The Crying Game
The Crying Game 1992, R, 112 min. Directed by Neil Jordan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Jim Broadbent. The Crying Game is one of the best movies I’ve seen this year and, consequently, the less said about it here the better. The beauty of this…
Toys
Toys 1992. Directed by Barry Levinson, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright, Ll Cool J. It’s been a while since a movie’s come to us veiled in such a shroud of secrecy. Very little was known in advance about Toys other than that it was Barry…
Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith 1992, PG-13, 108 min. Directed by Richard Pearce, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Liam Neeson, Lukas Haas, Lolita Davidovich, Meat Loaf. It’s easy to forget, sometimes, that Steve Martin can be more than just another rubber-faced comic, mining the yuks where he finds them and wandering…
The Ox
The Ox 1991. Directed by Sven Nykvist;, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Max Von Sydow, Stellan Skarsgärd, Ewa Fröling, Erland Josephson, Liv Ullmann. At once a gorgeous, near-perfect film as well as a resolutely depressing story, The Ox is beautiful to look at, even as you keep pinching yourself, wondering if this tale…
Flirting
Flirting 1991, R, 99 min. Directed by John Duigan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman. This film is the second installment in Australian writer-director John Duigan’s (Romero) coming-of-age trilogy, continuing with the nonconformist, adolescent perspective of the protagonist from the first film (The Year My Voice Broke) –…
Forever Young
Forever Young 1992, PG, 102 min. Directed by Steve Miner, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Mel Gibson, Isabel Glasser, George Wendt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood. Ah, the sweet, sentimental, sacrificial nature of lost love slipping beyond the veil of the unknown — through the death or disappearance. How well this formula has…
Swoon
This classic of the New Queer Cinema is intrigues with its dreamy romanticism and eroticization of the infamous child murder committed by Leopold and Loeb in 1923.
