The third list to be posted, in a series of six. –J.R.
Chicago Reader, 1990 (ranked):
Sweetie (Jane Campion)
City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
The Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti)
Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle)
The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer)
Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich)
Mr. Hoover and I (Emile De Antonio)
tied: The Freshman (Andrew Bergman), Miami Blues (George Armitage)
Chicago Reader, 1991:
L’Atalante (restoration)(Jean Vigo)
An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris, Jr.)
Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland)
Camp Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembene)
Hangin’ With the Homeboys (Joseph P. Vasquez)
For the Boys (Mark Rydell)
Chicago Reader, 1992:
A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens)
Actress (Stanley Kwan)
Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami) + Life and Nothing More (Abbas Kiarostami)
The Famine Within (Katherine Gilday)
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (Mark Rappaport)
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
Close My Eyes (Stephen Poliakoff)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
Chicago Reader, 1993:
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Night and Day (Chantal Akerman) + From the East (Chantal Akerman)
Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
The Passing (Bill Viola) +
Histoire(s)du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Mark Achbar/Peter Wintonick) + It’s All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (R. Wilson/M. Meisel/B. Krohn)
Silverlake Life: The View From Here (Peter Friedman/Tom Joslin)
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige)
The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Chicago Reader, 1994:
Satantango (Béla Tarr)
The Second Heimat (Edgar Reitz)
That’s Entertainment! III (Bud Friedgen/Michael J. Sheridan)
Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Fly High Run Far (Kwon-taek Im)
Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox)
The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker)
Bad Blood (Leos Carax) + Being Human (Bill Forsyth) + Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti) + Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai) + Ed Wood (Tim Burton) + Go Fish (Rose Troche) + Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembène) + Hoop Dreams (Steve James) + I Like It Like That (Darnell Martin) + In the Land of the Deaf (Nicolas Philibert) + Jamón, jamón (J.J. Bigas Luna) + The Little Girl of Hanoi (Hai Ninh) + Oleanna (David Mamet) + On the Bridge (Frank Perry) + Only Cinema (Histoire(s)du Cinéma) (Jean-Luc Godard) + Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) + Raining Stones (Ken Loach) + Savage Nights (Les nuits fauves) (Cyril Collard) + The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung) + The Thing Called Love (Peter Bogdanovich)
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