A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal in this suspensful, nonstop thriller!Read More »
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Rodney Gibbons – Stranger in the House (1997)
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Jafar Panahi – Ayneh AKA The Mirror (1997)
1991-2000ArthouseDramaIranJafar PanahiA girl in traditional female clothing, and her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her. She decides to travel home her self though she doesn’t know her address and remembers the road only visuallyRead More »
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David Anspaugh – In the Company of Darkness (1993)
1991-2000CrimeDavid AnspaughDramaUSAAfter young policewoman Gina Pulasky succeeds in handling a domestic fight particularly well, she’s added to a small team of detectives assigned to a case of gruesome child killings. She proves herself to be a worthwhile reinforcement by tracking down the prime suspect, a disturbingly smart young man named Kyle Timler. Much to the horror of her team mate and lover Will McCaid, Pulasky goes undercover to infiltrate in Timler’s life and trying to get as close to him as necessary to make him confess his crimes without even noticing it. A dangerous mission involving a process of growing identification with the killer, something that doesn’t leave Pulasky unscathed.Read More »
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Martine Rousset – Été (1991)
1991-2000ExperimentalFranceMartine RoussetThe voices say a story. forget it. Of what time. And who speaks. Both of them. One or the other. later. Others may be. Of chance. Which would cross in this narrative. When. The times have intermingled. The winds meet. History. Pictures. The summer. Humble vacancy with furtive foliage. Fragile memory. Light is a trace of forgetfulness.Read More »
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Conrad Janis – The Feminine Touch AKA November Conspiracy (1995)
1991-2000Conrad JanisDramaThrillerUSAHer boyfriend John procures the ambitious journalist Jennifer Barron an interview with the Democratic presidential candidate Michael Ashton. But before she can talk to him, he twice becomes target of attempts on his life. After the second John is found near the site, dead, with the weapon in his hand. Jennifer has to accept that she lived with a secret agent for the last 4 years. While she tries to learn more about a list of names she found on one of John’s floppy disks, she becomes target herself in this deadly intrigue. Only her knowledge in self defense keeps the tough woman alive.Read More »
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Chuck Workman – The Source — The Beat Generation (1999)
1991-2000Chuck WorkmanDocumentaryUSAFrom IMDb:
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac’s meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac’s death, and Ginsberg’s politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage’s music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats’ meaning and impact.Read More » -
Yong-Kyun Bae – Geomeuna dange huina baekseong AKA The People in White (1995)
1991-2000DramaSouth KoreaYong-Kyun BaeQuote:
Bae Yonggyun is one of the most mysterious figures in the history of Korean cinema. He made two films on his own outside the film industry and then retreated to live largely in seclusion. This highly meditative film, deeply rooted in history and memory, is one of the highlights of New Korean Cinema. It follows a man who returns to his hometown after living overseas for many years. He roams like a sleepwalker through the bleak town, getting into conversations with people who could be dead or alive. An extraordinary ‘ghost story’ unprecedented in Korean cinema. (Un-seong Yoo, Sight and Sound December 2022 issue)Read More » -
André Téchiné – Les roseaux sauvages AKA The Wild Reeds (1994)
1991-2000André TéchinéDramaFranceQueer Cinema(s)Quote:
Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux Sauvages) 1994- André Téchiné’s coming-of-age drama, set in a quiet provincial town in 1962, is the best French film in years. The young characters are all deeply confused about their political, intellectual, and sexual identities; the director sets up their conflicts with masterly ease, and, using smooth, complex tracking shots, carries them toward resolutions that are tentative but real. The movie flows like a river. Téchiné simply takes his characters from one point to another-from juvenile ignorance to a place where they can see themselves, and others, a little more clearly-and he makes that short journey look momentous. Few movies dealing with teen-agers have been so accurate about the moral and emotional urgency of adolescents’ attempts to understand their lives, or so forgiving of their failures. Gaël Morel, élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, and Frédéric Gorny play the main characters, and they’re all terrific.Read More » -
João Canijo – Sapatos Pretos AKA Black Shoes (1998)
1991-2000CrimeFilm NoirJoão CanijoPortugalQuote:
Dalila is married to Marcolino, a jeweller in a small provincial town. She is not getting younger. The life she leads leaves her frustrated.
Dalila’s husband is violent. She’s had enough. She decides to give herself a provocative make-over.
And provocative she becomes. Quickly, she finds herself a lover. And then announces that she has to have an operation for breast cancer. In fact, she’s having cosmetic surgery. She thinks her breasts are too small.Read More »









