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Netflix Shines Light On 1994 As Great Year For Film; What Got Left On Cutting Room Floor
Netflix Shines Light On 1994 As Great Year For Film; What They Left On Cutting Room Floor
I have mine, and with the exception of the seminal Farrelly Brothers-directed Dumb & Dumber with Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels, and Luc Besson’s Leon: The Professional, the film that stars Jean Reno and a sinister Gary Oldman, and introduced the world to the outsized talent Natalie Portman, and maybe Ron Howard’s The Paper, there’s a lot missing. How about Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, The Lion King, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Clear and Present Danger, Sicario, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Interview With The Vampire, Speed, Ed Wood, and the other two films in a starmaking year for Jim Carrey, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and The Mask. Staying on the “4s”, 1994 pales in comparison to the seminal year of 1974, which saw the release of such films as: Coppola’s doubleheader of The Godfather Part II and The Conversation, Chinatown, Mel Books’ Blazing Saddles & Young Frankenstein, Tobe Hooper’s classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the 007 pic T he Man With The Golden Gun, The Longest Yard – the one with Burt Reynolds – The Taking of Pelham 123, Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Thunderbolt And Lightfoot, Lenny, Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express, the disaster triple bill of Airport 1975, The Towering Inferno & Earthquake, and the Blaxploitation classic Foxy Brown with Pam Grier?
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