December 12, 1996

Top 10 Films of 1996

1. ''Breaking The Waves'' (Lars von Trier, UK)

2. "Fargo" (Joel Coen, USA)

3. "Private Confessions" (Liv Ullmann, Sweden)

4. "Once Upon A Time In Triad Society" (Cha Chuen-Yee, Hong Kong)

5. ''Trainspotting'' (Danny Boyle, UK)

6. ''Bound'' (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, USA)

7. "Romeo And Juliet" (Baz Luhrmann, USA)

8. "Michael Collins" (Neil Jordan, UK)

9. "The Frighteners" (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)

10. "Beaumarchais l'insolent" (Édouard Molinaro, France)


Other great films:

Beyond Silence (Germany)
Black Mask (Hong Kong)
Deep Crimson (Mexico)
Drifting Clouds (Finland)
Fudoh (Japan)
Gabbeh (Iran)

Short Top 3:

1."Ballad Of The Skeletons" (Gus Van Sant, USA)

2. "L'Amateur" (Olivier Smolders, Belgium)

3. "Bien sous tous rapports" (Marina De Van, France)


Other great shorts:

Cadavres exquis (Canada)

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Plus haut" (Jean-Luc Godard, France Gall)

2. "Tonight Tonight" (Dayton and Faris, The Smashing Pumpkins)

3. "Big Me" (Jesse Peretz, Foo Fighters)


Other great music videos:

Ironic

Top Commercial:

"Canyon" (Ford)


TV Top 3:

1. "X-Files: Musings Of A Cigarette-Smoking Man" (James Wong, Fox)

2. "X-Files: Home" (Kim Manners, Fox)

3. "Homicide: Prison Riot" (Kenneth Fink, NBC)


Other great TV shows:

Homicide: The Heart Of Saturday Night
Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Zmiana na lepsze (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "La Salla" (Richard Condie, NFB, Canada)

2. "Canhead" (Timothy Hittle, USA)

3. "The Blue Beard" (Aleksandr Bubnov, Ukraine)


Other great cartoons:

Dinner For Two (Canada)
Quest (Germany)
Quilt (Canada)
Words (Canada)

Weak films of 1996:

101 Dalmatians
2 Days In The Valley
Abusers: A Film About Incest
Across The Sea Of Time
Adosados (Spain)
Les Affinites electives (Italy)
Angels & Insects (UK)
L'Appartement (France)
At Sundance
Les Aveux de l'Innocent (France)
Awantura o Basie (Poland)
Bad Moon
Bad Seed (Denmark)
Basquiat
Beautiful Girls
Beautiful Thing (UK)
Bernie (France)
Beyond Hypothermia (Hong Kong)
Big Night
The Bloody Child
Bones Of The Forest (Canada)
Bubbles Galore (Canada)
Bulletproof
La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (France)
The Boys Club
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
The Cable Guy
Caboose (Canada)
Capitaine Conan (France)
Carla’s Song (UK)
Caught
Centerfold
Chacun cherche son chat (France)
A Chef In Love (Georgia)
Courage Under Fire
The Craft
Le Cri de la soie (France)
Cwal (Poland)
Dark Secret (Germany)
Daylight
Deborah (Poland)
Different For Girls (UK)
Dragonheart
A Drop In The Ocean (Greece)
Dr Wai In The Scripture With No Words (Hong Kong)
L'Eleve (France)
Encore (France)
Enfants de salaud (France)
The English Patient
Erreur sur la personne (Canada)
Eva Peron (Argentina)
The Evening Star
Extreme Measures
Faire un film pour moi c'est vivre (Italy)
Farewell My Darling (China)
Father Son And The Holy War (India)
Fire (India)
The First Wives Club
Forbidden City Cop (Hong Kong)
The Funeral
Gamera 2 (Japan)
Gentle Into The Night (Italy)
Get On The Bus
The Ghost And The Darkness
Ghosts Of Mississippi
Girl 6
Girls Town
God Of Cookery (Hong Kong)
God Of Gamblers: The Early Stage (Hong Kong)
Gracze (Poland)
Hamsun (Norway)
Hard Core Logo (Canada)
Un Heros tres discret (France)
L'Homme ideal (Canada)
Hommes femmes mode d'emploi (France)
Le Huitieme jour (Belgium)
I'M Not Rappaport
Intimate Relations (UK)
Jaya Ganga (India)
Jerry Maguire
Jeunesse sans dieu (Germany)
Jingle All The Way
Joe's So Mean To Josephine (Canada)
Journey Into Life
A Journey Through The Dark Side (Croatia)
Joyeux calvaire (Canada)
Kansas City
Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy (Canada)
Kingpin
Kolonel Bunker (Albania)
Kolya (Czech Republic)
Krzysztof Kieslowski - I'M So So (Poland)
Last Summer In The Hamptons
Lilies (Canada)
Limited Edition
Lone Star
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Looking For Richard
Love etc (France)
Love Me And You'll See (Cuba)
Les Lumiere de Berlin (Germany)
Luna et l'altra (Italy)
La Lupa (Italy)
Lust And Revenge (Australia)
Madagascar (Cuba)
Mademoiselle Moreau (France)
Mahjong (Taiwan)
Manny and Lo
Mars Attacks !
Marvin's Room
Mexico (Mexico)
Michael
Microcosmos (France)
Mother
Mother Night
My Name Is Adam (Romania)
Niki de Saint-Phalle
Ninfa Plebea (Italy)
No Sex Last Night
The Nutty Professor
Okaeri (Japan)
La Ola (Cuba)
One Fine Day
Party (Portugal)
Peach Blossom (China)
Pedale douce (France)
The Phantom Lover (Hong Kong)
Poisson tropical (Taiwan)
Pokuszenie (Poland)
The Portrait Of A Lady
The Powder Room (Canada)
Primal Fear
Prisoner Of The Mountains (Russia)
La Promesse (Belgium)
Punk Lawyer (Holland)
Pudding chomeur (Canada)
Quem matou Pixote ? (Brazil)
Ransom
Revisor (Russia)
Rowing Through
Saint Clara (Israel)
Sans raison apparente (Canada)
Satan Returns (Hong Kong)
Score (Japan)
Screwed
Seven Servants (Germany)
Sexy Sadie (Germany)
Sleepers
Sleeping Man (Japan)
Space Jam
The Spitfire Grill
Star Trek: First Contact
Stealing Beauty
Stille Nacht (Germany)
Sto lat w kinie (Poland)
Struggle For Hope (Japan)
The Sun Has Ears (China)
Super Atragon. Part II (Japan)
Swann
Swingers
Tai Chi 2 (Hong Kong)
Tato (Poland)
Temptress Moon (China)
Tesis (Spain)
A Time To Kill
Tin Cup
Un Tramway a Moscou (Russia)
The Trap (Japan)
Trees Lounge
A True Story (Iran)
The Truth About Cats And Dogs
Twelfth Night
Twister
Two Deaths (UK)
Unhook The Stars
Velvet Gloves (China)
A Very Brady Sequel
Visiblement je vous aime (France)
Walking And Talking
The War Within: A Portrait Of Virginia Woolf (UK)
The Whole Wide World
Wielki tydzien (Poland)
Women (Israel)
The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Weak shorts:

Biscotti (Italy)
L'Oreille de Joé (Canada)
Rideau (Canada)

Weak cartoons:

Boden der Realitat (Germany)
The Blind Date (UK)
The Box (UK)
Cemetery (UK)
Children Speak (Canada)
The Cora Player (Burkina Faso)
Die Hard In Under Two Minutes (Russia)
Egoiste (France)
Garden Of Ecos (Canada)
Halleluja (Switzerland)
Hand In Hand (Sweden)
The Hapless Child (UK)
How Wings Are Attached To The Backs Of Angels (Canada)
I'M Your Man (Canada)
Isle Of Dogs (UK)
The Legend Of The Flying Canoe (Canada)
Marylou
Masks (Cuba)
The Menopause Song (Canada)
Perdido
The Saint Inspector (UK)
Scant Sanity (Canada)
Shyness (Canada)
Wat's Pig (UK)
West Of Eden (Canada)

Top Musical of 1996

"That Thing You Do!" (Tom Hanks, 20th-Fox)