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OK I start the voting thread of the 1990 movies.

The rules:

You can post a list of anywhere between 1 and 20 films (or more, but only 20 will be counted) from the period we're covering. The deciding factor in terms of release dates is the RYM list and the top 15 of each period will go on to the final top 150. The deadline is 31st of August. I will open the 1991 voting in about two weeks and its deadline will be 15th of September.

The points scheme is as follows:
1. 50
2. 40
3. 35
4. 30
5. 25
6. 20
7. 18
8. 16
9. 14
10. 12
11. 10
12. 9
13. 8
14. 7
15. 6
16. 5
17. 4
18. 3
19. 2
20. 1

However, these are the maximum amounts of points. If you want to put certain films on your list but don't want to give them too many points, you can choose to give these less points than in this scheme (but never more) to decrease the impact on the overall results. If you don't specifically state that you want to give (some of) your films fewer points, I will assume the standard scheme.

Here are some lists to remind you of the films released in 1990:

IMDb
RYM
Films101
RottenTomatoes

If you vote for 4 movies or less, this is the adjusted scores:
4 votes
1. Movie 40 p
2. 35 p
3. 30 p
4. 25 p

3 votes
1. Movie 35 p
2. 30 p
3. 25 p

2 votes
1. Movie 30 p
2. 25 p

1 vote
1. Movie 25 p

I think Twin Peaks (European pilot) shouldn't be eligible.

Asking for 20 films makes me feel painfully inadequate (the only year I'll be able to fill up is 1999, and that's only if I include a couple movies I don't actually care about). My goal this time, I guess, is to try to keep up with the winners. Here's my painfully small list for 1990 (I'm essentially putting a buffer spot between them so my list isn't overvalued):

1. Goodfellas
2. Close-Up (35)
3. Miller's Crossing (30)
4. Edward Scissorhands (25)
5. Wild at Heart (18)
6. Days of Being Wild (14)
7. Paris is Burning (10)
8. Jacob's Ladder (8)

Movies I don't care enough to vote for:
Misery
Latest from the DaDaeR
The Architects
The Mountains of the Moon
Troll 2 (though unlike the others, I do highly recommend this to everyone)

BleuPanda wrote:Asking for 20 films makes me feel painfully inadequate (the only year I'll be able to fill up is 1999, and that's only if I include a couple movies I don't actually care about). )

Last time we switched to the formula in which only top 15 movies get points during the 70s if I remember correctly. If more people think we should move to that earlier we can do it.
I've seen about 620 movies (+ some that I've seen as a child that I've forgotten) from 1990s (and hopefully lot more before this year ends) so I'm fine with the current formula (but also fine with that in which only 15 movies count).

1. Wild at Heart
2. 阿飛正傳 [Days of Being Wild]
3. Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö [The Match Factory Girl]
4. Life Is Sweet
5. King of New York
6. Dances With Wolves
7. Miller's Crossing
8. An Angel at My Table
9. GoodFellas
10. I Hired a Contract Killer
11. Misery
12. The Reflecting Skin
13. Edward Scissorhands
14. Jacob's Ladder
15. Total Recall
16. The Godfather: Part III
17. Back to the Future Part III
18. Die Hard 2
19. 秦俑 [A Terra-Cotta Warrior]
20. Mo' Better Blues

edit. ¡Átame! [Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!] out
Mo' Better Blues in

I'm fine with there being more for other people - the big draw for me is discovering the movies I need to see.

Petri wrote: 17. ¡Átame! [Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!]

This one was moved to 1989 on imdb and RYM (although Wikipedia still says 1990). What do we do with it?

bonnielaurel wrote:

Petri wrote: 17. ¡Átame! [Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!]

This one was moved to 1989 on imdb and RYM (although Wikipedia still says 1990). What do we do with it?

Oops and thanks I hadn't noticed that. If IMDb and RYM say it is a 1989 movie then it is. I'm going to edit my list (my new #20 is Mo' Better Blues).

BleuPanda wrote:I'm fine with there being more for other people - the big draw for me is discovering the movies I need to see.

Me too! I have a lot of watching ahead!

1. Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö [The Match Factory Girl]
2. Hidden Agenda
3. The Russia House
4. Nikita [La Femme Nikita]
5. Cyrano de Bergerac
6. Dances with Wolves
7. Ju Dou [Secret Love, Hidden Faces]
8. Pretty Woman
9. I Hired a Contract Killer
10. Wild at Heart
11. Flatliners
12. An Angel at My Table
13. The Old Man and the Sea [TV movie]
14. Mermaids
15. The Godfather: Part III
16. Koko Flanel
17. Ghost
18. Alice
19. Porte Aperte [Open Doors]
20. Paris Is Burning [documentary]

1. Goodfellas
2. Home Alone
3. House Party
4. Misery
5. The Godfather Part III
6. Mo' Better Blues
7. Total Recall
8. The Lord Of The Flies
9. Ghost
10. Wild At Heart
11. Young Guns II
12. Pump Up The Volume
13, Revenge

What a crappy year, this was the first time I couldn't come up with 20 movies.

bootsy wrote:What a crappy year, this was the first time I couldn't come up with 20 movies.

So true! I am a 90's guy and I probably watched all the mainstream 90's movies but 1990 is a particularly weak year for excellent movies.

Some recommandations for the French films:

"Le château de ma mère" et "La gloire de mon père" (adaptation of the Pagnol's books.)
"Le mari de la coiffeuse" (Patrice Leconte)
"Milou en mai" (louis Malle)
"Nikita" (Luc Besson)
"Tatie Danielle" (Etienne Chatillez)
and, of course, one of the most beautiful film ever made :
"Cyrano de Bergerac" (Jean-Paul Rappeneau) (adaptation of Edmond Rostand play in verse, a must read french text)

Not too knowledgeable with movies made before I was born. I tried to do a Top 10 for the Noughties, and I will try again here.

1) Goodfellas
2) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
3) Awakenings
4) The Hairdresser's Husband
5) The Match Factory Girl
6) Back to the Future III
7) The Rescuers Down Under
8) Close-Up
9) Darkman
10) Tremors

Didn't Care for Enough to Vote:

After Dark, My Sweet
Home Alone
Edward Scissorhands
Total Recall

Not to say they were "bad", they just left little impact on me.

1. GoodFellas
2. Cyrano de Bergerac
3. The Grifters
4. Miller's Crossing
5. Ju Dou
6. Metropolitan
7. Life Is Sweet
8. Milou en mai (May Fools)
9. A Fei zheng chuan (Days of Being Wild)
10. An Angel at My Table
11. Dances with Wolves
12. To Sleep with Anger
13. Hitlerjunge Salomon (Europa, Europa)
14. Dip huet gaai tau (Bullet in the Head)
15. Reversal of Fortune
16. Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
17. Le mari de la coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband)
18. Taksi-Blyuz (Taxi Blues)
19. Ay, Carmela!
20. Flirting

I added Miller's Crossing to my list above.

1. Trust (Hal Hartley)
2. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
3. 菊豆 [Ju Dou] (Zhang Yimou)
4. King of New York (Abel Ferrara)
5. Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
6. 阿飛正傳 [Days of Being Wild] (Wong Kar-wai)
7. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
8. Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
9. The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma)
10. Miller's Crossing (Ethan Coen / Joel Coen)
11. Docteur Petiot (Christian de Chalonge)
12. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
13. Le mari de la coiffeuse [The Hairdresser's Husband] (Patrice Leconte)
14. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
15. S'en fout la mort [No Fear, No Die] (Claire Denis)
16. Daddy nostalgie [Daddy Nostalgia] (Bertrand Tavernier)
17. The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
18. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
19. Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
20. La discrète [The Discreet] (Christian Vincent)

Michel wrote:9. The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma)

May I know your reasons for making this your #9 movie of 1990? I'm not trying to criticize your choice but only to enlighten me since I found it to be bad, or maybe I was trying to compare it with the novel.

1. Miller's Crossing
2. Wild at Heart
3. Jacob's Ladder
4. Mindwalk
5. Goodfellas
6. The Godfather: Part III
7. Dances with Wolves
8. Edward Scissorhands 15 points
9. The Hunt for Red October 10 points
10. Total Recall 5 points

List updated.

1. Trust – Hal Hartley (USA / UK)
2. Total Recall – Paul Verhoeven (USA)
3. Miller's Crossing – Joel Coen (USA)
4. Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese (USA)
5. Le mari de la coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband) – Patrice Leconte (France)
6. Edward Scissorhands – Tim Burton (USA)
7. Milou en mai (May Fools) – Louis Malle (France / Italy)
8. Europa, Europa – Agnieszka Holland (Germany / France / Poland)
9. The Godfather, Part III – Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
10. Cyrano de Bergerac – Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France)
11. An Angel at My Table – Jane Campion (New Zeland / Australia / UK / USA)
12. Green Card – Peter Weir (USA / France / Australia)
13. Mo' Better Blues – Mo Better Blues (USA)
14. Alice – Woody Allen (USA)
15. ¡Ay, Carmela! – Carlos Saura (Spain / Italy)
16. Havana – Sydney Pollack (USA)
17. La putain du roi (The King’s Whore) – Axel Corti (France / Italy / UK / Austria)
18. Conte de printemps (A Tale of Springtime) – Éric Rohmer (France)
19. Back to the Future, Part III – Robert Zemeckis (USA)
20. Bad Influence – Curtis Hanson (USA)

21. Pretty Woman – Garry Marshall
22. La discrète (The Discreet) – Christian Vincent
23. Men of Respect – William Reilly
24. Dr. M (Club Exctinction) – Claude Chabrol
25. Nuit d'été en ville (Summer Night in Town) – Michele Deville

The top two films are two of my favorite films of the decade. Based on what I have seen, 1990 starts declining after #8. After that, there are some surprisingly effective sequels (Predator, Gremlins, Exorcist) and a few films that, while not great art, were entertaining hits (K Cop, Pretty Woman) that remained staples on U.S. television for years and consistently sucked you in for 15 or 20 minutes. And I strongly suspect, that I will be the only vote for Rocky V, which is frequently terrible, but still pretty fun.

1. Goodfellas
2. Miller’s Crossing
3. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
4. The Godfather Part III
5. Awakenings
6. Total Recall
7. Edward Scissorhands
8. State of Grace
9. Predator 2
10. Kindergarten Cop

11. Pump Up the Volume
12. Rocky V
13. Ghost
14. Pretty Woman
15. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
16. The Exorcist III
17. Arachnophobia
18. Home Alone
19. Jacob's Ladder
20. Dick Tracy

Revised my list. It seems that the film Flirting belongs to 1991; replaced it with Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

1. GoodFellas
2. Cyrano de Bergerac
3. The Grifters
4. Miller's Crossing
5. Ju Dou
6. Metropolitan
7. Life Is Sweet
8. Milou en mai (May Fools)
9. A Fei zheng chuan (Days of Being Wild)
10. An Angel at My Table
11. Dances with Wolves
12. To Sleep with Anger
13. Hitlerjunge Salomon (Europa, Europa)
14. Dip huet gaai tau (Bullet in the Head)
15. Reversal of Fortune
16. Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
17. Le mari de la coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband)
18. Taksi-Blyuz (Taxi Blues)
19. Ay, Carmela!
20. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

1. Ju Dou
2. GoodFellas
3. Miller's Crossing
4. An Angel at My Table
5. Edward Scissorhands
6. Le mari de la coiffeuse
7. Dances With Wolves
8. Total Recall
9. Dreams
10. Wild at Heart
11. The Godfather: Part III
12. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
13. Awakenings
14. The Grifters
15. Jacob's Ladder

Three days time to vote!

1. Goodfellas
2. Close-up
then:
3. Alice
then, only because I find it tremendously entertaining, and would rather not vote for any other film:
4. Total Recall

1. Trust / Hal Hartley / U.S.
2. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams / Akira Kurosawa / Japan
3. Ju Dou / Zhang Yimou / China
4. King of New York / Abel Ferrara / U.S.
5. I Hired a Contract Killer / Aki Kaurismaki / Finland
6. Hardware / Richard Stanley / South Africa
7. GoodFellas / Martin Scorsese / U.S.
8. Edward Scissorhands / Tim Burton / U.S.
9. Miller's Crossing / Joel & Ethan Coen / U.S.
10. Life is Sweet / Mike Leigh / U.K.
11. Wild at Heart / David Lynch / U.S.
12. The Match Factory Girl / Aki Kaurismaki / Finland
13. The Godfather: Part III / Francis Ford Coppola / U.S.
14. A Tale of Springtime / Eric Rohmer / France
15. The Hot Spot / Dennis Hopper / U.S.
16. Second Circle / Alexander Sokurov / Russia
17. Total Recall / Paul Verhoeven / U.S.
18. Jacob's Ladder / Adrian Lyne / U.S.
19. Begotten / E. Elias Merhige / U.S.
20. The Rainbow Thief / Alejandro Jodorowsky / U.K.

21. Troll 2 / Claudio Fragasso / U.S.
22. Tremors / Ron Underwood / U.S.
23. It / Tommy Lee Wallace / U.S.
24. To Sleep with Anger / Charles Burnett / U.S.
25. Close-Up / Abbas Kiarostami / Iran

Almost forgot.
1)Goodfellas
2)Pacific Heights
3)The Match Factory Girl
4)Trust
5)Miller's Crossing
6)12.01pm (short film)
7)Paris is Burning
8)Life Is Sweet
9)Edward Scissorhands
10)Misery
11)I Hired A Contract Killer
12)Dances With Wolves
13)The Godfather III
14)Home Alone
15)Back To The Future III
16)Wild At Heart
17)Miami Blues
18)American Dream
19)Quick Change
20)Metropolitan

*Pacific Heights is one of my all time top guilty pleasures

Voting is closed. Here is top 50.

Top 15 movies go to the final.
1. (1) Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese (USA), 507 points, 13 votes , 7 #1 votes
2. (3) Miller's Crossing – Joel & Ethan Coen (USA), 289 points, 10 votes , 1 #1 vote
3. (5). Trust - Hal Hartley (UK, USA), 180 points, 4 votes , 3 #1 votes
4. (7). 菊豆 [Ju Dou] - Zhang Yimou (China, Japan), 163 points, 5 votes , 1 #1 vote
5. (4). Wild at Heart - David Lynch (USA), 162 points, 9 votes , 1 #1 vote
6. (16). Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö [The Match Factory Girl] - Aki Kaurismäki (Finland, Sweden), 154 points, 5 votes , 1 #1 vote
7. (2). Edward Scissorhands – Tim Burton (USA), 150 points, 9 votes , 0 #1 votes
8. (8). Total Recall – Paul Verhoeven (USA), 134 points, 8 votes , 0 #1 votes
9. (6). The Godfather, Part III – Francis Ford Coppola (USA), 126 points, 9 votes , 0 #1 votes
10. (17). An Angel at My Table – Jane Campion (New Zeland, Australia, UK, USA), 95 points, 6 votes , 0 #1 votes
10. (9). Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner (USA), 95 points, 6 votes , 0 #1 votes
12. (10). 阿飛正傳 [Days of Being Wild] - Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong), 88 points, 4 votes , 0 #1 votes
13. (12). Le mari de la coiffeuse [The Hairdresser's Husband] - Patrice Leconte (France), 87 points, 5 votes , 0 #1 votes
14. (25). Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran), 86 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
15. (21). King of New York - Abel Ferrara (USA, Italy, UK), 85 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes

16. (15). Cyrano de Bergerac – Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France), 79 points, 4 votes , 0 #1 votes
17. (11). Jacob's Ladder - Adrian Lyne (USA), 77 points, 7 votes , 0 #1 votes
18. (--) Life is Sweet / Mike Leigh / U.K., 76 points, 4 votes , 0 #1 votes
19. (32). Awakenings - Penny Marshall, 68 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
20. (43). I Hired a Contract Killer / Aki Kaurismaki / Finland, 61 points, 4 votes , 0 #1 votes
21. (18) Akira Kurosawa's Dreams / Akira Kurosawa / Japan, 54 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
22. (13). Misery - Rob Reiner - USA, 52 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
23. (32). Home Alone, 50 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
24. (--) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 49 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
25. (27). The Grifters (Stephen Frears), 46 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
26. (58). Hidden Agenda, 40 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
26. (47). Alice – Woody Allen (USA), 40 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
26. (--). Pacific Heights, 40 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
29. (35). Die Hard 2: Die Harder, 38 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
30. (--) House Party, 35 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
30. (22). Nikita [La Femme Nikita], 35 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
30. (--) The Russia House, 35 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
33. (--) Milou en mai (May Fools) – Louis Malle (France / Italy), 34 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
34. (20). Back to the Future, Part III – Robert Zemeckis (USA), 32 points, 4 votes , 0 #1 votes
35. (19). Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder), 31 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
36. (36). Mindwalk (Bernt Capra), 30 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
37. (56). Mo' Better Blues - Spike Lee, 29 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
37. (--) Paris is Burning , 29 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
39. (--) Metropolitan (Whit Stillman), 28 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
40. (71) Ghost, 26 points, 3 votes , 0 #1 votes
41. (31). Europa, Europa – Agnieszka Holland (Germany / France / Poland), 24 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
42. (32) Pretty Woman, 23 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
43. (36). Hardware / Richard Stanley / South Africa, 20 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
43. (--). 12.01pm , 20 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
45. (--) Pump Up The Volume, 19 points, 2 votes , 0 #1 votes
46. (--) The Rescuers Down Under, 18 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
47. (--) The Lord Of The Flies, 16 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
47. (--) State of Grace, 16 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
49. (--) Darkman, 14 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
49. (28). The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma), 14 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes
49. (49) Predator 2, 14 points, 1 vote , 0 #1 votes

Goodfellas dominated with 7(!) #1 votes and 13 votes in general (only bonnielaurel didn't give points for Scorsese's movie). Trust got the #3 spot with only four votes (3 of them were #1 votes). Cyrano de Bergerac would have needed Romain's vote (last time it was his #1 and this time he only recommended it). Glad to see Kaurismäki's movies did so well (although I Hired a Contract Killer didn't qualify). Last rounds top 10 movies were all in top 12 this time (and qualified).

nice to see my top 3 - (Close-Up, The Match Factory Girl, Trust) did well without my vote

The lesser known movies I could well vote in 1990 were
1) "Non, ou a vã glória de mandar" (No, or the Vain Glory of Command) (de Oliveira) - witch may be my fave movie title
2)"Tilai" (Idrissa Ouedraogo)- witch is one of the few good african movies I have seen