Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Nobody’s Business (1996) Alan Berliner, Oscar Berliner
A portrait of the director’s father, searching for the extraordinary in the subject’s seemingly normal existence. Read More »
Heavy (1995) James Mangold, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, Liv Tyler
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. Read More »
Tongues Untied (1990) Marlon Riggs, Michael Bell, Kerrigan Black
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill Read More »
Hidden Agenda (1990) Ken Loach, Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man’s girlfriend Read More »
Becoming Colette (1991) Danny Huston, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Mathilda May, Virginia Madsen
At the turn of the century, Henri Gauthier-Villars, a notorious bachelor Read More »
Beloved (1998) Jonathan Demme, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Yada Beener
Haunted by so many painful and well-hidden secrets, former slave Sethe Read More »
Lethal Lies / Giftige løgner (1992) Martin Asphaug, Håvard Bakke, Tommy Karlsen, Helle Beck Figenschow
For the second time the two curious boys names Pelle and Proffen get mixed up in dangerous business. Read More »
It’s Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill / Lepsie byt bohaty a zdravy ako chudobny a chory (1992) Juraj Jakubisko, Deana Horváthová, Dagmar Havlová, Juraj Kukura
In a tone of bitter comedy, the director portrays the confusion that ensued the fall of the Soviet bloc Read More »
An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World / Nejasná zpráva o konci sveta (1997) Juraj Jakubisko, Deana Horváthová, Milan Bahúl, Joachim Kemmer
Set over a two-decade period in a tiny Central European village, this drama not only chronicles a couple’s tragic star-crossed love Read More »