Doc Hollywood
Doc Hollywood 1991. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Michael J. Fox, Julia Warner, Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda. So far Caton-Jones, director of the very British Scandal and the World War II valentine Memphis Belle, has shown a resistance to being pinned down, and Doc Hollywood isn’t going to make…
Return to the Blue Lagoon
Return to the Blue Lagoon 1991. Directed by William A. Graham, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause. They had to wait over ten years to make a sequel to Randal Kleiser’s Blue Lagoon (which is itself a remake of a 1949 British movie) because they had to wait for a…
Body Parts
Body Parts 1991, R, 88 min. Directed by Eric Red, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jeff Fahey, Brad Dourif. Director Red, whose previous credits include the screenplays for The Hitcher and Near Dark (two of the best horror/thrillers of the mid-eighties), spent a lot of time piloting a cab around NYC before being…
Cross My Heart
Cross My Heart 1990, NR, 105 min. Directed by Jacques Fansten, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Sylvain Copans, Nicolas Parodi. Truffaut or not Truffaut? Not, of course, but not for lack of trying. The comparisons between Fansten’s film and any number of Truffaut pieces are inevitable, I think, but sometimes that’s not such…
Landscape in the Mist
Landscape in the Mist 1988, 127 min. Directed by Theo Angelopoulos, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou. Enigmatic and elusive, Landscape in the Mist always seems beyond full comprehension. Although austerely beautiful (director Angelopoulos and cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis’ sense of composition is impeccable), this bleak film about two…
