1990s

Synopsis
During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Sui Yan(Donnie Yen), the power-hungry and ruthless eunuch leader of East Chamber, craves his own kingdom. He intends to destroy the rebelling clans by using a traitorous secretary’s children as bait. Two do-gooders by the name of Chow Wai-On(Tony Leung) and Yau Mo-Yin(Brigitte Lin) save the innocent children from the fiendish clutches of the East Chamber, only to find refuge at the Dragon Inn. Ultimately, the two warring factions – the rebels led by Chow Wai-on and Mo-yan Yau, and the East Chamber group led by Tsao – end up in the rundown Dragon Inn right in the middle of the desert. Jade King(Maggie Cheung), the beautiful owner and proprietor of Dragon Inn, hopes to cash in on the incident. But problems arise when Wai-on, desperate for the quickest route of escape, attempts to marry Jade in hopes of prying her for information about an escape route; and the two clans go head-to-head in a no-holds barred finale battle.Read More »

Plot
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to communicate with dolphins, while another cadre of survivors have made it their crusade to destroy all the world’s religions.Read More »

Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she’s admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.Read More »

From allmovie:
Texasville is Peter Bogdanovich’s much-delayed sequel to The Last Picture Show. Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel and told as a series of episodes, Texasville follows the characters from The Last Picture Show as they reunite in a small Texas town nearly 30 years after the end of the last movie, and face a number of adult problems, as well as confronting lingering emotions and memories from adolescence. — Stephen Thomas ErlewineRead More »

“We are Going Home” is a 10 minute experimental film shot in June 97, at a Philip Hoffman’s film retreat in rural Ontario. The film was made in the memory of Marian McMahon, an experimental Canadian filmmaker who died of cancer in the fall of 1996. “We are going Home”, solarized, tinted, and optically printed, is a surreal portrait of desire, ghosts and pursuit.E Rhythmic color shifts in the emulsion brings life to the country landscape, which comes to embody the terrain of the subconscious. Three women act seek pleasure and past in parallel universes which cannot intersect. Consciousness is always singular.Read More »

Hick, an unemployed chimney sweep from Munich, has an illegitimate child, Su, with the grumpy convent sister. Su adores her father and dreams of a life together in Tibet. After abolishing the church tax, drinking vast quantities of beer and symbolically separating from his wife, Hick is finally able to “rid the earth of himself”: he is struck dead by lightning at the Viktualienmarkt and Su is stabbed to death by her jealous mother. Shortly thereafter, both are reborn in the Tibet of 1662 and find love for each other through Buddhist enlightenment and contemplation.Read More »

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Harry, who lives with Anna and their seven children, works as a barber in a seedy asylum. The patients love him, but his boss is of another opinion. When, not surprisingly, Harry gets the sack and Anna decides to move their family halfway across the globe, he grows a bit weary… In the course of a few summer weeks, a string of strange characters cross Harry’s path: Walter, a mercenary who desperately needs a war in Europe; Jesper, a pornographer who is unfortunately allergic to naked bodies; a seductive plastic surgeon; and finally Sonja…Read More »

Bill Nighy and Eileen Atkins star in a play by Ronald Mackenzie.
In the secluded coastal resort of Betworthy, the Maitland family has fallen on hard times and the eldest son Roger, a schoolmaster, is forced to give a young boy after-school tuition in order to pay for his jet-setting wife Dorothy’s trip to the French Riviera. His mother, Mrs. Maitland, puts her hope in a legacy from her brother while their live-in cousin Phyllis plans to escape poverty and the tedium of Betworthy by accepting a marriage proposal from Major Luddington. Read More »

letterboxd:
Blue Max (1997) shows a woman looking out of a window, but also working with extreme close-ups: The street, her neck, the window, her knees, the floor and her toes, brought together by the sound of a passing train. Her ears, her mouth, the wall and the door. The sparkling glass of a window and the young woman on top of a naked young man and later the shadows on the wall of both of them. A telephone is ringing and the clouds in the blue sky are travelling by while it all turns into a rape. And the calmness of both of them is quite irritating when they later watch TV together. Read More »