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Home Alone 3 (1997)

There's a new kid on the block.

Filmmaker(s): Raja Gosnell

9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.

13 Dec Home Alone 3 (1997)

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The Fighting Child there a more interesting case study than John Hughes? He invented a new genre and incidentally opened a new strain of cinematic techniques. But writing is like other major enterprises in life. Each hit on the pool ball does three things; it attempts to...

Published December 13, 2022

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Oedipus Rex (1993)

Oedipus Rex

Filmmaker(s): Julie Taymor

Music

Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that, according the composer, “is not dead but engraved in stone, and so imposing that it is immune to any popularization”.

04 Dec Oedipus Rex (1993)

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Sparse Riches, Sight and Containment was asked recently who my favourite woman filmmaker was. I didn't hesitate in my answer, Julie Taymor. She's not a real filmmaker in the sense I demand, more of a set designer with an eye that understands the effect of camera...

Published December 4, 2024

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Tagged: 1990s, f1993, p2006

Alleyn Mysteries: Final Curtain (1993)

13 May Alleyn Mysteries: Final Curtain (1993)

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Exit Stage Left haven’t seen all of these productions. Usually I go through the whole series, and I may eventually come back to this. I watched this because I saw “Death at the Bar,” which was truly superb. It was because they built it around director...

Published May 13, 2022

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Tagged: 1990s, f1993, p2006

Boxing Helena (1993)

Beyond love, beyond obsession, there hides something beyond reason.

Filmmaker(s): Jennifer Lynch

Drama

Romance

Thriller

A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.

20 Apr Boxing Helena (1993)

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Children what a problem adult children are. What do you do with children who become people? I’m thinking here are of children of friends who you admire and respect in some way, who are worth living and being with. Who enrich your life so you want...

Published April 20, 2024

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Tagged: 1990s, f1993, p2006

Impromptu (1991)

He's about to fall in love with the most scandalous woman of his time.

Filmmaker(s): James Lapine

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

23 May Impromptu (1991)

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Fluid, Woven Passion you just like a movie. I admit I was prepared to like this. It features Chopin, and he is a large part of my musical world. His stuff really is magical, but only when flowing through a rich vessel. The things he...

Published May 23, 2022

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Flirting (1991)

Here's to risks.

Filmmaker(s): John Duigan

Drama

Romance

Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.

29 Nov Flirting (1991)

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A Caning for Love be thanked for how Australians and New Zealanders have revived the acting element of film. Everything in the country seems set up to produce performing artists, even talent writers that understand acting, where Brazil produces soccer players and the US lawyers. Here...

Published November 29, 2022

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Tagged: 1990s, f1991, p2006

I, Madman (1989)

Lose Yourself in a Good Book.

Filmmaker(s): Tibor Takács

Horror

Thriller

A bookshop clerk starts seeing the disfigured killer from her favorite 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her.

16 May I, Madman (1989)

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The Misadventures of Margaret setup here is a typical fold. An actress has a day job in a book store. She reads horror books and imagines herself in them. One day, she comes across an author who, when writing, had the story and real life...

Published May 16, 2022

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Tagged: 1980s, f1989, p2006

Betty Blue (1986)

Filmmaker(s): Jean-Jacques Beineix

Drama

Romance

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

16 Jun Betty Blue (1986)

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The Piano a film makes a long, long journey. For me this happened in several ways. The first is in real time. I saw this a couple decades ago in the short version. I was unimpressed. The word on it then was all about the first...

Published June 16, 2023

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Tagged: 1980s, f1986, p2006

Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)

Filmmaker(s): Raúl Ruiz

Drama

Mystery

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.

27 Nov Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)

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Thieves a blanket term in film criticism, reflexivity. Its an odd word. It denotes something where outside and inside are merged or mixed, where viewer and viewed overlap. And yet the word itself is not reflexive, it stands aloof. While the root comes from reflection,...

Published November 27, 2022

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Tagged: 1970s, f1978, p2006

Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)

Welcome to prison, Ladies!

Filmmaker(s): Jesús Franco

Crime

Drama

Horror

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

16 May Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)

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Captured been involved in a dangerous business, diving into the catacombs of film, digging around in trash pits and seeing grand things. Part of this endeavour comes from my appreciation for the vitality of film today which in large part is anchored by Spanish and Spanish-speaking...

Published May 16, 2023

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Tagged: 1970s, f1976, p2006