Film Festivals 1997
Yet another all-sorts year with something for all tastes. From Atom Egoyan's controversial "The Sweet Hereafter" and Kirby Dick's provocative "Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Lanagan, Supermasochist" to the warm and witty "Kolya" from the Czech Republic and the harrowing and visually stunning "Zero Kelvin" from Norway. The Wachowski Brothers' stylish contemporary noir "Bound" was good company for David Cronenberg's not-for-all-tastes minor masterpiece "Crash". Peter Greenaway offered up his stylistic "The Pillow Book".
Flirt (1995)
6.3/10
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey
Three couples of assorted gender pairings play out similar tales of unrequited love, desire, casual violence, and trust in New York, Berlin and Tokyo.... Read more
The Doom Generation (1995)
6/10
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech
Writer-director Gregg Araki knocks off 'Natural Born Killers' with this tale of three teen slackers who go on a cross-country sex-and-violence spree,... Read more
The Promise (1995)
6.1/10
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Starring: Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, Anian Zollner
A pointed account of star-crossed German lovers, covering a 30 year timespan, beginning with their separation while trying to escape from East to West... Read more
The Separation (1994)
7.5/10
Director: Christian Vincent
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Isabelle Huppert, Jerome Deschamps
Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil are spellbinding in their roles as lovers who endure the darkest hours of a relationship-the separation. Internati... Read more
Erotique (1994)
5.2/10
Director: Clara Law, Lizzie Borden, Monika Treut, Ana Maria Magalhaes
Starring: Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Priscilla Barnes, Marianne Sagebrecht, Camilla Soeberg, Mic...
This erotic film compilation, told from the female perspective, features four separate vignettes by four award-winning international directors. Lizzie... Read more
Zero Patience (1993)
5/10
Director: John Greyson
Starring: John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Bernard Behrens
The surreal and supernatural join forces in this extremely unusualAIDS musica. The story features the ghost of the Canadian airline steward, who alleg... Read more
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
6/10
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto P Quintavalle, Aldo Valetti
Pasolini's final and most controversial film has been banned, censored and reviled the world over since it's first release. The film is based on the M... Read more
Jazz On A Summer's Day (1959)
8.1/10
Director: Bert Stern
Starring: Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry
This precursor to Woodstock is the granddaddy of all concert films, a chronicle of the Newport, Rhode Island Jazz Fest where music greats like Louis A... Read more
Pillow Talk (1959)
7.5/10
Director: Michael Gordon
Starring: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter
Rock Hudson and Doris Day are at their best in their first romantic comedy together. Doris is an uptight interior decorator forced to share a party li... Read more
Vertigo (1958)
8.3/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes, Kim Novak, James Stewart, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones
Critics have hailed 'Vertigo' as Alfred Hitchcock's ultimate masterpiece. This haunting tale of obsession, fear and murder stars Hitchcock's favourite... Read more