
A view of the Olympic Games at Barcelona, using the marathon race as the weaving thread. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
A Carta (1999) Manoel de Oliveira, Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Drama

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Read More »
Passion (1999) Peter Duncan, Richard Roxburgh, Barbara Hershey, Emily Woof, Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
The complicated relationship between Percy Grainger, famous Australian-born early 20th century folk musician Read More »
Carla’s song (1996) Ken Loach, Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Drama, Romance, War

1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Read More »
All the Kings Men (1999) Julian Jarrold, David Jason, Maggie Smith, William Ash, Drama, Mystery, War

Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Read More »
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Ang Lee, Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang

Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity Read More »
Noises Off… (1992) Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Comedy

Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He’s desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. Read More »
Taxi Blues (1990) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Comedy, Drama

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Read More »
Fires Within (1991) Gillian Armstrong, Jimmy Smits, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D’Onofrio, Drama, Thriller

Released after years as a political prisoner, a Cuban rejoins his wife and daughter in Miami. Read More »
Going All the Way (1997) Mark Pellington, Jeremy Davies, Ben Affleck, Amy Locane, Comedy, Drama

Korean War vets Sonny Burns (Jeremy Davies) and Gunner Casselman (Ben Affleck) find themselves becoming best buds after returning to their Indianapolis hometown in 1954. Read More »
