When a money mule has a fatal heart attack at a Nevada brothel, the contents of the money vest is hidden by Irene. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
November Days / Novembertage (1991) Marcel Ophüls, Anne Blaurock, Bärbel Bohley, Barbara Brecht-Schall
Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism. Read More »
Body Troopers AKA Jakten på nyresteinen (1996) Vibeke Idsøe, Torbjörn T. Jensen, Jenny Skavlan, Benjamin Helstad
A little kid shrinks himself so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from. Read More »
Kill Cruise AKA Der Skipper (1990) Peter Keglevic, Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Hurley
A washed-out German sailor, in a drunken state, agrees to take two British women from Gibraltar to the West Indies in his sail boat. Read More »
The Silence AKA Sokout (1998) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Tahmineh Normatova, Nadereh Abdelahyeva, Goibibi Ziadolahyeva
Because of his special gift in identifying objects by the sounds they make Read More »
The Monster AKA Il mostro (1994) Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc, Nicoletta Braschi
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect Read More »
Ponette (1996) Jacques Doillon, Victoire Thivisol, Delphine Schiltz, Matiaz Bureau Caton
An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother’s death. Read More »
My Life So Far (1999) Hugh Hudson, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob
Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian Read More »
The Last Lieutenant AKA Secondløitnanten (1993) Hans Petter Moland, Espen Skjønberg, Lars Andreas Larssen, Gard B. Eidsvold
The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. Read More »
Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back (1998)
To watch Dutch Harbor is to bear a kind of witness, for this independent documentary is an elegy; the poetic anthropology of a passing. Read More »