Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1992

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1992.

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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1992

The Long Day Closes
Unforgiven
A River Runs Through It
The Crying Game
Passion Fish
Into the West
Strictly Ballroom
Glengarry Glen Ross
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
The Player
Baraka
Bob Roberts
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Red Rock West
Brother’s Keeper
Husbands and Wives
Howard’s End
Enchanted April
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Patriot Games
One False Move
Batman Returns
Gas Food Lodging
Monster in a Box
Deep Cover

Malcolm X
A Midnight Clear
Un Coeur en hiver
American Heart
Leap of Faith
Reservoir Dogs
Bad Lieutenant
Of Mice and Men
Simple Men
Chaplin
Mac
Porco Rosso
Damage
Like Water for Chocolate
Waterland
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Lover

As-yet Unseen or Unrated Films of 1992

A Place in the World A Question of Attribution A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer) Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer American Me Amoureuse (Jacques Doillon)* An Independent Life Another Girl Another Planet (Michael Almereyda) Army of Darkness As You See (Harun Farocki) Barjo (Jerome Boivin) Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven) Belle Epoque Benny’s Video (Michael Haneke) Betty (Claude Chabrol) Border Line (Danièle Dubroux) Candyman Careful (Guy Maddin) Céline (Jean-Claude Brisseau) Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan) Chasing Butterflies (Otar Iosseliani) Ciao, Professore! Count Basie: Swingin’ the Blues Cousin Bobby Daens Dream of Light El Mariachi Embracing (Naomi Kawase) Equinox (Alan Rudolph) Falling from Grace Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene) Hard Boiled Hedd Wyn House of Angels Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety) In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell) Indochine Innocent Blood (John Landis) Interpolations I-V (Stan Brakhage) Jamón, jamón Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Leslie Harris) Kaivo Khuda Gawah La sentinelle (Arnaud Desplechin) La Vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki) Laws of Gravity (Nick Gomez) Le mirage (Jean-Claude Guiguet) Léolo Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog) Light Sleeper Loss is to be Expected (Ulrich Seidl) Man Bites Dog Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Memoirs of an Invisible Man (John Carpenter) Olivier, Olivier (Agnieszka Holland) On My Own Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark) Orlando Passages (Yilmaz Arslan) Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki) Prelude to a Kiss Quince Tree of the Sun (Victor Erice) Raising Cain (Brian de Palma) Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (Mark Rappaport) Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright) Savage Nights (Cyril Collard) Schtonk! Storyville Sunday’s Children The Accompanist The Best Intentions The Boys of St. Vincent’s (John N. Smith) The Fencing Master The Last Bolshevik The Last Days of Chez Nous The Living End (Gregg Araki) The Mambo Kings The Mystery of the Ferns (Rachid Malikov) The Oak (Lucian Pintilie) The Resurrected (Dan O’Bannon) The Second Heimat (Edgar Reitz) The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio) The Story of Qiu Ju The Waterdance Thunderheart Tito and Me (Goran Markovic) Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin)*

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