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Tag Archives: 1990s
Eminent Domain (1990) John Irvin, Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Jodhi May
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Read More »
29th Street (1991) George Gallo, Anthony LaPaglia, Danny Aiello, Lainie Kazan
Frank Pesce is the luckiest man alive in spite of his bad luck. Based on a true story, a man growing up in a tough New York Read More »
Scream of Stone AKA Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991) Werner Herzog, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Stefan Glowacz, Mathilda May
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer (Roccia) Read More »
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land AKA An lian tao hua yuan (1992) Stan Lai, Brigitte Lin, Shih-Chieh King, Pao-Ming Ku
Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Read More »
Lest We Forget AKA Contre l’oubli (1991) Chantal Akerman, René Allio, Denis Amar, Paul Amar, Robert Badinter, Guy Bedos
Contre l’Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers Read More »
Karnaval (1999) Thomas Vincent, Sylvie Testud, Amar Ben Abdallah, Clovis Cornillac
While the local population of Dunkerque drinks away their dissatisfaction in life during the yearly Karnaval Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »