Film Comment, the bi-monthly magazine put out by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, asked “a blue-ribbon panel of people with a serious personal and professional investment in film” to name the top flicks of the 1990s.

The 114 respondents included critics, filmmakers, authors and archivists, each of them listing their choice for film of the decade.

The results can be found in the January-February issue of the mag. Meanwhile, the Society’s Walter Reade Theater will screen 12 of the films that were selected, starting Friday and going through March 8.

They range from such popular fare as Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” to three imported pics making their New York debuts.

Those first-timers are Abbas Kiarostami’s “The Wind Will Carry Us,” Lars von Trier’s “Idiots” and Manoel de Oliveira’s “Anxiety.”

We’re especially eager to see “Idiots,” which is von Trier’s follow-up to the acclaimed “Breaking the Waves.” His new film follows a bunch of Danes who get their kicks by pretending to be physically and mentally handicapped.

It’s shot according to the controversial Dogma 95 philosophy, a series of 10 rules that mandate, for example, that all filming be done on location and that only hand-held cameras be used.

Rounding out the Walter Reade series are Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “The Puppetmaster,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Age of Innocence,” Jean-Luc Godard’s “JLG/JLG,” Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Red,” Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man” and the Coen brothers’ “Miller’s Crossing.”

Information: http://www.filmlinc.com and (212) 875-5600.

It wasn’t planned, of course, but just two weeks after the death of French filmmaker Roger Vadim, his hit film “And God Created Woman” has been re-released on video, digitally remastered by the distributor Home Vision.

The 1956 erotic romance made Vadim and his then-teenage wife, Brigitte Bardot, into international stars. Pouting sex kitten Bardot heats up the screen as a young woman who bestows her favors on three men.

The advertising slogan at the time proclaimed, “God created woman, but the devil made Bardot.”

A scene with Bardot dancing barefoot on a table is still one of the most titillating scenes in French cinema.

Vadim met Bardot when she was 15. He guided her early career as a fashion model and later introduced her to the screen.

They married in 1952 when she was 18. He was 24. They divorced in 1957.

Fans of Erick Zonca’s “The Dreamlife of Angels” will be happy to hear that two more films by the talented French director will get a two-week run, starting Wednesday at Film Forum (Houston Street, between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street).

“The Little Thief” is the 65-minute-long story of an angry young man who falls in with a gang of petty criminals. “Alone,” which clocks in at 34 minutes, tells of a young woman who turns to crime after losing her job and her apartment.

Information: http://www.filmforum.com and (212) 727-8110.

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post.He can be e-mailed at vam@nypost.com.

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