Although married and pregnant Rose has always been Mother’s favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by Mother’s death. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Dark Tide (1994) Luca Bercovici, Chris Sarandon, Richard Tyson, Brigitte Bako
Andi is the wife of Tim, who is collecting venom from poisonous eels on a tropical island. Read More »
The Reflecting Skin (1990) Philip Ridley, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. Read More »
Voices Through Time AKA Voci nel Tempo (1996) Franco Piavoli, Patrizio Girardi, Emanuela Cobelli, Laura Carnevali
An ode to the cycles of life charts the passages of infancy, youth, maturity Read More »
Crazy Horse (1996) John Irvin, Michael Greyeyes, Victor Aaron, Nathaniel Arcand
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion. Read More »
The Murmuring AKA Najeun moksori (1995) Young-Joo Byun, Sun-deok Kim, Ok-nyeon Park, Yeong-suk Lee
The first installment in Byun Young-joo’s trilogy documenting the past and present lives of Korean women Read More »
The Black Republic AKA Keduldo urichurum (1990) Kwang-su Park, Jin-hui Kim, Min-oe Kim, Il-woo Lee
In a mining village layered in gray dust, a man posing as Kim Ki-Young finds refuge from winter and the law. Read More »
Dreaming the Reality AKA Meng xing xue wei ting (1991) Chun-Ku Lu, Sibelle Hu, Moon Lee, Yukari Ôshima
An expert assassin – trained since childhood to be the perfect killer – loses her memory during a mission in Thailand Read More »
Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes AKA Pizza, birra, faso (1997) Adrián Caetano, Bruno Stagnaro, Héctor Anglada, Jorge Sesán, Pamela Jordán
A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they’re getting ripped off. Read More »
Under the Domim Tree AKA Etz Hadomim Tafus (1994) Eli Cohen, Gila Almagor, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Uri Avrahami
Aviya is the only Israeli-born girl among her schoolmates (the rest are Holocaust survivors from various European countries) Read More »
Midnight Man (1995) John Weidner, Lorenzo Lamas, James Lew, Mako
When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities Read More »
Folks! (1992) Ted Kotcheff, Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson
Jon has it all, great job, beautiful wife and kids, and a dream house. Read More »
Blue in the Face AKA Brooklyn Boogie (1995) Paul Auster, Wayne Wang, Harvey Keitel, Lou Reed, Michael J. Fox
Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Paul Auster had enough storylines and characters left over from their charming comedy Smoke to make another film Read More »
Rosetta (1999) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux
The first scene, like almost all others, is a fighting scene. A girl, about 18, is sacked from her factory work because her trial period is over. Read More »
Karaoke (1996) Renny Rye, Albert Finney, Roy Hudd, Richard E. Grant, Drama
Obsessive, self-destructive London television scriptwriter Daniel Feeld finds his health failing while involved with the post-production on his new TV drama, “Karaoke.” Read More »