Taiga
Taiga 1992. Directed by Ulrike Ottinger, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . A genuine “epic,” Ottinger’s documentary on the nomadic tribespeople of Outer Mongolia runs for 8 hours and 21 minutes. By the time you reach the end of the film, you may find yourself feeling numbed and half-hypnotized into some sort of…
Fatal Instinct
Fatal Instinct 1993, R, 91 min. D: Carl Reiner; with Armand Assante, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young. Director Reiner (All of Me, Sibling Rivalry) takes — ahem — a stab at parodying those wacky ice-pick thrillers of the Nineties and barely breaks the skin. He and screenwriter David O’Malley tackle such sex ‘n’ slash favorites as…
The Ballad of Little Jo
The Ballad of Little Jo 1993, R. Directed by Maggie Greenwald, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian Mckellen, David Chung, Carrie Snodgrass, Rene Auberjonois, Heather Graham. This conscious attempt to put a new spin on the Western offers a little seen perspective on the American frontier. Inspired by the…
Flesh and Bone
Flesh and Bone 1993, R, 126 min. Directed by Steve Kloves, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan, Gwyneth Paltrow. Roy Sweeney (Caan) is bad to the bone and his evil legacy has been passed down to his flesh and blood. It’s inevitable, in that old “sins of the…
Beware of a Holy Whore
Beware of a Holy Whore Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lou Castel, Werner Schroeter, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulli Lommel. Beware of a Holy Whore is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s — the Seventies’ enfant terrible of foreign filmmaking — quintessential film. Made in…
Once Upon a Time in China III
Jet Li is back as the legendary physician and martial arts master in this third outing in Hark’s “historical” epics.
