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).
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
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
Naked Lunch (1991)
7.1/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider
William S. Burroughs' 1959 free-form, underground classic is brought to the screen weaving elements of the author's life with the fictional material.... Read more
Night On Earth (1991)
7.8/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Rosie Perez, Roberto Benigni, B...
A five-part slice-of-life; each story unravelling at the same time in L.A., New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki; all set in a taxi, and all spotlightin... Read more
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
8.2/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng
This magnificent film chronicles the life of a 1920s maiden who, at her mother's urging, agrees to marry a wealthy man. She becomes 'fourth mistress'... Read more
Rambling Rose (1991)
6.7/10
Director: Martha Coolidge
Starring: Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas
A charmingly humanistic tale set in 1930s Georgia with Laura Dern as an oversexed, lost-soul of a girl who comes to work for a genteel family headed b... Read more
Riff Raff (1990)
5.2/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman
The scams, arguments, shoddy practices and humour of a group of workers, one just out of jail, working on expensive flats are the basis for this gem.... Read more
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Director: Tom Stoppard
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen
Playwright Tom Stoppard has scripted and directed this film version of his own highly successful stage comedy about two minor characters in Shakespear... Read more
Spotswood (1991)
Director: Mark Joffe
Starring: Alwyn Kurts, Anthony Hopkins, Bruno Lawrence, Russell Crowe
A delightful comedy about a family owned company's effort to bring its antiquated manufacturing and marketing systems into the 20th century under the... Read more