1990s

  • Brad Anderson – The Darien Gap (1996)

    1991-2000Brad AndersonComedyUSA

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    A twenty-something slacker is moving to the south in hopes of capturing a picture of the giant sloth, and finally make a fortune in this low-key affair. Lyn Vaus, a young man who still feels traumatized because their parents had been divorced two decades ago, is trying to go to Patagonia. Since he can not afford a transport, he decides to hitchhike. Unfortunately, he comes down to Panama to a place that is 80 miles from the Darien Gap, a huge swamp that somehow have to cross.Read More »

  • Alain Cavalier – Georges de La Tour (1998)

    1991-2000Alain CavalierArthouseDocumentaryFrance

    “Since a long time I have been linked to the painter Georges de La Tour. His paintings helped me in making my films. Even more, in a precise way they crossed my personal life. The film I shot about La Tour is about that : an intimate emotion followed by the love for the works of La Tour. […] Georges de La Tour’s paintings (it remains 30) are fixed images gifted of a rare radiation and density in the history of human labour. It happens that me, a film-maker, with my movement of twenty four images per second, I am a little jealous of this completion.” (Alain Cavalier) Read More »

  • Paul Bartel – Shelf Life (1993)

    1991-2000ComedyCultPaul BartelUSA

    Paul Bartel directed this film version of a performance art piece by O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, and Jim Turner, who play Tina, Pam, and Scotty — three grown-up kids who have spent the last thirty years sealed off in a backyard family bomb shelter. A prologue explains what happened: in 1963, when John Kennedy is assassinated, a typical middle-class family from Anaheim retreat to their backyard bomb shelter, afraid that the commies are coming. In 1993, they are still there — even Mom and Dad, who have since died, but the bones are laid out nicely on their bed. The brother and two sisters, in worn-out clothing, amuse themselves by playing silly little games (something called “Egyptian Fantasy” with Ken as the Pharaoh), engaging in absurd rounds of role playing (Tina as a high-school tease), and hurling senseless rebukes at one another (“I can’t hear you. I’ve got a set of encyclopedias up my butt” ).Read More »

  • David Lynch – On the Air (1992)

    1991-2000ComedyDavid LynchTVUSA

    The year is 1957. The cast and crew of the Lester Guy Show are extremely apprehensive about their upcoming live television broadcast on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. network. Lester Guy despises fellow cast member Betty Hudson for unknowingly becoming more popular than him and schemes to destroy her career. Only two of the seven episodes were written by David Lynch.Read More »

  • Frans van de Staak – Dichtweefsel AKA Verse Texture (1999)

    1991-2000DramaFrans van de StaakNetherlandsShort Film

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    Minimal miniature about a rehearsal of a play text by an actress and a directing actor.

    The actress is amazing. An actress and an actor are rehearsing parts of the play Three Travellers Watch Sunrise by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three travellers (Chinese) and the girl (Anna) are spoken by the actress as a monologue. The actor listens and sometimes gives the actress directions.Read More »

  • Narcisa Hirsch – Rumi (1999)

    1991-2000ArgentinaExperimentalNarcisa HirschShort Film

    Images from the texts of Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet.Read More »

  • Bruno Monsaingeon – David Oïstrakh: artiste du peuple? aka David Oistrakh: Artist of the People? (1996)

    1991-2000Bruno MonsaingeonDocumentaryFranceMusical

    David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (September 30, 1908 – October 24, 1974) was a renowned Soviet classical violinist.
    Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world, including the Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States, and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works, including both of Dmitri Shostakovich’s violin concerti, and the violin concerto by Aram Khachaturian. He is considered one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th century.Read More »

  • Yukihiro Sawada – Kojika monogatari Aka Deer Friend (1991)

    1991-2000DramaJapanYukihiro Sawada

    Set in Hokkaido, Japan’s outback, an eight-year-old boy discovers a fawn whose mother has been hit by a car. Hiding it in an abandoned railway station, he attempts to raise it by himself.Read More »

  • Yeung-Wah Kam – Ran qing nan ju ji (1995)

    1991-2000ActionCrimeHong KongYeung-Wah Kam

    Ultra serious Ko Lap and carefree Kung Kwan are expert assassins.It’s love at first sight for Kwan when he runs into the lovely Bin Yee. And Ko Lap continues to hide his love for Sau Yu, agent for him and Kwan. Unkowingly, Ko Lap executes a contract on Yee’s father.Read More »

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