Art House Cinema
Art House films are critically-acclaimed movies that don't necessarily cause a stampede at the box-office. These so-called 'minor' works are generally seen only at Film Festivals or a few selective theatres, but they stay in the mind, for better or worse. Below is a list of films in Alice's Collection that for one unexplained reason or another, generally didn't quite get the exposure they may have deserved when originally released.
Enjoy finding many of cinema's 'gems' in this section.
Right: Peter Greenaway's 'The Baby Of Macon'.
Heat and Sunlight (1988)
5.3/10
Director: Rob Nilsson
Starring: Rob Nilsson, Don Bajema, Consuelo Faust
This powerful and disturbingly honest film documents the final hours of a love affair between a photographer and his exotic dancer girlfriend. Made by... 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
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
Barfly ( Blu-ray ) (1987)
7.3/10
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Alice Krige, Faye Dunaway, Mickey Rourke, Frank Stallone, J C Quinn
Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway are superb in this film, based on Charles Bukowski's writings, which offers insight into the world of the alcoholic, wh... 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
Bagdad Cafe (1987)
7.5/10
Director: Percy Adlon
Starring: Marianne Sagebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance
This enchanting and affectionate fable unveils, in a series of wonderful vignettes, the developing friendship between several oddball characters. Mari... Read more
Aria (1987)
5.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, Robert Altman, Bill Bryden
Starring: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita Morris, Bridget...
Ten different directors select a different aria and have free rein to do anything that they want. The world of opera meets the medium of film with a w... Read more
Barfly (1987)
7.3/10
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Alice Krige, Faye Dunaway, Mickey Rourke, Frank Stallone, J C Quinn
Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway are superb in this film, based on Charles Bukowski's writings, which offers insight into the world of the alcoholic, wh... Read more
Matewan (1987)
7.9/10
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
Writer-director John Sayles recreates the life and labour conditions that led to the infamous West Virginia shootout known as the Matewan Massacre. In... Read more
Siesta (1987)
5.6/10
Director: Mary Lambert
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Jones, Mar...
Compared with David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet', this features Ellen Barkin, Martin Sheen, Jodie Foster, Isabella Rossellini and Grace Jones, with a hot sou... Read more