Thanks to Bill McAlpine for the following:
"Winter 2000 issue of the Cinematheque Ontario film program, which I thought some of you might be interested in. This was the 10th Anniversary of the Cinematheque, so they decided to conduct a poll similar to the S&S poll.
This poll differed from the S&S one as it was limited to the Best films of the 1990s (no re-releases or restorations) and was voted on by a 'blue ribbon panel' of 59 film curators, archivists and programmers from around the world (Toronto, London, NY, Boston, Japan, Rotterdam, Rome, Paris, etc.).
Each were asked to list their 10 best films of the 1990s.
Here are the 41 films which comprised the top 25."
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El Sol del Membrillo Victor Erice 57 votes |
And Life Goes On Abbas Kiarostami 49 votes |
Abbas Kiarostami 49 votes |
Aki Kaurismaki 48 votes |
Close-Up Abbas Kiarostami 46 votes |
Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier 46 votes |
Bela Tarr 41 votes |
Flowers of Shanghai Hou Hsiaohsien 39 votes |
Taste of Cherry Abbas Kiarostam 39 votes |
Chungking Express Wong Kar wai 38 votes |
Fireworks (HaniBi) Takeshi Kitano 38 votes |
The Thin Red Line Terence Malick 38 votes | Histoire(s) du Cinema JeanLuc Godard 36 votes | A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang 36 votes | A Moment of Innocence Mohsen Makhmalbaf 34 votes |
Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 33 votes | Cold Water (L'eau Froid) Olivier Assayas 33 votes | Mother and Son Alexander Sokurov 32 votes | Vive L'amour Tsai Mingliang 31 votes | Nouvelle Vague JeanLuc Godard 31 votes |
Abraham's Valley Manoel de Oliveira 30 votes | Safe Todd Haynes 30 votes | Dead Man Jim Jarmusch 30 votes | The Sweet Hereafter Atom Egoyan 28 votes | Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 28 votes |
Exotica Atom Egoyan 28 votes | Sonatine Takeshi Kitano 27 votes | Maborosi Hirokazu Koreeda 26 votes | Naked Mike Leigh 26 votes | La Vie de Jesus Bruno Dumont 25 votes |
Fargo The Coen Brothers 25 votes | Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 24 votes | La Belle Noiseuse Jacques Rivette 23 votes | Van Gogh Maurice Pialat 23 votes | Three Colors: Red Krzysztof Kieslowski 23 votes |
The Last Bolshevik Chris Marker 22 votes | Dear Diary Nanni Moretti 21 votes | Crumb Terry Zwigoff 20 votes | The Puppetmaster Hou Hsiaohsien 18 votes | Goodbye South Goodbye Hou Hsiaohsien 18 votes |
Sicilia! JeanMarie Straub & Daniele Huillet 17 votes | ||||