Film Festivals 1992
The festival this year was spiced with some real gems including David Cronenberg's take on William S Burroughs' underground classic "Naked Lunch", Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's bizarrely inspired "Delicatessen", John McNaughton's disturbing "Henry - Portrait of a Serial killer", Wim Wenders' epic "Until the End of the World", the thought-provoking "Rapture" and Lars Von Trier's stunning, hypnotic "Zentropa" (right).
A Brief History of Time (1992)
6.8/10
Director: Errol Morris
Starring: Stephen Hawking
An outstanding portrait of cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who's afflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and communicates verbally with a voice synt... Read more
Let Him Have It (1992)
7.3/10
Director: Peter Medak
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay
An absorbing drama based on the true story of Derek Bentley, a slow-witted youth who was pulled into a life of crime in post war England, and sentence... Read more
Mediterraneo (1992)
7.4/10
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Starring: Claudio Bigagli, Diego Abatantuono, Ugo Conte
Winner of the 1991 Best Foreign Language Academy Award. A small, eight-man battalion is ordered to secure a strategically unimportant Greek island. Th... Read more
The Player (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Brion J...
A savagely satirical black comedy about a paranoid young movie executive (Tim Robbins), threatened by a disgruntled screenwriter - until he begins tak... Read more
Europa ( aka Zentropa ) (1992)
7.7/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst Hugo
This penetrating and mesmeric trip into the dark soul of Europe follows a young American pacifist of German descent who sojourns to post-WWII Deutschl... Read more
Edward II (1992)
7/10
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Kevin Collins, Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan
Derek Jarman uses Christopher Marlowe's classic play about the 14th century monarch for this daring cinematic treatise on gay love and its place in th... Read more
The Architecture of Doom (1991)
Director: Peter Cohen
Starring: Adolf Hitler
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, "The Architecture of Doom" captures the inner workings of the Third Rei... Read more
The Double Life Of Veronique (1991)
7.8/10
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Halina Gryglaszewska, Irene Jacob, Kalina Jedrusik
Two women with identical looks, birthdates and names unknowingly have their lives inter-connected in this beautifully crafted thriller. When one of th... Read more
Boyz N The Hood (1991)
7.8/10
Director: John Singleton
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr, Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne
A thoughtful look at life in the black section of South Central Los Angeles. A divorced father strives to raise his son with values and steer him away... Read more
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
7.8/10
Director: Jacques Rivette
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli
Aka 'The Beautiful Troublemaker'. The riveting story of the relationship between a once-famed artist and the young woman who inspires him to paint aft... Read more