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Garçon Means Boy: The 10 Best Films Of The Nineties

Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch a handful from a given decade? This week, join us as we look back at the Nineties.

2. Pulp Fiction (1994) (Dir. Quentin Tarantino)

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Almost twenty years later and Pulp Fiction is still the coolest film ever made. From the moment we first meet two of his fast-talking, caution-to-the-wind characters looking to hold up a diner, we’re completely absorbed in the world laid out before us. This is the one that made pop cultural references into high art, after all, and nobody (not even Tarantino himself) has since pulled off a brilliantly intricate platter of connected stories in quite the way he achieved here.

Taking its roots from classic “pulp” stories, the memorable scenes rack up one after another, evoking the works of Scorsese, Godard and an endless array of exploitation flicks that Tarantino so adores. Given that no scene in this movie isn’t worth discussing in some way, shape or form, its cultural legacy has proven righty huge. “Garçon means boy,” deadpans a waitress, correcting Tim Roth’s translative mistake during the opening. Yep: even Tarantino’s bit-parts get cool lines.

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