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
Category: Film season 1998-1999
Ridicule
07 Oct 1998 Director: Patrice Leconte France 1996 103 min A period drama set amongst the aristocracy of 18th Century France in the court of Louis XVI. An impoverished nobleman goes to the King in the hope of raising money for a rural sewerage system. To do so he must out manoeuvre the courtiers that… Continue reading Ridicule
Career Girls
21 Oct 1998 Director: Mike Leigh UK 1997 87 min Annie (Lynda Steadman) reconnects with an old college friend, Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge); whom she has not seen since leaving university. They spend a weekend together during which Annie recalls her student days, portrayed by a series of flashbacks. During their reunion they encounter faces from… Continue reading Career Girls
El Espiritu de la Colmena – Spirit Of The Beehive
04 Nov 1998 Director: Victor Erice Spain 1973 98 min Set in rural Spain soon after Franco’s victor. Ana, a lonely village girl, goes to the town hall to see Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein. She becomes entranced with the creature. When her sister convinces Ana that the monster really exists, she sets off into the countryside… Continue reading El Espiritu de la Colmena – Spirit Of The Beehive
Michael Collins
18 Nov 1998 Director: Neil Jordan USA 1996 132 min Neil Jordan presents this historical tale of the 1920 political activist and member of the Irish Republican Army – Michael Collins. Liam Neeson plays Collins whose rise from terrorism on the streets to leadership and assassination is passionately charted here. The film deals with the… Continue reading Michael Collins
TwentyFourSeven
02 Dec 1998 Director: Shane Meadows UK 1997 96 min 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Filmed emotively in black and white and full of beautiful landscapes and visual imagery. An evocative sound track accompanies the story. Our Hero is Darcy (Bob Hoskins at his best), a flawed modern day saint, who is… Continue reading TwentyFourSeven
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
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
L.A. Confidential
03 Feb 1999 Director: Curtis Hanson USA 1997 135 min This James Ellroy Novel turned to film, concerns crooked cops and devious dealings set in 1950’s LA. The brutal massacre in a burger bar starts a complicated and dangerous investigation by the few honest cops LA has left. Thereupon a tightly knitted plot unfolds to… Continue reading L.A. Confidential
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