Tag: 1990s
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Portrait Of A Young Girl At The End Of The 60s In Brussels (1994)
Shot for French TV during the nineties, Portrait Of A Young Girl At The End Of The 60s In Brussels (1994) is directed and written by Chantal Akerman, and feels semi-autobiographical. As the title indicates, Akerman sets the story in 1968 but isn’t too concerned about fidelity to the era; you can see CDs in… Read.
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Heatseeker (1995)
Heatseeker (1995) brings together two current interests of mine when it comes to movies. It’s a mid-1990s cyberpunk movie, something I’ve been searching for, ever since rewatching The Lawnmower Man earlier this year. And it’s directed by Albert Pyun, who passed away recently at the end of 2022 and left behind a back catalogue of… Read.
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House On Haunted Hill (1999)
The ghost of an ooky kooky spooky 1950s William Castle is haunting the set of the Nine Inch Nails ‘Closer’ music video (or vice versa). That’s the experience of House On Haunted Hill (1999), the first movie from Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company from Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver and Gilbert Adler, initially set up… Read.
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Cure (1997)
Most horror films shout at you. Cure (1997), directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, never raises its voice. It maintains a steady whisper and is all the more unnerving for it. A Japanese horror film that was part of the ‘J-horror’ wave of the late 1990s, Cure almost stands outside of it by its ordinary, beige-brown palette… Read.
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Drunken Master II (1994)
Over the closing credits of Drunken Master II (1994; aka The Legend Of Drunken Master), as tradition with a lot of Jackie Chan movies, we see out-takes of the stunts and action sequences. And it helpfully confirms that Jackie Chan did indeed throw himself onto an actual bed of fiery coals in the factory climax,… Read.
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