Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: 1995 in films and TV-series

8/28/2022

1995 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

Top 10 of the Year

1. Casino - Martin Scorsese + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Epic of the Year + Best Gangster Movie of the Year + Best Las Vegas Movie of the Year + Best True-Crime Movie of the Year

2. Smoke - Wayne Wang + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year

3. Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch + Best B/W Movie of the Year + Most Under-appreciated Movie of the Year + Best Western of the Year

4. Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis + Best Drama of the Year + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year

5. Seven - David Fincher + Best Detective Movie of the Year + Best Serial Killer Movie of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 97.92 mil. $ range

6. Heat - Michael Mann + Best Heist Movie of the Year + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year + Best Thriller of the Year

7. Frasier - season 3 - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee + Best Returning TV-series of the Year + Best Sitcom of the Year

8. Die Hard with a Vengeance - John McTiernan + Best Action Movie of the Year + Best Villain of the Year: Jeremy Irons as Simon Peter Gruber/Colonel Peter Krieg

9. Pocahontas - Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Musical of the Year

10. The Crossing Guard - Sean Penn + Best Crime-Thriller of the Year + Best Huge Flop of the Year

Other great movie of the year (in alphabetic order):

Kids - Larry Clark + Best $ Return: 13.6 Times the Cost + Best Independent Movie of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Chloë Sevigny + Best Youth Movie of the Year

Other good, recommendable movies (in alphabetic order):

12 Monkeys - Terry Gilliam

Bad Boys - Michael Bay

Congo - Frank Marshall + Best Ensemble of the Year: Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker, Bruce Campbell, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joe Pantoliano, Delroy Lindo, John Hawkes, James Karen

Desperado - Robert Rodriguez + Breakthrough Actress of the Year: Salma Hayek + Best Erotic Movie of the Year

Dracula: Dead and Loving It - Mel Brooks

The Flower of My Secret/La Flor de Mi Secreto - Pedro Almodóvar + Best Melodrama of the Year

Get Shorty - Barry Sonnenfeld + Best Crime-comedy of the Year

Mighty Aphrodite - Woody Allen + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year

Nick of Time - John Badham + Best Mega-flop Movie of the Year

Othello - Oliver Parker + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Laurence Fishburne

Showgirls - Paul Verhoeven + Best Dance Movie of the Year

Bottom 7 of the Year

1. The Quick and the Dead - Sam Raimi + Most Deserved Flop of the Year + Worst Poster of the Year

2. GoldenEye - Martin Campbell + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year

3. Nixon - Oliver Stone + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 30.16 mil. $ range

4. Four Rooms - Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino

5. The Doom Generation - Gregg Araki

6. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls - Steve Oederkerk

7. Sidste Time - Martin Schmidt

Other failed, poor and/or mediocre films (in alphabetic order):

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah/ゴジラvsデストロイア (Gojira tai Destoroyah) - Takao Okawara + Best Kaiju Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year

Kun en Pige - Peter Schrøder

Mallrats - Kevin Smith + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.4 times the cost

Species - Roger Donaldson + Best Monster Movie of the Year

[33 titles in total]

Notes:

1995 blasts off at Film Excess with no less than 4 masterpieces already presented here on the first version of the annual lists:

Martin Scorsese's big, gaudy Las Vegas gangster epic drama masterpiece Casino beats the house as the year's best film; Wayne Wang's sensitive Brooklyn drama masterpiece Smoke takes silver; and Jim Jarmusch's singular B/W death journey western masterpiece Dead Man bronze. The list goes on with Mike Figgis' remarkable, hard-punching alcoholism drama Leaving Las Vegas; David Fincher's trendsetting jigsaw serial killer thriller Seven; Michael Mann's fantastic heist action-thriller Heat; David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee's return of sitcom favorite, masterpiece Frasier - season 3; John McTiernan's macho, cat-and-mouse action ride Die Hard with a Vengeance; Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg's musically triumphant family animation adventure Pocahontas; and finally Sean Penn's dark, brooding drama The Crossing Guard.

The less enviable list only packs 7 titles so far: Sam Raimi's vacuous western style exercise The Quick and the Dead is the year's worst film; Martin Campbell's charmless Bond revamp GoldenEye takes silver; and Oliver Stone's self-indulgent, overlong biopic - also the year's most expensive flop - Nixon takes bronze. The list continues with Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's inauspicious anthology attempt Four Rooms; Gregg Araki's youth provocation The Doom Generation; Steve Oederkerk's disappointing comedy sequel Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; and finally Martin Schmidt's hammy teen horror Sidste Time.

Among the other noteworthy films of the year are Larry Clark's great transgressive youth examination Kids; Frank Marshall's hammy sci-fi actioner Congo; Mel Brooks' funny, last directorial effort Dracula: Dead and Loving It; and Paul Verhoeven's scandalous stripper drama and major flop Showgirls.

Among the other great filmmakers who churned out sub-par products in 1995 were Kevin Smith (Mallrats) and Roger Donaldson (Species).

Among the stars who affirmed or re-affirmed great audience power were Bruce Willis (12 Monkeys and Die Hard with a Vengeance were both big moneymakers); Brad Pitt (Seven and 12 Monkeys), Morgan Freeman (Seven), Robert De Niro (Casino was nearly a theatrical hit and Heat certainly was), Forest Whitaker (Smoke and Species), Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls), Will Smith and Martin Lawrence (Bad Boys), Pierce Brosnan (GoldenEye) and Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas). No female stars in the batch yet.

And in the other group of less lucky stars of the year, who failed to catch big audiences: Jack Nicholson saw his drama effort get a minuscule North-American release (The Crossing Guard); Anthony Hopkins similarly couldn't get American audiences excited for his presidential epic (Nixon); Johnny Depp was good in two flops (Dead Man and Nick of Time); Kenneth Branagh (Othello) and Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman (The Quick and the Dead).

Later updates of the lists will explore many more titles of the year.

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Nixon - 30.16 mil. $ range

2. Showgirls - 29.92 mil. $ range

3. Nick of Time - 27 mil. $ range

4. The Quick and the Dead - 16.2 mil. $ range

5. Othello - 8.6 mil. $ range

6. The Crossing Guard - 6.2 mil. $

7. Mallrats - 5.1 mil. $ range

8. Mighty Aphrodite - 4.6 mil. $ range

9. Kun en Pige - 2.8 mil. $ range

10. Sidste Time - 0.28 mil. $ range

= Combined losses: 130.86 mil. $

Biggest hits of the year:

[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Seven - 97.92 mil. $ range

2. Pocahontas - 83.4 mil. $ range

3. GoldenEye - 80.84 mil. $ range

4. Die Hard with a Vengeance - 56.44 mil. $ range

5. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls - 54.92 mil. $ range

6. 12 Monkeys - 38.02 mil. $ range

7. Bad Boys - 37.56 mil. $ range

8. Desperado - 16.2 mil. $ range

9. Get Shorty - 15.79 mil. $ range

10. Heat - 14.96 mil. $ range

= Combined profits: 496.05 mil. $

1995 titles currently on the watch-list:

Evil Ed, Piranha, Jeffrey, Cyclo, Safe, The Cure, The Mangler, Friday, The Four Corners of Nowhere, Citizen X, Notes from Underground, While You Were Sleeping, Billy Madison

Previous annual lists:

2021 in films - according to Film Excess

2020 in films - according to Film Excess

2019 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

2019 in films - according to Film Excess
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2018 in films - according to Film Excess
2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess

2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess
2007 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess

2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2005 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

2004 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2004 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2002 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2001 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

2000 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

1999 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

1998 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

1997 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

1996 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

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Donald Sutherland has passed away

Born in Canada, Sutherland battled polio as a child. His first credit was in Suspense (1963, TV-series) and his first film was The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Later credits in his remarkable career include The Saint (1965-66), The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), 1900 (1976), Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Ordinary People (1980), A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), Fallen (1998), Virus (1999), Fierce People (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lord of War (2005), The Hunger Games (2012), The Undoing (2020, miniseries) and many more. He passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Roger Corman has passed away

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Corman had a sprawling, intellectually hungry life as a youth and young man before arriving with his first film in 1955, Five Guns West. He would follow that with titles such as Apache Woman, It Conquered the World, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Teenage Cave Man, A Bucket of Blood, House of Usher, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Raven, The Terror, The Masque of Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Bloody Mama and many more. As a producer he was behind almost 500 films. Arguably among the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, Corman passed away at age 98. R.I.P.

William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

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