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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

IMDb turns 15, and the best movies of 1990-2005
This week marks the 15th anniversary of the invaluable Internet Movie Database, although the website itself didn't launch until 1993 (it existed on Usenet before that). To celebrate the occassion the site's editors have compiled lists of their favourite movies of the past fifteen years (1990-2005). Topping the collective list are: Fight Club, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, and The Shawshank Redemption. The individual editor's lists are also available.

That seemed like a challenge to me, so here's my not-entirely-thought-out list of my top fifteen movies of the last fifteen years.
  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. Quentin Tarantino, 1994
  3. The Three Colours Trilogy (Blue, White, Red)
  4. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993-1994
  5. Chungking Express
  6. Wong Kar-Wai, 1994
  7. Mulholland Dr.
  8. David Lynch, 2001
  9. Flowers of Shanghai
  10. Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1998
  11. Unforgiven
  12. Clint Eastwood, 1992
  13. Fargo
  14. Joel Cohen, 1996
  15. The Thin Red Line
  16. Terrence Malick, 1998
  17. Eyes Wide Shut
  18. Stanley Kubrick, 1999
  19. The Age of Innocence
  20. Martin Scorsese, 1993
  21. Dark City
  22. Alex Proyas, 1998
  23. Minority Report
  24. Steven Spielberg, 2002
  25. Ed Wood
  26. Tim Burton, 1994
  27. 12 Monkeys
  28. Terry Gilliam, 1995
  29. Felicia's Journey
  30. Atom Egoyan, 1999
To get this down to fifteen I limited it to one film per director -- even so, there's at least another fifteen movies that could easily make the list. Feel free to post your own list, or rip into mine, in the comments area.
:: posted by Donald Melanson, 10/19/2005 Comments (0)
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