This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Spider and Rose (1994) Bill Bennett, Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, Max Cullen
Spider and Rose are on the road to Coonabarabran. It’s Spider’s last day working as an ambo, and he’s in a hurry. Read More »
The Ascent (1994) Donald Shebib, Vincent Spano, Ben Cross, Tony Lo Bianco
A highly fictionalized real-life adventure of an Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp Read More »
Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t AKA Shiko funjatta (1992) Masayuki Suo, Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka
Yet another tradition in the tradition of “ragtag misfits” in Japanese comedy…Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. Read More »
Falling Sky (1998) Russ Brandt, Brian J. De Palma, Karen Allen, Brittany Murphy, Jeremy Jordan
Emily, a young girl coming of age in lower class Las Vegas, must deal with her alcoholic mother, Resse. Read More »
Luminous Moss AKA Hikarigoke (1992) Kei Kumai, Rentarô Mikuni, Hisashi Igawa, Satoko Iwasaki
The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. Read More »
Set Me Free / Emporte-moi (1999) Léa Pool, Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic
Canadian/Swiss/French production that tells the tale of Hannah, a tomboyish 13 year-old hitting puberty in 1963. Read More »
Darkness and Light AKA Hei an zhi guang (1999) Tso-chi Chang, Kang-i Lee, Ming-shiou Tsai, Bau-huei Shie
Kang-Yi is a teenage girl who lives in an apartment building in the port city of Keelung. Read More »
The Christmas Box (1995) Marcus Cole, Richard Thomas, Maureen O’Hara, Annette O’Toole
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. Read More »
Quartier Mozart (1992) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Pauline Andela, Jimmy Biyona, Essindi Mindja
A young girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into one. Read More »