Premiere magazine's 15-year lists

For Premiere magazine's 15th anniversary issue they've compiled "best of" lists for the period of their existence, 1987-2002. Such as...

BEST DRAMA: Do the Right Thing, GoodFellas, Howard's End, Schindler's List, Unforgiven

BEST COMEDY: Groundhog Day, Best in Show, Dumb & Dumber, Raising Arizona, Rushmore

BEST SCI-FI: The Matrix, Minority Report, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Total Recall

BEST ACTION FLICK: Die Hard, The Bourne Identity, The Fugitive, Lethal Weapon, Speed

BEST NOIR: The Usual Suspects, Thje Grifters, L.A. Confidential, The Last Seduction

BEST WAR MOVIE: The Thin Red Line, Black Hawk Down, Empire of the Sun, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan

BEST HORROR FILM: The Silence of the Lambs, The Blair Witch Project, Dead Ringers, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Fatal Attraction

BEST ROMANTIC DRAMA: The English Patient, The Age of Innocence, Shakespeare in Love, Titanic, A Walk on the Moon

BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY: Bull Durham, Four Weddings & a Funeral, Moonstruck, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally...

BEST ANIMATED MOVIE: Toy Story, Beauty & the Beast, The Lion King, Shrek, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

BEST FIRST FILM: American Beauty, Boyz N the Hood, Citizen Ruth, Reservoir Dogs, sex, lies & videotape

BEST INDIE FILM: Pulp Fiction, Being John Malkovich, Memento, sex, lies & videotape, Trainspotting

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Au Revoir Les Enfants, Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon, Europa,Europa, Farwell,My Concubine, Three Colors trilogy: Blue, White & Red, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Crumb, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Hoop Dreams, The Thin Blue Line, When We Were Kings


Those are their movie lists anyway. They also have more M-TV type categories like "best kiss" and "best hair", but focusing just on the movies for now, what do you think of the lists? What did they forget?

1987-2002 is a very arbitrary timeframe, but what are your lists? The problem I always have with so many categories is how do you determine what is a romantic comedy vs. a plain old comedy, and can't a romantic comedy be the best overall comedy, what is Noir to you, how do you define a horror movie, etc.? ANYway, give it a shot!

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So many films defy easy categorization, but my lists...

BEST DRAMA:
1. GoodFellas (1990)
2. Do the Right Thing (1989)
3. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
4. Fearless (1993)
5. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
6. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
7. Short Cuts (1993)
8. Bird (1988)
9. Wonder Boys (2000)
10. Clean & Sober (1988)

BEST COMEDY:
1. Rushmore (1998)
2.. Amelie (2001)
3. Raising Arizona (1987)
4. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
5. To Die For (1995)
6. The Big Lebowski (1998)
7. Waiting for Guffman (1996)
8. Quick Change (1990)
9. Midnight Run (1988)
10. Withnail & I (1987)

BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY:
1. Rushmore (1998)
2. Amelie (2001)
3. Broadcast News (1987)
4. L.A. Story (1991)
5. Joe vs. the Volcano (1990)
6. Say Anything... (1989)
7. The War of the Roses (1989)
8. Defending Your Life (1991)
9. Return to Me (2000)
10. Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

BEST SCI-FI:
1. 12 Monkeys (1995)
2. Akira (1988)
3. The Hidden (1987)
4 The City of Lost Children (1995)
5. RoboCop (1987)
6. Dark City (1998)
7. Tremors (1990)
8. Body Snatchers (1994)
9. Communion (1989)
10. Minority Report (2002)

BEST ACTION FLICK:
1. Die Hard (1988)
2. Leon: The Profesional (1994)
3. True Lies (1994)
4. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
5. The Fugitive (1993)
6. In the Line of Fire (1993)
7. Run Lola Run (1999)
8. Extreme Prejudice (1987)
9. Die Hard: With A Vengeance (1995)
10. Desperado (1995)


BEST NOIR:
1. SE7EN (1995)
2. Shallow Grave (1994)
3. Memento (2001)
4. Fresh (1994)
5. Blood & Concrete: a love story (1991)
6. Angel Heart (1997)
7. The Hot Spot (1990)
8. The Grifters (1990)
9. After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
10. Insomnia (1997)

BEST WAR MOVIE:
1. The Thin Red Line (1998)
2. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
3. Glory (1989)
4. The Beast (1988)
5. No Man's Land (2001)
6. Casulties of War (1989)
7. Empire of the Sun (1987)
8. Henry V (1989)
9. Gettysburg (1993)
10. A Midnight Clear (1991)

HORROR FILM:
1. Jacob's Ladder (1990)
2. Near Dark (1987)
3. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
4. Angel Heart (1987)
5. Vanishing (1988)
6. Stir of Echoes (1999)
7. Nattavagen (1994)
8. Misery (1990)
9. The Lost Boys (1987)
10. The Others (2001)


I'll finish later.

hmmm, interesting...though i can think of a few that might not fit the categories, but would otherwise include...so i'm gonna feel free to take some liberties with their categories:
drama:
black rain
matewan
millenium actress
do the right thing
jin roh
to live
twilight of the cockroaches
princess mononoke
sex lies and videotape
raise the red lantern

comedy:
faust
pompoko
school daze
male games
royal tenenbaums
minbo no onna (anti-extortion woman)
big lewbowski
legend of the drunken master
how to get ahead in advertising

romantic comedy (jeez, what the hell happened to lina wertmuller?):
tampopo
whispers of the heart
eat drink man woman
jungle fever
metropolitan
only yesterday
the eel
chungking express
amelie
last days of disco

sci fi:
royal space force
memories
akira
existenz
labrynthe tales
robot carnival
twelve monkeys
ghost in the shell
metropolis
avalon

action:
crouching tiger hidden dragon
blood
starship troopers
pistol opera
cowboy bebop
robocop
lord of the rings
star wars, episode 2
riki-oh
ninja scroll

noir-ish (stupid broad movie terms):
crimes and misdemeanors
a taxing woman
the grifters
shanghai triad
batman: mask of the phantasm
the last seduction
shallow grave
a taxing woman's return
wild things
perfect blue

i'm going to leave it there for now, cause i gots to gets to class.

1987 - Present

Best Drama: Schindler's List, Boogie Nights, Goodfellas, In the Name of the Father, Forrest Gump, Boyz in the Hood, Dances with Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy, In the Bedroom, JFK.

Best Comedy: A Fish Called Wanda, Raising Arizona, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, There's Something About Mary, Dumb & Dumber, Oscar, O' Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Dogma.

Best Sci-fi: The Matrix, Minority Report, The Fifth Element, Dark City, Signs, Twelve Monkeys, Predator, Starship Troopers, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Star Wars E2: The Attack of the Clones.

Best Action: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Backdraft, Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, Natural Born Killers, Speed, True Lies, Fight Club, Gladiator.

Best Noir: The Usual Suspects, The Grifters, Mulholland Drive, LA Confidential, The Man Who Wasn't There, Se7en, Miller's Crossing, The Untouchables, The Last Seduction.

Best War: Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Glory, Empire of the Sun, Full Metal Jacket, The Messenger, Black Hawk Down, Gettysburg, The Thin Red Line, Henry V.

Best Horror: The Blair Witch Project, Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, The Others, Frailty, Evil Dead II, Sleepy Hollow, Jacob's Ladder, Stir of Echoes, Flatliners.

I'm getting a headache, I'll finish tomorrow.

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BEST FIRST FILM:
1. In the Company of Men (1997), Neil LaBute
2. Bottle Rocket (1996), Wes Anderson
3. Henry V (1989), Kenneth Branagh
4. sex, lies & videotape (1989), Steven Soderbergh
5. Roger & Me (1989), Michael Moore
6. The Indian Runner (1991), Sean Penn
7. Withnail & I (1987), Bruce Robinson
8. Shallow Grave (1994), Danny Boyle
9. Joe vs. the Volcano (1990), John Patrick Shanley
10. Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), Anthony Minghella

BEST INDIE FILM:
1. Schizopolis (1996)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
3. Being John Malkovich (1999)
4. Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
5. Roger & Me (1989)
6. Men with Guns (1997)
7. Smoke & Blue in the Face (1995)
8. The Music of Chance (1993)
9. One False Move (1992)
10. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

BEST ROMANTIC DRAMA:
1. The Age of Innocence (1993)
2. Wings of Desire (1987)
3. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
4. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
5. Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991)
6. Chinese Box (1998)
7. The Princess & the Warrior (2001)
8. Under the Sand (2001)
9. Barfly (1987)
10. Snow Falling On Cedars (1999)

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
1. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
2. Roger & Me (1989)
3. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
4. Hoop Dreams (1993)
5. Visions of Light: the Art of Cinematography (1992)
6. My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski (1999)
7. Speaking in Strings (1999)
8. The Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
9. Brother's Keeper (1992)
10. Crumb (1994)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
1. Toy Story (1995)
2. Akira (1988)
3. Waking Life (2001)
4. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
5. Beauty & the Beast (1991)
6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
7. Chicken Run (2000)
8. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
9. Toy Story 2 (1999)
10. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM:
1. Wings of Desire (1987)
2. Amelie (2001)
3. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
4. Run Lola Run (1999)
5. Delicatessen (1991)
6. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
7. Insomnia (1997)
8. la femme Nikita (1990)
9. Camille Claudel (1988)
10. Open Your Eyes (1997)

war (i tend to avoid these movies, cause they tend to suck, but i'll try anyway, maybe just five):
1. thin red line
2. full metal jacket
3. grave of fireflies
4. glory
5. starship troopers (heh, superb wwII propaganda jokes in cheesy teenie bopper mode=awesome.)

horror:
1. cemetary man (dellamorte dellamore)
2. perfect blue
3. evil dead II
4. hiruko the goblin
5. bride of the re-animator (though not as good as the original, or 'from beyond.')
6. vanishing
7. santa sangre
8. dead alive
9. angel dust
10. the faculty (good grief)