On his fifth attempt at boarding school, young Benni has one last
chance to prove to his parents he can function in the academic world, and, most importantly, pass math. But Benni has other concerns; he is partially paralyzed and struggling with typical teenage issues – making friends, falling in love and having sex. When his mother decides to move him to yet another school, Benni must decide whether to make a stand for what truly matters to him. Based on an autobiographical novel by Benjamin Lebert, Crazy has earned Schmid great praise for its honest portrait of teenage life.
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1991-2000
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Hans-Christian Schmid – Crazy (2000)
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Ildikó Enyedi – Büvös vadász aka The Magic Hunter (1994)
Ildikó Enyedi1991-2000ArthouseDramaHungaryFrom Amazon:
Magic Hunter begins as a fairy tale told by a mother to her frightened daughter during a World War II air raid and then shifts into the contemporary story of Max, a police marksman (British actor Gary Kemp, dubbed in Hungarian) who loses his nerve when he wounds an innocent hostage. He manages to pass his annual shooting test only when a sinister colleague lends him three magic bullets that won’t fail to miss their target; to get a new supply, Max will have to strike a deal with the devil.Read More » -
Miklós Jancsó – Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten AKA Lord’s Lantern in Budapest (1999)
1991-2000ArthouseComedyHungaryMiklós JancsóFive different stories are connected by two recurring characters: gravediggers Kapa and Pepe. In one story, the director and screenwriter are characters. Killed by assassins, their ashes are then mixed up by the antic gravediggers. In another, a rich man persuades a poor one not to kill himself, and ends up committing suicide himself, while in a third, characters in a country mansion meditate on Hungarian history, revolution and violence.Read More »
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Bob Rafelson – Blood and Wine (1996)
Bob Rafelson1991-2000CrimeDramaUSAA man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.Read More »
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Robert Gardner, Stan Brakhage – Looking at Forest of Bliss (2000)
Stan Brakhage1991-2000DocumentaryRobert GardnerUSADirector Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner’s ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The film is shown in its entirety, with Gardner occasionally pausing to elucidate, and Brakhage brilliantly observing tonality, poetic imagery, life, death, the unconscious, and, well, just being damned insightful.Read More »
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Radwan El-Kashef – Lieah ya banafsieg AKA Violets Are Blue AKA Why, Violets? (1993)
Radwan El-Kashef1991-2000DramaEgyptA portrayal of the lives of four friends who have different dreams and aspirations; Ahmed falls in love with a girl he saw once, Sayed gets in trouble when he sells the laboratory animals, Abbas who is married to a woman that doesn’t love him, and Ali who works in illegal operations.Read More »
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Priit Pärn – Porgandite öö AKA Night of the Carrots (1998)
1991-2000AnimationEstoniaPriit PärnShort FilmIt is highly unlikely that anybody has any premonition of the approaching catastrophe. Least of all Diego, a man whose name can be read from his face. But suddenly your shoes are filled with water. The click of Julia’s heels echoes in the corridor. Underground no longer speaks in a whisper. This is how it usually begins…
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Tony Chan – Combination Platter (1993)
1991-2000DramaTony ChanUSAThe story of one man desperately trying to obtain a green card by marrying an American woman.Read More »
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Temur Babluani – Udzinarta mze AKA The Sun of the Sleepless (1992)
1991-2000DramaGeorgiaTemur BabluaniThrillerThe director dedicated this lyrical, epic film-confession to the memory of his father who was a doctor. The film’s protagonist, an ambulance doctor, conducts dangerous experiments in search of a vitally important vaccine. His wife believes in his work, though his daughter would not understand him. His son, who is absolutely unlike his father in character, is trying to protect him. But self-denial in the name of science proves too high a price. Just when he is on the verge of discovery, the doctor loses everything he has gathered as a result of his twenty-year-long work. This loss brings him even closer to his son. The shooting of the film continued for seven years (1985-1992), making it a metaphorical culmination of the Soviet cinematography and the Soviet way of life as a whole.Read More »