City Zero
City Zero 1988, NR, 103 min. Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Elena Arjanik. This prize-winning Russian film is an absurdist comedy about a rock’n’roll scandal, mistaken identity and life lived in the shadows of Stalinism and the Twilight Zone. Alexei (Filatov) is a…
For the Boys
For the Boys 1991, R, 138 min. Directed by Mark Rydell, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Bette Midler, James Caan, Norman Fell, George Segal. It’s not as if anyone had any illusions about this movie. From the first frame of the first trailer, it was clear For the Boys was intended as a…
Uranus
Uranus 1990. Directed by Claude Berri, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Philippe Noiret, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Blanc. What did you do during the war? It’s 1945 in a little town in France after the Liberation. War-weary citizens are attempting to resume their pre-Vichy lives amidst the architectural rubble and makeshift routines.…
My Girl
My Girl 1991. Directed by Howard Zieff, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin. Sunshine on a cloudy day, it ain’t. In the lame coming-of-age comedy/drama My Girl, set in 1972, pre-teen tomboy, Veda (Chlumsky) has her share of adolescent problems: she lives with an inattentive…
