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Tag Archives: 1990s
Snakes and Ladders (1996) Trish McAdam, Pom Boyd, Gina Moxley, Sean Hughes

A wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two “nearing-thirty” street performers Read More »
Mister Johnson (1990) Bruce Beresford, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi

A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film Read More »
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame / Lepa sela lepo gore (1996) Srdjan Dragojevic, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic

At the Belgrade army hospital, casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. Read More »
Map of the Human Heart (1992) Vincent Ward, Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years Read More »
Everybody’s Fine / Stanno tutti bene (1990) Giuseppe Tornatore, Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valéria Cavalli

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children Read More »
The Celebration / Festen (1998) Thomas Vinterberg, Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen

The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Read More »
The Devils, the Devils / Diably, diably (1991) Dorota Kedzierzawska, Danuta Szaflarska, Monika Niemczyk, Jerzy Lapinski

A film set in a small Polish village in the ’60s that deals with a young girl’s awakening sexuality. Read More »
The Student Prince (1997) Simon Curtis, Robson Green, Gavin Richards, Peter Lovstrom

The Queen’s youngest son is off to university, mainly because “I’m hopeless at anything else”. Read More »
Beltenebros / Prince of Shadows (1991) Pilar Miró, Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, José Luis Gómez

Captain Darman is a communist party hitman now living peacefully in exile in England where he runs a bookshop in Brighton. Read More »