![]() The Wind Will Carry Us (Kiarostami, 1999) if included in the '90s (it didn't open till '00 in most parts of the US) Īnd yeah, like many I find Close-Up easier to admire than to love. La Cérémonie/ The Ceremony (Chabrol, 1995), an antidote to the extravagant hype over Bong's recent Parasite That's three so far which leaves us with seven, in chronological order only (again with the necessary caveat that I haven't thought this through quite yet): ![]() I'll add I've long found White rather underrated and prefer it to Blue ( Red is still the best of the bunch, though). (Anyone who's seen both and says they don't see the connection is, uh, lying.) I can't think of any other movie of the last three decades or so that has managed to appeal to such a wide-ranging slice of the snobs and the plebs and it's only a matter of time before the arthouse holdouts come to see the error of their dogmatic ways.ĭekalog is Kieslowski's masterpiece, but since it's technically an '80s work I'll second the trilogy as one of the '90s' best with the obvious caveat that we're cheating a bit. Oh and for her latest feature Portrait of a Lady on Fire Sciamma totally stole her portrait scene of the lovers in bed from its counterpart (you know which one) in Titanic. When I saw its 2017 re-release (in Dolby Vision 3D) on a weekday evening there was still a sizable crowd of about two dozen, and several members were still having a lively discussion well after the end credits. At this point I'm quite confident this hugest blockbuster (and arguably queer masterpiece) will have more staying power than just about every other movie of the '90s.
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