Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1994

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1994.

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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1994

Three Colors: Red
Pulp Fiction
Three Colors: White
Chungking Express*
Exotica*
Quiz Show
Hoop Dreams
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Secret of Roan Inish*
Nobody’s Fool
To Live
Vanya on 42nd Street
Bullets Over Broadway
Eat Drink Man Woman
Burnt by the Sun*
The Kingdom
Before the Rain*
Ed Wood
Nadja
Natural Born Killers
Heavenly Creatures
The Professional (Leon: The Professional)
What Happened Was…
The Madness of King George
Interview with the Vampire

Barcelona
The Shawshank Redemption
Speed
Shallow Grave
Queen Margot
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Il Postino*
Immortal Beloved
The Mask
Crumb*
Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear)
Clerks
Amateur
Black Beauty
Tom and Viv
Swimming with Sharks
Death and the Maiden

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1994

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke) A Great Day in Harlem Ashes of Time Barcelona Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai) Blue Chips (William Friedkin) Blush (Li Shaohong) Body Snatchers Caro diario Chartres Series Clean, Shaven Coming To Terms With The Dead (Pascale Ferran) Country Life Crooklyn (Spike Lee) Dieu sait quoi Double Happiness Ermo Farinelli: Il Castrato Faust (Jan Svankmajer) Fear of a Black Hat (Rusty Cundieff) Freedom on My Mind Fresh (Boaz Yakin) Fun Go Fish (Rose Troche) Guarding Tess I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis) I Like it Like That (Darnell Martin) I.Q. I’ll Do Anything (James L. Brooks) Imaginary Crimes In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter) Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette) Joan the Maid: The Battles Joan the Maid: The Prisons Ladybird Ladybird Lamerica (Gianni Amelio) L’Enfer (Claude Chabrol) Like Two Crocodiles Little Big League Little Odessa (James Gray) Little Women London Lucky Break (Ben Lewin) Mina Tannenbaum Moving the Mountain Muriel’s Wedding No Escape (Martin Campbell) NYC 3/94 (Hal Hartley) Oleanna (David Mamet) Once Were Warriors Only You Oublie-moi (Noemie Lvovsky) Passions (Kira Muratova) Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels (Chantal Akerman) Priest (Antonia Bird) Regarde les hommes tomber (Jacques Audiard) Rhythm Thief (Matthew Harrison) Satantango (Bela Tarr) Shopping (Paul W.S. Anderson) Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell) Speechless (Ron Underwood) Strawberry and Chocolate Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (Aki Kaurismäki) The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Color of Love (Peggy Ahwesh) The Day the Sun Turned Cold The Freethinker (Peter Watkins) The Glass Shield (Charles Burnett) The Legend of Drunken Master The Most Terrible Time in My Life The New Age The Paper The Red Book The Silences of the Palace The Unforgettable Summer (Lucian Pintilie) Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami) Uncovered (Jim McBride) Verhängnis Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang) Vukovar Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Wes Craven) Whispering Pages (Aleksandr Sokurov) Widows’ Peak Wild Reeds (Andre Techine) Windigo

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