An Italian summer in black and white. Not very far away from the old border that divided Eastern and Western Europe there is Bibione. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Quiz Show (1994) Robert Redford, Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow
An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. Read More »
An Obsession / Tsumetai chi (1997) Shinji Aoyama, Ryo Ishibashi, Yôzaburô Itô, Eiko Nagashima
An Obsession is Aoyama’s remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog (“Nora inu,” 1949). Read More »
Somebody to Love (1994) Alexandre Rockwell, Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She’s involved with the married Harry Read More »
Proof (1991) Jocelyn Moorhouse, Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe
Black comedy about a blind man, Martin, who takes photographs as “proof” Read More »
Bells from the Deep AKA Glocken aus der Tiefe – Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland (1993) Werner Herzog, Anna Hitch, Vissarion
What is faith and religion to Russians after the fall of communism? Read More »
Cold Harvest (1999) Isaac Florentine, Gary Daniels, Bryan Genesse, Barbara Crampton
A bounty hunter protects his dead brother’s wife in a lawless world after a comet has devastated much of earth. Read More »
Kit Kat (1991) Daoud Abdel Sayed, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. Read More »
Shelf Life (1993) Paul Bartel, O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, Jim Turner
On November 22, 1963, Mister and Misses St. Cloud hear about the tragic assassination of the President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Read More »
Many Happy Returns AKA Kyôso tanjô (1993) Toshihiro Tenma, Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Tamaki, Ittoku Kishibe
A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense Read More »