18 Mar 1996 Director: Pat O’Connor Ireland, USA 1996 96 min A poignant and heart-warming drama set in the. 1950’s about a spirited young woman (Minnie Driver) who goes off to Dublin University and falls madly in love with a fellow student (Chris O’Donnell). It examines the view of the director, Pat O’Connor (who also… Continue reading Circle Of Friends
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Self Made Hero
04 Mar 1998 Director: Jacques Audiard France 1996 105 min A comedy about a hero Albert Dehousse (Mathieu Kassovitz) who decides to invent himself a better life and joins the French Resistance nine months after the Allied liberation of Paris. There he assumes the role of someone more adventurous and superior to himself. Little by… Continue reading Self Made Hero
Stealing Beauty
18 Feb 1998 Director: Bernado Bertolucci USA 1996 119 min Liv Tyler plays 19 year-old Lucy who comes to a Tuscany village in search of her real father, the man who seduced her mother 20 years ago, and to lose her own virginity. There she discovers herself and, with a new found independence, affects the… Continue reading Stealing Beauty
Ma Vie En Rose
06 Jan 1999 Director: Alain Berliner France 1997 85 min My Life as a Rose concerns Ludovic, a young boy who appears at his parents’ house warming party dressed as an oriental princess. Prudery and bigotry raise their ugly faces against Ludo’s family as the boy’s transvestism inspires a hate campaign against them. Ludo is… Continue reading Ma Vie En Rose
Romeo & Juliet
21 Jan 1998 Director: Baz Luhrmann USA 1996 120 min A strikingly original and modern portrayal of the classic love story. The words are authentic but the style is definitely Luhrmann, the director of ‘Strictly Ballroom’. The backdrop is Los Angeles after the riots. The narrator is a news anchor woman, the prince is police… Continue reading Romeo & Juliet
The English Patient
07 Jan 1998 Director: Anthony Minghella USA 1996 162 min Winner of nine Oscars. A powerful and gripping love story based on Michael Ondaatje’s novel. A Canadian nurse (Juliette Binoche) nurses a man badly burned in a plane crash. Alone with him in an abandoned Italian monastery during World War Two, she slowly learns his… Continue reading The English Patient
The Sweet Hereafter
20 Jan 1999 Director: Atom Egoyan Canada 1997 110 min A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town’s children. A lawyer (lan Holm) visits these victims’ parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone… Continue reading The Sweet Hereafter
As Good As It Gets
16 Dec 1998 Director: James L Brooks USA 1997 138 min Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson both won Oscars for their performances in this irreverent comedy drama. Melvyn Udall (Nicholson) is a dysfunctional and altogether obnoxious individual trapped in a life of solitude by a compulsive obsessive disorder. Carol (Hunt) is the gutsy, independent waitress… Continue reading As Good As It Gets
Marvin’s Room
17 Mar 1999 Director: Jerry Zaks USA 1996 98 min Estranged since their father’s first stroke some 17 years earlier, Lee (Meryl Streep) and Bessie (Diane Keaton) lead separate lives in separate states. Lee’s son, Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), finds himself committed to a mental institution after setting fire to his mother’s house. Marvin, the two… Continue reading Marvin’s Room
Burnt By The Sun
17 Feb 1999 Director: Nikita Mikhalkov France, Russia 1994 146 min Colonel Serget Kotov, a hero of the revolution, is spending a few days on vacation, during the summer of 1936, in his wife Maroussia’s datcha, in the country. He is content with his radiant young wife and beloved daughter. Into the scene comes Dimitri… Continue reading Burnt By The Sun