My Top 20 by Year - 1993
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 152 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Mar 2017)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Hélas pour moi (Oh, Woe Is Me; Godard, 1993)
Sonatine (Kitano, 1993)
Madadayo (Not Yet, Kurosawa, 1993)
In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!; Wenders, 1993)
Le tombeau d'Alexandre (The Last Bolshevik, Marker, 1993, doc)
Frameup (Jost, 1993)
Caro diario (Dear Diary, Moretti, 1993)
True Romance (T. Scott, 1993)
Vale Abraão (Abraham's Valley, de Oliveira, 1993)
Heaven & Earth (Stone, 1993)
Mazeppa (Bartabas, 1993)
Seopyeonje (Sopyonje, Kwon-taek Im, 1993)
La ardilla roja (The Red Squirrel, Medem, 1993)
Stalingrad (Vilsmaier, 1993)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (F. Girard, 1993)
Un, deux, trois, soleil (1, 2, 3, Sun; Blier, 1993)
King of the Hill (Soderbergh, 1993)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick, 1993)
Germinal (Berri, 1993)
Clean, Shaven (Kerrigan, 1993)
The Thief and the Cobbler (R. Williams, 1993)
Cronos (del Toro, 1993)
Bound by Honor (Hackford, 1993)
This Boy's Life (Caton-Jones, 1993)
The Joy Luck Club (W. Wang, 1993)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (Zaillian, 1993)
Menace II Society (The Hughes Brothers, 1993)
Matinee (Dante, 1993)
Red Rock West (Dahl, 1993)
Tombstone (Cosmatos, 1993)
Gettysburg (Maxwell, 1993)
Rudy (Anspaugh, 1993)
Libera me (Cavalier, 1993)
Všetko co mam rad (Everything I Like, Sulik, 1993)
The Bed You Sleep In (Jost, 1993)
Ohikkoshi (Moving, Sômai, 1993)
Romeo Is Bleeding (Medak, 1993)
Huevos de oro (Golden Balls, B. Luna, 1993)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 152 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Mar 2017)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Hélas pour moi (Oh, Woe Is Me; Godard, 1993)
Sonatine (Kitano, 1993)
Madadayo (Not Yet, Kurosawa, 1993)
In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!; Wenders, 1993)
Le tombeau d'Alexandre (The Last Bolshevik, Marker, 1993, doc)
Frameup (Jost, 1993)
Caro diario (Dear Diary, Moretti, 1993)
True Romance (T. Scott, 1993)
Vale Abraão (Abraham's Valley, de Oliveira, 1993)
Heaven & Earth (Stone, 1993)
Mazeppa (Bartabas, 1993)
Seopyeonje (Sopyonje, Kwon-taek Im, 1993)
La ardilla roja (The Red Squirrel, Medem, 1993)
Stalingrad (Vilsmaier, 1993)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (F. Girard, 1993)
Un, deux, trois, soleil (1, 2, 3, Sun; Blier, 1993)
King of the Hill (Soderbergh, 1993)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick, 1993)
Germinal (Berri, 1993)
Clean, Shaven (Kerrigan, 1993)
The Thief and the Cobbler (R. Williams, 1993)
Cronos (del Toro, 1993)
Bound by Honor (Hackford, 1993)
This Boy's Life (Caton-Jones, 1993)
The Joy Luck Club (W. Wang, 1993)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (Zaillian, 1993)
Menace II Society (The Hughes Brothers, 1993)
Matinee (Dante, 1993)
Red Rock West (Dahl, 1993)
Tombstone (Cosmatos, 1993)
Gettysburg (Maxwell, 1993)
Rudy (Anspaugh, 1993)
Libera me (Cavalier, 1993)
Všetko co mam rad (Everything I Like, Sulik, 1993)
The Bed You Sleep In (Jost, 1993)
Ohikkoshi (Moving, Sômai, 1993)
Romeo Is Bleeding (Medak, 1993)
Huevos de oro (Golden Balls, B. Luna, 1993)
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