The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (1997) Juraj Jakubisko, Deana Horváthová, Milan Bahúl, Joachim Kemmer
Set over a two-decade period in a tiny Central European village, this drama not only chronicles a couple’s tragic star-crossed love Read More »
URGA (1991) Nikita Mikhalkov, Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin
The Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. Read More »
Apt Pupil (1998) Bryan Singer, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson
Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Mackellan) is Nazi war criminal. Read More »
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998) Hugh Munro Neely, Louise Brooks, Shirley MacLaine, Dana Delany
Documentary recounting the life story of Louise Brooks in 5 sections Read More »
The Assignment (1997) Christian Duguay, Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley
1986. In his civilian clothes while on shore leave in Jerusalem, Lieutenant Commander Annibal Ramirez of the US Navy Read More »
The Trigger Effect (1996) David Koepp, Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney
How tenuous is man’s hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? Read More »
The Big Swap (1998) Niall Johnson, Anthony Edridge, Sorcha Brooks, Richard Cherry
Prompted by one of their number, who had previously indulged, five mature thirty-something couples Read More »
Cold Fever (1995) Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens
Hirata finds himself canceling his vacation plans to Hawaii when his grandfather reminds him of his duty to his parents. Read More »
Darkness and Light (1999) Tso-chi Chang, Kang-i Lee, Ming-shiou Tsai, Bau-huei Shie
Kang-Yi is a teenage girl who lives in an apartment building in the port city of Keelung. Read More »
Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (1993) Shunji Iwai, Yuta Yamazaki, Megumi Okina, Takayuki Sorita
On the day when a fireworks display is planned, Norimichi, Yusuke, and their friends at school in a Japanese seaside town Read More »
Cabaret Balkan (1998) Goran Paskaljevic, Mira Banjac, Ivan Bekjarev, Aleksandar Bercek
The film takes place in Belgrade in the mid nineties of the twentieth century Read More »
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Michael Mann, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
British and French troops do battle in colonial America, with aid from various native American war parties. Read More »
Step Across the Border (1990) Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel, Jonas Mekas, Julia Judge, John Spacely
This film is a snapshot of the life of Fred Frith, an English-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor. Read More »
Ravenous (1999) Antonia Bird, Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier Read More »