The Secret Garden
Neither talking down to children nor pandering to their parents, The Secret Garden functions something like a fairy tale in which the primordial and psychosexual concerns are made palpable and socially acceptable.
The Best of the International Tournee of Animation
The Best of the International Tournee of Animation 1993. Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Collecting together in one film the “best” of 25 years of festival animation is a risky proposition at best; at worst, you end up with a group of shorts everyone’s seen before and never loved…
Hard Target
Hard Target 1993, R, 94 min. D: John Woo; w.ith Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen. Stop holding your breath. John Woo’s American debut is as thoroughly a “John Woo Film” as any of the director’s Hong Kong actioneers, with few if any compromises made in the way of bullets, bodies, and overall mayhem. Basically an…
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Manhattan Murder Mystery 1993, PG, 104 min. Directed by Woody Allen, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Joy Behar, Ron Rifkin. With the exceptions of Manhattan and Annie Hall, I always like Woody Allen more when he tries to do less (i.e.,…
Coeur En Hiver (A Heart in Winter), Un
Coeur En Hiver (A Heart in Winter), Un 1992. Directed by Claude Sautet, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Andre Dussollier, Elisabeth Bourgine, Brigitte Catillon. The allure of the unobtainable in matters of romance is the theme in this understated, talky, and generally uninteresting French film about a love triangle…
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday 1993, R. Directed by Karel Kachyna, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Freddie Jones, Linda Jablonska, Daniel Margolius. Steve Davis is a dirty rotten ratfink — a defiler of tradition, a soiler of the natural order. Since the dawn of the Chronicle, Mr.…
