Adam Villani's 5-best lists

5 best films of the year
1. The City of Lost Children (France, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro)
2. Babe (USA/Australia, Chris Noonan)
3. The Kingdom (Denmark, Lars von Trier)
4. Faust (Czech Republic, Jan Svankmajer)
5. A Little Princess (USA, Alfonso Cuaron)

5 next best films of the year
1. Clockers (USA, Spike Lee)
2. Burnt by the Sun (Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov)
3. Twelve Monkeys (USA, Terry Gilliam)
4. Crumb (USA, Terry Zwigoff)
5. Exotica (Canada, Atom Egoyan)

5 third best films of the year
1. Richard III (UK, Richard Loncraine)
2. Wild Reeds (France, Andre Techine)
3. Shanghai Triad (China, Zhang Yimou)
4. Sense and Sensibility (UK, Ang Lee)
5. To Die For (USA, Gus Van Sant)

5 most underrated films of the year
1. Friday
2. Beyond Rangoon
3. The Glass Shield
4. Don Juan de Marco
5. Before Sunrise

5 movies with the greatest gap between everybody else's praise and
my lack thereof
1. Persuasion
2. Muriel's Wedding
3. Kids
4. Safe
5. While You Were Sleeping

5 worst movies of the year
1. Showgirls
2. Desperado
3. Johnny Mnemonic
4. Destiny Turns on the Radio
5. In the Mouth of Madness

5 weirdest movies of the year
1. The City of Lost Children
2. The Mystery of Rampo
3. Faust
4. The Kingdom
5. Safe

5 acting awards
Best performance by a lead actor: Johnny Depp in Don Juan de Marco
Best performance by a lead actress: Gong Li in Shanghai Triad
Best performance by a supporting actor: Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects
Best performamce by a supporting actress: Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite
Best performance by a machine: The real giant robot in Judge Dredd

5 most gorgeous babes in movies of the year
1. Marisa Tomei in The Perez Family
2. Ashley Judd in Heat
3. Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise
4. Salma Hayek in Desperado
5. Nicole Kidman in To Die For

5 best performances by voices of the year
1. The duck in Babe
2. R. Lee Ermey as the soldier men leader in Toy Story
3. Jean-Louis Trintrignant as Irvin in The City of Lost Children
4. The Jester in Faust
5. Babe in Babe

5 miscellaneous awards:
Best Trailer: Batman Forever
Best Revival Film: The Profound Desire of the Gods
Best New Suburban Multiplex I've Been To: UA Mission Oaks 10 in Camarillo
Best Song Written for a Movie: "Friday" by Ice Cube, for Friday
Best Original Score: Exotica

5 miscellaneous disses:
Worst Trailer: For the rerelease of Taxi Driver
Worst New Suburban Multiplex I've Been To: Edwards 21 Megaplex in Irvine
Most misleading video box art: Miramax's "Picture Bride"
Most self-important yet utterly false film: Kids
Most inexplicable praise for a movie in its print ads: somebody saying
"It doesn't get any better than this" about Father of the Bride Part II.

5 movies with bad endings:
1. Safe (The setup was very thought-provoking, and then it went nowhere)
2. The Postman (Il Postino) (Things ceased to happen about 20 minutes
before the end)
3. Judge Dredd (It seemed like 15 minutes were cut out of the end. It could
have ruled.)
4. Dead Presidents (Should have ended 10 minutes sooner. Still unfocussed.)
5. The Basketball Diaries (Great potential, great acting, poor screenplay,
really stupid ending)

5 movies with good costumes/production design/art direction:
1. The City of Lost Children
2. A Little Princess
3. Richard III
4. Shanghai Triad
5. Casino, Devil in a Blue Dress, and Braveheart

5 movies with great cinematography:
1. Seven
2. Shanghai Triad
3. A Little Princess
4. The Secret of Roan Inish
5. Clockers