Kind of a lackluster year overall. I feel like many of the 80’s years are going to be this way. Best Motion Picture of the Year: Wings of Desire The Last of England Full Metal Jacket Au Revoir les Enfants Maurice Where is the Friend’s House? Raising Arizona Anguish Matewan And the award goes to… […]

Best Motion Picture of the Year: Cinema Paradiso My Neighbor Totoro Chocolat Time of the Gypsies Grave of the Fireflies Alice Akira The Last Temptation of Christ On the Silver Globe Distant Voices, Still Lives And the award goes to… Grave of Fireflies! Best Achievement in Directing: Isao Takahata (Grave of Fireflies) Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema […]

Best Motion Picture of the Year: Interrogation Do the Right Thing Dekalog Santa Sangre The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover The Seventh Continent Begotten Black Rain My Left Foot Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland And the award goes to… Dekalog Best Achievement in Directing: Krzysztof Kieslowski (Dekalog) Ryszard Bugajski (Interrogation) Spike Lee […]

Best Motion Picture of the Year: Close-Up Goodfellas Miller’s Crossing King of New York Dreams The Company of Strangers Ju-Dou The Godfather: Part III The Field To Sleep with Anger And the award goes to… Goodfellas! Best Achievement in Directing: Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up) Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) Joel Coen (Miller’s Crossing) Abel Ferrara (King of New […]

New year, new films. I can say this year was much better than the pretty weak 2022. Although 22′ got a little better from the few films I was able to catch up on during this year. Still, 23′ has been at least consistent all year long. Best Picture of the Year: Killers of the […]

Best Motion Picture of the Year: Raise the Red Lantern JFK La Belle Noiseuse The Lovers on the Bridge The Double Life of Véronique Cape Fear Barton Fink Night on Earth City of Hope The Stranger And the award goes to… The Double Life of Véronique! Best Achievement in Directing: Krzysztof Kieślowski (The Double Life […]

Best Motion Picture of the Year: The Player The Long Day Closes Unforgiven Man Bites Dog Bad Lieutenant La Vie de Bohème Reservoir Dogs Howards End Porco Rosso Ghostwatch And the award goes to… The Long Day Closes! Best Achievement in Directing: Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes) Robert Altman (The Player) Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven) […]

Best Motion Picture of the Year: Madadayo Three Colors: Blue Schindler’s List The Remains of the Day Naked Blue Arizona Dream The Scent of Green Papaya The Piano Menace II Society And the award goes to… Naked! Best Achievement in Directing: Mike Leigh (Naked) Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List) James Ivory (The Remains of the Day) […]

Best Motion Picture of the Year: To Live Three Colors: Red Chungking Express Pulp Fiction Faust Death and the Maiden Vanya on 42nd Street The Shawshank Redemption Exotica Léon: The Professional And the award goes to… Pulp Fiction! Best Achievement in Directing: Yimou Zhang (To Live) Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) Jan Svankmajer (Faust) Krzysztof Kieslowski […]

Best Motion Picture of the Year: Ghost in the Shell Before Sunrise Se7en Dead Man Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life La Haine La Cérémonie Ulysses’ Gaze Heat The Usual Suspects And the award goes to… Before Sunrise! Best Achievement in Directing: David Fincher (Se7en) Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise) Mamoru Oshii (Ghost […]