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).
Lie Down with Dogs (1995)
4.7/10
Director: Wally White
Starring: Randy Becker, Bash Halow, Darren Dryden, James Sexton, Wally White
Here's the outrageous, good-time comedy for anyone who's ever wanted to get away from it all and have some fun! Tommie's a gay college graduate who's... Read more
Nadja (1995)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Almereyda
Starring: Elina Lowensohn, Peter Fonda, Suzy Amis, Martin Donovan, Jared Harris
In this stylish, supernatural thriller a pair of twin brother and sister vampires haunt contemporary New York. Full of dead-pan black humour and execu... Read more
Land and Freedom (1995)
7.6/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Iciar Bollain
A perceptive, passionate tale of a young working class Communist (Ian Hart) from Liverpool who goes to Spain to join the anti-Facists in their battle... Read more
Fallen Angels (1995)
7.7/10
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Michelle Reis
A hitman's "agent" is falling in love with him, while a silent ex-con breaks into stores at night, opens them up and forces people to buy merchandise... Read more
La Haine ( Hate ) (1995)
8.1/10
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Hubert Kounde, Vincent Cassel
This angry indictment of life on a Parisian housing estate is packed with sharp street humour, intense action and propelled by brutally brilliant came... 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
Angels and Insects (1995)
7/10
Director: Philip Haas
Starring: Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patsy Kensit
A haunting, erotically charged drama set in Victorian England, where a poor anthropologist decides to take residence with a wealthy family after a dis... Read more
Antonia's Line (1995)
7.5/10
Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans, Jan Decleir
Marleen Gorris' winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film centres on an elderly woman who recalls her life in a small Dutch village on the day... 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
Cosi (1995)
6.9/10
Director: Mark Joffe
Starring: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Aden Young, Colin F...
A budding theatre director is haggled into staging a bizarre version of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte at a psychiatric hospital. Adapted from the winning st... Read more