Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Nothing About Robert AKA Rien sur Robert (1999) Pascal Bonitzer, Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Valentina Cervi
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles. Read More »
Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail… to Terror (1990) Wayne Coe, James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare
Two travelers, one a well to do young clark on the way to a reunion with his wife Read More »
Salt on Our Skin (1992) Andrew Birkin, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D’Onofrio, Anaïs Jeanneret
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw Read More »
Parklands (1996) Kathryn Millard, Cate Blanchett, Tony Martin, Carmel Johnson
Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. Read More »
Human Resources AKA Ressources humaines (1999) Laurent Cantet, Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barré
The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Read More »
Michael Collins (1996) Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts
After the disastrous defeat of Irish rebels by superior UK forces during the Easter Rising Read More »
Mad at the Moon (1992) Martin Donovan, Lori Ashton, Hart Bochner, Pat Atkins
A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon. Read More »
Short Sharp Shock AKA Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) Fatih Akin, Mehmet Kurtulus, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Adam Bousdoukos
Hamburg, Germany. The small crime scene. Three friends: Gabriel from Turkey and just out of prison Read More »
The Pear Tree AKA Derakhte Golabi (1998) Dariush Mehrjui, Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shaban-Noori
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit. Read More »
Catherine the Great (1996) Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson
In this romanticized biography, a small German principality’s inexperienced princess, Catherine Read More »
Madame Bovary (1991) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). Read More »
Last Light (1993) Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Clancy Brown
Awaiting execution, Denver Bayliss gains an unlikely friend and confidant in Fred Whitmore Read More »
Central Station AKA Central do Brasil (1998) Walter Salles, Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra
Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. Read More »
Tube Tales (1999) Gaby Dellal, Stephen Hopkins, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Kelly Macdonald
Some amazing stories that happened in the London underground, filled with true British humor. Read More »