Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1992

<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <body> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>My Top Ten+ List</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Click here for <a href=persac92.html>Favorites in Major Categories</a></b></Font><br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 1. &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/01/picked-flick-66-dream-of-light-el-sol.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Dream of Light (El Sol del membrillo)</a></b></Font> Dir. Victor Erice. With Antonio L&#243pez Garc&#237a <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 2. &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2005/10/picked-flick-91-hyenas.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Hyenas</a></b></Font> Dir. Djibril Diop Mamb&#233ty. With Mansour Diouf, Ami Diahkate <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> &#150. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">These Hands</Font></b></Font> Dir. Flora M'mbugu-Schelling. Documentary about Tanzanian rock quarriers <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 3. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Daughters of the Dust</Font></b></Font> Dir. Julie Dash. With Alva Rogers, Cora Lee Day, Barbara-O <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 4. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Husbands and Wives</Font></b></Font> Dir. Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 5. &nbsp<b><a href=howards.html style="text-decoration:none">Howards End</a></b></Font> Dir. James Ivory. With Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 6. &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/04/picked-flick-59-crying-game.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">The Crying Game</a></b></Font> Dir. Neil Jordan. With Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, Jaye Davidson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 7. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">The Long Day Closes</Font></b></Font> Dir. Terence Davies. With Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 8. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">The Player</Font></b></Font> Dir. Robert Altman. With Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 9. &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/10/picked-flick-34-bram-stokers-dracula.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Bram Stoker's Dracula</a></b></Font> Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. With Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 10. <b><Font Color="#003399">Edward II</Font></b></Font> Dir. Derek Jarman. With Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton, Andrew Tiernan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1992</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=bascinst.html style="text-decoration:none">Basic Instinct</a></b></Font> Dir. Paul Verhoeven. With Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/10/picked-flick-34-bram-stokers-dracula.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Bram Stoker's Dracula</a></b></Font> Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. With Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2005/10/picked-flick-98-brothers-keeper.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Brother's Keeper</a></b></Font> Dirs. Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky. Documentary about a bizarre murder trial <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/04/picked-flick-59-crying-game.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">The Crying Game</a></b></Font> Dir. Neil Jordan. With Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, Jaye Davidson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/01/picked-flick-66-dream-of-light-el-sol.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Dream of Light (El Sol del membrillo)</a></b></Font> Dir. Victor Erice. With Antonio L&#243pez Garc&#237a <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=glengar.html style="text-decoration:none">Glengarry Glen Ross</a></b></Font> Dir. James Foley. With Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=howards.html style="text-decoration:none">Howards End</a></b></Font> Dir. James Ivory. With Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2005/10/picked-flick-91-hyenas.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Hyenas</a></b></Font> Dir. Djibril Diop Mamb&#233ty. With Mansour Diouf, Ami Diahkate <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=indochin.html style="text-decoration:none">Indochine</a></b></Font> Dir. R&#233gis Wargnier. With Catherine Deneuve, Vincent P&#233rez, Linh Dan Pham <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=petersfr.html style="text-decoration:none">Peter's Friends</a></b></Font> Dir. Kenneth Branagh. With Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=shandfog.html style="text-decoration:none">Shadows and Fog</a></b></Font> Dir. Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=wutheit2.html style="text-decoration:none">Wuthering Heights</a></b></Font> Dir. Peter Kosminsky. With Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1992</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Aileen: The Selling of a Serial Killer</b></Font> Dir. Nick Broomfield. Documentary <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Alien&#179</b></Font> Dir. David Fincher. With Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Candyman</b></Font> Dir. Bernard Rose. With Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Chaplin</b></Font> Dir. Richard Attenborough. With Robert Downey Jr., Moira Kelly, Paul Rhys <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>A Few Good Men</b></Font> Dir. Rob Reiner. With Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Lorenzo's Oil</b></Font> Dir. George Miller. With Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Peter Ustinov <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Love Field</b></Font> Dir. Jonathan Kaplan. With Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>My Cousin Vinny</b></Font> Dir. Jonathan Lynn. With Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Passion Fish</b></Font> Dir. John Sayles. With Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>White Men Can't Jump</b></Font> Dir. Ron Shelton. With Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Also from 1992</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Malcolm X</b></Font> Dir. Spike Lee. With Denzel Washington, Al Freeman Jr., Angela Bassett<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fair</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Aladdin</b></Font> Dirs. John Musker & Ron Clements. Animated. Voice of Scott Weinger<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Baraka</b></Font> Dir. Ron Fricke. Pictorial collage of various global environments<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Damage</b></Font> Dir. Louis Malle. With Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dead Alive</b></Font> Dir. Peter Jackson. With Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Liz Moody<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Enchanted April</b></Font> Dir. Mike Newell. With Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Jam&#243n, jam&#243n</b></Font> Dir. Bigas Luna. With Pen&#233lope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stefania Sandrelli<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Last of the Mohicans</b></Font> Dir. Michael Mann. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Life and Nothing More</b></Font> Dir. Abbas Kiarostami. With Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Proof</b></Font> Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse. With Hugo Weaving, Genevieve Picot, Russell Crowe<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Sister Act</b></Font> Dir. Emile Ardolino. With Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Swoon</b></Font> Dir. Tom Kalin. With Craig Chester, Daniel Schlachet, Ron Vawter<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Unforgiven</b></Font> Dir. Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Unlawful Entry</b></Font> Dir. Jonathan Kaplan. With Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeleine Stowe<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Feh</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Batman Returns</b></Font> Dir. Tim Burton. With Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.</b></Font> Dir. Leslie Harris. With Ariyan A. Johnson, Kevin Thigpen<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Living End</b></Font> Dir. Gregg Araki. With Craig Gilmore, Mike Dytri, Darcy Marta<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Patriot Games</b></Font> Dir. Phillip Noyce. With Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Reservoir Dogs</b></Font> Dir. Quentin Tarantino. With Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Romper Stomper</b></Font> Dir. Geoffrey Wright. With Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Scent of a Woman</b></Font> Dir. Martin Brest. With Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Gabrielle Anwar<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Flotsam</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Man Upstairs</b></Font> Dir. George Schaefer. TV Movie. 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