While the local population of Dunkerque drinks away their dissatisfaction in life during the yearly Karnaval Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
The Ugly (1997) Scott Reynolds, Paolo Rotondo, Paul Glover, Chris Graham
Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state. Read More »
The Miracle of P. Tinto AKA El milagro de P. Tinto (1998) Javier Fesser, Luis Ciges, Janusz Ziemniak, Pablo Pinedo
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a their own child more than anything Read More »
Resident Alien (1990) Jonathan Nossiter, Quentin Crisp, Peter Walker, Gilbert Stafford
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Read More »
The Children (1990) Tony Palmer, Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Siri Neal
Rose Sellars (Kim Novak) is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower (Sir Ben Kingsley). Read More »
Truly Madly Deeply (1990) Anthony Minghella, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Jenny Howe
Once upon a time there were two people in love, their names were Nina and Jamie. Read More »
Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992) Ernie Gehr
An experimental short in which San Francisco is viewed from an elevator moving up and down 24 floors. Read More »
New York Undercover Cop (1993) Tôru Murakawa, Chad McQueen, Mira Sorvino
Allegedly based on a true story, this film follows the life of Toshi, a Japanese man living in America Read More »
Distant Justice (1992) Tôru Murakawa, Bunta Sugawara, David Carradine, George Kennedy
After his daughter is kidnapped and his wife murdered by drug dealers Read More »
The Stairway to the Distant Past AKA Harukana jidai no kaidan o (1995) Kaizô Hayashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Haruko Wanibuchi
Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. Read More »
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance AKA 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994) Michael Haneke, Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man. Read More »
I Am Keiko AKA Keiko desu kedo (1997) Sion Sono, Keiko Suzuki
Keiko Suzuki is a lonely waitress in Tokyo. Her father passes away of cancer Read More »
Flowers from Another World AKA Flores de otro mundo (1999) Icíar Bollaín, José Sancho, Luis Tosar, Lissete Mejía
In the small town of Santa Eulalia, singles organize a party attended by a coach of women marriages. Read More »
Alien Avengers II (1997) Dave Payne, George Wendt, Julie Brown, Anastasia Sakelaris
A vigilante alien works with his family to rid Earth of criminals. Read More »
Zelda (1993) Pat O’Connor, Natasha Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rutanya Alda
Famous 1920s modernist US writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre’s Read More »