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#1993list progress

So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993 - Thomas Schlamme) 🇺🇸 My rating: 7.5/10 2nd viewing (per Letterboxd) #1993list (3/30) #filmsky #moviesky #MikeMyers #NancyTravis

TIME premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on this day in 2006. Directed by Kim Ki-duk and starring Ha Jung-woo and Park Ji-yeon

This film genuinely blew my mind. I watched it last year and it could have been made yesterday; it's so relevant, so haunting, I think of it often.

ANATOMY OF A MURDER premiered regionally in Marquette, MI and Ishpeming, MI on this day in 1959. Directed by Otto Preminger and starring James Stewart and Lee Remick.

Cool Runnings (1993 - Jon Turteltaub) 🇺🇸 My rating: 6/10 1st viewing #1993list (2/30) #filmsky #moviesky #Leon #JohnCandy

The Last Dance (1993 - Juzo Itami) 🇯🇵 My rating: 7.5/10 1st viewing #1993list (1/30) #filmsky #moviesky #RentaroMikuni #MasahikoTsugawa

WELCOME TO THE LIST!! My favorites list aka FROM THE MOON TO THE GRAIL now sits at 579 films after these 14 new entires today. The cream of the crop of the last 90 films or the last 3 years I’ve watched through - 1994, 1995, 1996.

The tentative #1993list The Watchlist - films from my watchlist (never seen) The Rewatches - films I’ve seen before, but it’s been a while The Acclaimed - films that are raved about but I’ve never seen The Research - films I came across while compiling this list

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky #moviesky 🎥 Nothing bad this week - but as for highlights: I quite enjoyed my 2nd viewing of Three Colors: Red and my 1st viewing of 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance.

THE #1994list CONCLUDES! My final rankings for 1994! boxd.it/Qe0nc

The Monster (1994 - Roberto Benigni) 🇮🇹 My rating: 7/10 1st viewing #1994list (30/30) #filmsky #moviesky #RobertoBenigni #NicolettaBraschi

A sneak peek at #1993list - I will post the full list tomorrow! How many can you recognize?

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994 - Michael Haneke) 🇦🇹 My rating: 8.5/10 1st viewing #1994list (29/30) #filmsky #moviesky #AnneBennent #UdoSamel

MIDSOMMAR premiered at the ArcLight Hollywood in LA on this day in 2019. Directed by Ari Aster and starring Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor.

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994 - Ang Lee) 🇹🇼 My rating: 6.5/10 1st viewing #1994list (28/30) #filmsky #moviesky #SihungLung #Kuei-MeiYang

Death and the Maiden (1994 - Roman Polanski) 🇺🇸 My rating: 7/10 1st viewing #1994list (27/30) #filmsky #moviesky #SigourneyWeaver #BenKingsley

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ was released in U.S. and Canada on this day in 1979. Directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood and Patrick McGoohan.

Three Colors: Red (1994 - Krzysztof Kieslowski) 🇫🇷 My rating: 7.5/10 2nd viewing #1994list (26/30) #filmsky #moviesky #IreneJacob #JeanLouisTrintignant

CLOSING CEREMONIES #1994list #TheFinalFive

Ladybird Ladybird (1994 - Ken Loach) 🇬🇧 My rating: 6/10 1st viewing #1994list (25/30) #filmsky #moviesky #CrissyRock #VladimirVega

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? premiered at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on this day in 1966. Directed by Mike Nichols and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

THE GREAT ESCAPE premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on this day in 1963. Directed by John Sturges and starring Steve McQueen and James Garner.

JAWS was released on this day in 1975. Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss.

In the Mouth of Madness (1994 - John Carpenter) 🇺🇸 My rating: 5.5/10 1st viewing #1994list (24/30) #filmsky #moviesky #SamNeill #JulieCarmen

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky #moviesky 🎥 Vive L’Amour and Dumb and Dumber could not be anymore different - but were the favorites of the week. Nothing terrible this week - everything was at least good.

Vive L’Amour (1994 - Tsai Ming-liang) 🇹🇼 My rating: 8/10 1st viewing #1994list (23/30) #filmsky #moviesky #Kang-shengLee #Kuei-MeiYang

Crooklyn (1994 - Spike Lee) 🇺🇸 My rating: 6.5/10 1st viewing #1994list (22/30) #filmsky #moviesky #AlfreWoodard #DelroyLindo

Dumb and Dumber (1994 - Farrelly, Farrelly) 🇺🇸 My rating: 8.5/10 1st viewing (per Letterboxd, seen pre-Letterboxd) #1994list (21/30) #filmsky #moviesky #JimCarrey #JeffDaniels

PSYCHO premiered at the DeMille Theatre and the Baronet Theatre in New York City on this day in 1960. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins and Vera Miles.

Priest (1994 - Antonia Bird) 🇬🇧 My rating: 6.5/10 1st viewing #1994list (20/30) #filmsky #moviesky #LinusRoache #TomWilkinson

THE APARTMENT was released in the U.S. on this day in 1960. Directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

Exotica (1994 - Atom Egoyan) 🇨🇦 My rating: 6.5/10 1st viewing #1994list (19/30) #filmsky #moviesky #BruceGreenwood #DonMcKellar

Blink (1994 - Michael Apted) 🇺🇸 My rating: 6/10 1st viewing #1994list (18/30) #filmsky #moviesky #MadeleineStowe #AidanQuinn

Our weekend project at camp. Staining and decorating our new golf cart charger and staining the wood boards that run underneath it. Had a fun day doing this project with my wife.

Cemetery Man (1994 - Michele Soavi) 🇮🇹 My rating: 7/10 1st viewing #1994list (17/30) #filmsky #moviesky #RupertEverett #AnnaFalchi

ROSEMARY’S BABY opened in the U.S. and Canada on this day in 1968. Directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes.

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #filmsky #moviesky 🎥 Chabrol’s L’Enfer was the big winner this week - I loved it! As for the rest - Nobody’s Fool and Quiz Show were good enough to make it a worthwhile week.

Barcelona (1994 - Whit Stillman) 🇺🇸 My rating: 2/10 1st viewing #1994list (16/30) #filmsky #moviesky #TaylorNichols #ChrisEigerman

Halfway done with #1994list ‼️

L’Enfer (1994 - Claude Chabrol) 🇫🇷 My rating: 8.5/10 1st viewing #1994list (15/30) #filmsky #moviesky #EmmanuelleBeart #FrancoisCluzet

THE CABLE GUY premiered in Hollywood on this date in 1996. Directed by Ben Stiller and starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick.

Nobody’s Fool (1994 - Robert Benton) 🇺🇸 My rating: 7/10 1st viewing #1994list (14/30) #filmsky #moviesky #PaulNewman #BruceWillis

Ed Wood (1994 - Tim Burton) 🇺🇸 My rating: 5.5/10 1st viewing (per Letterboxd) #1994list (13/30) #filmsky #moviesky #JohnnyDepp #MartinLandau

Quiz Show (1994 - Robert Redford) 🇺🇸 My rating: 7.5/10 2nd viewing (per Letterboxd) #1994list (12/30) #filmsky #moviesky #RalphFiennes #RobMorrow

TRADING PLACES opened in limited release in the U.S. and Canada on this day in 1983. Directed by John Landis and starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.