Film As Seen By Wayne Case

This column features thumbnail reviews by Wayne Case, a veteran of Hollywood's Big Machine and currently working for an independent film company in Los Angeles.

The following are Wayne's revisited ranking of films for the decade of the Nineties.

The Best Films of the Nineties (alphabetical)

AMERICAN BEAUTY

BREAKING THE WAVES

THE CIDER HOUSE RULES

DANCES WITH WOLVES

FORREST GUMP

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL

PHILADELPHIA

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN / THE THIN RED LINE

SCHINDLER'S LIST

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

My Favorite Films of the Nineties (alphabetical)

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT / PRIMARY COLORS

The Australian Trio: THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA/
MURIEL'S WEDDING / STRICTLY BALLROOM

BOYS ON THE SIDE / POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

The John Grisham Quartet: A TIME TO KILL / THE FIRM / THE CLIENT / THE PELICAN BRIEF

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

LIBERTY HEIGHTS

PRETTY WOMAN

THE PRINCE OF TIDES

The "Oliver Stone" Trio: JFK/ NIXON/ ANY GIVEN SUNDAY

TITANIC

The Worst Films of the Nineties (alphabetical)

8 MILLIMETER (Joel Schumacher, Nicolas Cage)

THE CABLE GUY (Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller)

GONE FISHIN' (Christopher Cain, Joe Pesci)

HUDSON HAWK (Bruce Willis)

THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (The Coen bros., Paul Newman, Jennifer J. Leigh)

I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (Mary Harron, Lili Taylor)

JACK (Francis F. Coppola, Robin Williams)

LOOK WHO'S TALKING TOO (Amy Heckerling, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley)

LOOSE CANNONS (Bob Clark, Dan Aykroyd, Gene Hackman)

MAN TROUBLE (Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson)

NIGHT AND THE CITY (Irvin Winkler, Robert DeNiro, Jessica Lange)

NINE MONTHS (Chris Columbus, Hugh Grant)

RAVENOUS (Antonia Bird, Robert Carlyle)

STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT (Roger Spottiswoode, Sylvester Stallone)

VERY BAD THINGS (Peter Berg)