Film Festivals 1993
A grand diversity this year with a great many stand-out offerings including Stephen Poliakoff's provocotive "Close My Eyes", Colin Nutley's Ealing Comedies-inspired "House of Angels", the superb "Close to Eden" and Sally potter's lavish "Orlando". On the darker side was Abel Ferrara's uncompromising "Bad Lieutenant"; Robert Rodriguez showed anyone can make a low budget film with his original "El Mariachi"; and also off the blocks was Quentin Tarantino with "Reservoir Dogs" (Right).
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
7.2/10
Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torne
A delicious love story with exquisite comedy adapted from Laura Esquivel's best selling novel. Young Tita is forced to nurse her sick mother and, unti... Read more
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
8.2/10
Director: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Starring: Noam Chomsky
Funny, provocative and suprisingly accessible, 'Manufacturing Consent' explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, the world renowned lingu... Read more
Monster In A Box (1992)
7.5/10
Director: Nick Broomfield
Starring: Spalding Gray
In this, Spalding Gray's second filmed stage performance, he discusses his brushes with life and death as he wrote his pseudo-autobiographical novel '... Read more
Of Mice and Men (1992)
7.5/10
Director: Gary Sinise
Starring: Alexis Arquette, John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sher...
The year is 1930. America is gripped by the Depression. But in a time of poverty and despair, two men refused to give up hope. Lennie (John Malkovich)... Read more
Olivier Olivier (1993)
7.6/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Brigitte Rouan, Gregoire Colin
A brooding, based-on-fact account of a country couple whose young son mysteriously disappears. Six years later he 'reappears' but is no longer the spe... Read more
One False Move (1991)
7.2/10
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams
An electrifying thriller that chronicles the exploits of three criminals, two men and a woman, from their initial cocaine rip-off in Los Angeles, to a... Read more
Othello (Welles) (1952)
6.9/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Michael Macliammoir, Robert Coote
Shot entirely out of sequence over four years because of budget difficulties, this would be one of the most fascinating attempts at Shakespeare ever f... Read more
Passion Fish (1992)
7.5/10
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
A beautifully crafted, often sharply funny, drama about a soap opera star whose career is cut short after an accident. Never to walk again she retreat... Read more
Reservoir Dogs (1991)
6.6/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Tim Roth, Lawrence Tie...
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino makes a startling debut with this story of a diamond heist gone wrong. A brain-twisting array of unexpected plot tur... Read more
Reservoir Dogs ( Blu-ray ) (1991)
6.6/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Ma...
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino makes a startling debut with this story of a diamond heist gone wrong. A brain-twisting array of unexpected plot tur... Read more