Favorite Movies of the 90's: Wrap-Up, Page 2

THE SMOKE's 50 FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 90's: WRAP-UP

THE INDIVIDUAL LISTS

john cribbs

1/One False Move

2/Naked

3/[safe]

4/La cérémonie

5/Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

6/A Brighter Summer Day

7/Miami Blues

8/Darkness Light Darkness

9/Matinee

10/The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

11/Out of Sight

12/Cemetery Man

13/Lessons of Darkness

14/Surviving Desire

15/The Butcher Boy

16/The Grifters

17/Rushmore

18/Sátántangó

19/Beau Travail

20/Spanking the Monkey

21/Chameleon Street

22/Days of Being Wild

23/Bitter Moon

24/The Second Civil War

25/Charisma

26/Black Robe

27/Clockers

28/Crash

29/The Quince Tree Dream

30/Belfast Maine

31/Devil in a Blue Dress

32/The Frighteners

33/Trust

34/The General

35/Three Kings

36/Small Soldiers

37/Total Recall

38/Dead Man

39/Gremlins 2: The New Batch

40/The Long Kiss Goodnight

41/The Rapture

42/To Sleep with Anger

43/The Miracle

44/The Last Days of Disco

45/Festen (The Celebration)

46/Funny Games

47/Henry Fool

48/Poison

49/Life is Sweet

50/Heavenly Creatures

51/Cure

52/Clerks

53/The Eel

54/See the Sea

55/Barcelona

56/Faust

57/The Limey

58/Basket Case 2

59/Last Night

60/What Happened Was...

61/The Reflecting Skin

62/Unforgiven

63/Out for Justice

64/Starship Troopers

65/Hardware

66/Ed Wood

67/Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

68/The Thin Red Line

69/Betty

70/The Ninth Gate

71/Hana-bi

72/Agantuk (The Visitor)

73/A Simple Plan

74/Basket Case 3

75/I Come in Peace

Good shot at making the next 25: 71 Fragments in a Chronology of Chance, American Movie, Benny's Video, The Big Lebowski, Body Snatchers, Braindead/Dead Alive, Breaking the Waves, A Brief History of Time, Casino, Conspirators of Pleasure, Crumb, The Crying Game, Cube, Cyclo, Ed Wood, Exorcist III, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Full Contact, Galaxy Quest, Grosse Pointe Blank, Happy Together, Hard Boiled, He Got Game, Heat, Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, The Hudsucker Proxy, In the Company of Men, In the Mouth of Madness, The Insider, Kamikaze Taxi, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Last of the Mohicans, Maborosi, Madadayo, Malcolm X, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Metropolitan, The Most Terrible Time in My Life, Mother Night, Naked Lunch, Nenette et Boni, Quiz Show, The Rocketeer, Schizopolis, Secrets and Lies, La Sentinelle, Shadows and Fog, Shakes the Clown, Simple Men, The Stendhal Syndrome, The Straight Story, The Sweet Hereafter, Swordsman 2, Tremors, Vincent and Theo, Welcome to the Dollhouse, When It Rains, When We Were Kings, The Woman Chaser, Your Friends and Neighbors

Couldn't trust myself - movies I have an undeniable fondness of and/or nostalgia for that I couldn't convince myself deserved a place on the list: The Adjuster, Barton Fink, Big Night, Bound, Delicatessen, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Dreams, Exotica, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Last Seduction, Leon (The Professional), Miller's Crossing, Nikita, The Piano, The Player, Point Break, Prospero's Books, Quick Change, Red Rock West, Reservoir Dogs, The Secret of Roan Inish, Showgirls, Slacker, Smoke, Swimming with Sharks, Underground, The Underground Comedy Movie

90's films I haven't seen (mostly due to unavailibility): The Blade, Cabeza de vaca, Coming to Terms with Death, A Confucion Confusion, The Garden, Jacquot, Labyrinth of Dreams, License to Live, Mahjong, My Sex Life, Open Doors, Ratcatcher (I've since seen it), Tokyo Fist, Train of Shadows, Eric Rohmer's Tale of Four Seasons

Films not considered "90's" after some debate, that absolutely would have made my list: Claire Dolan, Color of Lies, The Seventh Continent, The Vanishing

After finishing my list, I realized I had forgotten to include a single animated film. I don't know how that slipped my mind, but it was too late to put 'em on so, just for the record - A Close Shave, The Iron Giant, Perfect Blue, Toy Story and The Wrong Trousers are all stupendous.

chris funderburg

Compiling a "Best of" list is a pointless task. I like these movies, feel free to disagree. I'm not trying to antagonize you by not liking the movies you like and don't I mean to say that these films are more Important Artistic Achievements than Oscar Winner, Consensus Classic, Critical Darling, Cult Favorite and Sweeping Biopic. Those are all important films, without a doubt. Surely the Best of the Decade. I prefer these.

1. Naked

2. Faust

3. Miami Blues

4. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred Leucther, Jr.

5. A Brighter Summer Day

6. Out of Sight

7. Rushmore

8. La cérémonie

9. Days of Being Wild

10. Surviving Desire

11. Sanctus

12. Beau Travail

13. Public Housing

14. The Wrong Trousers

15. Lessons of Darkness

16. Poison

17. Audition

18. The Limey

19. One False Move

20. Before Sunrise

21. The Butcher Boy

22. Gremlins 2

23. Pony Glass

24. Babe: The Gallant Pig

25. Black Robe

26. Autumn Tale

27. Life is Sweet

28. Three Kings

29. The Crying Game

30. Safe

31. Princess Monoke

32. The Eel

33. Henry Fool

34. Devil in a Blue Dress

35. In the Company of Men

36. The Iron Giant

37. Clockers

38. Toy Story

39. Crash

40. Swordsman 2 (Legend of the Swordsman)

41. Satantango

42. The Big Lebowski

43. The Quince Tree Sun (Dream of Light)

44. Funny Games

45. Barcelona

46. The Sweet Hereafter

47. Drunken Master 2 (Legend of the Drunken Master)

48. Cemetery Man

49. Total Recall

50. Chameleon Street

51. Out for Justice

52. The Miracle

53. Small Soldiers

54. Spanking the Monkey

55. Basket Case 3

56. Basket Case 2

57. Unforgiven

58. Crooklyn

59. Schizopolis

60. The Insider

61. Dead Man

62. What Happened Was...

63. Last Night

64. The Winslow Boy

65. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

66. Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer

67. Shakes the Clown

68. The Grifters

69. May Fools

70. A Brief History of Time

71. Quiz Show

72. Breaking the Waves

73. Heavenly Creatures

74. Secrets and Lies

75. The Celebration

I couldn't do it, I just couldn't pull the trigger: Nenette and Boni, Clerks, Henry and June, Vanya on 42nd Street, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Last Seduction, Lone Star, Barton Fink, A Winter's Tale, The Nasty Girl, The Bad Lieutenant, To Sleep with Anger, Hard Boiled, Glengary Glen Ross, A Perfect World, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Microcosmos, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Happy Together, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Fearless, The Piano, Summer of Sam, Fist of Legend, Slacker, Dead Man Walking, Malcolm X, The Straight Story, Your Friends and Neighbors.

Too much Hal Hartley and Mike Leigh, had to cut something: Simple Men, Trust, Topsy-Turvy.

Film I thought about more than any other how to rate and couldn't come up with an answer: Matinee. I love Matinee. I feel love for that movie. The ending gets a lot fucking ridiculous and comes awful close undermining the best aspects of the movie.

Film I have the most conflicted feelings about being on my list: The Big Lebowski.

Great horror movies I can't justify forcing masterpieces like Public Housing and Autumn Tale off my list: Castle Freak, Tremors, Frankenhooker, The Stendhal Syndrome, Army of Darkness, Brain Dead (a.k.a. Dead Alive), Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Candyman.

Also, I like comedies: Mallrats, Billy Madison, Bob Roberts, There's Something About Mary, Zero Effect, Kingpin, Fear of a Black Hat, Wayne's World, JFK, Office Space, Galaxy Quest. You tell me what I should take off of my list to put them on there.

No, I didn't forget about: Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects, Hoop Dreams, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Seven, Fight Club, Fargo or The Thin Red Line.

Films it is outrageous that are mentioned on "Best of the 90's" lists: Eyes Wide Shut, La Belle Noiseuse, Forrest Gump, The Ice Storm, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Election, Kundun.

ian loffill

1. An Angel at My Table (1990, Jane Campion)

2. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)

3. The Match Factory Girl (1990, Aki Kaurismaki)

4. Kissed (1996, Lynne Stopkewich)

5. In the Mouth of Madness (1994, John Carpenter)

6. Perfect Blue (1997, Satoshi Kon)

7. Crash (1996, David Cronenberg)

8. Last Night (1998, Don McKellar)

9. The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998, Stuart Gordon)

10. Betty (1992, Claude Chabrol)

11. Whisper of the Heart (1995, Yoshifumi Kondo)

12. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, Joe Dante)

13. Out for Justice (1991, John Flynn)

14. The Long Day Closes (1992, Terence Davies)

15. The Grifters (1990, Stephen Frears)

16. Deconstructing Harry (1997, Woody Allen)

17. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994, Aki Kaurismaki)

18. Audition (1999/2000, Takashi Miike)*

19. Henry Fool (1997, Hal Hartley)

20. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)

21. Safe (1995, Todd Haynes)

22. Hana-Bi (1997, Takeshi Kitano)

23. See the Sea (1997, Francois Ozon)

24. Celebrity (1998, Woody Allen)

25. Frankenhooker (1990, Frank Henenlotter)

26. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)

27. Toy Story 2 (1999, John Lasseter, Ash Brannon & Lee Unkrich)

28. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996, Jan Svankmajer)

29. The Stendhal Syndrome (1996, Dario Argento)

30. Miami Blues (1990, George Armitage)

31. I Hired a Contract Killer (1990, Aki Kaurismaki)

32. Buffalo 66 (1998, Vincent Gallo)

33. Metropolitan (1990, Whit Stillman)

34. Naked Lunch (1991, David Cronenberg)

35. Batman Returns (1992, Tim Burton)

36. Spanking the Monkey (1994, David O. Russell)

37. Orson Welles: The One Man Band (1995, Vassili Siolvic & Oja Kodar)

38. New Rose Hotel (1998, Abel Ferrara)

39. Festen (1998, Thomas Vinterberg)

40. Drifting Clouds (1996, Aki Kaurismaki)

41. Total Recall (1990, Paul Verhoeven)

42. La cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol)

43. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995, Todd Solondz)

44. In the Company of Men (1997, Neil LaBute)

45. The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch)

46. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)

47. Forgotten Silver (1995, Peter Jackson & Costa Botes)

48. Ratcatcher (1999, Lynne Ramsay)

49. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994, Michael Haneke)

50. Waiting for Guffman (1996, Christopher Guest)

51. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick)

52. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)

53. The General (1998, John Boorman)

54. Damage (1992, Louis Malle)

55. Surviving Desire (1991, Hal Hartley)

56. Bitter Moon (1992, Roman Polanski)

57. Princess Mononoke (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)

58. Body Snatchers (1993, Abel Ferrara)

59. Death in Brunswick (1991, John Ruane)

60. A Tale of Springtime (1990, Eric Rohmer)

61. To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou)

62. Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995, John McTiernan)

63. Breakdown (1997, Jonathan Mostow)

64. City of Industry (1997, John Irvin)

65. The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan)

66. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)

67. Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)

68. Escape from L.A. (1996, John Carpenter)

69. Defending Your Life (1991, Albert Brooks)

70. Night on Earth (1991, Jim Jarmusch)

71. One False Move (1992, Carl Franklin)

72. A Simple Plan (1998, Sam Raimi)

73. The Quince Tree Sun (1992, Victor Erice)

74. Three Colours: White (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)

75. Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

I'm not sure if Audition qualifies for this list. According to imdb the film was shown at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 1999 but reached much of the rest of the world after the turn of the century.

I have to admit I did struggle a bit to reach the grand total of 75 choices. I wouldn't consider the 1990s a vintage decade for films, hence the inclusion of what some might consider minor or lesser works by some of my favourite filmmakers.

I've probably missed out or forgotten several obvious choices. Some of the films included here I haven't seen since I was a teenager so in certain cases it could be an unreliable memory that has won them a spot on the list.

marcus pinn

1. PULP FICTION

2. SAFE

3. BEAU TRAVAIL

4. GOODFELLAS

5. THE THIN RED LINE

6. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

7. MALCOLM X

8. BOYZ N THE HOOD

9. NAKED

10. SECRETS & LIES

11. BREAKING THE WAVES

12. THE TASTE OF CHERRY

13. TOY STORY

14. THE BIG LEBOWSKI

15. POISON

16. RUSHMORE

17. LA HAINE

18. HARD BOILED

19. SLACKER

20. RESERVOIR DOGS

21. BARTON FINK

22. HEAT

23. TOPSY TURVY

24. EUROPA

25. CASINO

26. BOOGIE NIGHTS

27. THE PLAYER

28. THE INSIDER

29. NEW JACK CITY

30. LA CERAMONIE

31. LIFE IS SWEET

32. 71 FRAGMENTS IN A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE

33. JUNGLE FEVER

34. THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE

35. WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

36. THE CELEBRATION

37. THE STRAIGHT STORY

38. HAPPINESS

39. BENNY'S VIDEO

40. CHAMELEON STREET

41. HOOP DREAMS

42. IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

43. BUFFALO 66

44. WILD AT HEART

45. CHUNGKING EXPRESS

46. NAKED LUNCH

47. WHAT HAPPENED WAS...

48. RATCATCHER

49. DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS

50. SIMPLE MEN

51. SE7EN

52. ED WOOD

53. BAD LIEUTENANT

54. LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY

55. TRUST

56. DEAD MAN

57. MO BETTA BLUES

58. LOST HIGHWAY

59. CRASH

60. CLOCKERS

61. HENRY FOOL

62. MILLER CROSSING

63. SHORT CUTS

64. MENACE II SOCIETY

65. NO FEAR, NO DIE

66. JACKIE BROWN

67. KIDS

68. GUMMO

69. SMOKE

70. NIL BY MOUTH

71. THE LIMEY

72. NENETTE & BONI

73. NIGHT ON EARTH

74. SPANKING THE MONKEY

75. SCHIZOPOLIS

Pinn's Post-List Reflection:

I could go on and on about how disappointed I am that The Big Lebowski, Happiness, The Player and other great films from the 90's didn't make the cut, but this list was such an alternative breath of fresh air I really can't complain too much. Two of my all time favorite films - Safe and Beau Travail - made the Top 5, Buffalo 66 actually made the list and Hal Hartley got some long overdue recognition in a decade where he often gets overlooked. Putting aside all the work, writing and ranking that went into creating this list, you really can't hate on the eclectic group of films we managed to come up with. Now that we're all done, it's kind of refreshing to look back and know that there's a comprehensive 90's movie list out there that doesn't feature stuff like Casino, Reservoir Dogs or Shawshank Redemption. Yes, I'm aware that two of those three were on my personal list, but it's because of films like those that stuff like Henry Fool, In The Company of Men, Crash and Poison get overlooked and/or forgotten about. I had a feeling the Top 10 would turn out the way it did, although I was pleasantly surprised to see La cérémonie show up so high. Besides the low ranking of Pulp Fiction and the high ranking of Gremlins 2, I wasn't all that shocked. Given everyone's taste, I knew this would be a Michael Mann/Hal Hartley/Michael Haneke/Claire Denis/Todd Haynes-friendly list with a few fun unexpected curveballs here n' there.

But I do have a couple of issues that I can't let go...I'm happy that Clockers (Spike Lee's most underrated and misunderstood film next to Bamboozled) was included, but I do think this list could have made room for at least one more Spike Lee film. Please understand that I almost didn't even want to bring this up because it would make me look like such a cliché: the one black guy in the bunch complaining about the lack of Spike Lee movies. I'm not some mindlessly blind Spike Lee fan who likes his movies simply because I'm Black and he's Black (let's not kid ourselves, those fans do exist.) In fact, the insecure black person inside me avoids talking about him whenever I can as he's always the go-to topic of conversation people feel they need to bring up with me when they discover I'm a black person who happens to love cinema, as if the only way to relate to me is to bring up a black filmmaker – "Oh, you must really love Spike Lee, huh?!" I haven't even been a fan of his for over a decade. But Lee was one of the most prominent and important filmmakers during the first half of the 90's (with the exception of Crooklyn and Girl 6.) If you couldn't find a place for Malcolm X (which does have quite a few flaws and imperfections that I think a lot of people are afraid to call out for fear of being called racist) then why not Jungle Fever? It's a pretty powerful film with many layers to it besides just the taboos of interracial relationships: go back and watch the final scene with Halle Berry, or Samuel Jackson's performance as Gator. It's difficult to separate his overbearing, borderline A-hole, napoleon complex, glasses & baseball cap persona from his work sometimes, and I also know that in the last decade Spike's (big) mouth has been more popular than his films, but that doesn't erase the huge dent he made on cinema between Mo Betta Blues and Clockers.

The absence of Goodfellas also gets under my skin a little bit (this is kind of ironic as I just finished complaining about the lack of Spike Lee films and now I'm complaining about a film featuring openly racist characters. Go figure...) The older I get, the more I dislike films that idolize bad people, but Goodfellas is more than just some 'mob movie" in my opinion. But just like the cinema of Quentin Tarantino in the 90's, Goodfellas' influence on cinema, and pop culture all together, kind of turned out to be bad (although there was a nice reference to the Copa scene in the overrated Swingers.) A lot of what I said about Pulp Fiction actually applies to Goodfellas - this is an excellent film that people usually like for the wrong reasons. I know what it's like to love a film that's generally loved by morons (Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, etc.) but don't penalize Goodfellas because some people don't know how to appreciate good cinema. You also shouldn't penalize and exclude Goodfellas just because its director is responsible for recent disappointments like The Departed, Shutter Island and The Aviator. I know Scorsese's appeal isn't the same as it was 20 years ago, but this isn't about Scorsese's entire body of work and the number of times he may have let us down in recent years. It's about the 90's and Goodfellas is a staple of 90's cinema in my opinion. Other than that I really have no complaints. Plus I was given the opportunity to write about What Happened Was... (a great film from the 90's that got snubbed) on this very site so I'm good. It was a pleasure to take part in this.

stu steimer

Generating this list of the 75 best films of the 1990's was apparently much more difficult than I had initially realized, which is why it took me so long to do it – that and my general laziness and unwillingness to do much of anything besides the most basic of human functions. I don't generally think of the 90's as a new golden age of cinema (well, it certainly is compared to the years beyond 2000 - which would prove difficult to create a list this long for completely opposite reasons), but I feel like I could have easily gone to 150 films, or produced a completely alternative list given a different day or state of mind. It became extremely difficult to narrow this down, and many alternative titles which made it into the original creation(s) had to later, regrettably, be omitted. At one point or another titles like Rosetta, Terminator 2, Little Odessa, Sonatine, My Own Private Idaho, Reflecting Skin, Fargo, The Straight Story, Wild at Heart, Your Friends & Neighbors, Humanite, Bad Boy Bubby, Bleeder, etc. had all been included in the original top 75 line-up. They are no longer, again regrettably. Five minutes after I submit this I know I am going to have a change of heart for a number of titles and wish I probably should have selected different ones instead/included less/included more. But so it goes.

Regrettably still there is a long list of other "big" films that I must admit, shame-faced, that I have not seen (I can prophesize already that this is going to be the only Pink Smoke list that does not include something like Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet – and it is for that very reason.)

I tried to create the most eclectic list I could – combining documentary, mainstream and slightly obscurer independent and lesser known films – without going overboard and being contrarian for the sake of being different. Each of these films has a reason for being here, even if those reasons are may not be as apparent to some (I dare anyone to sit and watch the Little Marines films – two extremely low-budget, ineptly produced straight-to-video family entertainment features – and not be completely mystified by its unintentional command of surrealist absurdity.)

As a matter of simplicity I chose to go strictly by the dates of the films as listed on IMDb or Wikipedia. Films like Santa Sangre and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover would have definitely made the cut, and maybe rightfully should have been as both their American distribution dates did not come until 1990, but had to be omitted because their production dates as listed on the aforementioned online resources was 1989.

75. Dadetown (1995. Russ Hexter)

74. Delicate Art of the Rifle (1996. Dante Harper)

73. Hands on a Hardbody (1997. S.R. Bindler)

72. Falling Down (1992. Joel Schumacher)

71. Little Marines 1 & 2 (1991-92. A.J. Hixon)

70. Goodfellas (1990. Martin Scorsese)

69. Point Break (1991. Kathryn Bigelow)

68. Trust (1990. Hal Hartley)

67. Short Cuts (1993. Robert Altman)

66. Two Small Bodies (1993. Beth B.)

65. Julien Donkey-Boy (1999. Harmony Korine)

64. Miami Blues (1990. George Armitage)

63. Twelve Monkeys (1995. Terry Gilliam)

62. The Eel (1997. Shohei Imamura)

61. Blood in the Face (1991. Anne Bohlen/Kevin Rafferty/James Ridgeway)

60. Animal Love (1995. Ulrich Seidl)

59. Reservoir Dogs (1991. Quentin Tarantino)

58. Lost Highway (1997. David Lynch)

57. The Sweet Hereafter (1997. Atom Egoyan)

56. Henry Fool (1997. Hal Hartley)

55. Ravenous (1999. Antonia Bird)

54. I Hired a Contract Killer (1990. Aki Kaurismaki)

53. Relics: Einstein’s Brain (1994. Kevin Hull)

52. Night on Earth (1991. Jim Jarmusch)

51. La cérémonie (1995. Claude Chabrol)

50. The Thin Red Line (1998. Terrence Malick)

49. Unforgiven (1992. Clint Eastwood)

48. Lessons of Darkness (1992. Werner Herzog)

47. Man Bites Dog (1992. Remy Belvaux/Andre Bonzel/Benoit Poelvoorde)

46. Naked Lunch (1991. David Cronenberg)

45. 71 Fragments in a Chronology of Chance (1994. Michael Haneke)

44. I Stand Alone (1998. Gaspar Noe)

43. Hana-Bi (1997. Takeshi Kitano)

42. Brother's Keeper (1992. Joe Berlinger/Bruce Sinofsky)

41. The Apostle (1997. Robert Duvall)

40. The Butcher Boy (1998. Neil Jordan)

39. Magnolia (1999. Paul Thomas Anderson)

38. Crumb (1994. Terry Zwigoff)

37. Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999. Matthew Bright)

36. The Insider (1999. Michael Mann)

35. Pulp Fiction (1994. Quentin Tarantino)

34. Dust Devil (1992. Richard Stanley)

33. Ratcatcher (1999. Lynne Ramsay)

32. Paradise Lost (1995. Joe Berlinger/Bruce Sinofsky)

31. Clean, Shaven (1993. Lodge Kerrigan)

30. Match-Factory Girl (1990. Aki Kaurismaki)

29. The Last Seduction (1994. John Dahl)

28. Buffalo '66 (1997. Vincent Gallo)

27. Satantango (1994. Bela Tarr)

26. Happiness (1998. Todd Solondz)

25. Safe (1995. Todd Haynes)

24. Monster in a Box (1993. Nick Broomfield)

23. Eyes Wide Shut (1999. Stanley Kubrick)

22. Miller's Crossing (1991. Joel & Ethan Coen)

21. Twin Peaks: Series Pilot (1990. David Lynch)

20. After Dark, My Sweet (1990. James Foley)

19. Nil by Mouth (1998. Gary Oldman)

18. Celebration (1998. Thomas Vinterberg)

17. Silence of the Lambs (1991. Jonathan Demme)

16. Gummo (1997. Harmony Korine)

15. Hard Eight (1996. Paul Thomas Anderson)

14. Sling Blade/Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade (1996/1994. Billy Bob Thornton/ George Hickenlooper)

13. Glengarry, Glen Ross (1992. James Foley)

12. Se7en (1995. David Fincher)

11. In the Company of Men (1997. Neil LaBute)

10. Beau Travail (1999. Claire Denis)

9. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995. Todd Solondz)

8. Jackie Brown (1997. Quentin Tarantino)

7. Van Gogh (1991. Maurice Pialat)

6. Breaking the Waves (1996. Lars Von Trier)

5. Barton Fink (1991. Joel & Ethan Coen)

4. The Rapture (1991. Michael Tolkin)

3. Bad Lieutenant (1992. Abel Ferrara)

2. Naked (1993. Mike Leigh)

1. Boogie Nights (1997. Paul Thomas Anderson)

APPENDIX

8 BEST PIE FLAVORS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA

1. banana coconut cream pie (Costa Rica)

2. Nicaraguan peanut butter

3. Belizean coconut

4. Panamanian pie de limon

5. Guatemalan squash

6. yucca pie (Honduras)

7. Cuban fried apple

8. papaw upside-down cake (El Salvador)

(had to cheat on those last two)

Note: these selected flavors were not voted upon and do not reflect the tastes of most of the 'smoke collaborators

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