1991-2000

  • Yuan Zhang – Guo nian hui jia AKA Seventeen Years (1999)

    1991-2000AsianChinaDramaYuan Zhang

    A modest family is destined for tragedy due to the rivalry between two teenage stepsisters. It begins when Tao Lan accidentally kills her stepsister. Seventeen years later, a female guard escorts the solitary Tao Lan, now a stranger to life outside prison, to her first painful family reunion…Read More »

  • Taylor Hackford – Bound by Honor AKA Blood In, Blood Out (1993)

    1991-2000CrimeDramaTaylor HackfordUSA

    Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.Read More »

  • Manoel de Oliveira – A Caixa aka Blind Man’s Bluff (1994)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaManoel de OliveiraPortugal

    Quote:
    One of Manoel de Oliveira’s masterpieces, A Caixa (The Box) / Blind Man’s Bluff is an adaptation, in parable form, of a play of the same name by Prista Monteiro.
    The action takes place around a flight of steps in a poor neighbourhood and is about the final misadventure of an old Blind Man who has yet again been robbed of the official alms box with which he earns is living. His daughter, besides doing the house work, wears herself out taking in washing. Her companion, an unemployed lay-about like many of his friends, lives off the Blind Man’s box which has just been stolen for the second time.Read More »

  • Anand Patwardhan – Pitra, Putra Aur Dharamyuddha AKA Father, Son, and Holy War (1994)

    1991-2000Anand PatwardhanDocumentaryIndiaPolitics

    Synopsis:
    In a politically polarized world, universal ideals are rare. In India, as elsewhere, the vacuum is filled by religious zeal. Minorities are made scapegoats of every calamity as nations subdivide into religious and ethnic zones, each seemingly eager to annihilate the other or extinguish itself on the altar of martyrdom. FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against “the other” may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of “manhood.”Read More »

  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kasaba AKA The Small Town (1997)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaNuri Bilge CeylanTurkey

    Quote:
    Depiction of a small Turkish town, as seen from the perspective of an 11 year old girl and her 7 year – old brother. The four part film unfolds along with the seasons. The first part is set at the school the girl attends, the social environment she must adapt to and its difficulties. She faces with her feeling of shame and some merciless clues of life. The second part is in spring. We see the girl with her brother and their journey to the maize field where their family are waiting for them.Read More »

  • Peter Schamoni – Niki De Sant Phalle (1996)

    1991-2000DocumentaryExploitationGermanyPeter Schamoni

    In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas, colorful sculptures of big and cheerful women, and for the cooperation with Jean Tinguely. The frame of this film is a tour through her tarot garden in Tuscany.Read More »

  • Roger Gnoan M’Bala – Adanggaman (2000)

    1991-2000African CinemaCote d'IvoiereDramaRoger Gnoan M'Bala

    Quote:
    In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman’s attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his captured mother. Chasing after the soldiers in an effort to free her, Ossei is befriended by a fierce warrior named Naka.Read More »

  • Peter Greenaway – The Pillow Book (1996)

    1991-2000ArthousePeter GreenawayQueer Cinema(s)RomanceUSA
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    Quote:
    As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko’s father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from “The Pillow Book”, the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a “parfait mélange” of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.Read More »

  • Abderrahmane Sissako – Oktyabr AKA October (1993)

    1991-2000Abderrahmane SissakoAfrican CinemaDramaFranceShort Film

    Quote:
    Idrissa left Moscow and Ira, who came to this last appointment of lovers to say goodbye. Again, lovers unloved are endless farewell to this house lost in the depths of Moscow. Neighbors who rejected them are also waiting for you outside their door on the night of October.

    Ira pregnant. She is worried, doubt and wanders the streets of Moscow. Her lover, Idrissa, an African student, will leave Russia. He finds Ira in his apartment for their last appointment. One last October night that never stops being that of impossible love …Read More »

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