Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
In the Company of Men (1997) Neil LaBute, Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Stacy Edwards
Two junior executives on a six week business trip, both of whom have been recently hurt by women Read More »
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier Read More »
Keep It for Yourself (1991) Claire Denis, Sophie Simon, Sarina Chan, Vincent Gallo
Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. Read More »
The Quince Tree Sun (1992) Víctor Erice, Antonio López, María Moreno, Enrique Gran
The artist, Antonio Lopez, tries to paint the quince tree he planted some time back in his garden. Read More »
Tokyo Eyes (1998) Jean-Pierre Limosin, Shinji Takeda, Hinano Yoshikawa, Kaori Mizushima
A young man shooting at people is nicknamed Four Eyes in the press because of his thick-lensed glasses. Read More »
Asian Beat: Powder Road (1991) Chatrichalerm Yukol
The Yakuza has two investments in Thailand. One is a factory polluting the environment in Pattaya. Read More »
L’alcova Dei Piaceri Proibiti (1994) Luca Damiano, Julia Chanel, Pussycat, Simona Valli
The whole thing is basically a hardcore remake of D’Amato’s very successful period softcore picture “L’Alcova” Read More »
A Tale of Springtime (1990) Éric Rohmer, Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel
Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Read More »
Satin Steel (1994) Siu-Hung Leung, Jade Leung, Russell Wong, Kenneth Chan
Jade Leung, who delivers a lethal kick, the deadly and awesome cop who teams with policewoman Anita Lee track an arms dealer in Singapore. Read More »
Who Killed Pasolini? (1995) Marco Tullio Giordana, Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli
The story of the murder of a poet, a man, a great film director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Read More »
Night Visions (1995) Nicholas Mariolis, Dan Horton, Lisa Comshaw, Julie Strain
Author of erotic literature is suffering from writer’s block. Read More »
Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz (1997) Julian Benedikt, Andreas Morell, Freddie Hubbard, Gil Melle, Herbie Hancock
“It must ‘schwing!'” was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records Read More »
The Garden (1990) Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. Read More »
Mindwarp (1992) Steve Barnett, Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Martin
In 2037, after a nuclear disaster has just about destroyed the Earth Read More »