A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Rainbow Kids (1991) Kihachi Okamoto, Tôru Kazama
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose Read More »
Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family (1993)
In 1961, Robert Young and Michael Roemer shot a gritty documentary in Palermo’s Cortile Cascino Read More »
Age of Demons (1992) Damon Foster, Alice Cooper
A woman is chained to a wall in a dungeon, waiting to be sacrificed. Read More »
Starting Place/Point de départ (1994) Robert Kramer
In Starting Place, Robert Kramer revisits Hanoi, two decades after the end of the war Read More »
The Colors of the Devil (1997) Alain Jessua
A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul. Read More »
I Could Read the Sky (1999) Nichola Bruce, Dermot Healy
The film tells of the memories and feeling of loss of an Irish immigrant Read More »
Agir Roman (1997) Mustafa Altioklar, Okan Bayülgen
A young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor gypsy neighborhood Read More »
Night Shapes (1999) Andreas Dresen, Myriam Abbas
The Pope is in town and the night of his visit is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin’s inhabitants. The down-and-out, the rich and the poor Read More »
Ghostly Bus (1995) Gwing-Gai Lee, Wilson Tong, Simon Yam
‘Ghostly Bus’ is a story about a bus designed specifically for carrying ghosts. This service allows the tragically deceased to find a place to rest Read More »