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Jesse Walker has gone back thirty years to 1994.

https://jessewalker.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-year-of-newt-and-quentin-weve.html

Here's his top ten movie list for 1994:

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Crumb

3. Hoop Dreams

4. Before The Rain

5. The Secret Of Roan Inish

6. Red

7. Chungking Express

8. Ed Wood

9. Complaints Of A Dutiful Daughter

10. Pipsqueak Pfollies

A good list and I think 1994 was a pretty good year.  If nothing else, it had Pulp Fiction, which may be my favorite film of the decade--good to see it listed at #1.'

Crumb is a fine documentary that should be somewhere on the list.  I'm not as impressed with Hoop Dreams, though.

Still haven't gotten around to seeing Before The Rain.  Red is considered the best of the highly-respected Blue, White and Red trilogy. That's probably right.  (See below for White.)

The Secret Of Roan Inish is something a little different for John Sayles. Not his best, but still good.

Chungking Express might be my #1 if it weren't for Pulp Fiction.

Ed Wood may not quite live up to its reputation, but it's still very enjoyable.

The last two films on the list are shorts I haven't seen.

Here are Jesse's honorable mentions:

11. Burnt By The Sun

12. The Last Seduction

13. The Kingdom

14. Heavenly Creatures

15. The Madness Of George III

16. White

17. Faust

18.  Barcelona

19. Fresh

20. True Lies

Haven't seen 11.  13 is a TV series I haven't seen (from the great Lars Von Trier). The rest I like.   Many would make my top 20 list.  18 stars an old friend, so it's tough to be objective.  I watched 19 in a movie house for the first time just last month.  20 is a fun action film marred by some weird plotting in second act (though I'll still take it over any Avatar movie).

Other films that would make my top ten:

Bottle Rocket

Dumb And Dumber

The Legend Of The Drunken Master

Speed

To Die For

Other films of 1994 I liked:

The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, Backbeat, Bullets Over Broadway, Cabin Boy, Chickenhawk, Clerks, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Endless Summer II, Fist Of Legend, Forrest Gump (the Best Picture Oscar runs out of steam before it's over, but is still pretty good), Four Weddings And A Funeral, A Great Day In Harlem, The Hudsucker Proxy (though seriously flawed), Il Postino, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (Oscar winner for documentary), Muriel's Wedding, Once Were Warriors, Spanking The Monkey, Vanya On 42nd Street 

Other films of note:

47 Ronin, 8 Seconds, Above The Rime, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Air Up There, Airheads, Angels In The Outfield, Angie, Bad Girls, Being Human, Beverly Hills Cop III, Blank Check, Blankman, Blind Justice, Blown Away, The Browning Version, Car 54, Where Are You?, The Chase, City Slickers II: The Legend Of Curly's Gold, Class Of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, The Bad And The Subhumanoid, Clean Slate, Clear and Present Danger,  The Client, Clifford, Cobb, Color Of Night, Cops & Robbersons, Corrina, Corrina, Country Life, The Cowboy Way, The Cremaster Cycle, Crooklyn, The Crow, D2: The Mighty Ducks, Death and the Maiden, Disclosure, Don Juan DeMarco, Double Dragon, Dream Lover, Drop Zone, L'Enfer, Ernest Goes To School, Exit to Eden, The Favor, Fear Of A Black Hat, Federal Hill, The Flintstones, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Freefall, From Beijing With Love, The Getaway, Getting Even With Dad, Go Fish, God Of Gamblers Returns, Godzilla Vs. SpaceGodzilla, Greedy, Guarding Tess, House Party 3, How The West Was Fun, I Love Trouble, I'll Do Anything, I.Q, Immortal Beloved, In the Army Now, In The Heat Of The Sun, The Inkwell, Intersection, Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, It Could Happen to You, It's Pat, Jason's Lyric, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Junior, Just Friends, Killing Zoe, Ladybird, Ladybird, The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, National Lampoon's Last Resort, The Last  Supper, Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, Leon: The Professional, Leprechaun 2, The Lion King (biggest worldwide hit of the year), Little Big League, Little Buddha, Little Giants, The Little Rascals, Love Affair, A Low Down Dirty Shame, Major League II, A Man of No Importance, The Mask, Maverick, Men of War, Milk Money, A Million To Juan, Miracle on 34th Street, Mixed Nuts, Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle, My Father the Hero, My Girl 2, Nadja, Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, Natural Born Killers, Nell, The Next Karate Kid, No Escape, Nobody's Fool, North, Octobre, Oleanna, On Deadly Ground, Once Upon a Time in China V, Only You, The Paper, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, Prêt-à-Porter, Priest, Princess Caraboo, Quiz Show, Radioland Murders, Rampo, Rapa-Nui, Reality Bites, The Ref, La Reine Margot, Renaissance Man, Richie Rich, The River Wild, The Road to Wellville, S.F.W., The Santa Clause, The Scout, Serial Mom, The Shadow, Shallow Grave, The Shawshank Redemption (how this film is now considered one of the greatest of all time is beyond me), A Simple Twist Of Fate, Sioux City, Sirens, Sleep with Me, Somebody to Love, The Specialist, Speechless, Star Trek Generations, Stargate, Street Fighter, Sugar Hill, Swimming With Sharks, Terminal Velocity, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, That's Entertainment! III, Timecop, Tom & Viv, Trapped in Paradise, The Violin Player, Wagons East!, The War, When a Man Loves a Woman, Wild Reeds, With Honors, Wolf, Wyatt Earp