Picks of 1995

My opinion on Brit Pop might have softened over the years, but if you weren't one of the brainwashed lot into it in 1995, you were pretty much treated like an outcast at the Student Union bar. Anyway, here's Wonderwall my list of films from that year:

12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)

The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)

The Blade (Tsui Hark)

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (Shinichi Fukazawa)

Casino (Martin Scorsese)

Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (John McTiernan)

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Mel Brooks)

GoldenEye (Martin Campbell)

The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi)

Screamers (Christian Duguay) 

Se7en (David Fincher)

Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle)

Toy Story (John Lasseter)

The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)

Village of the Damned (John Carpenter)

Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye (1995). Just because.

Don't know if this lot still hold up, but I though they were good initially: Citizen X (Chris Gerolmo); Clockers (Spike Lee); La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz); Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (Ernest R. Dickerson); Kids (Larry Clark); Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong); Species (Roger Donaldson); and Sudden Death (Peter Hyams). Have not seen them ever since.

The film I'm eager to revisit is Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls. Once regarded as terrible when it was released, but it seems to have undergone a complete 180 as some kind of misunderstood masterpiece. Want to judge for myself, on account of it being a Verhoeven film. I thought it was mediocre when I first watched it, however.