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).
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
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
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
7.6/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Albert Dekker
The gripping drama of a fierce matriarch (Katharine Hepburn), her institutionalised niece (Elizabeth Taylor) and the neuro-surgeon (Montgomery Clift)... 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
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
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
Tune in Tomorrow ( aka Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ) (1990)
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Keanu Reeves, Peter Falk
A light and engagingly ludicrous comedy from the director of 'The Singing Dectective' and 'Queen of Hearts'. A flamboyant and mysterious radio scriptw... Read more
Kill Me Again (1989)
6.3/10
Director: John Dahl
Starring: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen
Double crosses, seductions and more double crosses as femme fatale (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) lucks into a bundle of mob money, then uses her charms to e... Read more