Chameleon Street
Chameleon Street 1989, R, 94 min. D: Wendell B. Harris. The way Harris plays it, handsome, well-read, debonair Doug Street can be anyone he wants to be – so he is. The fact that he is a black man makes his story all the more seductive and bitterly ironic. Harris bases his story on the…
Spices
Spices Directed by Ketan Mehta, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah. This 1989 film is set in 1940s colonial India and tells the story of the women of a particular village’s rebellion against male tyranny.
Dutch
Dutch 1991, PG-13, 107 min. Directed by Peter Faiman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Ed O’Neill, Ethan (Randall) Embrey, Jobeth Williams. If the words “A John Hughes Film” fill you with tingly anticipation, if you were one of the millions of people who thought Home Alone was the most hilariously touching motion picture…
Point Break
Point Break 1991, R, 120 min. D: Kathryn Bigelow; with Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey. For a while, Point Break rides the swell of an amphetamine rush: It’s a movie that’s going places. Bigelow stages the film’s action sequences with a brutal efficiency (they almost redeem the movie), but she can’t keep the increasingly…
Boyz N the Hood
Singleton’s 1991 movie about three black boys growing to manhood in the combat zones of L.A.’s South Central remains a searing cultural indictment.
The T.A.M.I. Show
The T.A.M.I. Show 1965, 123 min. Directed by Steve Binder, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Historic 1964 concert documentary of the Teenage Awards Music International. A classic and one of the best music relics of the period. Includes the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the miracles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Chuck…
