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Top 10 films from 1990-1999

	TobiasXimenez's Rating	My Rating
1	The Piano (1993, R) I truly believe Jane Campion to be the greatest living female director. Her work is so brave and poetically moving. There aren't enough words to describe the transcendental qualities and assured brilliance of THE PIANO - my personal favorite of 1993.
2	Breaking the Waves (1996, R)
3	The Thin Red Line (1999, R)
4	Sátántangó (Satan's Tango) (1994, Unrated)
5	GoodFellas (1990, R)
6	The Sweet Hereafter (1997, R)
7	Safe (1995, R)
8	My Own Private Idaho (1991, R) Still Gus Van Sant's greatest and most personal film. Anyway, I feel it's his biggest cinematic contribution, ELEPHANT comes in second for me. MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO's inventive narrative slips between a modernized Henry IV and a poignant story of street hustlers, as frequently as the narcoleptic protagonist slips in and out of consciousness. I've always wondered if the Shakespeare segments in this influenced Baz Luhrmann on some level to do his ultra-hip 1996 update of ROMEO AND JULIET. Definitely one of the most ambiguous treatments of alienation and disaffected youth on film. This third installment is my favorite of Van Sant's Portland OR trilogy, that began with MALA NOCHE (1986) and DRUGSTORE COWBOY (1989)
9	Magnolia (1999, R)
10	Toy Story (1995, G)