Garçon Means Boy: The 10 Best Films Of The Nineties

Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch a handful from a given decade? This week, join us as we look back at the Nineties.

T.J. Barnard Nov 21, 2012 11:41 am2014-05-11T22:46:49-05:00

8. Schindler’s List (1993) (Dir. Steven Spielberg)

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There are some who criticise Spielberg’s Schindler’s List as if it were not dealing with its material justly enough, and yet the director ensures that such events are not inappropriately trivialized by choosing to tell the story of Jews who survived the ordeal. Liam Neeson was the perfect choice for Oskar Schindler, his calm, stoic performance absolutely essential to the success of the picture (and playing a role that many great actors would not have been able to pull off). Michael Haneke and Jean Luc Godard did not approve of Spielberg’s apparent “sugarcoating” of history, but upon seeing the film, Billy Wilder exclaimed: “They couldn’t have gotten a better man. This movie is absolutely perfection.” He was not wrong.

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