5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1990

I still have a few reviews from Tribeca to share with you but we're trying to get ourselves back into our old habits, and so I went ahead and asked my phone to give me a number between 1 and 100 this morning so we could do one of these posts, and here we be. Siri gave me 90, so we're taking a look at The Movies of 1990. I was 12 turning 13 that year and it pretty much marks the exact moment I was becoming a Movie Freak - I had definitely started watching the Oscars, and I have a fairly cherished memory of going to see one of my Top 5 movies (the one with the little green monsters) in the theater. So let's get to it! This is a really very weird bunch of movies, but remember we're choosing "Favorite" not "Best"...

(dir. Rob Reiner)

-- released November 30th, 1990 -- 

(dir. Joe Dante)

-- released June 15th 1990 -- 

(dir. Paul Verhoeven)

-- released June 1st 1990 -- 

(dir. David Lynch)

-- released August 17th 1990 -- 

(dir. Frank Henelotter)

-- released June 1st 1990 --

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Runners-up: Goodfellas (dir. Scorsese), Home Alone (dir. Columbus), Edward Scissorhands (dir. Tim Burton), Pretty Woman (dir. Garry Marshall), The Witches (dir. Nicolas Roeg), Nightbreed (dir. Clive Barker), Stella (dir. John Erman)...

... Cry Baby (dir. John Waters), Quick Change (dir. Howard Franklin), Postcards from the Edge (dir. Mike Nichols), Miller's Crossing (dir. Coens), Troll 2 (dir.  Claudio Fragasso), Mermaids (dir. Richard Benjamin), Alice (dir. Woody Allen), Ju Dou (dir. Zhang Yimou), The Reflecting Skin (dir. Phillip Ridley)

Never seen: Longtime Companion (dir.  Norman René)

Dreams (dir. Kurosawa)

King of New York (dir. Abel Ferrera)

Henry & June (dir. Philip Kaufman)

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