Far Out Magazine - The 10 Greatest American Independent Movies of the 1990s

"Back in the mid-20th century, the equipment necessary to make a movie was inaccessible and expensive, discriminating against thousands of creative voices from across the globe, but the independent film circuit would upend all this.
This changed considerably in the 1980s and 1990s, however, when innovations in consumer technology allowed people to get their hands on affordable recording equipment, finally giving a cinematic voice to an immeasurable number of people. The result of this was a boom in American independent cinema, particularly in the 1990s, where the likes of Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino and Richard Linklater rose to underground fame.
Take a look at our picks for the ten greatest American independent movies of the 1990s below, which regrettably omits the aforementioned classics of the era and only includes one film from each seminal director".