The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Passion AKA Szenvedély (1998) György Fehér, Ildikó Bánsági, Djoko Rosic, János Derzsi
In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband. Read More »
April Story AKA Shigatsu monogatari (1998) Shunji Iwai, Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kaori Fujii
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Read More »
Rich in Love (1992) Bruce Beresford, Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe
Charleston, South Carolina. The Odoms have lived a life of the traditions of the American south in their longtime, large family beach front home. Read More »
Niagara, Niagara (1997) Bob Gosse, Robin Tunney, Henry Thomas, Michael Parks
“Niagra, Niagra” begins quietly in a drugstore in Poughkeepsie, where Marcie, the film’s disarming heroine, likes to shoplift. Read More »
Siberia (1998) Robert Jan Westdijk, Roeland Fernhout, Hugo Metsers, Vlatka Simac
Goof and Hugo are flatmates in Amsterdam who have made a tidy sum from having sex with tourists, then robbing them. Read More »
Wild Man Blues (1997) Barbara Kopple, Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Soon-Yi Previn
Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen Read More »
The Dark (1993) Craig Pryce, Stephen McHattie, Scott Wickware, Brion James
Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. Read More »
Nirvana (1997) Gabriele Salvatores, Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini
Jimi, a successful computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus Read More »
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel AKA Beaumarchais l’insolent (1996) Édouard Molinaro, Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Manuel Blanc, Michel Aumont
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais (Fabrice Luchini), playwright and adventurer Read More »
Signer’s Suitcase AKA Signers Koffer – Unterwegs mit Roman Signer (1995) Peter Liechti, Roman Signer, Christoph M. Ohrt
SIGNERS KOFFER is a kind of road movie across Europa. Read More »
Zombie and the Ghost Train AKA Zombie ja Kummitusjuna (1991) Mika Kaurismäki, Silu Seppälä, Marjo Leinonen, Matti Pellonpää
Antti “Zombie” Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. Read More »
The Public Eye (1992) Howard Franklin, Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle
Leon Bernstein is New York’s best news photographer in 1942, equally at home with cops or crooks. Read More »
The Night and the Moment (1994) Anna Maria Tatò, Ivan Bacciocchi, Jean-Claude Carrière, Axelle Cummings
A young marchioness who loves the way of free-thinking and flatterers invites an author into her house who pretends to seduce her… Read More »
The Blue Kite AKA Lan feng zheng (1993) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen
On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. Read More »