15 Dec 1993 Director: Paul Schrader Italy, UK 1990 104 min Paul Schrader’s film of Ian McEwan’s novel adapted by Harold Pinter is a strange and unsettling thriller set in Venice where Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are second honeymooning. They encounter the aristocratic Robert who is the catalyst for what remains of the couple’s… Continue reading The Comfort Of Strangers
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The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
16 Feb 1994 Director: Simon Callow USA 1990 101 min Miss Amelia is the eccentric owner of a rundown store in the Great Depression. Purporting to be her cousin, Lymon, a hunchback dwarf, arrives one day and proceeds to bewitch Miss Amelia. He helps transform the store by turning it into a cafe. But things… Continue reading The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
Riff-Raff
1 Dec 1999 Director: Ken Loach UK 1990 95 min This is a telling comedy about the scams, laughs and dangers of working on a London building site. A mixed bunch of Irishmen, West Indians and Scousers tear apart a closed down hospital ready for its conversion into apartments for the rich. Stevie, a Scottish… Continue reading Riff-Raff