Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle 1994. Directed by Alan Rudolph, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Andrew Mccarthy, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Robards, Martha Plimpton, Wallace Shawn, Lili Taylor, Keith Carradine, Tom Mcgowan. We all think we know her: Dorothy Parker, an American…
Red
Red 1994, NR, 95 min. Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frederique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit. In one second, the time it takes to look away from the road to tune a car radio, drop a book to the street, or bump into a stranger, the path…
S.F.W.
S.F.W. 1995, R, 92 min. Directed by Jefery Levy, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Busey, Joey Lauren Adams, John Roarke. Never have I heard the word “fuck” used so frequently and with so little panache as in Jefery Levy’s (Inside Monkey Zetterland, Drive) angst-filled social commentary S.F.W. (hip…
Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight
Good performances and lots of blood and gore can’t save this illogical TV-to-screen story from itself.
Women From the Lake of Scented Souls
Women From the Lake of Scented Souls 1993, NR, 105 min. Directed by Xie Fei, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Siqin Gaowa, Wu Yujaun, Lei Luosheng, Chen Baoguo. There seem to be two distinct types of films coming out of post-Cultural Revolution China these days: quasi-erotic tales of concubines and love gone awry…
Higher Learning
Higher Learning 1995, R, 127 min. Directed by John Singleton, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Omar Epps, Ice Cube, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly, Regina King, Laurence Fishburne. Higher Learning is a disappointment. What might have been director Singleton’s (Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice) most ambitious and potentially intriguing work, wound…
Murder in the First
Murder in the First 1995. Directed by Marc Rocco, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, Brad Dourif, William H. Macy. Unsalvageable and inadvertently silly, Murder in the First purports to be “inspired by a true story,” which is apparently industry slang these days for “the real…
Nobody’s Fool
Nobody’s Fool 1995. Directed by Robert Benton, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Gene Saks, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Philip Bosco, Josef Sommer. Nothing much seems to happen in Nobody’s Fool, but appearances are deceiving: this subtly engaging film about a man finding redemption relatively…
