Top 10 Films of 1994

1. "Pulp Fiction" (Quentin Tarantino, USA)

2. ''Heavenly Creatures'' (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)

3. "Four Weddings And A Funeral" (Mike Newell, UK)

4. ''Interview With A Vampire'' (Neil Jordan, USA)

5. "Speed" (Jan de Bont, USA)

6. "Barcelona" (Whit Stillman, USA)

7. "The Shawshank Redemption" (Frank Darabont, USA)

8. "Trois couleurs: Rouge" (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Switzerland)

9. ''Cemetery Man'' (Michele Soavi, Italy)

10. ''Burnt By The Sun'' (Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia)

Other great films:

The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (Australia)

The Advocate (UK)

Airheads

Bandit Queen (India)

Bitter Moon

Bullets Over Broadway
Burning Paradise (Hong Kong)

The Castle (Russia)

Chungking Express (Hong Kong)
Clear And Present Danger
Clerks
The Day The Sun Turned Cold (China)

Death And The Maiden

Dias contados (Spain)

Disclosure
Drunken Master 2 (Hong Kong)

Dumb And Dumber
Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan)
Ed Wood

Erotique

Exotica (Canada)

Felidae (Germany)

Forrest Gump

Fresa y Chocolate (Cuba)

Fresh

Fun
Les Gens de la rizière (Cambodia)
Hoop Dreams

Jancio Wodnik (Poland)

Killing Zoe

Lamerica (Italy)

The Last Seduction

The Lion King
Little Women
Louis 19, le roi des ondes (Canada)
Love & A .45
The Lovers (Hong Kong)

Mario und der Zauberer (Germany)
The Mask
Maverick
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Muriel's Wedding (Australia)

Natural Born Killers
The New Legend Of Shaolin (Hong Kong)

New Love In Tokyo (Japan)

Octobre (Canada)
Organized Crime & Triad Bureau (Hong Kong)

Le Parfum de Mathilde (France)

Les Patriotes (France)

Pora na czarownice (Poland)

Pret-a-Porter

The Professional
Psy 2: Ostatnia krew (Poland)
Quiz Show

Rapa-Nui

The Rapist (Hong Kong)

Red Rock West

Red To Kill (Hong Kong)

La Reine Margot (France)

Les Roseaux sauvages (France)

Sexual Outlaws

Sirens (Australia)  

Star Trek Generations
Stargate
Through The Olive Trees (Iran)

Timecop
True Lies
Trzy kolory: Bialy (Poland)

Le Vent du Wyoming (Canada)

Venus In Furs (Holland)

Vive l'Amour (Taiwan)

When A Man Loves A Woman
Widows' Peak
Wolf
Yes Sir! Madame (Canada)

Short Top 3:

1. "Da Viss" (Didier Flamand, France)

2. "Une Rose entre nous" (Francois Ozon, France)

3. "Emilie Muller" (Yvon Marciano, France)

Other great shorts:

89 mm od Europy (Poland)
Alicia (Spain)
Bridge (Canada)

Roadkill

Wet

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Buddy Holly" (Spike Jonze, Weezer)

2. "Closer" (Mark Romanek, Nine Inch Nails)

3. "Sabotage" (Spike Jonze, Beastie Boys)

Other great music videos:

Crazy
Liberation

Top Commercial:

"Donkey" (Visa)

TV Top 3:

1. "Frasier: The Matchmaker" (David Lee, NBC)

2. "The Kingdom" (Lars von Trier, Denmark)

3. "NYPD Blue: Abandando Abandoned" (Gregory Hoblit, ABC)

Other great TV shows:

Johnny Carson: The King Of Late Night
Johnny Carson: The Master Of Laughs

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Bedzie jak byc musi (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: I po balu (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Kto kogo w konia (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Wart palac Paca (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Bob's Birthday" (Alison Snowden, David Fine, NFB, Canada)

2. "Sortie de bain" (Florence Henrard, Belgium)

3. "Gary Larson's Tales From The Far Side" (Merv Newland, Canada)

Other great cartoons:

Animastress (Canada)
Artiste (Canada)
The Big Story
Ex-enfant (Canada)

El Heroe (Mexico)
The Janitor (Canada)

Triangle
The Wooden Leg (UK)

Weak films of 1994:

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Adamski (Germany)
Les Anges gardiens (France)
Ashes Of Time (Hong Kong)
Bab El-Oued City (Algeria)
The Beans Of Egypt, Maine
Before The Rain (Macedonia)
Blue Sky
The Bodyguard From Beijing (Hong Kong)
Bye Bye, America (Germany)
Canadian Bacon
Cancion de cuna (Spain)
Clean, Shaven
The Client
Le Colonel Chabert (France)
Cross My Heart And Hope To Die (Norway)
Dark Side Of Genius
Daydreams Of Miss Cazibe
Double Happiness (Canada)
Embrasse-moi, c'est pour la vie (Canada)
Farinelli: Il Castrato
Faust
Faut pas rire du bonheur (France)
Federal Hill
La Fille de d'Artagnan (France)
The Final Option (Hong Kong)
The Flintstones
For The Moment (Canada)
Grosse fatigue (France)
The Hudsucker Proxy
I Love Trouble
I.Q
It Could Happen To You
Junior
Kabloonak (Canada)
Ladybird, Ladybird (UK)
Lato milosci (Belarus)
Legends Of The Fall
Little Odessa
Love And Human Remains (Canada)
The Madness Of King George
Magic Hunter (Hungary)
Mesmer
Mina Tannenbaum (France)
Mon amie Max (Canada)
Mouvements du desir (Canada)
Mrs Parker And The Vicious Circle
Murder In The First
Mustard Bath (Canada)
Nastazja
Nell
The New Age
Nobody's Fool
North
Nous, les enfants du XX siècle (Russia)
Once Were Warriors (New Zealand)
The Pagemaster
Pamietnik znaleziony w garbie (Poland)
Panna z mokra glowa (Poland)
The Paper
Pepe And Fifi (Romania)
Princess Caraboo
The Promise (Germany)
The Ref
The River Wild
Romeo Is Bleeding
The Rook
Samowolka (Poland)
The Santa Clause
Sh'chur (Israel)
Les Silences du palais (Tunisia)
Spanking The Monkey
The Sum Of Us (Australia)
Suture
The Swan Princess
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
To Live (China)
Totor (Cameroon)
Vanya On 42nd Street
La Vie d'un héros (Canada)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Whale Music (Canada)
What Happened Was
Wing Chun (Hong Kong)
Wyatt Earp
Yamato Takeru (Japan)

Weak shorts:

Action verite (Canada)
Alpsee (Germany)
My Sweet Peony (Canada)
The Passion Of John Ruskin (Canada)
Scratch Ticket (Canada)
Untouched (Germany)

Weak cartoons:

Au bord du lac (France)
Automania (Canada)
The Barber Of Seville (UK)
Baroque'n Roll (Canada)
Carmen (UK)
Cave canem (Belgium)
Divine Fate (Canada)
Garden Of Regrets
I Love My Work (Canada)
Jonas et Lisa (Canada)
Le Moine et le poisson
My Boyfriend Gave Me Peaches (Canada)
Odeur de ville (France)
Overdose (Canada)
Printemps (Bulgaria)
Sleepy Guy
Switchcraft (Russia)
Tournoi (Canada)
Watching TV (Canada)

Top Musical of 1994

"The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert" (Stephan Elliott, Australia)

Heavenly Creatures (1994) *****

Pulp Fiction (1994) *****

Exciting, surprising, ingeniously plotted and magnificently directed gangster film with an all-star cast (John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Rosanna Arquette, Amanda Plummer, Eric Stolz, Harvey Keitel and many others). The film presents a series of overlapping intrigues involving bible-quoting hit-men, double-crossing boxers and dope-sniffing gun molls. It's gory, violent, gritty, very clever, very funny and endlessly inventive.

Fresh (1994) ****

Fresa y Chocolate (1994) ****

Bandit Queen (1994) ****

Exotica (1994) ****

Sirens (1994) ****

The Advocate (1994) ****

New Love In Tokyo (1994) ****

There is something very special about this beautiful Japanese film about two friends: a call girl (Reiko Kataoka) and a dominatrix (Sawa Suzuki). Directed by Banmei Takahashi, it eschews all the usual clichés of the genre and delivers a perfect slice-of-life erotic drama, in which any notions of shame or inhibition aren't just ignored, but seem literally non-existent. A minor masterpiece, quietly understated and visually stimulating; it was the first Japanese film to be shown in theaters uncensored and with full frontal nudity unfogged. "New Love In Tokyo" slightly resembles Lizzie Borden's "Working Girls" (1986) in its realism, but goes far beyond it in terms of eroticism and excitement.

Burnt By The Sun (1994) ****

Cemetery Man (1994) ****

'Interview With A Vampire (1994) ****

Mario und der Zauberer (1994) ****

Jancio Wodnik (1994) ****

Natural Born Killers (1994) ****

Trzy kolory: Bialy (1994) ****

Zemsta meza jest tematem drugiej czesci trylogii Kieslowskiego, poswieconej trzem idealom Rewolucji Francuskiej.

Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) ****

The last part of Krzysztof Kieslowski's celebrated trilogy about liberty, equality and fraternity. This film, set in Geneva, stars Jean-Louis Trintignan and Irene Jacob.

Speed (1994) ****

Tremendously exciting action movie about a runaway bus.

The Lion King (1994) ****

Very impressive Disney animated feature, loosely based on Shakespeare's "Hamlet". It's about a young lion avenging the death of his father. Great songs by Elton John include:

"Circle Of Life" ***
"I Just Can't Wait To Be King" **
"Be Prepared" *
"Hakuna Matata" **
"Can You Feel The Love Tonight" ***

Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994) ****

Excellent comedy about a complicated love affair between a British bachelor (Hugh Grant) and an American playgirl (Andie McDowell), who continually meet each other at various receptions.

Barcelona (1994) ****

Brilliant comedy of manners about romantic adventures of two young Americans in Barcelona. Director Whit Stillman's screenplay is full of witty, screamingly funny dialogues in the tradition of Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde.

Through The Olive Trees (1994) ****

In a remote Iranian village, devastated by an earthquake, a film crew is making a movie, while their lead actor (a local peasant) wants to marry a girl despite opposition from her grandmother.