1990s

  • Phillip J. Roth – Interceptors AKA Interceptor Force (1999)

    1991-2000ActionDramaPhillip J. RothUSA
    Interceptors (1999)
    Interceptors (1999)

    In the near future, the government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force of the world’s best, they are known as the Interceptor Force. A covert early warning satellite network tracks an object crash landing in a town in the Pacific Northwest. Within minutes of the impact, all communication with the town is mysteriously severed. The news sources are given a false story of contamination and the area is sealed off. AWAC’s and fighters patrol the perimeter. As the silence from the town continues, the Interceptor team lead by Lieutenant Sean Lambert (Gruner) is sent in to investigate. Read More »

  • Carl Franklin – One False Move (1992)

    1991-2000Carl FranklinCrimeDramaUSA
    One False Move (1992)
    One False Move (1992)

    Carl Franklin made his directorial bow with the story of three LA drug dealers who, after committing a rather messy murder, hide out in a rural Arkansas town. Assuming that the local “rubes” will offer them little interference, the criminals have not reckoned with sheriff “Hurricane” Dixon (Bill Paxton). Despite the arrogance of the LAPD agents sent to Arkansas to collar the crooks, it is down-home Dixon who puts the final bloody showdown into motion (the fact that the thieves have been falling out throughout the film doesn’t hurt things either). Carl Franklin knows where he’s going in every frenetic frame of One False Move, and his movie was one of the most acclaimed independent releases of 1991.Read More »

  • Constantine Giannaris – Apo tin akri tis polis AKA From the Edge of the City (1998)

    Constantine Giannaris1991-2000CrimeDramaGreeceQueer Cinema(s)
    Apo tin akri tis polis (1998)
    Apo tin akri tis polis (1998)

    A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city’s repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.Read More »

  • Wenguang Wu – Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990)

    Wenguang Wu1981-1990ChinaDocumentary
    Bumming in Beijing The Last Dreamers (1990)
    Bumming in Beijing The Last Dreamers (1990)

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    A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives, careers, and what aspirations they may have for the future.

    This is an EXTENDED CUT of this important “6h generation” doc.Read More »

  • Rolf de Heer – Dance Me to My Song (1998)

    Rolf de Heer1991-2000AustraliaDrama
    Dance Me to My Song (1998)
    Dance Me to My Song (1998)

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    Julia (Heather Rose) is crippled with cerebral palsy, lives in a wheelchair, waits for her carer to come and clean her, feed her, in a daily cycle. Her latest carer, Madelaine (Joey Kennedy) is a strung up and lonely young woman whose love life is in disarray. The two women are interdependent; Julia needs her carer, Madelaine needs her job. But they don’t exactly hit it off. Along comes Eddie (John Brumpton), a handsome young chap who appeals to both women. But Julia is behind the eight ball in this love battle, what with her wheelchair – she even needs a voice synthesiser to speak. Her body is small and frail and twisted …. But she is not totally helpless, as Madelaine discovers.Read More »

  • Deryn Warren – Black Magic Woman (1991)

    1991-2000Deryn WarrenRomanceThrillerUSA
    Black Magic Woman (1991)
    Black Magic Woman (1991)

    The owner of a suburban art gallery searches for someone to perform an exorcism after a witch casts a spell on him.Read More »

  • Valeriu Jereghi – Predchuvstviye AKA Foreboding (1992)

    Valeriu Jereghi1991-2000ArthouseRomania
    Predchuvstviye (1992)
    Predchuvstviye (1992)

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    In the story, a boy, a woman and a cow seem to be the only survivors of a global catastrophe, except for whoever is following them threateningly in a tank. Slowly they put together what they need to survive, and despite the difficulty of all this, it looks as though the human race may just manage a new beginning. This simple, darkly imaged story is told with a very minimal amount of dialog.Read More »

  • Nanni Moretti – Caro diario AKA Dear Diary (1993)

    Nanni Moretti1991-2000ComedyDramaItaly
    Caro diario (1993)
    Caro diario (1993)

    Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three antological vignettes presented as the chapters of an open diary.Read More »

  • Robert Downey Sr. – Too Much Sun (1990)

    1981-1990CampComedyQueer Cinema(s)Robert Downey Sr.USA
    Too Much Sun (1990)
    Too Much Sun (1990)

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    On his deathbed, billionaire O.M. Rivers (Howard Duff) is tricked into altering his will by a grasping Catholic priest (Jim Haynie). The dying man is persuaded to add a stipulation to his bequests: one of Rivers’ two offspring must produce an heir within a year of his death or his millions will go to the church. The catch is that Rivers’ son Sonny (Eric Idle) is gay and his daughter Bitsy (Andrea Martin) is a lesbian.Read More »

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