#173 – Close-Up, (کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک), 1990, Abbas Kiarostami
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
#473 – Edward Scissorhands, 1990, Tim Burton
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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#476 – Dances with Wolves, 1990, Kevin Costner
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he’s assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
#603 – Miller’s Crossing, 1990, Joel Coen
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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#672 – Days of Being Wild, (阿飛正傳), 1990, Wong Kar-wai
Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls’ hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn’t his mother.
#793 – Cyrano de Bergerac, 1990, Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
#973 – Awakenings, 1990, Penny Marshall
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to “awaken” the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life’s simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
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#994 – Slacker, 1990, Richard Linklater
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna’s Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
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