Hard Boiled
Hard Boiled 1992, NR, 126 min. Directed by John Woo, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung, Philip Chan, Bowie Lam, Kwan Hoi-Shan. (This print of Hard Boiled is John Woo’s “director’s cut” which includes several extra minutes deleted from the initial release print. Let’s see… that ought to allow at…
Equinox
Equinox 1992, PG, 80 min. Directed by Alan Rudolph, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Tyra Ferrell, Marisa Tomei, Tate Donovan, Kevin J. O’Connor, Lori Singer, Gailard Sartain, M. Emmet Walsh, Fred Ward. Equinox is a movie in the process of becoming a story. It is alternately frustrating, exciting,…
El Cid
El Cid 1961, NR, 184 min. Directed by Anthony Mann, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Genevieve Page. For this re-release of the 1961 epic El Cid, the film has been restored to its original condition. One of the most spectacular mega-productions ever made, the story tells the…
Boxing Helena
Boxing Helena 1993. Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Betsy Clark, Art Garfunkel, Bill Paxton, Kurtwood Smith. Writer/director Lynch — yes, she’s the daughter of Twin Peaks guru David Lynch and it shows — has generated much notoriety for her debut feature’s subject matter, a…
Calendar Girl
Calendar Girl 1993, PG-13, 90 min. Directed by John Whitesell, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds, Jerry O’Connell, Steve Railsback, Kurt Fuller, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joe Pantoliano. Mere calendars would be insufficient to gauge the sense of time one experiences while watching this movie. Eons might be a proper context if…
Fortress
Fortress 1993. Directed by Stuart Gordon, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin, Jeffrey Combs, Tom Towles. Certain films make me very glad I’m paid for what I do here. This is one of them. Despite the fact that director Gordon has quite a nifty resume behind him (he…
Kalifornia
Kalifornia 1993, R, 117 min. Directed by Dominic Sena, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes. Hillbilly white trash squalor collides head-on with the urban artsy, always-dressed-in-black set in this moderately suspenseful crime drama that bears a slightly suspicious resemblance to Terrence Malick’s 1973 film Badlands (complete…
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media 1992, NR, 167 min. Directed by Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . As the title suggests, this nearly three-hour long documentary focuses on the work of MIT linguistics professor Chomsky, a man who is not only one of the most brilliant intellectuals…
Romper Stomper
Romper Stomper 1992. Directed by Geoffrey Wright, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline Mckenzie. You know you’re in for something different when the main character’s first line of dialogue is a nerve-rattling “Fuck you!” directed squarely at the audience with all the violent intensity of a sonic boom. So…
