Throwback Muriels: 1991

Friday, July 8, 2011

1991

Picture:
Barton Fink
La Belle Noiseuse
JFK
The Double Life of Veronique
Life Is Sweet
Slacker
Poison
Dead Again
Defending Your Life
Naked Lunch

Director:
Joel Coen, Barton Fink
Jacques Rivette, La Belle Noiseuse
Oliver Stone, JFK
Krzystzof Kieslowski, The Double Life of Veronique
Mike Leigh, Life Is Sweet

Male Lead:
Michel Piccoli, La Belle Noiseuse
John Turturro, Barton Fink
Jim Broadbent, Life Is Sweet
Jason Patric, Rush
Jeff Bridges, The Fisher King

Female Lead:
Emmanuelle Beart, La Belle Noiseuse
Alison Steadman, Life Is Sweet
Irene Jacob, The Double Life of Veronique
Kerry Fox, An Angel at My Table
Juliet Stevenson, Truly, Madly, Deeply

Male Supporting:
John Goodman, Barton Fink
Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
Samuel L. Jackson, Jungle Fever
John Mahoney, Barton Fink
Timothy Spall, Life Is Sweet

Female Supporting:
Judy Davis, Barton Fink
Jane Birkin, La Belle Noiseuse
Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King
Jane Horrocks, Life Is Sweet
Meryl Streep, Defending Your Life

Screenplay:
Barton Fink
Life Is Sweet
Defending Your Life
Dead Again
La Belle Noiseuse

Ensemble:
Life Is Sweet
Barton Fink
La Belle Noiseuse
Slacker
The Commitments

Cinematography:
The Double Life of Veronique (Idziak)
Naked Lunch (Suschitzky)
Barton Fink (Deakins)
Ju Dou (Gu/Lun)
La Belle Noiseuse (Lubtchansky)

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Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.