On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Too Late AKA Prea târziu (1996) Lucian Pintilie, Razvan Vasilescu, Cecilia Bârbora, Victor Rebengiuc
Germany 1996. A man rummages through a bag, finding some sticks of dynamite. Read More »
Jerusalem (1996) Bille August, Maria Bonnevie, Ulf Friberg, Pernilla August
The beginning of the 20th century. Gertrud and Ingmar are in love with each other. Read More »
As Tears Go By AKA Zolgot Hadma’ot Me’atzman (1996) Eitan Green, Avi Grainik, Yael Almog, Shir Ben Yunes
Yaakov Tcherniak and his son Yitzhak have a small company that organizes parties and events. Read More »
Georgica (1998) Sulev Keedus, Evald Aavik, Mait Merekülski, Ülle Toming
Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. Read More »
The Plant (1995) Jonathan Lewis, Valentine Pelka, Tamio Okada, Yasuko Okada
Strange tale of an alien who moves to a leafy London suburb. Read More »
The Disappearance of Finbar (1996) Sue Clayton, Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor
Finbar Flynn is a working-class boy living in a grim concrete jungle in Dublin. Read More »
Captive (1998) Matt Dorff, Richard Grieco, Marie-Josée Croze, Paul Hopkins
An American ad executive desperate for money to pay court ordered debts, is drawn into a scheme to kidnap the son of his boss. Read More »
Games of Desire (1991) Pasquale Fanetti, Malù, Izudin Bajrovic, Slobodan Negic
Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Read More »
Sugar Town (1999) Allison Anders, Kurt Voss, Jade Gordon, John Taylor, Michael Des Barres
Unimpassioned look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen, on her quest for the top. Read More »
Kairat (1992) Darezhan Omirbayev, Samat Beysenbin, Baljan Bisembekova, Indira Jeksembaeva
Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. Read More »
The Quarrel (1991) Eli Cohen, R.H. Thomson, Saul Rubinek, Merlee Shapiro
Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion Read More »
Mad Dog Time (1996) Larry Bishop, Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss
Mob boss Vic returns to business from madhouse. Meanwhile his best Read More »
Flirting (1991) John Duigan, Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman
Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequel to The Year My Voice Broke. Read More »
Hazy Life AKA Donten seikatsu (1999) Nobuhiro Yamashita, Uda Teppei, Hiroshi Yamamoto
Tsutomu meets Kee outside a Pachinko hall. The two strike up an unlikely friendship. Read More »