1991-2000

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Nandini has to choose between Sameer, the man who taught her to fall in love; and Vanraj, the man from whom she learnt how to abide and fulfill promises of love.Read More »

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A young woman named Lin-Lang has served a long jail term for terrorist actions against Taiwan’s rulmg KMT party. The society she returns to is very different from the one she left: former radicais have gone soft and become middle-class, the former political opposition has become respectableand lost its edge, everyone has grown nakedly materialistic. But the biggest shock for Lin-Lang is the discovery that her lover—the man who taught her radical politics, the man who got her pregnant, the man she went to jail for—has married someone else. He and his wife have a child, and he runs a small coffee-shop which doubles as a meeting-place for students of Chinese mysticism. Almost deranged with shock and the sense of betrayal, Lin-Lang impulsively kidnaps the man’s child…Read More »

Part One of the Maiku Hama Private Eye Trilogy
Detective Maiku “Mike” Hama (Masatoshi Nagase; Mystery Train) navigates the Yokohama underworld with razor sharp threads, Belmondo cool and two-fisted street savvy. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local mah-jongg parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he’s in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant teetering on the threshold of Yokohama’s gutter, Hama’s Taiwanese client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has bullets, fists and severed fingers flying. Hama’s plunge into a dizzyingly escalating, brutally violent multiethnic gang war ultimately snares him in a web of revenge and deceit that spans continents and severs bloodlines.Read More »

Winner of the Prix Afrique en Creation at Cannes in 1992, this humorous and magical tale is filled with the sexual antics that enliven a working class neighborhood in Yaounde. A girl takes on the body of a man and learns the true sexual politics of the men around her. In addition, the woman who helps her achieve this transformation metamorphoses herself into Panka, a comic figure who can make a man’s penis disappear with a handshake.Read More »

Alcoholic widow sobers up to sell husband’s stolen diamonds after his suicide. Legitimate buyers avoid tainted gems. Selling process forces her to confront past demons while seeking redemption.Read More »

Feature-length documentary deals with homeless women, once secure in their middle-class status, who through divorce, misfortune, or circumstances were reduced to living on the street.Read More »

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With stunning cinematography and a thread of Kafkaesque absurdity, this movie had me from the simple yet fascinating opening scene. The movie plays much like a dream, and I think that may be why people either hate it or love it. Characters are drawn superficially and the story itself is slight and perhaps a little pointless. But these are failings of the movie but conscious choices. The film works isn’t trying to work as history, but rather is a deconstruction of 1940s war movies.Read More »

A young french girl arrives at Montevideo to interview famous Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and do some research on the history of the city. She’s interested in finding pictures of the day president Baltasar Brum committed suicide in plain view and also pictures of a zeppelin flying over the city, at the end of the 19th century. A photographer tries to help her and they find themselves involved in a mysterious intrigue story. Is it possible to invent the images of a country without memories?Read More »

Publisher Will Randall becomes a demon wolf and has to fight to keep his job.Read More »