Caro Diario
Caro Diario 1994, NR, 100 min. Directed by Nanni Moretti, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Neiwiller, Moni Ovadia, Mario Schiano, Jennifer Beals. Caro Diario (Dear Diary) makes it clear why philosopher-filmmaker Nanni Moretti is often called the Woody Allen of Italy. Though Caro Diario is Moretti’s eighth completed…
Interview With the Vampire
Tom Cruise as Anne Rice’s evil Lestat.
Clerks
Kevin Smith’s feature debut is an outrageous, profane, and deliriously dead-on comedy that follows a day in the life of two young convenience/video store clerks.
Bosna!
Bosna! 1994. Directed by Marco Bellochio, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Claire Nebout, Andrzej Seweryn, Grazyna Szapolowska. Bosna! is an impassioned polemic about the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The voiceover narration by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy valorizes the Bosnian resistance and chides the Western world for its lack of…
Shelf Life
Shelf Life 1993. Directed by Paul Bartel, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, Jim Turner. Director Paul Bartel has a talent for identifying great premises. As evidence, I offer examples like the “pound-of-flesh” financing scheme of Eating Raoul, the Machiavellian auto race of Death Race 2000, and the paranoid self-reflexivity…
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1994, R. Directed by Kenneth Branagh, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, Ian Holm, Aidan Quinn, John Cleese. Kenneth Branagh, resuscitator of Shakespeare onscreen, tackles the Frankenstein tale and brings that oft-abused corpse to life again with a jolt, though not…
