Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1993

<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=persac93.html>Favorites in Major Categories</a></b></Font><br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 1. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">The Piano</Font></b></Font> Dir. Jane Campion. With Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 2. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Schindler's List</Font></b></Font> Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 3. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Farewell My Concubine</Font></b></Font> Dir. Chen Kaige. With Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 4. &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2005/10/picked-flick-84-orlando.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Orlando</a></b></Font> Dir. Sally Potter. With Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 5. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">The Wrong Trousers</Font></b></Font> Dir. Nick Park. Animated. Voice of Peter Tallis <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 6. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Dottie Gets Spanked</Font></b></Font> Dir. Todd Haynes. With J. Evan Bonifant, Barbara Garrick <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 7. &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/04/picked-flicks-60-baby-of-m226con.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">The Baby of M&#226con</a></b></Font> Dir. Peter Greenaway. With Julia Ormond, Jonathan Lacey <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 8. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">King of the Hill</Font></b></Font> Dir. Steven Soderbergh. With Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabb&#233, Spalding Gray <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> &#150. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Searching for Bobby Fischer</Font></b></Font> Dir. Steven Zaillian. With Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 9. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Blue</Font></b></Font> Dir. Derek Jarman. Voices of Derek Jarman, Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 10. <b><Font Color="#003399">Dazed and Confused</Font></b></Font> Dir. Richard Linklater. With Jason London, Wiley Wiggins <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1993</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="#FF6600">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2006/04/picked-flicks-60-baby-of-m226con.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">The Baby of M&#226con</a></b></Font> Dir. Peter Greenaway. With Julia Ormond, Jonathan Lacey <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=bodyofev.html style="text-decoration:none">Body of Evidence</a></b></Font> Dir. Uli Edel. With Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer <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/2005/10/picked-flick-84-orlando.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Orlando</a></b></Font> Dir. Sally Potter. With Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=postruad.html style="text-decoration:none">The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas</a></b></Font><br> &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <Font Face=Garamond>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=postruad.html style="text-decoration:none">Cheerleader-Murdering Mom</a></b></Font> Dir. Michael Ritchie. TV Movie. With Holly Hunter <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1993</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>The Remains of the Day</b></Font> Dir. James Ivory. With Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Rock Hudson's Home Movies</b></Font> Dir. Mark Rappaport. Experimental documentary <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Shadowlands</b></Font> Dir. Richard Attenborough. With Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Six Degrees of Separation</b></Font> Dir. Fred Schepisi. With Stockard Channing, Will Smith <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Also from 1993</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>The Age of Innocence</b></Font> Dir. Martin Scorsese. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Fugitive</b></Font> Dir. Andrew Davis. With Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jeroen Krabb&#233<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>In the Line of Fire</b></Font> Dir. Wolfgang Petersen. With Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Ren&#233 Russo<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Much Ado about Nothing</b></Font> Dir. Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Naked</b></Font> Dir. Mike Leigh. With David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Short Cuts</b></Font> Dir. Robert Altman. With Tim Robbins, Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Annie Ross<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Visions of Light</b></Font> Dirs. Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy & Stuart Samuels. Documentary<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>What's Love Got to Do with It</b></Font> Dir. Brian Gibson. With Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>What's Eating Gilbert Grape?</b></Font> Dir. Lasse Hallstr&#246m. With Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fair</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Bride with White Hair</b></Font> Dir. Ronny Yu. With Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Francis Ng<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Fearless</b></Font> Dir. Peter Weir. With Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Hulce<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Fires in the Mirror</b></Font> Dir. George C. Wolfe. TV Movie. With Anna Deavere Smith<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>In the Name of the Father</b></Font> Dir. Jim Sheridan. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Joy Luck Club</b></Font> Dir. Wayne Wang. With Ming-Na Wen, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lisa Lu<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Jurassic Park</b></Font> Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Joseph Mazzello<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Like Water for Chocolate</b></Font> Dir. Alfonso Arau. With Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torn&#233<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Luck, Trust & Ketchup: The Making of <i>Short Cuts</i></b></Font> Dirs. Mike Kaplan & John Dorr<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Puppet Master</b></Font> Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien. With Li Tianlu, Lin Qiang, Chen Kuizhong<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Strictly Ballroom</b></Font> Dir. Baz Luhrmann. With Paul Mercurio, Armonia Benedito, Pat Thompson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Tales of the City</b></Font> Dir. Alastair Reid. TV Miniseries. With Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Three Colors: Blue</b></Font> Dir. Krzysztof Kie&#X15b;lowski. With Juliette Binoche, Beno&#238t R&#233gent<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>True Romance</b></Font> Dir. Tony Scott. With Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Wittgenstein</b></Font> Dir. Derek Jarman. With Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Clancy Chassay<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Feh</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Advocate</b></Font> Dir. Leslie Megahey. With Colin Firth, Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Cliffhanger</b></Font> Dir. Renny Harlin. With Sylvester Stallone, Janine Turner, John Lithgow<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Cormorant</b></Font> Dir. Peter Markham. With Ralph Fiennes, Helen Schlesinger, Thomas Williams<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dave</b></Font> Dir. Ivan Reitman. With Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Kalifornia</b></Font> Dir. Dominic Sena. With David Duchovny, Brad Pitt, Michelle Forbes<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Last Days of Chez Nous</b></Font> Dir. Gillian Armstrong. With Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz, Kerry Fox<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>M Butterfly</b></Font> Dir. David Cronenberg. With Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Manhattan Murder Mystery</b></Font> Dir. Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Mrs. Doubtfire</b></Font> Dir. Chris Columbus. With Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>My Life</b></Font> Dir. Bruce Joel Rubin. With Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Haing S. Ngor<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Philadelphia</b></Font> Dir. Jonathan Demme. With Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Mary Steenburgen<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Poetic Justice</b></Font> Dir. John Singleton. With Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Sleepless in Seattle</b></Font> Dir. Nora Ephron. With Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Ross Malinger<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Suture</b></Font> Dirs. Scott McGehee & David Siegel. With Dennis Haysbert, Michael Harris<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Wide Sargasso Sea</b></Font> Dir. John Duigan. With Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Claudia Robinson<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Flotsam</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Boxing Helena</b></Font> Dir. Jennifer Chambers Lynch. With Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Firm</b></Font> Dir. Sydney Pollack. With Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Flesh and Bone</b></Font> Dir. Steve Kloves. With Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan, Gwyneth Paltrow<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Pelican Brief</b></Font> Dir. Alan J. Pakula. With Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, John Heard<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Sniper</b></Font> Dir. Luis Llosa. With Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Three Musketeers</b></Font> Dir. Stephen Herek. 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