Arguably Kaurismaki’s bleakest film, this portrait of a woman trapped in work and domestic monotony spirals into quiet doom and gloom as she contemplates a drastic action.
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Match Factory Girl, The (1990)
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Tag / 1990
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Slacker (1990)
Linklater’s breakthrough indie has the kind of anarchic energy that still feels relevant today, capturing America at the crossroads of stagnation and progress, as his camera roams from one character to another like a stream of consciousness.
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Paris Is Burning (1990)
One of the most iconic queer-themed documentaries of all time sees several trans women, drag queens and voguers reveal their passion and desire to be recognised like any other normal human being as they search for a queer utopia in New York’s Harlem.
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I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
Kaurismaki brings his unmistakable style—and gallows humour—to London as he teams up with French icon Jean-Pierre Leaud for a darkly comic take on one man’s desire to end his life.
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Goodfellas (1990)
Violent, intense, darkly comic and a tour de force experience, this is God-tier Scorsese and one of the greatest films about gangsters and organised crime ever made.
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Revenge (1990)
Visually stunning that is reminiscent of Kurosawa and Tarkovsky, this Kazakh New Wave film treats the theme of vengeance as a long-gestating circle of life and death, efficiently and poetically told in a series of chapters.
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Metropolitan (1990)
Stillman’s accomplished comedy (his debut feature) tackles a particular class milieu in America—what the young, well-to-do Manhattanites deem as ‘urban haute bourgeoisie’—with a wry and sardonic tone that is uniquely his.
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Tale of Springtime, A (1990)
Rohmer’s decent first entry in his ‘Four Seasons’ anthology may seem bright and airy, if only to serve as a direct contrast to the undercurrents of discord and antipathy among loved ones and acquaintances.
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Diary for My Father and Mother (1990)
Not as powerful or involving as Meszaros’ previous semi-autobiographical ‘Diaries’, but as an opportunity to grasp how the 1956 Hungarian Revolution impacted and divided its people, it does an adequate job.
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Days of Being Wild (1990)
Wong Kar-Wai became one of contemporary Chinese cinema’s most distinctive auteurs with this dreamy-romantic if fatalistic evocation of 1960s alienation and forlornness.
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