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).
The Perfume of Yvonne ( aka Yvonne's Perfume ) (1994)
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Sandra Majani
Intriguing and sensuous, this is the tale of one man's haunting romance during the summer of 1958. In a stately resort hotel on picturesque Lake Genev... Read more
Totally F***ed Up (1993)
6.1/10
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid, Jenee Gill
Gregg Araki ('The Living End') scripted, edited, photographed, co-produced and directed this number about six gay teenagers trying to keep it together... Read more
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
7.4/10
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Brendan Sexton Jr, Heather Matarazzo, Matthew Faber, Eric Mabius
This Sundance winner follows the travails of Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo), the teen pariah who seems to invite the cruelties heaped upon her by cla... Read more