1991-2000

  • Tinto Brass – Monella AKA Frivolous Lola (1998)

    1991-2000ComedyEroticaItalyTinto Brass

    Set in the 1950s Italian countryside, the film tells the story of Lola and Masetto, a young couple whose views on premarital sex differ drastically.Read More »

  • Mike De Leon – Bayaning 3rd World AKA 3rd World Hero (2000) (HD)

    1991-2000DramaMike De LeonPhilippines

    Quote:
    Part-investigative documentary, part-satire and shot entirely in black-and-white, the film tackles the mystery that surrounds the life and death of the Filipino hero, Jose Rizal.Read More »

  • Patricio Guzmán – Chile, la memoria obstinada AKA Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997)

    1991-2000ChileDocumentaryPatricio GuzmánPolitics

    Released in three parts, Patricio Guzman’s epic documentary The Battle of Chile (1975-’79) captured such critical events as the bombing of the presidential palace during the 1973 military coup, but it wasn’t screened in Chile until the 1990s. That belated premiere inspired Guzman to make this 1997 documentary, in which clips from the earlier film are threaded among interviews and powerful sequences showing the reactions of Chilean viewers. Whereas The Battle of Chile uses voice-over narration to summarize its on-the-spot footage, manipulated only minimally by editing, Chile, Obstinate Memory is more expansive. Without ignoring or hyperbolizing the way politics affects our sense of the past, it presents many galvanizing moments; at one point a viewer who was a child during the coup shamefacedly recalls his pleasure at being allowed to stay home from school.Read More »

  • Jean Becker – Les enfants du marais (1999)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaFranceJean Becker

    Summary
    A chronicle of a group of friends in rural France in 1918. Garris and Riton live in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics. Meanwhile, Garris is overwhelmed by an unspoken love for a housemaid in the town, Marie…Read More »

  • Wesley Emerson – Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes (1998)

    1991-2000DocumentaryEroticaUSAWesley Emerson

    IMDB:
    Fascinating piece of Americana. Recommended!, 2 March 2000
    Author: Jens Kofoed-Pihl from Copenhagen, Denmark

    For a documentary “Wadd” ain’t so innovating, and maybe it’s too long but still my eyes were glued to screen. I knew John was a cokefiend and involved in a mob hit but I didn’t really knew he was vicious wife beater and a chronic liar/schizo that fed the cops info on pornproducers in the early 70’s. “Wadd” isn’t that pornographic (no penetration scenes) it’s more of a tragic story of a not too bright kid with the world’s biggest “tool”. Lots of people from the adult industry are interviewed (Goldstein, Flynt, Sharon Mitchell, Ciccolina etc.) as you would expect but also cops, lawyers, journalists and guys like Paul “Boggie Nights” Anderson are included. I know it’s almost impossible to make Holmes-docu that isn’t interesting but “Wadd” is a fascinating and important portrait of a legend that some called The Elvis Of Pornography!Read More »

  • Nhat Minh Dang – Mua oi aka The Season of Guavas aka La saison des goyaves (2000)

    1991-2000DramaNhat Minh DangVietnam

    A middle-aged man whose emotional and mental development ended at adolescence becomes obsessed with a guava tree in the yard of his former childhood home. When he is arrested trying sneak into the yard, he forms a unique relationship with the daughter of the home’s current resident.Read More »

  • Cédric Kahn – L’Ennui (1998)

    1991-2000ArthouseCédric KahnDramaFrance

    Engrossing, erotic and sometimes comic, L’ENNUI tells the story of restless philosophy professor Martin (Charles Berling), tired of teaching and troubled by the happiness of his ex-wife (Arielle Dombasle).

    His mid-life crisis takes a turn when he meets the young, enigmatic and far from intellectual Cecilia (Sophie Guillemin), with whom he embarks upon a sexually-charged affair.Read More »

  • Martin Gabel – The Lost Moment (1947)

    1991-2000DramaFilm NoirMartin GabelUSA

    A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet to find his lost love letters.Read More »

  • Ingmar Bergman – Larmar och gör sig till AKA In the Presence of a Clown (1997)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaIngmar BergmanSweden

    Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert – and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, “The Joy of the Joyous Girl”… Written by Fredrik KlassonRead More »

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