Butterfly Kiss
Butterfly Kiss 1995, NR, 88 min. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves. Gee… picture this: Amanda Plummer playing a pathologically whacked-out bundle of raw psychotic energy. What’s new here, you ask? Lots. For the first time in her film career, Plummer really owns the movie –…
Spy Hard
Spy Hard 1996, PG-13, 81 min. Directed by Rick Friedberg, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden, Barry Bostwick, Andy Griffith. Filled to the bursting point with witless, sub-Mad magazine movie parodies, pointless cameos by a seemingly endless parade of has-beens, and once-hysterical, now stale jokes…
Flipper
Flipper 1996, PG, 95 min. Directed by Alan Shapiro, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Elijah Wood, Paul Hogan, Jonathan Banks, Isaac Hayes, Chelsea Field, Jessica Wesson. There are worse ways to spend a hot summer’s evening than sitting in a cool theatre watching playful dolphins leap out of a sparkling blue-green sea. But,…
Man of the Year
Man of the Year 1996, NR, 87 min. Directed by Dirk Shafer, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Dirk Shafer, Virginia Paxton, Michael Ornstein, Claudette Sutherland. In the tradition of mockumentaries, budding director and former Playgirl magazine centerfold Dirk Shafer sets out to dramatize the events that occurred during his year-long tenure as Playgirl’s…
Experimental Films
Experimental Films NR, 112 min. Directed by David Lynch, Bruce Conner, Abigail Child, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . The final season of the Austin Film Society’s year-long 10th anniversary celebration begins Tuesday night at 7pm with the continuation of its free weekly screenings retrospective. Tuesday’s offering consists of an interesting collection of…
The Horseman on the Roof
The film captures the heroic exploits of an Italian resistance soldier who falls in love with a French noblewoman during the French cholera plague of the early 19th century.
