Black Robe
Black Robe 1991. Directed by Bruce Beresford, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Shellenberg. As a history lesson, it’s not likely that Black Robe will improve on the sketchy, inaccurate and romantized notions about the Native Americans of Northern America bequeathed to us by our school system.…
Blood & Concrete: A Love Story
Blood & Concrete: A Love Story 1991. Directed by Jeffrey Reiner, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, Darren McGavin, James Le Gros. Joey Turks (Zane) is a none-too-bright Hollywood sneak thief with nicer hair than mine, sort of a 90210-guy gone awry. Stabbed in the process of burglarizing a crony’s…
The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon 1991, PG-13, 99 min. Directed by Robert Mulligan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Reese Witherspoon, Emily Warfield, Gail Strickland, Sam Waterston, Jason London, Tess Harper. Just when I’d given up on seeing teenaged girls portrayed in current movies as anything other than boy-crazy bowheads or distaff rebels without…
The Story of Boys and Girls
The Story of Boys and Girls 1991. Directed by Pupi Avati, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Davide Bechini, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Felice Andreasi, Alessadro Haber. The Story of Boys and Girls would love nothing so much as to be a Jean Renoir movie. Or perhaps an intergenerational, societal panorama by Louis Malle.…
The Ten Commandments
DeMille’s Technicolor version of this Biblical tale is a durable and star-studded extravaganza. The movie sports Oscars for its special effects.
Cape Fear
Cape Fear 1991, R, 128 min. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Illeana Douglas. Riveting. Suspenseful. Thoughtful. Well-planned. Well-acted. If this is Scorsese’s bid for the commercial big time, then let the cash registers ring. Menacing. Psychologically thin.…
