1994 and My Plug for Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven

Cropduster Writes:

1. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

2. Nobody’s Fool (Robert Benton)

3. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)

4. The Kingdom (Lars von Trier)

5. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)

6. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)

7. Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)

8. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)

9. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

10. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)

for his favorites of 1994. All these movies are amazing. However, where is Clean, Shaven? If you thought Forrest Gump was a character study in 1994, then Clean, Shaven should knock you the other way. The film is an intense study into a recently liberated schizophrenic character played by Peter Greene's. Self mutilations and dreams dot his every day experiences driven by head smashes, murder, and radio static. The images set forth in the movie are also supported by shambles of audiotry screech snips and a stark Eastern Canada backdrop. It grips you like Aronofsky's Pi, and doesn't need the twist ofA Beautiful Mind because the intensity is there constantly...but you still get one.



And don't forget the quotables of '94: Dumb and Dumber and Whit Stillman's Barcelona.