A Better Tomorrow II
A Better Tomorrow II 1987. Directed by John Woo, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Chung, Ti Lung, Dean Shek. John Woo has remarked that this is one of his worst films, and though that’s hardly the case here, it’s also worth noting that this certainly isn’t one of his best…
Six Degrees of Separation
Six Degrees of Separation 1993. Directed by Fred Schepisi, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Mary Beth Hurt, Bruce Davison, Heather Graham, Anthony Michael Hall, Eric Thal, Richard Masur, Ian Mckellen. Despite some core ambiguities, the temporal experience of watching Six Degrees of Separation is one of absorption…
Golden Gate
Golden Gate 1993, R, 90 min. Directed by John Madden, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby, Teri Polo, Tzi Ma, Stan Egi, Jack Shearer. Like Jack Nicholson’s private dick before him, Matt Dillon should have known better than to go poking around in Chinatown. Golden Gate is a…
Blink
Blink 1994, R, 106 min. Directed by Michael Apted, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar, Peter Friedman, Laurie Metcalf, Bruce A. Young. Despite its fairly outlandish take on the old “beautiful blind woman in peril” school of romantic thrillers, Blink manages to weather its unbelievability and emerge a…
Intersection
Intersection 1994, R, 98 min. Directed by Mark Rydell, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau, Jenny Morrison. Someone should have roadblocked this Intersection. It’s hard to work up much steam about this story about talented and successful architect Vincent (Gere) unable to choose between his frosty…
World’s Best Commercials: Cannes ‘ninety-Two
World’s Best Commercials: Cannes ‘ninety-Two 1992. Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Like them or not, television commercials are a permanent fixture on the broadcasting landscape. They relentlessly pitch everything from cars to beer, toothpaste, deodorant, and “the itch that is too private to mention” by preying upon the insecurities…
Flight of the Innocent
Flight of the Innocent 1993, R, 105 min. Directed by Carlo Carlei, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Manuel Colao, Fererico Pacifici, Sal Borgese, Francesca Neri, Jacques Perrin. Ten-year-old Vito (Colao) lives in Calabria, in southern Italy, a place where the sun bakes sleepy villages populated by farmers, sheepherds, and kidnappers. His family is…
Freaked
A young Hollywood pitchman (Winter – also the film’s co-writer and co-director) finds himself at the mercy of a backwoods mad scientist (Randy Quaid).
