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Since his debut, Unbelievable Truth (1989), Hal Hartley has made consistently challenging films about the disruption of daily life, love and loss, emotion versus intellect, and societal outsiders. All of… Read more »
Since his debut, Unbelievable Truth (1989), Hal Hartley has made consistently challenging films about the disruption of daily life, love and loss, emotion versus intellect, and societal outsiders. All of… Read more »
Mike Figgis’ Internal Affairs (1990) works within a sado-masochistic complex. Ray Avilla (Andy Garcia) is an Internal Affairs officer obsessed with putting away Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a maniacal policeman…. Read more »
In 1998 Whit Stillman released his third film The Last Days Of Disco. Like his previous two films (Metropolitan and Barcelona), The Last Days Of Disco centers on a group… Read more »
“Woman’s awareness of herself is not defined exclusively by her sexuality: it reflects a situation that depends upon the economic organization of society, which in turn indicates what stage of… Read more »
Film Noir is a term created by critics to designate a particular kind of film made in Hollywood after WWII. Film Noir refers to crime films or thrillers that utilize… Read more »
Jennifer Chambers Lynch’s debut feature Boxing Helena (1993) has never been a popular film. It has found some longevity among the fans of her father’s films, but has, for all… Read more »
Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to two Tom Clancy novels in the late eighties that they turned over to Phillip Noyce, a veteran director of thrillers, to direct as vehicles… Read more »
J’embrasse pas (1991) is the culmination, in many respects, to a long meditation on the psychological turmoil of youth, a meditation that has undergone a number of revisions from film… Read more »
As with Taxi Driver (1976), screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese collaborated on the 1999 film Bringing Out The Dead. Similarly to Taxi Driver, Bringing Out The Dead follows its male lead as… Read more »
Leos Carax’s film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) is pure Romanticism, as naïve as it is visually stunning, often suspending all believability and reality in favor of sequences that are representative… Read more »