Film Festivals 1990
This punter believes this was the best film festival ever to grace Christchurch's screens (in this case the old Regent Theatre). The entire line-up had absolutely no deadwood. A few of the great many highlights included Jane Campion's "An Angel At My Table" and "Sweetie", Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams", Hal Hartley's "The Unbelievable Truth" the acclaimed "Cinema Paradiso", the marvellous "Jesus of Montreal", from the Netherlands came the sleek psycho-chiller "The Vanishing" and from Mexico came Alex Jodorowsky's unforgettable "Santa Sangre" (right).
Comic Book Confidential (1988)
7.1/10
Director: Ron Mann
Starring: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Robert Crumb, Stan Lee
A spirited introduction to the wider spectrum of American Comics intercut with hysterical archive footage. Congression hearings, lurid anti-comic prop... Read more
Da (1988)
6.4/10
Director: Matt Clark
Starring: Karl Hayden, Barnard Hughes, Martin Sheen, Doreen Hepburn, William Hickey
Hugh Leonard's autobiographical play of growing up adopted in a small sea-coast town in Ireland. The film version is directed by character actor Matt... Read more
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
7.4/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Matt Dillon, James LeGros, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, James Remar, William Bur...
An electrifying movie about two couples who live together and travel around robbing hospitals and pharmacies, grabbing fistfuls of pills and capsules.... Read more
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
5.3/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans
A dizzy, glitzy, fish out of water farce about three horny aliens on the make in L.A. Saturated with clever ideas, splashy visuals and enough bawdy en... Read more
Heathers (1988)
7.3/10
Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Kim Walker, Lisanne Falk
Welcome to Westerburg High, where Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) is beginning to tire of her membership in the powerful yet cruel clique of 'Heathers'... Read more
Heathers ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
7.3/10
Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Christian Slater, Kim Walker, Shannen Doherty, Winona Ryder, Lisanne Falk
Welcome to Westerburg High, where Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) is beginning to tire of her membership in the powerful yet cruel clique of 'Heathers'... Read more
Henry V (Branagh) (1989)
7.7/10
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson, Alec McCo...
An energetic, extraordinarily well-acted and perfectly cast version of Shakespeare's play adapted and directed by tyro-star Kenneth Branagh. Henry V i... Read more
High Hopes (1988)
7.6/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Dore, Philip Jackson
A provocative, original, slice-of-life Comedy-Drama about love, alienation and responsibility centred on a young laid-back working class couple, his a... Read more
High Hopes (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.4/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Edna Dore, Philip Davis, Philip Jackson, Ruth Sheen
A provocative, original, slice-of-life Comedy-Drama about love, alienation and responsibility centred on a young laid-back working class couple, his a... Read more
Jesus Of Montreal (1989)
7.5/10
Director: Denys Arcand
Starring: Catherine Wilkening, Lothaire Bluteau
The marvellous, emotional and humourous story of modern day hypocrisy, as experienced by a group of actors who stage a radical interpretation of the l... Read more