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).
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
7.1/10
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Paul Hipp, Victor Argo
About a morally bankrupt cop (Harvey Keitel) who starts to pull himself out of the abyss when he investigates the rape of a nun who refuses to press c... 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
Hard Boiled (1992)
7.9/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Teresa Mo, Philip Chan
John Woo's stylish, ultra-violent story of a police inspector (Chow Yun Fat) who teams up with a mysterious hit man (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) to stop a ga... Read more
Indochine (1992)
7.1/10
Director: Regis Wargnier
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham
Set in 1930's French Indo-China this film studies the fascinating relation-ship between two women - a French mother and her adopted Indochinese daught... 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
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
8.2/10
Director: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Starring: Noam Chomsky
Funny, provocative and suprisingly accessible, 'Manufacturing Consent' explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, the world renowned lingu... Read more
Monster In A Box (1992)
7.5/10
Director: Nick Broomfield
Starring: Spalding Gray
In this, Spalding Gray's second filmed stage performance, he discusses his brushes with life and death as he wrote his pseudo-autobiographical novel '... Read more
Of Mice and Men (1992)
7.5/10
Director: Gary Sinise
Starring: Alexis Arquette, John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sher...
The year is 1930. America is gripped by the Depression. But in a time of poverty and despair, two men refused to give up hope. Lennie (John Malkovich)... Read more
Passion Fish (1992)
7.5/10
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
A beautifully crafted, often sharply funny, drama about a soap opera star whose career is cut short after an accident. Never to walk again she retreat... 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