Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Divorce Iranian Style (1998) Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran’s tribunals. Read More »
Clockers (1995) Spike Lee, Harvey Keitel
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little Read More »
Ulysses’ Gaze AKA To vlemma tou Odyssea (1995) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
A, a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas Read More »
Bombay (1995) Mani Ratnam, Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Nassar
Based on true incidents, a south Indian Hindu man falls in love with a Muslim woman–taboo in the small village from which they hail. Read More »
Unhook the Stars (1996) Nick Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu
Mildred is a widow who discovers a whole new world when her grown children move away. Read More »
Butterfly Sword AKA Xin liu xing hu die jian (1993) Michael Mak, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Michelle Yeoh, Joey Wang
Dynamo Michelle Yeoh stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King’s empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group. Read More »
The Color of Paradise AKA Rang-e khoda (1999) Majid Majidi, Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi
Mohammad, a boy at Tehran’s institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. Read More »
Where a Good Man Goes AKA Joi gin a long (1999) Johnnie To, Ching Wan Lau, Ruby Wong, Yiu-Cheung Lai
A former triad boss is just released from a Macau prison and ends up in a small inn runs by a simple and honest widow. Read More »
Phantoms (1998) Joe Chappelle, Peter O’Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going
The resort town of Snowfield, Colo., is under attack by an evil spirit that almost wipes out the entire population, possessing a number of those it kills. Read More »