Enjoying The Peace Dividend

Jesse Walker is now back to 1995.  Here are his top ten films from that year:

 https://jessewalker.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-year-of-fertilizer-bomb-ive-listed.html

1. Safe

2. Smoke

3. Twelve Monkeys

4. Maborosi

5.  Toy Story

6.  The City Of Lost Children

7. Shanghai Triad

8.  Funny Bones

9.  Get Shorty

10. Welcome To The Dollhouse

And interesting collection of titles--makes 1995 look like an intriguing year.

I'm happy to say that in the past decade I've gone from not liking Safe to thinking it's okay.

Toy Story, Get Shorty, Welcome To The Dollhouse and probably Smoke would make my top ten.

Twelve Monkeys and Shanghai Triad might make my top twenty.

Haven't seen Maborosi.

Not sure what to make of the other two titles.  I remember liking City Of Lost Children but thinking it overdone. Regarding Funny Bones, not sure if it's a disaster or a masterpiece.  Guess I need to see it again.

Here are Jesse's honorable mentions

11. La Ceremonie

12. Tierra

13. Whisper Of The Heart

14. Electronic Superhighway

15. The Drivetime

16. Clueless

17. A Close Shave

18. Underground

19. Casino

20. The Wife

I like Clueless (an important film for me since I was trying to sell a teen comedy at the time) and A Close Shave.

When Casino came out it seemed like a wan update of Goodfellas.  Now it seems like a great update of Goodfellas. Still a bit long.

Haven't seen the rest.

Here are films that would make my top ten (or twelve) list:

The Brady Bunch Movie

Cold Comfort Farm

Dead Man

Jumanji

Living In Oblivion

Pocahontas

To Die For

Here are some other 1995 films that I liked:

An Awfully Big Adventure, Babe, Crumb, The Fantasticks, (one or two parts of) Four Rooms, From The Journals Of Jean Seberg, Kicking And Screaming, Kids, Mr. Hollands Opus (mostly), Richard III, Rumble In The Bronx, Showgirls, (a bit of) Skin Deep, Unstrung Heroes, While You Were Sleeping

Other films of note:

Ace Venture: When Nature Calls, Across the Sea of Time, The Addiction, The American President, Angel Baby, Angela , Angels & Insects, Angus, Antonia's Line, Apollo 13, Assassins, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, An Awfully Big Adventure, The Baby-Sitters Club, Bad Boys, Bad Company, The Basketball Diaries, Batman Forever, Before Sunrise, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Beyond Rangoon, Billy Madison, The Blade, Boys On The Side, Braveheart,  The Break, The Bridges Of Madison County, The Brothers McMullen, Bushwhacked, Buttterfly Kiss, Bye Bye Love, Canadian Bacon, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, Carrington, A Chinese Odyssey, Circle of Friends, Clockers, Commissioner, Congo, Copycat, The Cremaster Cycle, Criminal, Crimson Tide, The Crossing Guard, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Cure, Curtains, Cutthroat Island, Darkman II: The Return of Durant, Days of Rage, Dead Man Walking, Dead Presidents, Deep River, Destiny Turns On The Radio, Devil in a Blue Dress, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Dolores Claiborne, Don Juan DeMarco, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Empire Records, The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain, Fair Game, Fallen Angels, Father of the Bride Part II, First Knight, Fluke, For Better or Worse, Forget Paris, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, French Kiss, Friday, Full Throttle, Georgia, Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain, GoldenEye, A Goofy Movie, Gordy, The Grass Harp,  Grumpier Old Men, Gumby: The Movie, Hackers, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Headless Body in Topless Bar, Heavy, Heavyweights, Higher Learning, Houseguest, How to Make an American Quilt, In the Mouth of Madness, The Indian in the Cupboard, It's Pat, Jefferson in Paris, Jeffrey, The Jerky Boys: The Movie, Johnny Mnemonic, Judge Dredd, Just Cause, Kickboxer 5, A Kid In King Arthur's Court, Kidnapped, Kiss of Death, Last Summer In The Hamptons, Leaving Las Vegas, Leprechaun 3, Little Criminals, Little Odessa, A Little Princess, Losing Isaiah, Mad Love, Major Payne, Mallrats, Man Of The Year, Miami Rhapsody, Mighty Aphrodite, Mighty Morphin Rangers: The Movie, Money Train, Moonlight and Valentino, Mortal Kombat, Murder In The First, My Antonia, My Father Is a Hero, The Net, Never Talk to Strangers, Nick of Time, Nine Months, Nixon, Now And Then, Nine Months, Nixon, Now And Then, Operation Dumbo Drop, Othello, Outbreak, Party Girl, The Piano Lesson, Picture Perfect, Piranha, Pyromaniac's Love Story, The Quick And The Dead, Requiem, Restoration, Rob Roy, Roommates, The Scarlett Letter, Screamers, Sense And Sensibility, Seven, Slam Dunk, Ernest, Something To Talk About, Species, Steal Big Steal Little, Strange Days, Stuart Saves His Family, Tales From The Hood, Tall Tale, Tank Girl, Target, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Tom and Huck, Tommy Boy, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, The Underneath, The Usual Suspects, Vampire In Brooklyn, Village Of The Damned, Virtuosity, Waiting to Exhale, A Walk in the Clouds, Waterworld, White Man's Burden, Wild Bill, The Young Poisoner's Handbook