1990s

  • Pantelis Voulgaris – Ola einai dromos AKA It’s a Long Road (1998)

    1991-2000DramaGreecePantelis Voulgaris

    Synopsis
    Pantelis Voulgaris directed this three-part Greek anthology film in which three middle-aged men confront their personal demons. In the 40-minute “A Silver Coin on the Lips,” a Macedonian archaeologist (Dimitris Katalifos) stumbles onto the remains of a soldier with a coin on his lips, payment to the ferryman Charon of legend; this discovery reminds him of his son’s death, and he departs for the border outpost where the death occurred. A 34-minute segment, “The Last of the Lesser Whites,” takes place in Thrace where ornithologists meet with the game warden (Thanassis Vengos) who watches over a beautiful wilderness area with thousands of birds. A Norwegian woman in the group seeks the only known survivor of rare Bergen geese, but a poacher shoots it. The 40-minute “Vietnam” follows a rich factory owner (Giorgos Armenis), a man in such a state of emotional torment after his wife of many years leaves him that he drunkenly destroys a bar named Vietnam. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.
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  • Erik Skjoldbjærg – Close to Home (1994)

    1991-2000Erik SkjoldbjærgMysteryNorwayShort Film

    Synopsis wrote:
    A man faces police questioning after helping a drunk girl the night before.Read More »

  • Daniel Calparsoro – Salto al vacío (1995)

    1991-2000Daniel CalparsoroDramaSpain

    Alex is a 20 year old girl that keeps financially all her family through illegal arms trafficking, always with the risk of dying or killing. She’s the only girl on a men’s group, torn between his need to love and a life based on violence.Read More »

  • António da Cunha Telles – Pandora – Setembro ou uma ternura confusa (1995)

    1991-2000António da Cunha TellesArthouseDramaPortugal

    Quote:
    It is September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat by the name of Pandora, but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa will start a new life.Read More »

  • Jos Stelling – De vliegende Hollander AKA The Flying Dutchman (1995)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaJos StellingNetherlands

    imdb:
    Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War. Flanders, 1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells he followed a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but failed to prevent him being taken -after banging a country-girl- by the men of a rigid farmer Netelneck, who has him tied-up inside a huge shit-container. After Campanelli frees him, the gold stays inside, and the Dutchman is killed, but the minstrel turns to offer the paying audience a happier version. Seven years later, he scares the Dutchman’s posthumous son into bringing him food and convinces the kid he can fly, like his dad, who is on a grand ship, but fails to drag the gold out and is blinded and chased by Netelneck.Read More »

  • Utako Koguchi – Ofiria no ai dokusho aka Ophelia’s Favorite Books (1995)

    1991-2000ArthouseExperimentalJapanUtako Koguchi

    Quote:
    A 3-Part Series for the imaginary girl’s magazine Monthly Ophelia unveils the literary worlds of three female writers born in 1896. The Ophelia of legend who loses her life along the riverside is reborn and lives deep underwater. Reminisce about girlhood and lose your way in favourite books that transcend time.Read More »

  • Peter Handke – L’Absence AKA The Absence (1993)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaFrancePeter Handke

    Synopsis:
    In this tale, the scenes are simultaneously clear and labyrinthine.
    Four people, the old man, the young woman, the soldier and the player walk around an imaginary topography across continents. They escape from their everyday existence. Each one of them starts out, alone, only to meet up and form a group, which is to move along like an expedition. Suddenly they come across a clearing, a city, a desert, an ocean. They all follow the ardent desire that drove them to leave.
    Through their conversations, their discussions, rejoinders, monologues and dreams, they tell the story.
    One day, the old man disappears, he who had guided the group. What remains is the search and the dream of finding hem again.Read More »

  • Cine-Mujer Collective – Llegaron las feministas AKA The Feminists Have Arrived (1994)

    1991-2000Cine-Mujer CollectiveColombiaDocumentaryPolitics

    Quote:
    Video-tape documentary program about the First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting that took place in Bogotá in July 1981. The documentary includes interventions, interviews, photographs and other materials, focusing on the main themes of the meeting: feminism and political struggle, culture and sexuality.Read More »

  • Jacques Rozier – Joséphine en tournée (1990)

    1981-1990DramaFranceJacques RozierTV

    Quote:
    Lily Strasberg, a boulevard actress who triumphed in The Easter Egg as Josephine, ends the season with her 457th performance. She decides to go down to the South of France to rest and comfort Charles, her ex-brother-in-law, director of a small company that performs outdated operettas that no longer attract many people.Read More »

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