Film Festivals 1988
Another vintage year highlighted by Philip Kaufman's "Unbearable Lightness of Being", Peter Jackson's debut film "Bad Taste", a grand embrace of things past in "Withnail and I", the wonderfully eclectic mix of music and imagery in "Aria", a grand Gallic feast was to be had in "Babette's Feast", the enchanting "Jean de Florette" followed by "Manon des Sources", and stretching the medium was Wim Wenders with "Wings of Desire" (pictured).
River's Edge (1986)
7.1/10
Director: Tim Hunter
Starring: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Ione Skye, Roxana Zal, Daniel Roebu...
A powerful drama that uses a real incident to convey the hopelessness and hostility barely hidden under the surface of today's teenager. A big kid mur... Read more
School Daze (1988)
5.9/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell
Spike Lee produced, wrote, directed and stars in this all-black musical comedy about tensions and social divisions at a southern black university, Mis... Read more
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
6.6/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Spike Lee
The celebrated first feature from independent black filmmaker Spike Lee, a brazenly comic foray into sexual politics. Tracy Camilla Johns stars as Nol... Read more
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
7/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Lambert Wilson, Chloe Webb
Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), a distinguished American architect, is invited to Rome with his young attractive wife Louisa (Chloe Webb) to set u... Read more
The Dead (1987)
7.4/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Helena Carroll, Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal Donnelly
The last film of great American director, John Huston, is a faithful and artful adaptation of a James Joyce story from 'The Dubliners'. The screenplay... Read more
The Red Shoes (1948)
8.3/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Al...
'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more
The Red Shoes ( Blu-ray ) (1948)
8.3/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Al...
'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more
The Stepfather (1986)
5.6/10
Director: Joseph Ruben
Starring: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack
This may look like your average mad slasher movie, but don't be misled by the packaging. This exploration of a deranged man just trying to find and ma... Read more
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
7.4/10
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Czech author Milan Kundera's novel has been transferred to film by director Philip Kaufman ('The Right Stuff', 'Henry And June'). The emphasis is less... Read more
Trouble In Mind (1985)
6.7/10
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Keith Carradine, Kris Kristofferson, Lori Singer, Genevieve Bujold, Joe Morton,...
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City. With Kris K... Read more