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Film Festivals 1996

This year's line-up was dotted with award winners including Todd Solondz's Sundance winner "Welcome to the Dollhouse", Best Foriegn Film at the Academy Awards, "Antonia's Line" and winner of Cannes Best Director Award, "La Haine". Other stand-outs were Lars Von Trier's minor masterpiece "Breaking the Waves" and the Coen Brothers' "Fargo". Ken Loach didn't disappoint with "Land and Freedom" while Mike Leigh made his most accessible film yet with "Secrets and Lies". Kathryn Bigelow, director of 'Point Break', broke out with her stylish and visually stunning "Strange Days" (pictured).

Shanghai Triad (1995)

7.2/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Sun Chun

Zhang Yimou's absorbing tale of the Chinese underworld in the 1930s, focusing on a boy who's hired to be the silent servant of a pampered nightclub qu... Read more

Shine (1996)

7.7/10
Director: Scott Hicks
Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud

Geoffrey Rush's upset win for the Best Actor Oscar was the jewel in the crown for this wonderful, moving little film portraying the torrid true story... Read more

Shine ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

7.7/10
Director: Scott Hicks
Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud

Geoffrey Rush's upset win for the Best Actor Oscar was the jewel in the crown for this wonderful, moving little film portraying the torrid true story... Read more

Small Faces (1996)

7.1/10
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Starring: Iain Robertson, J S Duffy, Joseph McFadden

For the three McLean Brothers (Ian Robertson, Joseph McFadden and J. S. Duffy) art and violence are the alternative escape routes out of the Glasgow s... Read more

Strange Days (1995)

7.2/10
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vi...

As the racially-torn city of 1999 Los Angeles prepares to welcome in the new millennium, ex-cop Ralph Fiennes, eking out a living by peddling computer... Read more

Swing Time (1936)

7.7/10
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a nostalgic film about the high life in Manhattan during the Twenties, when fortunes where made and lost in an eveni... Read more

The Confessional ( Le Confessionnal ) (1995)

7.5/10
Director: Robert Lepage
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Ron Burrage

A man searches for lost relatives and missing pieces of family history, somehow linked to the making of Hitchcock's 'I Confess' in Quebec, 1953; past... Read more

The Flower Of My Secret (1995)

7.1/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Imanol Arias, Juan Echanove, Marisa Paredes, Rossy de Palma

Leo is a middle-aged woman (Marisa Paredes) whose seemingly great life is slipping away. Her husband is about to leave her, she must care for her crot... Read more

The Horseman On The Roof (1995)

7.1/10
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi

Rousing and romantic costume drama, set in 1830s France, from director/co-scripter Jean-Paul Rappeneau follows two strangers, a handsome horseman and... Read more

The Incredibly True Adventures Of Two Girls In Love (1995)

Director: Maria Maggenti
Starring: Nicole Parker, Maggie Moore, Laurel Holloman

This romantic comedy deals with the blossoming love between two high school senior girls; Randy (Laurel Holloman) an underprivileged lesbian outcast a... Read more