Best of 1996


  1. Flirting With Disaster                                                                David O Russell
  2. Fargo                                                                                           Joel & Ethan Cohen
  3. Irma Vep                                                                                      Olivier Assayas
  4. Ridicule                                                                                       Patrice Leconte 
  5. Mother                                                                                         Albert Brooks
  6. Breaking the Waves                                                                   Lars von Trier   
  7. Trainspotting                                                                              Danny Boyle
  8. The Whole Wide World                                                              Dan Ireland
  9. Paradise Lost:...                                                       Joe Berlinger, Brian Sinofsky  
  10. Hard 8                                                                                         Paul Thomas Anderson
      Honorable Mention 

      Drifting Clouds -- Kaurismäki, Angels and Insects -- Haas, Jude -- Winterbottom,
      Beautiful Girls -- Ted Demme, La Ceremonie -- Chabrol

      Films I Enjoyed

      Mars Attacks!, Michael Collins,
      Cable Guy, Jerry Maguire
      Bottle Rocket, Crash, Bound,
      Portrait of a Lady, The Long Kiss Goodnight, 
      From Dusk Till Dawn, Scream,
      The Rock, The Birdcage, Kingpin, 
      2 Days in the Valley, Swingers, Ransom,
      The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Craft, 
      Twister, Primal Fear, Romeo + Juliet,
      The English Patient, Everyone Says I Love You, 
      Broken Arrow, That Thing You Do!

      Below the Mendoza Line

      Sling Blade, Tin Cup, 
      The First Wives Club, Stealing Beauty,
      Kansas City, The Stendahl Syndrome, 
      Evita, Happy Gilmore, The Frighteners,
      The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulholland Falls,
      The Ghost and The Darkness, Matilda, 
      Sleepers, The Island of Dr. Moreau, 
      Independence Day, Striptease,
      Black Sheep, A Time to Kill, Star Trek: First Contact, 
      Mission Impossible, The Nutty Professor, 
      Dragonheart, 101 Dalmatians, Bio-Dome, 
      Bulletproof, Eraser, Space Jam, 
      Jack, Barb Wire
                                        



   
      
                       
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