December 12, 1997

Top 10 Films of 1997

1. ''L.A. Confidential'' (Curtis Hanson, USA)

2. "My Best Friend's Wedding" (P.J. Hogan, USA)

3. ''Boogie Nights'' (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)

4. ''The Sweet Hereafter'' (Atom Egoyan, Canada)

5. ''Starship Troopers'' (Paul Verhoeven, USA)

6. ''Titanic'' (James Cameron, USA)

7. ''La Femme défendue'' (Philippe Harel, France)

8. ''The Dress'' (Alex van Warmerdam, Holland)

9. ''Le Bossu'' (Philippe de Broca, France)

10. ''Jackie Brown'' (Quentin Tarantino, USA)


Other great films:

12 Storeys (Singapore)
L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (France)
Absolute Power
Air Force One
Cats Don't Dance
Chasing Amy
Copland
Cosmos (Canada)
A Friend Of The Deceased (Ukraine)
Full Alert (Hong Kong)
Kama Sutra (India)
Karmina (Canada)
Kissed (Canada)
La Nuit du deluge (Canada) 
The Odd One Dies (Hong Kong)
The Wings Of The Dove

Short Top 3:

1. "Doodlebug" (Christopher Nolan, USA)

2. "Signing Off" (Robert Sarkies, New Zealand)

3. "Adios mama" (Ariel Gordon, Mexico)


Other great shorts:


Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Virtual Insanity" (Jonathan Glazer, Jamiroquai)

2. "Da Funk" (Spike Jonze, Daft Punk)

3. "Everybody" (Joseph Kahn, Backstreet Boys)


Other great music videos:

Barbie Girl
Mo' Money Mo' Problems
The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Walkin' On The Sun

Top Commercial:

"Toys" (Mark Gustafson, Nissan)


TV Top 3:

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

2. "Ellen: The Puppy Episode" (Gil Junger, ABC)

3. "Oz: Season 1" (Tom Fontana, HBO)


Other great TV shows:


Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Rusalka" (Alexander Petrov, Russia)

2. "La Vieille dame et les pigeons" (Sylvain Chomet, France)

3. "Geri's Game" (John Lasseter, Pixar)


Other great cartoons:

Death And The Mother (UK)
Duel (Czech Republic)
Locked (India)
Noiseman Sound Insect (Japan)
Redux Riding Hood
Trade (India)
When The Dust Settles (Canada)

Weak films of 1997:

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Actrices (Spain)
Addicted To Love
After Divorce (China)
Afterglow (Canada)
L'Age des possibles (France)
Air Bud
Un Air si pur (France)
Aldous Huxley The Gravity Of Light
All Over Me
Ambiguous Report About The End Of The World (Czech Republic)
An American Werewolf In Paris
Amistad
Anaconda
Angel Baby (Australia)
Anna Oz
The Apostle
Armageddon (Hong Kong)
The Assignment (Canada)
Austin Powers International Man Of Mystery
Bag Of Rice (Iran)
The Bandit (Turkey)
Bang
Batman And Robin
La Belle verte (France)
The Best Man (Italy)
A Better Place
The Big Fight (Japan)
Booty Call
Box Of Moonlight
Les Boys (Canada)
Breakdown
The Brother (Russia)
La Buena vida (Spain)
Burnt Eden (Canada)
Bye Bye (France)
Celestial Clockwork (Venezuela)
Chamane (Russia)
Chantal Ackerman par Chantal Ackerman (Belgium)
Le Chien du jardinier (Spain)
Chinese Box
A Chinese Midnight Express (Hong Kong)
City Of Industry
Clandestins (Canada)
Clockwatchers
The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati (Canada)
Le Coeur est mon temoin (Canada)
Comme des rois (France)
La Comtesse de Baton Rouge (Canada)
Con Air
La Conciergerie (Canada)
Confessions Of A Rabid Dog
Conspiracy Theory
Les Conspirateurs du plaisir (Czech Republic)
Contact
A Couch In New York
Le Cousin (France)
Critical Care
Cure (Japan)
Dante's Peak
The Daytrippers
De l'autre cote du coeur (Canada)
Les Demons du Jesus (France)
Despabilate amor (Argentina)
Destiny (Egypt)
Devil's Own
Didier (France)
The Dinner
The Disappearance Of Finbar (Ireland)
Dobermann (France)
Donnie Brasco
Eau douce (France)
The Edge
Eisenstein In Mexico
Enchanted
The End Of Violence (Germany)
Un Ete a la Goulette (Tunesia)
Excess Baggage
Expectations
Fairy Tale: A True Story (UK)
Fantome avec chauffeur (France)
Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control
Fetishes
Fierce Creatures
Fire Down Below
Floating Life (Australia)
Flubber
Fools Rush In
For Richer Or Poorer
Four Little Girls
Free Willy 3: The Rescue
Fresh Blood: A Consideration Of Belonging
The Game
Gang Related
Gattaca
The Gazelle (Iran)
George Of The Jungle
GI Jane
Going All The Way
Good Burger
Gray's Anatomy
Gridlock'd
Guantanamera (Cuba)
Gummo
A Gun For Jennifer
Gypsy Magic (Macedonia)
Habit
Hana-Bi (Japan)
The Hanging Garden (Canada)
The Headhunter's Sister
Hercule et Sherlock (France)
Historie milosne (Poland)
Home Alone 3
Homere, la derniere odyssee (Italy)
Hoodlum
Hot Sauce (Canada)
The Ice Storm
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Married A Strange Person
In And Out
In The Name Of Innocence (Germany)
Inventing The Abbotts
Island On Bird Street
Le Jaguar (France)
The James Gang (UK)
Jazz '34
Junk Mail (Norway)
K (France)
Karakter (Holland)
Kichiku (Japan)
Kiler (Poland)
Kiss Or Kill (Australia)
Kiss The Girls
Kull The Conqueror
Kundun
The Last Bus Home (Ireland)
Lawyer Lawyer (Hong Kong)
Leave It To Beaver
Leila (Israel)
Let There Be Light (Turkey)
Liar Liar
A Life And Two Trails (Venezuela)
A Life Less Ordinary
Lifeline (Hong Kong)
Lost Paradise (Japan)
Love And Other Catastrophes (Australia)
Love Jones
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Mad City
Made In Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Majin (Japan)
Marcello Mastroianni, je me souviens (Italy)
Marius et Jeannette (France)
La Marquise (France)
Marthe (France)
Masterminds
The Matchmaker
Mathusalem 2 (Canada)
Ma vie en rose (Belgium)
Memories (Japan)
Metro
Mimic
A Moment Of Innocence (Iran)
Money Talk
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Most Wanted
Mother And Son (Russia)
MouseHunt
Movie Days (Iceland)
Mr Magoo
Mr Nice Guy
Mrs Brown
Mr Vincent
Murder At 1600
My Secret Cache (Japan)
Nenette et Boni (France)
Nettoyage a sec (France)
Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam (France)
Night Falls On Manhattan
Nothing To Lose
Nous sommes tous encore ici (France)
The Ogre (Germany)
Once Upon A Time In China And America (Hong Kong)
On connait la chanson (France)
One Night Stand
The Opium War (China)
Oscar And Lucinda (Australia)
Ossos (Portugal)
Out To Sea
Paljas (South Africa)
Les Palmes de M.Schutz (France)
Panic (Canada)
Paradise Lost
Paradise Road
Passage a l'acte (France)
Le Passage des hommes libres (France)
The Peacemaker
The Perfumer (Canada)
Phoenix
Picture Perfect
Der Platz (Germany)
Playing God
Port Djema (France)
Portraits chinois (France)
The Postman
Postman Blues (China)
The Rainmaker
Red Corner
Rien ne va plus (France)
Robinson In Space (UK)
Rocket Man
Romaine (France)
Sept en attente (France)
Le Septieme ciel (France)
Seven Years In Tibet
Le Siege de l'ame (Canada)
A Simple Wish
Sinon oui (France)
Skin Deep
A Smile Like Yours
Smilla's Sense Of Snow
Soleil (France)
Some Birds Can't Fly (Yugoslavia)
Sonatine (Japan)
Soul Food
Spawn
Speed 2: Cruise Control 
Sprung
Squeeze
Des Majorettes dans l'espace (France)
Trajectoire oblique (Belgium)

Weak cartoons:

Famous Fred (UK)

Weak TV shows: