This three-hour epic 16mm film focuses on a mother and son fleeing her abusive husband in Berlin and wandering the former East Germany seeking a town that has long since vanished. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Blue Black Permanent (1992) Margaret Tait, Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson
Barbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet. Read More »
I Stand Alone (1998) Gaspar Noé, Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain
The Butcher (known from Noe’s short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Read More »
Journey of Hope (1990) Xavier Koller, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Nur Sürer, Emin Sivas
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. Read More »
Reversal of Fortune (1990) Barbet Schroeder, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Read More »
Eve of Destruction (1991) Duncan Gibbins, Gregory Hines, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Greene
Eve is a robot, modelled on “her” creator. Eve’s armoury includes a nuclear bomb, which for unexplained reasons is on-board during Eve’s testing. Read More »
Criminal Passion (1994) Donna Deitch, Joan Severance, Tony Denison, John Allen Nelson
What does it take to trust? Melanie Hudson is an L.A. police officer, a loner on the trail of a serial killer who slits the throats of beautiful women just after they have made love. Read More »
The Adventurers (1995) Ringo Lam, Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Chien-Lien Wu
Andy was a child when his parents murdered by a double agent in Vietnam, Ray Liu. Read More »
The Victim (1999) Ringo Lam, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Ching Wan Lau, Amy Kwok
A computer engineer is kidnapped and tortured. Since then, his girlfriend senses he’s no longer the same person Read More »
The Untold Story (1993) Danny Lee, Herman Yau, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Danny Lee, Emily Kwan
In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. Read More »