1991-2000

  • Anne-Marie Miéville – Lou n’a pas dit non (1994)

    1991-2000Anne-Marie MiévilleArthouseSwitzerland

    Synopsis
    Pierre et Lou sont séparés. Lui sur le point de se remarier mais y renonçant à la mairie. Lou travaille sur un film présentant les statues de Mars et Vénus au Louvre. Pierre et Lou sortent ensemble quelquefois le soir. Mais tandis qu’il papillonne d’une femme à une autre, Lou se lie à Théo, le conservateur du musée, détesté par Pierre. Lou participe aussi à l’action d’une association luttant pour les personnes traversant des difficultés morales. Lou termine son court-métrage qui est projeté.Read More »

  • Gísli Snær Erlingsson – Ikíngut (2000)

    1991-2000AdventureGísli Snær ErlingssonIceland

    Quote:
    Ikingut is not a cartoon, but a live-action children’s film from Iceland, set a few centuries ago in a superstitious little community among the ice floes that finds a child, Ikingut, who has strayed in from Greenland – the first Eskimo the place has seen.

    The baddies believe he’s an evil spirit; the minister’s son begs to differ and the two kids form a playful alliance. There are avalanches, a chase across the frozen plains and a faultless lesson in the friendship of strangers.Read More »

  • Koji Wakamatsu – Singapore Sling (1993)

    1991-2000AsianCrimeJapanKoji Wakamatsu

    letterboxd:

    Japanese directors rarely fare well when they venture outside their home turf, the 80s and 90s weren’t really Wakamatsu’s best eras either. Just to say that expectations were pretty low when I started Singapore Sling. I wasn’t really prepared for a film this bad though, it is by far the worst thing I’ve seen from Wakamatsu up until this point.

    Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again. His wife tries her best to launch an appeal, but it’s Tatsuya’s inmates who are his best chance of escaping his current predicament.Read More »

  • Ulrike Ottinger – Exil Shanghai AKA Exile Shanghai (1997)

    1991-2000DocumentaryGermanyUlrike Ottinger

    Quote:
    Fascinating and rich with wry humor, Exile Shanghai is an extraordinary cultural odyssey that affectionately conjures up the lost Jewish world of Shanghai. In the dark days of the 1930s, the Chinese metropolis was the last refuge for Europe’s persecuted Jews—a place that did not demand a visa. Those who managed to find refuge there brought with them the social and gastronomic delights of Vienna and Berlin. Ottinger’s four-and-a-half-hour mosaic features interviews with former members of the Shanghai expatriate Jewish community (many of whom relocated to Northern California), and her ever-curious camera cruises the city in search of its lost synagogues, schools, and salons.Read More »

  • Helma Sanders-Brahms – Mein Herz – Niemandem! AKA My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaGermanyHelma Sanders-Brahms

    The life of Jewish Expressionist poet and performance artist, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), told chronologically in vignettes given context by archival footage of turn-of-the-century Germany, World War I, and the ascent of the Third Reich. Her poetry often comprises the soundtrack. We see her in relation to men: her first husband, whom she leaves after her son is born; artists like Chagall and Franz Marc; an older muse and then a second husband; and, Gottfried Benn (1886 – 1956), physician and poet. Benn’s life is also chronicled: homosexual encounters, his attraction to Else and the Berlin scene, and his politics. Her poems addressed to him define this cultural moment.
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  • Shunji Iwai – Pikunikku AKA Picnic (1996)

    1991-2000DramaFantasyJapanShunji Iwai

    Synopsis:
    The story follows 3 members of a mental asylum, Tsumiji, Coco and Satoru, as they escape from the asylum, and into the real world. On the way, they find a vicar, who changes their out-view on life, by giving them a bible. Tsumiji takes interest and starts believing in god, while Coco believes the world began when she was born. While they look around town, they must walk ontop of the fences and walls to avoid the floor. They read in the bible that the world will end on the 10th July, so they roam around town attempting to find the perfect place for a picnic with the best vantage point to view the final event.Read More »

  • Peter Welz – Burning Life (1994)

    1991-2000ComedyCrimeGermanyPeter Welz

    IMDB review by: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    In the unified Germany, the aspirant of singer Anna (Maria Schrader) drives her old Russian car to a small town trying to get the job of singer in a bar. Meanwhile, the twenty years old Lisa (Anna Thalbach), who is disturbed with the suicide of her father, arrives in the same town. They meet each other by chance in a bank, where they begin a successful career of bank thieves. A nasty detective from the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in charge of the investigation starts a touch chase trying to catch them and destroy the empathy of the population for them.Read More »

  • David D. Williams – Thirteen (1997)

    1991-2000David D. WilliamsDramaUSA

    from nytimes:
    David Williams’ movie “Thirteen” belongs to a burgeoning genre that determinedly blurs the line between fiction and documentary filmmaking. Largely improvised, with no screenplay and featuring a cast that includes untrained actors as well as professionals, this portrait of a sullen, quirky 13-year-old black girl growing up in Richmond, Va., feels utterly real during much (though not all) of its 87 minutes.

    Nina (Wilhamenia Dickens), the movie’s unsmiling central character, is a tomboyish adolescent who shortly after her 13th birthday becomes withdrawn and stops speaking. One day she simply disappears from the house where she lives with her salty, God-fearing mother, Lillian (Lillian Folley), who narrates the film. When Nina reappears several days later from an autumnal trek into the Virginia mountains, she is a bit less glum than before.Read More »

  • Paolo Benvenuti – Gostanza da Libbiano (2000)

    1991-2000DramaItalyPaolo Benvenuti

    Gostanza da Libbiano (2000) is based on the real-life trial of the 60-year-old nun Gostanza da Libbiano who was persecuted for witchcraft in 1594, imprisoned and interrogated by church representatives.
    Gostanza da Libbiano is the third in a “trilogy of identity” which also includes The Kiss of Judas (1998) and Confortorio (1992).
    The italian director, Paolo Benvenuti, shot the entire film in San Miniato, 35 Km East from Pisa, in Tuscany. The film has been financed by the Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage.
    This is a beautiful and rare movie you cannot miss!Read More »

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