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).
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Lei Lao Sheng, Ge Zhi Jun, Lui Pei Qi
In this beautiful and humourous film from the acclaimed director of 'Raise the Red Lantern', a peasant woman takes on the Chinese legal system when he... Read more
Reservoir Dogs ( Blu-ray ) (1991)
6.6/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Ma...
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino makes a startling debut with this story of a diamond heist gone wrong. A brain-twisting array of unexpected plot tur... Read more
Close My Eyes (1991)
6.4/10
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
Starring: Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves
This psychosexual drama focuses on the secret romance between a woman with low self-esteem and her brother, a wealthy, amiable man, which draws the su... 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
One False Move (1991)
7.2/10
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams
An electrifying thriller that chronicles the exploits of three criminals, two men and a woman, from their initial cocaine rip-off in Los Angeles, to a... Read more
Reservoir Dogs (1991)
6.6/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Tim Roth, Lawrence Tie...
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino makes a startling debut with this story of a diamond heist gone wrong. A brain-twisting array of unexpected plot tur... Read more
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1990)
6.5/10
Director: Simon Callow
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger
A provocative adaptation of Carson McCullers' story about a plain, lonely woman (Vanessa Redgrave) in a small Southern town and the battle of wills sh... Read more
Track 29 (1988)
6/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd
Nicolas Roeg's playfully beguiling mystery stars Theresa Russell as a bored young woman trapped in a loveless and childless marriage with model train... Read more
The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
7.1/10
Director: Leonard Kastle
Starring: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
Based on the true story of American serial killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck who went on a spree of murder and mayhem in the late 1940s. Posin... 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