US merchant sailor Alex Walker (Kevin Anderson) is stranded in Mexico Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Public Housing (1997) Frederick Wiseman
Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman takes an intimate and nuanced Read More »
A Cry in the Night (1992) Robin Spry, Carol Higgins Clark, Perry King, Annie Girardot
A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children Read More »
My Father the Hero AKA Mon père, ce héros. (1991) Gérard Lauzier, Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. Read More »
Defenseless (1991) Martin Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt
The lawyer Thelma “T.K.” Knudsen Katwuller is having a love affair with her client Read More »
The Man on the Shore AKA L’homme sur les quais (1993) Raoul Peck, Jennifer Zubar, Toto Bissainthe, Patrick Rameau
In flashback of a Haitian woman’s childhood experience under the Duvalier regime. Read More »
My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud AKA En compagnie d’Antonin Artaud (1993) Gérard Mordillat, Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jézéquel
May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Read More »
Scandalous Liaisons AKA Rose rosse per una squillo (1993) Albert Barney, Pino Buricchi, Bruno Gaburro, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Tracy Kelly, Gérard Manzetti
An intricate story of crimes, blackmail and torrid passions. Read More »
The Odd One Dies AKA Liang ge zhi neng huo yi ge (1997) Tat-Chi Yau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Carman Lee, Woo-min Byeon
The secret world of contract killing comes to focus in the dark Read More »
My Little Business AKA Ma petite entreprise (1999) Pierre Jolivet, Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Roschdy Zem
Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Read More »
Mother AKA 588 rue Paradis (1992) Henri Verneuil, Richard Berry, Omar Sharif, Nathalie Roussel
This film recounts Henri Verneuil’s relationship with his father who had brought Read More »
Fate AKA Verhängnis (1994) Fred Kelemen, Valerij Fedorenko, Marc Ottiker, Sanja Spengler
The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night. Read More »
The Day the Sun Turned Cold AKA Tian guo ni zi (1994) Ho Yim, Gaowa Siqin, Chung-Hua Tou, Jingwu Ma
Guan Jian wants to report the murder of his father who died 10 years ago. Read More »
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) Maggie Greenwald, Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid nineteenth century who is thrown out Read More »
The Moor’s Head AKA Der Kopf des Mohren (1995) Paulus Manker, Gert Voss, Angela Winkler, Leni Tanzer
Georg, who is happy with his job as a scientist, with his loving wife Read More »