A time of novelty rave choons and when I took my first steps into a much larger world in film. 1992 was when I first discovered the legendary Psychotronic Video basement store in Camden Town. It was the most eye opening education into film since the heady times of Alex Cox's run presenting Moviedrome (1988) and Jonathan Ross' The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1988).
Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Basic Instict (Paul Verhoeven)
Braindead, AKA Dead Alive (Peter Jackson)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola)
Candyman (Bernard Rose)
Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
Fortress (Stuart Gordon)
Full Contact (Ringo Lam)
Hard Boiled (John Woo)
Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel & Benoît Poelvoorde)
Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
Under Siege (Andrew Davis)
The conspicuous omission of Clint Eastwood's acclaimed western, Unforgiven is intentional since it has forever been ruined by my mates heckling it at the cinema; whinging about it being nothing like the Sergio Leone films. Same lot dragged me with them to watch the awful The Lover in the same year. Harrison Ford's suit and tie action hero movie Patriot Games was also a favourite; largely because of Sean Bean, but I've killed that film having seen it so many times on TV and James Horner's recycling of his Aliens soundtrack really irks me somewhat.
Also enjoyed: Juice, Batman Returns, Single White Female, California Man (AKA, Encino Man) and Poison Ivy at the time, but have never seen them ever since. No idea how any of them hold up today. After revisiting Deep Cover, Fortress and Romper Stomper this year, I was surprised by how well they had aged. What have aged like terrible CGI are: Wayne's World, The Lawnmower Man and Sleepwalkers. The latter is especially tragic as this humble blogger was utterly smitten with Twin Peaks actress Mädchen Amick back in the day.
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4 comments:
Batman Returns and California Man definitely hold up for me.
One I need to rewatch to see how it holds up nowadays is White Men Can't Jump
Other '92 faves:
Malcolm X
Light Sleeper
Hoffa
I remember liking White Men Can’t Jump. Haven’t seen it since the mid nineties, though.
Confession: I’ve never seen Malcolm X.
It's one of the few worthy flicks that's actually good.
I’ll add it to the watchlist. Hopefully it’s well paced for its epic running time.
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