5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1992

I always like it when I ask Siri for a number between 1 and 100 (as we do weekly) and she gives me a year with meaning outside of the random pleasure doing this series brings me, and so when she gave me "92" today I smiled - it's the 25th anniversary of 1992 and all the films therein! We've already noted that fact with a couple of the titles you'll see below (we just did one yesterday, in fact). 

I didn't have a hard time picking a Top 5 Faves for 1992 (unlike when we did 1993, where I had to make it a Top 10) but there are reams and reams of runners-up - movies I like a whole lot but don't love enough to expand this list past 5. So it's a good year, if not a "great" one.

Still I was just coming of age as a cinephile at this moment in time (I was 15 and living inside the local video store) so I saw a whole helluva lot, but these fall into a chasm where a lot of them I haven't re-watched many of them since they came out. Anyway...

(dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

-- released on November 13th 1992 --

(dir. Tim Burton)

-- released on June 19th 1992 --

(dir. Robert Zemeckis)

-- released on July 31st 1992 --

(dir. James Ivory)

-- released on February 26th 1992 --

(dir. Michael Haneke)

-- released on September 28th 1992 --

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Runners-up:  Aladdin (dir. John Musker), Reservoir Dogs (dir. Quentin Tarantino), Alien 3 (dir. David Fincher), Basic Instinct (dir. Paul Verhoeven), A League of Their Own (dir. Penny Marshall)...

... The Crying Game (dir. Neil Jordan), My Cousin Vinnie (dir. Jonathan Lynn), Candyman (dir. Bernard Rose), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (dir. David Lynch), Wayne's World(dir. Penelope Spheeris), Sister Act(dir. Emile Ardolino), Universal Soldier (dir. Roland Emmerich), Single White Female (dir. Barbet Schroeder)...

... Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (dir. Columbus), White Men Can't Jump (dir. Ron Shelton), Husbands and Wives(dir. Woody Allen), Poison Ivy (dir. Katt Shea), Boomerang (dir. Hudlin)...

... Raising Cain (dir. Brain DePalma), Orlando (dir. Sally Potter), Malcolm X (dir. Spike Lee), The Mambo Kings (dir. Arne Glimcher),Porco Rosso (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)...

... Romper Stomper(dir. Geoffrey Wright), The Story of Qui Ju(dir. Zhang Yimou), Strictly Ballroom (dir. Baz Luhrmann), The Lover(dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud), Bitter Moon (dir. Roman Polanski), Housesitter (dir. Frank Oz), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (dir. Curtis Hanson), The Last of the Mohicans (dir. Michael Mann), Toys (dir. Barry Levinson)

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