1991-2000

  • Phillip J. Roth – Interceptors AKA Interceptor Force (1999)

    1991-2000ActionDramaPhillip J. RothUSA
    Interceptors (1999)
    Interceptors (1999)

    In the near future, the government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force of the world’s best, they are known as the Interceptor Force. A covert early warning satellite network tracks an object crash landing in a town in the Pacific Northwest. Within minutes of the impact, all communication with the town is mysteriously severed. The news sources are given a false story of contamination and the area is sealed off. AWAC’s and fighters patrol the perimeter. As the silence from the town continues, the Interceptor team lead by Lieutenant Sean Lambert (Gruner) is sent in to investigate. Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – The New Math(s) (2000)

    1991-2000Hal HartleyShort FilmUnited Kingdom
    The New Math(s) (2000)
    The New Math(s) (2000)

    Two students and their teacher seem to be fighting – literally – over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or a coded instruction manual about their own secrete urges? An alchemical action movie? A real life cartoon with original music by Dutch heavyweight, Louis Andriessen. Hal Hartley fashioned this whimsical piece of fight choreography with three of his recent performer/collaborators, Miho Nikaido, David Neumann and DJ Mendel.Read More »

  • Carl Franklin – One False Move (1992)

    1991-2000Carl FranklinCrimeDramaUSA
    One False Move (1992)
    One False Move (1992)

    Carl Franklin made his directorial bow with the story of three LA drug dealers who, after committing a rather messy murder, hide out in a rural Arkansas town. Assuming that the local “rubes” will offer them little interference, the criminals have not reckoned with sheriff “Hurricane” Dixon (Bill Paxton). Despite the arrogance of the LAPD agents sent to Arkansas to collar the crooks, it is down-home Dixon who puts the final bloody showdown into motion (the fact that the thieves have been falling out throughout the film doesn’t hurt things either). Carl Franklin knows where he’s going in every frenetic frame of One False Move, and his movie was one of the most acclaimed independent releases of 1991.Read More »

  • Constantine Giannaris – Apo tin akri tis polis AKA From the Edge of the City (1998)

    Constantine Giannaris1991-2000CrimeDramaGreeceQueer Cinema(s)
    Apo tin akri tis polis (1998)
    Apo tin akri tis polis (1998)

    A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city’s repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.Read More »

  • Rolf de Heer – Dance Me to My Song (1998)

    Rolf de Heer1991-2000AustraliaDrama
    Dance Me to My Song (1998)
    Dance Me to My Song (1998)

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    Julia (Heather Rose) is crippled with cerebral palsy, lives in a wheelchair, waits for her carer to come and clean her, feed her, in a daily cycle. Her latest carer, Madelaine (Joey Kennedy) is a strung up and lonely young woman whose love life is in disarray. The two women are interdependent; Julia needs her carer, Madelaine needs her job. But they don’t exactly hit it off. Along comes Eddie (John Brumpton), a handsome young chap who appeals to both women. But Julia is behind the eight ball in this love battle, what with her wheelchair – she even needs a voice synthesiser to speak. Her body is small and frail and twisted …. But she is not totally helpless, as Madelaine discovers.Read More »

  • Volker Schlöndorff – Die Stille nach dem Schuß AKA The Legend of Rita (2000)

    Volker Schlöndorff1991-2000DramaGermanyQueer Cinema(s)Romance
    Die Stille nach dem Schuß (2000)
    Die Stille nach dem Schuß (2000)

    Die Stille nach dem Schuss or The Silence after the Shot, known in English as The Legend of Rita, is a 2000 German film about fictionalised exiled West German radical left Red Army Faction members, though the fictional characters all have close parallels to several real-life RAF members. After a brief overview of the initial bank robberies of the 2nd of June Movement with the distribution of chocolate kisses as well as a disastrous prison break at the Westberliner Prison, the group flees, via the Friedrichstraße train station, into the German Democratic Republic.Read More »

  • Dennis Gansel – Das Phantom AKA The Phantom (2000)

    Dennis Gansel1991-2000GermanyThriller
    Das Phantom (2000)
    Das Phantom (2000)

    After the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists.

    Based on the book “Das RAF-Phantom”.Read More »

  • David Mamet – State and Main (2000)

    1991-2000ComedyDavid MametDramaUSA
    State and Main (2000)
    State and Main (2000)

    A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.Read More »

  • Deryn Warren – Black Magic Woman (1991)

    1991-2000Deryn WarrenRomanceThrillerUSA
    Black Magic Woman (1991)
    Black Magic Woman (1991)

    The owner of a suburban art gallery searches for someone to perform an exorcism after a witch casts a spell on him.Read More »

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