1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
Looking back over 1993, I’ve found it was quite an auspicious year for movies
Here I’m going look at 1981’s NOT A LOVE STORY: A FILM ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY, one of the most infamous documentaries of its time, and 1984’s THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE, which is considerably less well known
1994 was the year of PULP FICTION and HOOP DREAMS; here I’ll be concentrating here on thirty lesser-known films, which provide a plethora of genre-spanning quality cinema!
Some great films premiered in 1995, including Michael Mann’s HEAT, Todd Haynes’s SAFE and Mike Figgis’s LEAVING LAS VEGAS
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
Continuing with my time-reversed year-end film listings, we come to 1997
Movie-wise 1998 will go down in memory as a year of misunderstood classics
You simply will not find a more disturbing documentary than CANIBA, which takes an up-close and very personal look at the infamous Japanese cannibal-murderer Issei Sagawa
The following marks the inaugural entry in a new and ambitious project: an overview of my favorite films from each year, starting with 2000 and working my way backward