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After a year of great, bad and
awful movies, here’s a salute
to all that 1991 had to offer
By Lucas J Gutman
firne'atd Cof'-'--!'
This past year w.is good
(or selective film goers But
those ill US who like to sis’
one or two movies li yse< ►
fared disappointment .liter
disappointment
The Academy of Motion
I’li turn Arts and Si u-ni > s is
usually a group of people
with memories that only
stretch as far hack as Christ
mas releases when determin
ing Oscar winners In fool,
that won'! he mm ii ol a hin
drance since the rest of the
year had very little to oiler
Here fiefore you. then, is the
obligatory top 10 hi st and live
worst niov ms that populate
lust .ifsisi! every year end pub
il allot! from I'lHtph til (.Vis
noiuillUin I II he honest It
was much easier to come up
with tin top ten than the hot
Clin fist There were only
limit a ilo/en quality movies,
nut there were oh so main
duds and flops to i hose from
Although I have assigned a
ranking to the following lop
10 films, it s rather arbitrary
sou e all of them ale great ex
ampins ol quality filmmak
mg. each within its mvn
genre
to II K This is an iner
whelming and massively on
tort.lining him of great signif
icance Director Oliver Stone
leaves no doubt as to where
his opinions lie. hut this is
not a fl.ny as many have sug
gesleii Instead, Ills power as
a filmmaker is beautifully
demonstrated As badly i asl
as Kevin l ostner yy.is in Kab
ul IUhi.I I'nui e ul Thieves.
la .s periei t as NV yv Orleans
district attorney jtm (him
‘J Km k fleet i ii is is
. :-i i Ti t sl.m, bang ui
linn ill iis best !l we* also a
Sin miliinn plus flaunt ial
il i •>.! ppii i nltni'i! l |< i’!nt i vi!
nrwi iiin t Bill Ciimpboll is
pi-rli-1 ! as ilit frpsn-fai nd
('hi ! Sot.i nil who battles lilt?
\,i/is with the roiket piu:k
be iintis ||'» innocent, play
ful, oxt ititig and llit* best
kind «f pulp onlprtainmont
Milt p lilt; InJIunit /tint's mov
ies
responsible lor atrocities
against IRA members It's
gripping from tbe start, and
the dialogue simply crackles
f> lkmd Again Instead
of tr\ ing to becotne tbe
world's youngest and most
talented Shakespearian ac
tor/ d I rot tor. Kenneth
Branagh made a sumptuous,
old-fashioned Hoi I y wood
thriller. His follow-up to
Courtesy photo
JFK tails into the top 10 list at number 10. boasting a good
cast and an interesting assassination interpretation
h Terminator 2 ludgmenl
Iho Hus is it movio that
m mn< i* ficllon/action movio
producers will blame, years
from now , for making budg
ets so big With its non-slop
ai lion nod overwhelming
amount of truly special oi
ler Is, it sets new genre
standard It also had a grout
plot, talented u( tors and a
good message to Unit
7 Hidden Agenda A
theatre flop but Iasi mating
politii ul thriller that is ex
tremely close to a real inci
dent In modern day war
tun. Northern Ireland Drum
l o\ plays a conscientious
llntish investigator who
finds iti.it Ins country may be
Henry l'' shows that the man
has u groat amount of wit
and knows how to stage sus
pense on film just about bet
ter than anyone since Hitch
<<x:k And unlike Brian De
1’alrna, he doesn't feel the
need to rip off the master in
doing so
5 Beauty ami the fleas/
Disney keeps quality animat
ed movies alive and does a
turn better with this master
piece of the form It s beauti
fully mounted with tile best
ever animation soundtrack
( omputer technology is used
to support, rattier than re
plate, the pen-and-ink art
ists
4 I'itv id f/o/»e f iercely
independe t filmmaker and
omMiimi .■ iw |ohn Navies
wrote am! nrer ted 4in abso
lutely liri! mt essay on ur
ban (it-; .1 - I bis is every
thin)} that the film version of
Hoofin' l lh<‘ Vanitirs
wasn’t S.1 \ les magnificently
weaves tin ic than three doz
en signife uit speaking parts
into .1 st; v that is lavereii
and never neglects any ( liar
hi ter It s sayles’ ability to
tel I this i ple\ storv with
out overy.. lining the view
er that makes rue feel this is
the best .i:rc( torial effort of
the year
I Hoy \ tho Hood
John Sin,: ion told a simple
and fi.irr vihg story about
inner , 11v . olence and de
spair n overloading the
screen w gunfire, tint by
showing ;.e viewer how
lives are rn apart simply
her ause j pie are horn into
a coniine v tiiat has been
forgotten : a blinded i min
ify it 's ,e important tall to
action
g (a; /-'ear Martin
Scorsese ipdales and im
proves on an already ripe
vengeam e thriller He turns
it into a frightening meta
phor of repentance arid re
demption It s ultra-violent
and disturbing Robert De
Niro provi once again (as if
lie had to) ’bat lie is the most
versatile and perhaps best
actor in i e tna today Com
bine that with Scorsese, who
is less arguably the l>est di
rer tor m films, and you have
a classii vsork
1 Silrth e of thu Lumlis
I thought back In February
that tills n gilt lie tile best of
the year is Jodie l uster
holds her iyy ri and tai klos
Anthony ■ pkms frighten
Turf. MOVIES Page 10
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Coulee; photo
Boyz N tho Hood takes a piece ot the cake at number three m the top 10 list, featuring an
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