Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
City of Sadness, A (Beiging Chengsi) (1989)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Hsin Shu-fen, Chen Sown-yung… - The first of the director’s trilogy of films about the modern history of Taiwan, here depicting the unstable post–WW2 period through the eyes…
Dark Woods, The (1989)- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Beatrice Dalle - Beatrice Dalle (BETTY BLUE) marries a stranger on a whim, and lives to regret it when her affections for his brother leads to a brutal crime of…
- Emma's Shadow (1989)
- Dir. Soeren Jacobsen
Feat. Line Kruse, Borje Ahlstedt, Erik Wedersoe - 12–year–old Emma, feeling that her affluent parents would care more for her if she were missing, fakes her own kidnapping, and discovers…
- Five Days in June (1989)
- Dir. Michel Legrand
Feat. Sabine Azema, Annie Girardot, Matthieu Roze - Yet another addition to the canon of dramas based on childhood memoirs. A renowned composer takes the helm to recall five days in his life on the…
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar / Emergency Kisses (1989-1991)- Dir. Philippe Garrel
Feat. Philippe Garrel - Two French drama films by Philippe Garrel, both semi–autobiographical in nature: 'I Can No Longer Hear The Guitar' depicts youthful romance in…
I Want To Go Home (1989)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson - Satirical French comedy focused on a washed–up American comic artist who reluctantly visits France for an exhibition, only to run into his…
Iceman Cometh, The (Time Warriors) (1989)- Dir. Fok Yiu Leung
Feat. Biao Yuen, Maggie Cheung - A pair of Ming Dynasty adversaries find themselves defrosted 300 years later in contemporary Hong Kong. Film festival fave combines outrageous farce…
Icicle Thief, The (1989)- Dir. Maurizio Nichetti
Feat. Maurizio Nichetti - Italy's answer to Woody Allen directs and stars in this zany love story–cum–media satire using the film–within–a–film…
In The Line of Duty (In The Line of Duty 4: The Witness) (1989)- Dir. Yuen Woo Ping
Feat. Donnie Yen, Cynthia Khan , Michael Wong… - Although the fourth in a film series about a flashy martial–arts cop, this is generally considered the best, with Yen taking his police job in…
Killer, The (1989)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat - Action at break–neck speed with a body–count to match the running time, this smorgasbord of super–violence with lashings of good…
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