The Top 8 of the Year
1. Zentropa/Europa - Lars Von Trier + Best B/W Movie of the Year + Best Danish Film of the Year + Best Drama-Thriller of the Year + Best Huge Flop Movie of the Year
2. The Commitments - Alan Parker + Most Deserved Hit of the Year + Best Dublin Movie of the Year + Irish Film of the Year + Best Music Film of the Year + Best Poster of the Year
3. Barton Fink - Ethan and Joel Coen + Best American Film of the Year + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year + Best Period Picture of the Year
4. The Great Day on the Beach/Den Store Badedag - Stellan Olsson + Best Adaptation of the Year + Best Coming-of-Age Movie of the Year + Best Copenhagen Movie of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year
5. Bugsy - Barry Levinson + Best Biopic of the Year + Gangster Movie of the Year + Best Las Vegas Movie of the Year + Best Romance of the Year
6. The Fisher King - Terry Gilliam + Best New York Movie of the Year
7. Hot Shots! - Jim Abrahams + Best Action Comedy of the Year + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Spoof of the Year
8. The Adventures of Tintin - seasons 1-3 (1991-92, TV-series) - Stéphane Bernasconi + Best Adventure of the Year + Best Family Title of the Year + French Title of the Year
Other good, recommendable films of the year (in alphabetical order):
The Bottom 4 of the Year
1. Hook - Steven Spielberg + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
2. Delicatessen - Jean-Pierre Jeunet + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
3. Backdraft - Ron Howard + Most Deserved Flop of the Year
4. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah/ゴジラvsキングギドラ (Gojira tai Kingu Gidora) - Kazuki Ohmori
Other mediocre, poor and/or flawed films of the year (in alphabetical order):
High Heels/Tacones Lejanos - Pedro Almodóvar
[15 titles in total]
Notes:
The small amount of titles currently reviewed from 1991 makes this a short post, but one which starts with one unique masterpiece in Lars Von Trier's Europa-probing cinematic trip Zentropa. The year's 2nd best is Alan Parker's effusive soul-music crowd-pleaser The Commitments, and bronze goes to Ethan and Joel Coen's writer's hell dramedy Barton Fink.
The Top 10 goes on with Stellan Olsson's great Copenhagen childhood reminiscing The Great Day on the Beach; Barry Levinson's grand, spectacular gangster biopic Bugsy; Terry Gilliam's imaginative New-Yorker fantasy drama The Fisher King; Jim Abrahams' rip-roaring spoof action comedy Hot Shots!; and with Stéphane Bernasconi's The Adventures of Tintin 3 season animated family adventure TV-series rounding off the list.
On the opposite side of things, Steven Spielberg reigns supreme with the year's most ghastly film, the dreadful Peter Pan re-imagining Hook. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's aggravating, 'whimsical' cannibalism story Delicatessen takes silver; and Ron Howard's big, loud and dumb action picture Backdraft claims the bronze. The Worst of list is rounded off with Kazuki Ohmori's nationalistic kaiju sequel Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.
Robin Williams' star shone clearly - at least commercially - in both Hook and Fisher King; and Robert De Niro enjoyed a lucrative year with Backdraft and Cape Fear. Master filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar joins Spielberg (Hook) and Martin Scorsese (Cape Fear) with a less than inspiring output in 1991, his being High Heels.
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. Backdraft - 14.08 mil. $ range
2. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah - 7 mil. $ range
3. Barton Fink - 3 mil. $ range
4. Zentropa - 3 mil. $ range
5. Bugsy - 2 mil. $ range
6. Høfeber - 1.23 mil. $ range
7. The Great Day on the Beach - 0.9 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 31.21 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. Hook - 50.32 mil. $ range
2. Hot Shots! - 46.4 mil. $ range
3. Cape Fear - 37.88 mil. $ range
4. The Commitments - 6.5 mil. $ range
5. The Fisher King - 4.96 mil. $ range
6. High Heels - 3.2 mil. $ range
7. Delicatessen - 1.88 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 151.14 mil. $
1991 titles currently on the watch-list:
What About Bob?, Curly Sue, Nekromantik 2, Dead Silence, The Addams Family, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, Poison, The Pit and the Pendulum, Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas, The Boy Who Cried Bitch, The Passion of Martin, Raise the Red Lantern, Only the Lonely, The Super, The Rocketeer, Samurai Cop, Once Upon a Time in China
Previous annual lists:
2023 in films - according to Film Excess
2022 in films - according to Film Excess
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
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess
2013 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED VI]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
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 III]
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 [UPDATED I]
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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 II]
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
1995 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess1993 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
1992 in films - according to Film Excess
What do you think of the 1991 lists?
Which 1991 films are your favorites and the bottom of the year in your opinion?
What important 1991 title/s is/are missing on the watch-list?
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