Year-by-Year Polls: 1992 (CLOSED)

Teproc · #1

Welcome to the Year-by-Year Poll!

This poll is for the year 1992, aka the year of my birth, which I'm sure is very exciting to all of you.

These polls are fairly simple. We work our way through film history selecting a different year each time, and you list your top films from the given year. Depending on the number of voters, the poll usually produces a list of around 50-90 films and is a great way of finding recommendations. Lots of people will also list other films outside their top 20 as honorable mentions or runners-up.

The Rules

- You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.

- Feature films, documentaries, short films, TV movies, and TV mini-series are all eligible, but not continuing TV series or individual TV episodes.

- We use IMDb dates for consistency, so a title should be listed on IMDb as 1992.

- Your ballot can be either ranked or unranked, but I will assume it's ranked unless otherwise stated. For ranked ballots it makes it easier if you use a numbered list.

- IMPORTANT: Along with a list of the titles from 1992, please include the corresponding list of bare IMDb urls for the same films. Your ballot will be deemed disqualified if the IMDb urls are not included.

The Scoring

For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive a number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each succeeding title receiving one fewer point. So the top title on a list of 20 films will receive 20 points, the next 19 points and so on. If the list has only 10 films, the top title will receive 10 points, the next one 9, and so on. If there are 5 films on the list, the top film will receive 5 points, the next one 4, well you get the idea.

For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted to the ballot if it had been ranked. If there are 20 films on the ballot, this means each one would receive 10.5 points.

Some resources

1992 films with the sorted by most votes on IMDb

1992 films you've rated on IMDb

Wikipedia's 1992 in film article

1992 films you've checked on ICM

1992 films you *haven't* checked on ICM

Previous poll results as ICM lists

2017: 1940 results, 1981 results, 2005 results, 1927 results, 1968 results, 1939 results, 1976 results, 1997 results
2018: 1958 results, 2017 results, 1948 results, 1983 results, 1969 results, 1925 results, 1991 results, 1957 results, 2006 results
2019: 2018 results, 1932 results, 1972 results, 1942 results, 1987 results, 1964 results, 1994 results, 2007 results, 1955 results
2020: 2019 results, 1945 results, 1935 results, 1974 results, 1960 results, 1951 results, 2008 results, 1966 results, 1944 results
2021: 1980 results, 1929 results, 1998 results, 1933 results, 1950 results, 1978 results, 2020 results, 1967 results, 2009 results, 1946 results, 1985 results
2022: 1920 results, 1993 results, 1937 results, 2002 results, 1953 results, 2021 results, 1962 results, 1971 results, 2010 results, 1986 results, 1924 results, 1941 results

The Deadline

This poll will plan to be closed at the end of Saturday January 28th, midnight Eastern Standard Time, or whenever I get around to tabulating the results on sunday morning CET. You may revise or add a ballot anytime until the poll is indicated closed in the subject header.

The next poll will be 1931 followed by 2001.

Silga · #2

1. Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
2. Howards End (James Ivory)
3. Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)
4. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
5. Hoffa (Danny DeVito)
6. Candyman (Bernard Rose)
7. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
8. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
9. Boomerang (Reginald Hudlin)
10. Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
11. One False Move (Carl Franklin)
12. Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins)
13. El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez)
14. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
15. Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
16. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (Curtis Hanson)
17. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus)
18. A Stranger Among Us (Sidney Lumet)
19. Consenting Adults (Alan J. Pakula)
20. Deep Cover (Bill Duke)

IMDb

gunnar · #3

1. A League of Their Own
2. Unforgiven
3. My Cousin Vinny
4. Passion Fish
5. Hedd Wyn
6. A Place in the World
7. Sister Act
8. Malcolm X
9. A Few Good Men
10. Birthplace
11. The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein
12. White Men Can’t Jump
13. Scent of a Woman
14. Omnibus
15. Army of Darkness
16. Aladdin
17. Batman Returns
18. Wayne’s World
19. Belle Époque
20. A Midnight Clear

Spoiler

Shorts for Minkin

The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein
Omnibus
Contact
At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai
Fires of Kuwait
When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories
Swan Song
Educating Peter
Adam
Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase

pitchorneirda · #4

1. Qiu Ju da guan si (Yimou Zhang)
2. Il ladro di bambini (Gianni Amelio)
3. C'est arrivé près de chez vous (Rémi Belvaux et al.)
4. Hyènes (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
5. Det speglar i mitt öga (Nina Hedenius)
6. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
7. Khomreh (Ebrahim Forouzesh)
8. Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene)
9. La sentinelle (Arnaud Desplechin)
10. Conte d'hiver (Éric Rohmer)
11. Don Quijote de Orson Welles (Orson Welles)
12. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
13. El sol del membrillo (Victor Erice)
14. Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
15. Lektionen in Finsternis (Werner Herzog)
16. La plage (Patrick Bokanowski)
17. Videogramme einer Revolution (Harun Farocki et al.)
18. Milk of Amnesia (Jeffrey Noyes Scher)
19. Black Harvest (Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly)
20. Das goldene Tor (Jürgen Reble)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105197/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104663/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104467/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt13842418/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104753/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104606/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104373/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105356/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104008/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104121/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105665/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105438/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103793/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104706/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311654/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108489/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2092447/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103817/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5179800/

gromit82 · #5

Two shorts that I expect to make my own list:

We Love It! (Candy Kugel & Vincent Cafarelli)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280350/

You'll Change (Kelley Baker)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9557122/

OldAle1 · #6

Good idea gromit! Maybe we can help Minkin, and some other shorts-fans and people without a lot of time, earlier for this poll.

One short will for sure make my list:

Possibly this also:

And these two I don't see so readily available -

Rispondetemi
Ambition - icm sez 1991, imdb sez 1992

But I will probably have mostly features - while this is IMO one of the very worst years of all time for mainstream Hollywood, it's a great year elsewhere and I'll have to do a lot of winnowing.

gromit82 · #7

OldAle1 wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 2:31 am Good idea gromit! Maybe we can help Minkin, and some other shorts-fans and people without a lot of time, earlier for this poll.

Ironically, I wasn't expecting the film to show up in my post. I just expected the YouTube URL to display there.

Perception de Ambiguity · #8

OldAle1 wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 2:31 amAnd these two I don't see so readily available -

Rispondetemi

https://vk.com/video-177840857_456239026 (with hardcoded English subs)

Perception de Ambiguity · #9

1) Rekni mi neco o sobe - René
2) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
3) L'amant
4) Det speglar i mitt öga
5) The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

6) In the Land of the Deaf
7) Videogramme einer Revolution
8) Rispondetemi
9) Once Upon a Time, Cinema
10) Hobo

11) Ich will nicht nur, daß ihr mich liebt - Der Filmemacher Rainer Werner Fassbinder
12) Sequel to Lódz Ghetto
13) The Journey
14) Provincial School
15) Das goldene Tor

16) Milk of Amnesia
17) Parallel Space: Inter-View
18) George Carlin: Jammin' in New York
19) Belovy
20) End

I Am Da Bee

joachimt · #10

OldAle1 wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 2:31 am Ambition - icm sez 1991, imdb sez 1992

Updated on iCM.
You know you can change this yourself? In the beta is an "update info" button.

OldAle1 · #11

joachimt wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 8:04 am
OldAle1 wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 2:31 am Ambition - icm sez 1991, imdb sez 1992
Updated on iCM.
You know you can change this yourself? In the beta is an "update info" button.

Mmm yeah but I don't know which year is actually correct and I was too lazy last night to try to find out.

timshelboy · #12

jeff_v · #13

1. Unforgiven
2. Glengarry Glen Ross
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. The Crying Game
5. The Player
6. Lat sau san taam / Hard Boiled
7. The Long Day Closes
8. Lorenzo's Oil
9. Lektionen in Finsternis / Lessons of Darkness
10. A Midnight Clear
11. Zendegi va digar hich / Life and Nothing But
12. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
13. The Panama Deception
14. Dracula
15. Passion Fish
16. Leap of Faith
17. Siu ngo gong woo: Dung Fong Bat Bai / Swordsman II
18. La vie de boheme
19. Swoon
20. Qing shao nian nuo zha / Rebels of the Neon God

Spoiler

joachimt · #14

OldAle1 wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 12:30 pm
joachimt wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 8:04 am
OldAle1 wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 2:31 am Ambition - icm sez 1991, imdb sez 1992
Updated on iCM.
You know you can change this yourself? In the beta is an "update info" button.
Mmm yeah but I don't know which year is actually correct and I was too lazy last night to try to find out.

iCM doesn't care which is right. iCM just copies IMDb info.

Traveller · #15

01. Baraka
02. El sol del membrillo
03. Wu yan de shan qiu
04. C'est arrivé près de chez vous
05. Céline
06. Vacas
07. Benny's Video
08. Lektionen in Finsternis
09. The Long Day Closes
10. Bitter Moon
11. Kairat
12. Zendegi va digar hich
13. Husbands and Wives
14. The Player
15. Den goda viljan

Spoiler

Torgo · #16

Traveller wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2023, 4:49 pm 01. Baraka

What a timing! I just wanted to state how dumbfounded I am to be the ONLY vote for this film so far, at all. And there we are.

Ranked Top 20:

Baraka
...
Reservoir Dogs
Man Bites Dog [C'est arrivé près de chez vous]
Glengarry Glen Ross
Army of Darkness
Malcolm X
Scent of a Woman
Porco Rosso [Kurenai no buta]
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Lessons of Darkness [Lektionen in Finsternis]
Aladdin
De Noorderlingen
The Story of Qiu Ju [Qiu Ju da guan si]
Unforgiven
The Last of the Mohicans
The Crying Game
Bad Lieutenant
Husbands and Wives
La vie de bohème
Schtonk

Overall, one of the middest year polls I have done here. I don't feel intensely about half of these, to be frank. The 10th spot in other years would have to fight for the Top 20 ..

HMs / close / don't remember well enough: Twin Peaks, Batman Returns, My Cousin Vinny, Romper Stomper, A Few Good Men, Dracula, Hard-Boiled, Benny's Video, Candyman, Braindead, that Abbas Kiarostami thingy
Special shoutout to Fantaghirò - only Germans will understand

Need to see: Léolo, Careful, Dragon Inn, Death Becomes Her, Chaplin, Bitter Moon, Strictly Ballroom, Orlando, Howards End (in a day very far from now), Juice, The Quince Tree Sun, Il ladro di bambini, L'amant, 500 hours of Heimat 1+2

IMDb URLs

hurluberlu · #17

Not a great year but a lot of good stuff.

1 . La sentinelle ( Arnaud Desplechin )
2 . Unforgiven ( Clint Eastwood )
3 . Howards End ( James Ivory )
4 . Hyènes ( Djibril Diop Mambaty )
5 . Porco Rosso ( Hayao Miyazaki )
6 . L.627 ( Bertrand Tavernier )
7 . Dracula ( Francis Ford Coppola )
8 . Dien Bien Phu ( Pierre Schoendoerffer )
9 . The Player ( Robert Altman )
10 . Malcolm X ( Spike Lee )
11 . Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land ( Stan Lai )
12 . The Last of the Mohicans ( Michael Mann )
13 . Glengarry Glen Ross ( James Foley )
14 . De noorderlingen ( Alex van Warmerdam )
15 . Patriot Games ( Phillip Noyce )
16 . Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( David Lynch )
17 . My Cousin Vinny ( Jonathan Lynn )
18 . Hard Boiled ( John Woo )
19 . C'est arrivé près de chez vous ( Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde )
20 . Rebels of the Neon God ( Ming-liang Tsai )

imdb links

blocho · #18

1. Unforgiven
2. The Last of the Mohicans
3. The Crying Game
4. Birthplace
5. Howards End
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Glengarry Glen Ross
8. Bad Lieutenant 
9. Lessons of Darkness
10. My Cousin Vinny
11. Patriot Games
12. American Me
13. Malcom X
14. Passion Fish
15. Deep Cover
16. Basic Instinct
17. One False Move
18. Chaplin
19. Sneakers
20. Man Bites Dog

Spoiler

Honorable Mention: Alien3, Army of Darkness, Diggstown, In the Soup, Light Sleeper, Singles

The Worst: Double Trouble, HouseSitter, Mr. Baseball, Once Upon a Crime, Scent of a Woman

Mysterious Dude · #19

klaus78 · #20

1. The Player
2. Die Zweite Heimat - Chronik Einer Jugend
3. Lektionen in Finsternis
4. Qing shao nian nuo zha
5. Black Harvest
6. Orlando
7. Baraka
8. Zendegi va digar hich
9. Glengarry Glen Ross
10. Son smeshnogo cheloveka
11. Qiu Ju da guan si
12. La vie de bohème
13. Hyènes
14. Kurenai no buta
15. El sol del membrillo
16. Bad Lieutenant
17. Videogramme einer Revolution
18. San lung moon hak chan
19. Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
20. Braindead

Spoiler

beasterne · #21

1. My Cousin Vinny
2. Malcolm X
3. A League of Their Own
4. Glengarry Glen Ross
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. C'est arrivé près de chez vous aka Man Bites Dog
7. The Muppet Christmas Carol
8. Baraka
9. Lat sau san taam aka Hard Boiled
10. Howards End
11. Aladdin
12. A Few Good Men
13. Unforgiven
14. Jídlo aka Food
15. The Crying Game
16. The Player
17. Strictly Ballroom
18. Kurenai no buta aka Porco Rosso
19. Batman Returns
20. Dracula

Spoiler

Teproc · #22

1. Reservoir Dogs
2. Unforgiven
3. Kurenai no buta
4. Basic Instinct
5. Lorenzo's Oil
6. Le petit prince a dit
7. Un cœur en hiver
8. White Men Can't Jump
9. Batman Returns
10. Aladdin
11. Malcolm X
12. Lat sau san taam
13. The Last of the Mohicans
14. Army of Darkness
15. Death Becomes Her
16. Qiu Ju da guan si

Spoiler

beavis · #23

1 . Kamen
2 . Simple Men
3 . Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
4 . Basic Instinct
5 . Rooksporen
6 . De noorderlingen
7 . Careful
8 . The Crying Game
9 . Un coeur en hiver
10 . Balanta
11 . San lung moon hak chan
12 . Chekist
13 . The Long Day Closes
14 . Chuvstvitelnyy militsioner
15 . C'est arrivé près de chez vous
16 . Belle Epoque
17 . Avetik
18 . Zver, vykhodyashchiy iz morya
19 . Hyènes
20 . Batman Returns

Spoiler

prodigalgodson · #24

1. Life and Nothing More (Kiarostami)
2. Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Rappaport)
3. Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai)
4. The Quince Tree Sun (Erice)
5. Lessons of Darkness (Herzog)
6. Side/Walk/Shuttle (Gehr)
7. For Marilyn (Brakhage)
8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch)
9. Basic Instinct (Verhoeven)
10. A Tale of Winter (Rohmer)
11. Careful (Maddin)
12. Unforgiven (Eastwood)
13. The Crying Game (Jordan)
14. North on Evers (Benning)
15. Hyenas (Mambety)
16. Man Bites Dog (Belvaux/Bonzel/Poelvoorde)
17. Crack Glass Eulogy (Brakhage)
18. The Golden Gate (Reble)
19. Lethal Weapon 3 (Donner)
20. The Last of the Mohicans (Mann)

Spoiler

matthewscott8 · #25

These are the ones in my overall top list. It's a strong year for me, I may watch some more as there are some good leads in this thread. May be an excuse to finally watch Baraka.

1. Army of Darkness (1992 - Sam Raimi)
2. Careful (1992 - Guy Maddin)
3. La Plage / The Beach (1992 - Patrick Bokanowski)
4. Blue Black Permanent (1992 - Margaret Tait)
5. Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992 - Ernie Gehr)
6. Сон смешного человека / Son smeshnogo cheloveka / The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992 - Aleksandr Petrov)
7. Bitter Moon (1992 - Roman Polanski)
8. Orlando (1992 - Sally Potter)
9. Провинциальная школа / Provintsialnaya Shkola / Provincial School (1992 - Ivan Maksimov)
10. Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) (1992 - Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
11. Alien³ (1992 - David Fincher)
12. All Can Become a Rose (1992 - Linda Christanell)
13. Equinox (1992 - Alan Rudolph)
14. Jennifer 8 (1992 - Bruce Robinson)
15. Чекист / Chekist (1992 - Aleksandr Rogozhkin)

Spoiler

PopperTheKungFu-Dragon · #26

Ranked:

My Cousin Vinny
A League of Their Own
Belle Epoque
A Few Good Men
The Crying Game
Batman Returns
Sister Act
Encino Man
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Scent of a Woman
Lethal Weapon 3
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Class Act
Once Upon a Crime...
Long hang tian xia
Deadly Bet
CrissCross
The Vagrant
Blackbelt
Roja

iCheckMovies · #27

The list coming out of this poll so far are actually amongst the first to really surprised me. I have made peace with the lack of Maddin fans here (maybe a smaller group than I first imagined) and have low hopes for my number 1 of the year, Careful, but I was absolutely certain a film as legendary and universaly applauded as Rebels of the Neon Sun would get more top spots. Is it and Tsai falling out of favour? And where the hell is Dolwphin when you need him?!

Looking at the lists now the only moderate constant seems to be Unforgiven, which I was already expecting to be the shoe-in success story here, but I am surprised by just how many different number 1s I'm seeing. I'll add to this list myself:

1. Careful (1992, Guy Maddin)
2. Qing shao nian nuo zha / Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Ming-liang Tsai)
3. Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema / Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
4. Hyènes (1992, Djibril Diop Mambéty)
5. It is Better to be Rich and Healthy than Poor and Ill (1992, Juraj Jakubisko)
6. The Player (1992, Robert Altman)
7. Conte d'hiver / A Tale of Winter (1992, Éric Rohmer)
8. Videogramme einer Revolution (1992, Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica)
9. Simple Men (1992, Hal Hartley)
10. Benny's Video (1992, Michael Haneke)

11. Balanta / The Oak (1992, Lucian Pintilie)
12. Un coeur en hiver / A Heart in Winter (1992, Claude Sautet)
13. Quartier Mozart (1992, Jean-Pierre Bekolo)
14. Bad Lieutenant (1992, Abel Ferrara)
15. Antigone (1992, Hulliet & Straub)
16. El sol del membrillo / Dream of Light (1992, Víctor Erice)
17. Orlando (1992, Sally Potter)
18. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)
19. Kurenai no buta / Porco Rosso (1992, Hayao Miyazaki)
20. Lektionen in Finsternis / Lessons of Darkness (1992, Werner Herzog)

Honorable mentions:

C'est arrivé près de chez vous / Man Bites Dog (1992, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel & Benoît Poelvoorde)
Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarrantino)
Midori / Shôjo tsubaki: Chika gentô gekiga (1992, Hiroshi Harada)
Édes Emma, drága Böbe - vázlatok, aktok (1992, István Szabó)
Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven)
The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan)
Un lugar en el mundo / A Place in the World (1992, Adolfo Aristarain)
One False Move (1992. Carl Franklin)
Allah Tantou / God's Will (1992, David Achkar)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, James Foley)
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee) 8.4
Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992, Orson Welles)
A River Runs Through it (1992, Robert Redford)
Heya / The Room (1992, Shion Sono)
Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola)

There's two films that come up on lists here that I feel like I need to rewatch, Life and Nothing More and Videogrammes of the Revolution. In the former case it is clear that my taste has flipped on minimalists, and after really fruitful Bresson, Ozu, Duras and Akerman rewatches I think Kiarostami might be next (originally gave it 6/10) and in the latter, I really enjoyed it, but it did not quite reach favourite status for me - while Farocki has climbed high on my list. Both of these rewatches could also have some impact on my director's ballot, especially if the Kiarostami kickstarts a binge-rewatch session.

URLs:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103935/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103935/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104974/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104467/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107388/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104008/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108489/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105411/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103793/?ref_=adv_li_tt

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103969/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105682/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105201/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103759/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103707/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105438/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104652/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107756/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104706/?ref_=adv_li_tt

Torgo · #28

St. Gloede wrote: ↑January 3rd, 2023, 11:19 pm 10. Ba*a*a

You were so close to voting for the right film, are you sure you haven't made a typo?

I would even go as far as calling myself a fan of Guy Maddin, although I've just seen not enough of his pictures, and Careful made #2 on my watchlist .. whatever it can buy for that

But you're right, more Maddin votes would be expected in an ICM-related Forum in a poll year ~~with little competition~~ that doesn't show many strong constants in the lists .. apparently? ..

Lonewolf2003 · #29

1. Reservoir Dogs: 10!
2. Qing shao nian nuo zha [Rebels of the Neon God]: 9.2
3. Lat sau san taam [Hard Boiled]: 8.8
4. Husbands and Wives: 8.2
5. Zendegi va digar hich [Life and Nothing More...]: 8.2
6. Unforgiven: : 8.0
7. Conte d'hiver [A Winter's Tale]: : 8.0
8. Army of Darkness: 8.0
9. Kurenai no buta [Porco Rosso]: 8.0
10. C'est arrivé près de chez vous [Man Bites Dog]: 8.0

11. Qiu Ju da guan si [The Story of Qiu Ju]: 8.0
12. Wong Fei Hung II: Nam yee tung chi keung [Once Upon a Time in China II]: 8.0
13. El mariachi: 8.0
14. Benny's Video: 8.0
15. Romper Stomper : 8.0
16. Scent of a Woman: 8.0
17. Howards End: 7.8
18. Wong Fei Hung III: Si wong jaang ba [Once Upon a Time in China III]: 7.8
19. Kairat: 7.8

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Torgo · #30

Lonewolf2003 wrote: ↑January 4th, 2023, 11:03 pm 19. Kairat: 7.8

<visits profile of Lonewolf>
<makes shocking observation for his progress in IMDb Top 50 Documentary>

Young man, you have until Sunday evening to watch a certain film on there. You are free to place it just at rank 20, although any higher position would be welcomed by me.

Ok I need to stop this, sorry for interrupting the seriousness of this exercise

Lonewolf2003 · #31

Torgo wrote: ↑January 4th, 2023, 11:21 pm
Lonewolf2003 wrote: ↑January 4th, 2023, 11:03 pm 19. Kairat: 7.8
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<makes shocking observation for his progress in IMDb Top 50 Documentary>

Young man, you have until Sunday evening to watch a certain film on there. You are free to place it just at rank 20, although any higher position would be welcomed by me.

Ok I need to stop this, sorry for interrupting the seriousness of this exercise

Yeah and I actually own it, and was planning on seeing it last month, but that’s life

Perception de Ambiguity · #32

St. Gloede wrote: ↑January 3rd, 2023, 11:19 pm16. The Passing (1992, Bill Viola)

Definitely would make my list. But it's currently listed as 1991 on IMDb and on ICM. (Although it is listed as 1992 on letterboxd.)

Leopardi · #33

1. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
2. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
3. A Sense of History (Mike Leigh)
4. Lektionen in Finsternis [Lessons of Darkness] (Werner Herzog)
5. Baraka (Ron Fricke)
6. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
7. Qing shao nian nuo zha [Rebels of the Neon God] (Ming-liang Tsai)
8. Jídlo (Jan Svankmajer)
9. Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise)
10. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
11. Zendegi va digar hich [Life and Nothing More...] (Abbas Kiarostami)
12. The Player (Robert Altman}
13. Zirneklis [The Spider] (Vasili Mass)
14. Kærlighedens smerte [Pain of Love] (Nils Malmros)
15. Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene)
16. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
17. Daens (Stijn Coninx)
18. Conte d'hiver [A Winter's Tale] (Éric Rohmer)
19. Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins)
20. Orlando (Sally Potter)

urls

maxwelldeux · #34

Dunno if this affects anyone's ballots, but Food (1992) has been updated to the year 1992 (was 1993)

viktor-vaudevillain · #35

Already a really great year! Top 12 on my list are BIG favorites, top 2 could be top 50 of all time stuff. But there's still many films, I scent would make my list if I got to watch them, such as: Antigone (Straub/Huillet), Videogramme einer Revolution (Farocki), Blue Black Permanent (Tait), Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara), Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Rappaport), Side/Walk/Shuttle (Gehr), La sentinelle (Desplechin), Once Upon a Time, Cinema (Makhmalbaf)... man, this seems like a pinnacle year.

1. Céline (Brisseau)
2. The Quince Tree Sun (Erice)
3. The Last Dive (Monteiro)
4. Hyenas (Mambèty)
5. A Tale of Winter (Rohmer)
6. Life, and Nothing More / And Life Goes on... (Kiarostami)
7. Deep Cover (Duke)
8. My Eye Is Reflecting (Hedenius)
9. Nitrate Kisses (Hammer)
10. Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai)
11. The Long Day Closes (Davis)
12. Lessons of Darkness (Herzog)
13. Avetik (Askarian)
14. Embracing (Kawase)
15. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch)
16. End (Pelechian)
17. Light Sleeper (Schrader)
18. Day of Despair (Oliveira)
19. Stone (Sokurov)
20. Rapado (Rejtman)

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105924/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104008/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105888/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104753/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104706/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103741/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191310/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Y U M E · #36

Spoiler

H/M's
. Riff-Raff | Loach
. Bantala / The Oak | Pintilie
. Bad Lieutenant | Ferrara
. Cronos | Del Toro
. The Heroic Trio | To
. Topazu / Tokyo Decadence / Murakami
. Careful | Maddin
. Guelwaar | Sembene
. Qiuyue / Autumn Moon | Law
. Zhan shen chuanshuo / Moon warriors | Hung
. Porco Rosso | Miyazaki
. Lashou shentan / Hard-Boiled | Woo
. La Sentinelle | Desplechin
. Xiang hun nü / The women of the Lake of Scented Souls | Xie
. Suraj ka satvan ghoda / Seventh horse of the sun | Benegal

Only the Top 5 of this list made it to the toplist of the 1990s, so a relatively 'weak' year (?). That may be the case when you keep in mind there were even more bombs and turkeys to chose from for a potential bottom list of 1992, like: 1492 Conquest of Paradise, Abgeschminkt!, Baraka, Benny and Joon, C'Est Arrivé pres de Chez Vous, The Lawnmower Man, Man Trouble, Medicine Man, Universal Soldier, Vals Licht etc

Torgo · #37

How DARE you

insomnius · #38

Y U M E wrote: ↑January 7th, 2023, 4:10 pm 04. Raghs-e khak / Dance of Dust | Jalili

Great film, but listed as 1998 on imdb.

Y U M E · #39

insomnius wrote: ↑January 7th, 2023, 11:23 pm
Y U M E wrote: ↑January 7th, 2023, 4:10 pm 04. Raghs-e khak / Dance of Dust | Jalili
Great film, but listed as 1998 on imdb.

Yeah thanks, my list is under construction. I use the production years in my own databsase and check them in the end with imdb which uses release dates or other "wrong data". So it will fall off the list anyway. Dance of Dust is a 1992 film, but sadly shelved and finally released in 1998. I just checked the IFFR site, where there was held a Abolfazl Jalili retrospective in 1999 and where I saw Dance of Dust. https://iffr.com/en/iffr/1999/films/dance-of-dust. It got a dutch theatrical release in december 1999.

filmbantha · #40

1. The Last Of The Mohicans
2. Strictly Ballroom
3. The Crying Game
4. Unforgiven
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Candyman
7. Ghostwatch
8. A Few Good Men
9. Wayne's World
10. Scent of A Woman
11. Alien 3
12. Life and Nothing More
13. Hyenas
14. Romper Stomper
15. A Midnight Clear
16. Where The Day Takes You
17. Of Mice and Men
18. Hard Boiled
19. Zirneklis
20. El Mariachi

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