Film Festivals 1993
A grand diversity this year with a great many stand-out offerings including Stephen Poliakoff's provocotive "Close My Eyes", Colin Nutley's Ealing Comedies-inspired "House of Angels", the superb "Close to Eden" and Sally potter's lavish "Orlando". On the darker side was Abel Ferrara's uncompromising "Bad Lieutenant"; Robert Rodriguez showed anyone can make a low budget film with his original "El Mariachi"; and also off the blocks was Quentin Tarantino with "Reservoir Dogs" (Right).
Les Amants ( aka The Lovers ) (1958)
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Alain Cuny
'The Lovers'. A bored wife (Jeanne Moreau) meets one of her house guests (Jean-Marc Bory) in a moonlit garden and decides to make love with him then a... Read more
The Playboys (1992)
6.4/10
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Starring: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright
An enchanting tale set in a small Irish village where a beautiful, young unmarried mother's involvement with an actor in a travelling theatre group se... Read more
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
7.7/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein
Gay Taiwanese-American Winston Chao tries to fool his parents via a fake wedding, with unexpected complications. This grand comedy knowingly and poign... Read more
Bread and Roses (1993)
7.1/10
Director: Gaylene Preston
Starring: Genevieve Picot, Mick Rose, Donna Akersten
Based on the autobiography of Sonya Davies. This moving epic story of one woman's experience spans twenty years from 1940 and captures the hopes and a... Read more
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
7.2/10
Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torne
A delicious love story with exquisite comedy adapted from Laura Esquivel's best selling novel. Young Tita is forced to nurse her sick mother and, unti... Read more
The Trial (1962)
7.8/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles
An unnamed country. Joseph K. (Anthony Perkins) is awakened one morning by a man who tells him he is under arrest. Accused by everyone of a crime that... Read more
Calendar (1993)
6.8/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Arsinee Khanjian, Atom Egoyan, Ashot Adamian
With this beautiful and evocative film set in Armenia and Canada, Atom Egoyan ('Exotica', 'The Sweet Herafter') filtered his abiding obsessions into t... Read more
Bob Roberts (1992)
7/10
Director: Tim Robbins
Starring: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Ray Wise, Alan Rickman, Gore Vidal
Written, directed and starring Tim Robbins, 'Bob Roberts' is a satirical, eye-opening, documentary-like journey into the world of American politics -... Read more
Incident at Oglala (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Narrated by, Robert Redford
The true story that inspired the film 'Thunderheart' focuses on the case of Leonard Peltier, a native American convicted of killing two FBI agents on... Read more
The Dark Wind (1991)
5.7/10
Director: Errol Morris
Starring: Fred Ward, Gary Farmer, Lou Diamond Phillips, John Karlen
From the director of 'The Thin Blue Line', Lou Diamond Phillips plays Navajo cop Jim Chee, who uses his tracking instincts and knowledge of tribal mys... Read more