CHRIS: Short Cuts (Altman,US, 1993)
I am presently reading BEGINNERS (2009) by Raymond Carver. It is a reissue of his collection of short stories WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE (1981) which […]
Tag Archives: 1990s
CHRIS: Land and Freedom (Loach, Spain, UK, 1995)
“Revolutions are contagious.” Every time I watch this film, something stirs deep within me, an anger, but also a sense of pride, mixed with an unsettling frustration that is hard […]
CHRIS: Three Colours: Red (Kieslowski, France, Switzerland, Poland, 1994)
Between 1992 and the end of the decade, I was watching about 3 -4 films a week at the cinema. I was a multi-plex whore, giddy at the prospect of […]
CHRIS: Husbands and Wives (Allen, US, 1992)
” Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad TV.” Compare this film with my previous choice for the list: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is about the unspoken tensions at […]
CHRIS: The Talented Mr Ripley (Mingella, US, 1999)
One of the limitations of creating a list of films since STAR WARS (1977) is that many of my favourite directors either stopped producing films or had died before its […]
DOM: Reservoir Dogs (US, 1992)
On first release it seemed the most important cinematic debut since “Citizen Kane” and perhaps still is, but like Welles, Tarantino has had less impact with every film (I have […]
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