There can't be many better ways to spend five hours sitting in the dark. The performances are incredible, the visuals unforgettable. But the conceptual scaffolding never restricts the power of the stories: a composer’s widow trying to escape the weight of the past, a down-and-out Polish exile scheming his way to riches and revenge, and a fashion model fascinated by a reclusive retired judge. Across three films – ‘Blue’, ‘White’ and ‘Red’ – the director presents a skewed take on the French revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. Kieslowski’s trilogy manages to be one of the towering achievements of European arthouse cinema and a riveting watch from start to finish. Most ’90s moment Irène Jacob’s gum advert photoshoot in ‘Red’ – that wet-look hair!īest line ‘Now I have only one thing left to do: nothing.’ DCĬast Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Irène Jacob

De Niro has only worked with Scorsese one more time since – on 1991’s ‘Cape Fear’ – but there’s now serious talk that they will team up once more for a new film, ‘The Irishman’, which is due to shoot in the next couple of years and will also star Al Pacino.

Its style was so successful for Scorsese that he’s returned to it twice since, first for ‘Casino’ and later for ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’. This might be a story of murder and brutality, but it’s also unashamedly entertaining. It’s still Martin Scorsese’s most widely loved film: a confident and sweeping crime saga spanning the mid-1950s to 1980 and telling the true story of mobster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and his life of crime alongside mafia honchos Jimmy the Gent (Robert De Niro) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci). Most ’90s moment The famous scene in which Joe Pesci scares the hell out of an underling (see below) had fans quoting his lines (‘I’m funny how?’) for the rest of the decade. Written by Cath Clarke, Gail Tolley, Chris Waywell, Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, Kate Lloyd, James Manning & Matthew SingerĬast Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci Grab that Game Boy out of storage and crack open a Surge - these are the 50 best ’90s movies. And if you weren’t alive to experience it live, well, believe us when we say that it was quite an exciting time to be alive and going to the movies.īut what movies for the decade’s absolute best? Time Out’s writers put their Gen X and elder millennial heads together to suss it out. It felt, in many ways, like a collision of the groundbreaking New Hollywood ideals of the ’70s and the crowdpleasing populism of the ’80s. International cinema experienced several new waves that both shocked and thrilled global audiences, while filmmakers in America and Britain explored stories and topics that had previously been taboo outside the arthouse. Think about it: it was an era where the indies went big and blockbusters got even bigger.

Were the ’90s the best decade for movies ever? It’s a statement that feels more controversial than it should be.

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