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A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.Read More »
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Guillermo del Toro – Cronos [+ Commentaries] (1993)
1991-2000DramaGuillermo del ToroHorrorMexico -
Joshua Waletzky – Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992)
1991-2000DocumentaryJoshua WaletzkyUSAMusic For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors as Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, and Martin Scorsese. Best remembered for his twelve-year collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in such classics as Vertigo, North By Northwest ,and the unforgettable Psycho, Herrmann pioneered many fundamental techniques of film scoring in the course of his 35-year career.Read More »
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Rudolf Thome – Just Married (1998)
1991-2000DramaGermanyRudolf ThomeQuote:
Frangipani and Friedrich wrestle with the vagaries of married life, while also trying to preserve their own individual personalities. Frangipani’s primary concern, however, is with Friedrich’s job. She’s jealous of the attention he pays to it.Read More » -
Claude Chabrol – Rien ne va plus AKA The Swindle (1997)
1991-2000Claude ChabrolComedyCrimeFranceSynopsis:
Con artists Victor (Michel Serrault) and Betty (Isabelle Huppert) are a perfect team when it comes to cheating gamblers out of their winnings. But Betty, who’s a master of the art of seduction, has a bigger scheme in mind: double-crossing bagman Maurice Biagini (François Cluzet) out of millions of Swiss francs that belong to organized crime. While it sounds like an airtight plan, Victor — no fool when it comes to matters of deception — suspects a double cross.Read More » -
Boris Lehman – Leçon de vie AKA Life Lesson (1995)
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Yesim Ustaoglu – Günese yolculuk aka Journey to the Sun (1999)
1991-2000DramaTurkeyYesim Ustaoglu

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan’s home village near the Iraqi border, and learns why so many Kurds are refugees.Read More »
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Konstantin Lopushanskiy – Russkaya simfoniya aka Russian Symphony (1994)
1991-2000ArthouseDramaKonstantin LopushanskiyRussiaThe protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.Read More »
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Jacques Doillon – Amoureuse AKA Lover (1992)
1991-2000DramaFranceJacques DoillonRomance

‘An expectant mother begins to question the identity of her unborn child’s father after entering into an extramarital affair with her sister’s lover. Marie and Antoine are living together and deeply in love when Marie voices her desire to become a mother. Unfortunately for Marie, Antoine has no interest in starting a family. Shortly thereafter, Marie meets Paul, and coolly rejects his advances. But later, when Paul begins sleeping with Marie’s sister Juliette, Marie realizes that he may in fact be the man of her dreams. Subsequently alternating between Antoine and Paul as she wrestles with her nagging conscience, Marie later learns she is pregnant and realizes that she can’t be certain which of her lovers is the father.” allmovieRead More »
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Kodi Ramakrishna – Ammoru (1995)
1991-2000CultIndiaKodi RamakrishnaSci-FiAMMORU
A groundbreaking special effects extravaganza from South India–or Tollywood (Telugu film industry)–and an all-around mind-roaster. Completed in 1995, the film was widely lauded for its “up to the minute technical expertise.” Obviously that’s no longer the case, but AMMORU still excels as lightning paced, thrill-a-minute insanity.Read More »






