1991-2000

SHE’S A WOMAN WHO DOES NOT REST.Read More »

In a remote woodland cabin, a small-town doctor discovers Nell – a beautiful young hermit-woman with many secrets.Read More »

Synopsis
A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, and finally succeeds in perfecting his invention, which allows people to see life through rose-colored glasses. But he has to pay a price for his success.Read More »

FILMARE/FILMAGE or SHOOTING (A LUCIAN PINTILIE PORTRAIT)
– Rare intimate documentary about Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie – the director of (arguably) the best Romanian movie ever, “The Re-enactement” (1970) – shooting his first film after the 1989 Revolution, “The Oak” (1992), following a long period of work in exile. The soundtrack of the documentary contrapuntally uses audio fragments from his previous body of work (film and opera).Read More »

Synopsis
Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato’s second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken belief that it is a maid service. After she is raped on her first assignment, Kikuchi is understandably shocked, but quickly warms to her new career and becomes quite the professional. Unfortunately, her husband soon discovers the true nature of her work.Read More »

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An audacious teen movie from Japan, concentrating on a bored middle-class quartet: two hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and their two female best friends. Tatsuro is the better hustler. He spends his days skipping school or coolly entertaining clients; but when Shin declares his love for him, Tatsuro has to enter the real world . . . a raw, honest movie about the loves and loneliness of Tokyo late teens.Read More »

Synopsis – AMG:
Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. The story is related in flashback form, as Mrs. Parker, in Hollywood to cowrite the 1937 feature A Star is Born with her second husband Alan Campbell (Peter Gallagher), recalls her glory days as an Algonquinite. A great deal of attention is afforded Parker’s vituperative bon mots, her alcoholism, her self-destructiveness, her suicide attempts, and her affairs with such literary contemporaries as Charles MacArthur (an uncharacteristically unsympathetic Matthew Broderick) and Robert E. Sherwood (Nick Cassavetes).Read More »

An early TV film by Kurosawa, one of two for the Dramada (1990-1993) series. IMDb lists runtime as 47 minutes – this is only 23Read More »

Lee Lap Cheung is a slacker who is going nowhere. His ex-wife Yip Ting has become powerful in the business world. In a moment of anger Cheung requests Ting to allow him and his son Jason to spend some time together.Read More »