The Online Film Critics Society releases its list of the Top Overlooked Films of the 1990s. I guess I scored highly on this test, since I overlooked 97 of the 100. Here they are, with the ones I’ve seen in bold:
- Miller’s Crossing
- Safe
- The Sweet Hereafter
- Lone Star
- Heavenly Creatures
- Waiting for Guffman
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- Babe: Pig in the City
- Dead Man
- Fearless
- Bound
- Chungking Express
- The Straight Story
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
- Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
- That Thing You Do!
- Dead Again
- Sneakers
- Zero Effect
- The Butcher Boy
- Truly, Madly, Deeply
- In the Company of Men
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- The Red Violin
- Cemetery Man
- Hamlet
- Breakdown
- Welcome to the Dollhouse
- The Apostle
- Eve’s Bayou
- Hard Eight
- Defending Your Life
- A Little Princess
- Bringing Out the Dead
- Hana-Bi (Fireworks)
- Jacob’s Ladder
- The Spanish Prisoner
- Pump Up the Volume
- Beautiful Girls
- The Double Life of Veronique
- Very Bad Things
- Richard III
- October Sky
- Strange Days
- My Neighbor Totoro
- L.A. Story
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- A Bronx Tale
- The Limey
- A Perfect World
- Before Sunrise
- Bob Roberts
- Dick
- Raise the Red Lantern
- One False Move
- The Ref
- Exotica
- Sonatine
- Joe Versus the Volcano
- Matinee
- The Ice Storm
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Croupier
- The Winslow Boy
- Girl on the Bridge
- Bullet in the Head
- Darkman
- Cannibal! The Musical
- Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
- Smoke
- The Last Days of Disco
- Fresh
- Eye of God
- Flirting with Disaster
- Bottle Rocket
- Ashes of Time
- Fallen Angels
- Great Expectations
- Kundun
- A Midnight Clear
- Deep Cover
- Ravenous
- Twin Falls, Idaho
- The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Quick Change
- The Secret of Roan Inish
- Beloved
- Big Night
- Topsy-Turvy
- Living in Oblivion
- Jesus’ Son
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Chaplin
- Dead Alive
- Jude
- Cradle Will Rock
- Proof
- The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
- Titus
- Mystery Men
I expect anyone reading this blog to have scored lower.
Except that your wife has 9 of them under her belt (which sits below the belly these days).
hln
I’ve seen six, for what it’s worth (which isn’t much).
Jokes on me, when I originally posted it, I thought the HTML was not working properly, as I couldn’t see the bolded entries. Not only are they few and far between, but they also start significantly down the list.
I’ve seen eight. I liked the ones I saw, and have little interest in the others.
5:
Searching for Bobby Fischer – good if you like chess
Jacob’s Ladder – :-(
Darkman – a bit comic-bookish, and Liam Neeson’s acting was weak, but I liked it.
The People vs. Larry Flynt – :-(
Dead Alive – tremendous camp value
What does it mean if i’ve never even heard of any of these films before???