Caro Diario (1994) - Nanni Moretti 

The general consensus was that Italy didn't produce much in the way of edgy cinema in the 90's, and well this film doesn't really do much to change my opinion. This was the decade of Il Postino and Life is Beautiful two films that should be thrown into a fire and never spoken of again. Moretti makes a decent on screen presence but unfortunately for me the film has too much of a nostalgic tone. So much of the film is about supposed good old days. The three act structure is episodic and doesn't really build on each other. A decent amount of light comedy can be found but nothing of the "laugh out loud" variety. Not sure why/how this film managed to make it on the top 1000, especially considering how anti-90's the list was but well there are surely greater mysteries to behold. There were some great shots in the film and the opening remains fairly strong, I just got that sick feeling I typically reserve for Miramax dreck.