride) Boyz N the Hood Bright Angel (Michael Fields) Cheb (Rachid Bouchereb) City of Hope (John Sayles) Close My Eyes (Stephen Poliakoff) Danzon (María Novaro) Days of Being Wild Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks) Dogfight Edward II (Derek Jarman) Europa Fly High Run Far (Im Kwon-taek) And Life Goes On… (Abbas Kiarostami) Garden of Scorpions (Oleg Kovalov) Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard) Highway 61 (Bruce McDonald) Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox) Into the Woods J’ entends plus la guitare (Philippe Garrel) Jacquot de Nantes (Agnes Varda) Jungle Fever (Spike Lee) La vie des morts (Arnaud Desplechin) Let Him Have It (Peter Medak) Lovers (Vicente Aranda) Madame Bovary (Claude Chabrol) Mediterraneo Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg) Night and Day (Chantal Akerman) Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark) Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata) Paris Awakens (Olivier Assayas) Paris Trout (Stephen Gyllenhaal) Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa) Riff-Raff (Ken Loach) Rush (Lili Fini Zanuck) Sale comme une ange (Catherine Breillat) Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr) Slacker The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan) The Stranger (Satyajit Ray) Three Days (Sharunas Bartas) Tous les matins du monde Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella) Vacas (Julio Medem) Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat) What About Bob? (Frank Oz) Youngsters (Tsai Ming-liang) Zentropa (Lars Von Trier)

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