Favorites Of 1991

[oscar jubis]

1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang/Taiwan)
2. BUTTERFLY WINGS (J. Bajo Ulloa/Spain)
-- TOTO THE HERO (Jaco Van Dormael/Belgium)
4. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar Wai/Hong Kong)
-- LIFE AND NOTHING MORE (Abbas Kiarostami/Iran)
-- LA BELLE NOISEUSE (Jacques Rivette/France)
7. DELICATESSEN (Jeunet & Caro/France)
-- RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou/China)
9. LIFE ON A STRING (Chen Kaige/China)
-- LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE (Leo Carax/France)
-- THE OX (Sven Nykvist/Sweden)

Runners Up
Lovers (Aranda), Highway Patrolman (Cox), Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Godard), Night and Day (Akerman), Van Gogh (Pialat), Zentropa (Trier), Memories of Yesterday (Takahata), Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa), Woman of the Port (Ripstein), Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski), Madame Bovary (Chabrol).

As far as I'm concerned, 1991 is simply the best year for films from around the world. Notice the prominent directors featured among the runners-up. These "also-rans" compare favorably with Top 10 lists from other years, especially the 1980s.