Films

I know shame he died, which was quite a few years ago now too i think.

I like both but Fargo is mid 90s (96), shirley?

Guess 97 was a good start to the period with Boogie nights and Jackie Brown but still think it it nose dives after then

Starship Troopers! Stone cold classic.

Pah, not a single car chase or shoot out in any of them!

Medic! Gonna put that in the half decent 97 camp

Car chase you say? Ronin! Loved that film.

American History X
Secrets and Lies
Happiness
Thesis

If we're talking fast cars blazing round France then Taxi wins every time

The Fifth Element 😍

Happiness

My kind of shootout. Good list but 2 out of the 4 are mid 90s which was an epic period

Event horizon and good will hunting were both 97 too.

Mrs M had free tickets for private screening of Black Adam, we left after 40 mins.. what pile of incoherent doo-doo

0/5

Amores Porros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries

Gael Garcia Bernal, swoon

Amores ‘Porros’ is an amusing concept.

I thought from 96 onwards?

Chipping in on Blair Witch
I was at art college shortly before it came out and we got our hands on some of those Sony DCR Handicams that had just emerged. Every Wednesday we had a short film competition between two teams where we had 6 hours to make and edit a film using these cameras based on a different theme each week.
When I saw Blair Witch, I was impressed, we’d been making attempts at using video for short films enough times to know what a feat Blair Witch was. It might not stand up so well now but technically working with the gear they used it was next level.

La Mala Educación

Somehow I always connect that one with 12 Monkeys, which I liked alot as well. Bruce Willis science fiction stuff I guess.

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?'s top 50 narrative films of Blair's first term. There's some bangers in there, but LOTR 41 spots below The Thin Red Line is nonsense.

1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai - 2000)
   
2. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, David - 2001)
   
3. Beau travail (Denis, Claire - 1999)
   
4. Yi yi (Yang, Edward - 2000)
   
5. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, Hayao - 2001)
   
6. Thin Red Line, The (Malick, Terrence - 1998)
   
7. Big Lebowski, The (Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen - 1998)
   
8. Magnolia (Anderson, Paul Thomas - 1999)
   
9. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, Stanley - 1999)
   
10. Matrix, The (Wachowski, Lana & Lilly Wachowski - 1999)
    
11. All About My Mother (Almodóvar, Pedro - 1999)
    
12. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai - 1997)
    
13. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, Béla - 2000)
    
14. Lost Highway (Lynch, David - 1997)
    
15. Platform (Jia Zhangke - 2000)
    
16. Fight Club (Fincher, David - 1999)
    
17. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, Abbas - 1997)
    
18. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, Ang - 2000)
    
19. Festen (Vinterberg, Thomas - 1998)
    
20. Boogie Nights (Anderson, Paul Thomas - 1997)
    
21. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1998)
    
22. Amélie (Jeunet, Jean-Pierre - 2001)
    
23. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, Steven - 2001)
    
24. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, Roy - 2000)
    
25. Wind Will Carry Us, The (Kiarostami, Abbas - 1999)
    
26. Royal Tenenbaums, The (Anderson, Wes - 2001)
    
27. Rosetta (Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - 1999)
    
28. In Vanda's Room (Costa, Pedro - 2000)
    
29. Rushmore (Anderson, Wes - 1998)
    
30. Y tu mamá también (Cuarón, Alfonso - 2001)
    
31. Hana-Bi (Kitano, Takeshi - 1997)
    
32. Ciénaga, La (Martel, Lucrecia - 2001)
    
33. Memento (Nolan, Christopher - 2000)
    
34. After Life (Koreeda, Hirokazu - 1998)
    
35. Titanic (Cameron, James - 1997)
    
36. Piano Teacher, The (Haneke, Michael - 2001)
    
37. Audition (Miike, Takashi - 1999)
    
38. Dancer in the Dark (von Trier, Lars - 2000)
    
39. Gummo (Korine, Harmony - 1997)
    
40. Funny Games (Haneke, Michael - 1997)
    
41. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, Steven - 1998)
    
42. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, Darren - 2000)
    
43. Mother and Son (Sokurov, Aleksandr - 1997)
    
44. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, Curtis - 1997)
    
45. Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, Baz - 2001)
    
46. River, The (Tsai Ming-liang - 1997)
    
47. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (Jackson, Peter - 2001)
    
48. Code Unknown (Haneke, Michael - 2000)
    
49. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, Paul - 1997)
    
50. Amores perros (González Iñárritu, Alejandro - 2000)
    
    

Afterlife (Wanderafuru raifu) 98
Earth (from the elements trilogy) 98
Little Voice 98
LA Confidential 97

All quiet on the western front certainly wasn't the cheery romp I was expecting. Fucking hell.

I thought it was very well made and a good reflection of Remarque's novel.

I thought it skipped key scenes for no good reason, added new scenes about politicians in case the audience was too stupid to get the idea that war is a waste of young people (something the original story does just fine), and did a poor job of character building in general.

Gave up on Black Panther II half way through. Even for Marvel candyfloss, it was almost unwatchable.

the audience was too stupid to get the idea that war is a waste of young people

There are a lot of stupid people. I've not seen the older films or read the book but I certainly got the bleakness and pointlessness messages, I certainly felt for poor Paul and the "friend dies, try to mourn briefly, no time get sent to fight more, repeat" theme felt purposeful rather than poor character building, I thought it was very good overall.

That list is mainly cinephile stuff, I'm surprised shite like LOTR is in there at all, file alongside Harry Potter.