Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1993

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1993.

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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1993

Three Colors: Blue
My Neighbor Totoro*
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Naked
The Piano
In the Name of the Father
Fearless
The Remains of the Day
Schindler’s List
Grave of the Fireflies*
Ruby in Paradise
The Fugitive
King of the Hill
Short Cuts
Mad Dog and Glory
The Age of Innocence
Jurassic Park
Farewell, My Concubine
The Secret Garden
Groundhog Day
Faraway So Close!
True Romance
The Thing Called Love
Map of the Human Heart
The Snapper
The Joy Luck Club

Menace II Society
The Scent of Green Papaya
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Wedding Banquet
Carlito’s Way
Much Ado About Nothing
The Joy Luck Club
Tombstone
A Bronx Tale
The Sandlot
Kalifornia
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Shadowlands

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1993

Abraham’s Valley (Manoel de Oliveira) Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica) Bad Behaviour (Les Blair) Bad Boy Bubby Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Being Human (Bill Forsyth) Bhaji on the Beach (Gurinder Chadha) Blue (Derek Jarman) Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara) Calendar (Atom Egoyan) Caro diario (Nanni Moretti) Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan) Cronos Dazed and Confused D’Est (Chantal Akerman) Diary of a Maniac (Marco Ferreri) Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes) Flight of the Innocent Germinal Geronimo: An American Legend (Walter Hill) Gettysburg Green Snake (Tsui Hark) Helas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard) Household Saints (Nancy Savoca) Justice La Naissance de l’amour La scorta Latcho Drom (Tony Gatlif) Les histoires d’amour finissent mal… en général (Anne Fontaine) M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg) Moving (Shinji Somai) My Favorite Season (Andre Techine) Raining Stones (Ken Loach) Rebels of a Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang) Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais) Son of the Shark Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano) Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier) Strange Weather (Peggy Ahwesh) Suture (Scott McGehee and David Siegel) Tai Chi Master (Yuen Woo-ping) Tango The Ballad of Little Jo (Maggie Greenwald) The Beginning and the End (Arturo Ripstein) The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang) The Boys of St. Vincent The Cement Garden The Days (Wang Xiaoshuai) The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker) The Music of Chance (Philip Haas) The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien) The Tree, the Mayor, and the Mediatheque (Eric Rohmer) The Wrong Man (Jim McBride) The Young Werther (Jacques Doillon) Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard) Time Indefinite When Pigs Fly (Sara Driver) Whispering Pages

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