7/10

Why was this chosen for 1994?
I came across this one while compiling the #1994list and am always up to see more from an acclaimed director that I’ve not taken much of a shine to - Claire Denis in this case. 

One day, when the years project is all over - I’d love to do a deep dive into Claire Denis’ work. She’s certainly an intriguing director if nothing else and I tend to either strongly dislike her films…

7.5/10

Why was this chosen for 1994?
Rewatch. I saw this not terribly long ago (it’s actually been like 10-11 years), but felt it’s one I’ve always remembered fondly and wanted to give it another go. 

The premise here has been done a lot actually (maybe not before 1994, however). Through a series of circumstances, three flatmates come upon a large sum of money and the entire movie is the repercussions of that discovery. Think A Simple Plan or even…

When I was a kid, a neighbor lady used to take me and my brother to the movies. We didn't have a decent movie theater in the town that we lived, so we'd hop into her car and she'd take us to the next closest town - about twenty miles north. She took us to a theater called Cinema World, which my brother and I would jokingly call Cinnamon World. It was kind of a dive theater, an independently owned…

I had seen this once before and according to a combination of my memory and IMDB, I wasn't THAT crazy about it - barely remembering it and only having it marked as a '6' on the movie site. I actually took to it quite a bit more this time around and even wondered why I hadn't recalled this one more fondly. I was dog tired when I got off work (as per usual), so coming out of the shower and…