December 12, 1993

Top 10 Films of 1993

1. "Groundhog Day" (Harold Ramis, USA)

2. "Helas pour moi" (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)

3. "Sleepless In Seattle" (Nora Ephron, USA)

4. "Much Ado About Nothing" (Kenneth Branagh, USA)

5. "Smoking / No smoking" (Alain Resnais, France)

6. ''Schindler's List'' (Steven Spielberg, USA)

7. ''Short Cuts'' (Robert Altman, USA)

8. "Women On The Run" (David Lai, Corey Yuen, Hong Kong)

9. "Six Degrees Of Separation" (Fred Schepisi, USA)

10. ''Naked'' (Mike Leigh, UK)


Other great films:

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (Canada)
The Actor (Iran)
Addams Family Values
The Age Of Innocence
L'Arbre, le maire et la mediathèque (France)
Cronos (Mexico)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Australia)
The Wonderful, Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl (Germany)
Zero Patience (Canada)

Short Top 3:

1. "Something Happened" (Roy Andersson, Sweden)

2. "Victor" (Francois Ozon, France)

3. "Ave Verum Corpus" (Alain Desrochers, Canada)


Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Come Undone" (Julien Temple, Duran Duran)

2. "Livin' On The Edge" (Marty Callner, Aerosmith)

3. "Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" (Morgan Lawley, Digable Planets)


Top Commercial:

"The Showdown" (McDonald's)


TV Top 3:

1. "Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City" (Alastair Reid, PBS)


2. "NYPD Blues: Pilot" (Gregory Hoblit, ABC)


Other great TV shows:

Seinfeld: The Pilot

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "The Wrong Trousers" (Nick Park, Aardman, UK)

2. "Blindscape" (Stephen Palmer, UK)

3. "The Village" (Mark Baker, UK)  


Other great cartoons:

L'Attente (Canada)
Oink (Canada)

Weak films of 1993:

Arizona Dream
The Assassin (Hong Kong)
The Bare-Footed Kid (Hong Kong)
Battle Angel (Japan)
Benny & Joon
Blade Of Fury (Hong Kong)
A Bronx Tale
Cap Tourmente (Canada)
Cliffhanger
Darkness In Tallinn (Estonia)
Down The Drain (Japan)
Dust Devil (South Africa)
Executioners (Hong Kong)
Faraway, So Close (Germany)
Farewell, My Concubine (China)
Fearless
La Florida (Canada)
Flirting Scholar (Hong Kong)
For Fun (China)
Germinal (France)
Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla II (Japan)
Il Grande cocomero (Italy)
Hard Target
I Am A Sex Addict
Indecent Proposal
In The Name Of The Father (UK)
I Love A Man In Uniform (Canada)
Into The West (UK)
Island Of The Dead (Russia)
Kanehsatake: 270 ans de résistance (Canada)
The Kung Fu Cult Master (Hong Kong)
The Last Harvest (Canada)
The Last Hero In China (Hong Kong)
La Machine Scorsese (France)
Magic Crane (Hong Kong)
Marie (Belgium)
Ma saison preferée (France)
Mrs Doubtfire
The Olympic Summer (Germany)
The Pelican Brief
Public Access
Reality Bites
Run And Kill (Hong Kong)
Schramm (Germany)
The Secret Garden
Serial Mom
Le Sexe des étoiles (Canada)
Shadowlands
Super Mario Brothers
Szwadron (Poland)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
This Boy's Life
The Three Best Things (Holland)
The Three Musketeers
Three Of Hearts

Weak shorts:

Je vous salue Sarajevo (France)
Me Mom And Mona (Canada)
Salut ma fille (France)
Valse-hesitation (France)
Week-end a Cannes (France)

Weak cartoons:

Small Talk (UK)

Weak TV shows:

Top Musical of 1993

"What's Love Got To Do With It" (Brian Gibson, USA)