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My favourite film from 92 is Keith Gordon's A Midnight Clear, one of the best WW2 movies ever made IMO. It has a unique, magical charm that enchants me every time.

And yes, 1990 was a pretty dire year for American films too, although I like GoodFellas and adore Edward Scissorhands.

I've never understood why anyone, anywhere, ever thought Pacino's performance in Scent of a Woman was anything better than utterly terrible. He's an actor who has always had a tendency to blow way, way over the top, but he stretches even the limits of entertaining ham here. I've only seen the film o...

mononoke, I'm pretty sure you mean RACHEL Griffiths in Muriel's Wedding (a performance I adore, by the way). Although I'm certain she'd be flattered to be confused with the more, er, shapely Richard Griffiths.

I rarely spot genuine celebrities - well I almost walked into a rather grubby-looking Eddie Izzard a while back - so lookey-likeys have to do for me. Naturally, an Ethan Hawke lookey-likey is no bad thing. I have indeed seen Wonderland/The Fruit Machine. It's a charming, disarmingly eccentric littl...

Thanks for these all of you guys - they're making great reading and proving very useful in IDing films I need to see. Precious Doll, I am fully anticipating your list to offer a wide range of movies I've never heard of, let alone seen. Damien, by the way, thought you might like to know that my boyf...

I recall that on the old board Magilla at one point posted his top 250 films of all time, which I was using as a handy reference guide and checklist of movies I had not seen. Unfortunately I never printed a copy. It'd be great if an updated version could be posted at some time, also if some of the ...

Thanks, Magilla, I'll have to check The Mortal Storm out.



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I found Marvin's Room competent enough as such things go, but can't find anything outstanding in the performances of Keaton or Streep. At least Streep had to work with an - in my opinion - intensely dislikeable character. From memory, the list of 'serious' best actress contenders that year was very...

BEST FILMS 1. Toy Story 2. Muriel’s Wedding 3. Babe 4. Twelve Monkeys 5. Wild Reeds 6. Se7en 7. La Haine 8. Dead Man Walking 9. To Die For 10. Before Sunrise BEST ACTOR 1. Sean Penn for Dead Man Walking 2. Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas 3. Morgan Freeman for Se7en 4. Ethan Hawke for Before Sunri...

Magilla, I haven't seen The Mortal Storm, for which you reward Frank Morgan with his supporting actor nod for this year, but I assume his work in the film must be pretty special, as I consider his turn in The Shop Around the Corner to be one of the loveliest, most touching pieces of acting I've see...