Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
East Palace / West Palace (1996)- Dir. Zhang Yuan
Feat. Vicki Zhao, Si Han, Jun Hu - This rare independent mainland Chinese film is a difficult, often devastating two–hander between a gay man and the policeman sent to arrest him…
Eclipse (1996)- Dir. Jeremy Podeswa
Feat. Von Flores, John Gilbert, Pascale Montpetit - Canadian festival fave is a fluent, quirky first feature that follows a chain of disparate sexual encounters that come full circle under the…
Eden (1996)- Dir. Howard Goldberg
Feat. Joanna Going, Dylan Walsh, Sean Patrick Flanery - Joanna Going positively glows as a mother–of–two whose struggle with MS and home–making is transcended through 'astral projection'.…
Eighth Day, The (1996)- Dir. Jaco Van Dormael
Feat. Daniel Auteuil - The director of the much–loved TOTO THE HERO makes another film about magic at ground level, with Daniel Auteuil having his humdrum life…
Elgar's Tenth Muse (1996)- Dir. Paul Yule
Feat. James Fox, Selma Alisaphic - Slight, but well–dramatised snippet from the life of composer Sir Edward Elgar (James Fox). Inspired by Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Aranyi,…
Emma (1996)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi… - A clued up reworking of Jane Austen's classic, set in 19th century England, about a congenial young lady's well–intentioned but misjudged…
Emma (Jane Austen's Emma) (1996)- Dir. Diarmuid Lawrence
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Dominic Rowan, Mark Strong… - Released the same year as the fanfared Gwyneth Paltrow version, this modest made–for–TV version of Jane Austen's matchmaker rom–com…
English Patient, The (1996)- Dir. Anthony Minghella
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche - The unsurprising Oscar sweeper of '97 – a shoe–in considering they left out no ingredient – epic length, exotic locales, period…
Entertaining Angels (1996)- Dir. Michael Ray Rhodes
Feat. Moira Kelly, Martin Sheen - Stirring biopic of American champion of the poor Dorothy Day (played with passion by Moira Kelly), who rose from obscurity in 1920s New York to…
Evening Star, The (1996)- Dir. Robert Harling
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Juliette Lewis, Bill Paxton… - Long touted 'sequel' to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, continues the smalltown odyssey of feisty, eccentric Aurora Greenway (Shirley Maclaine), now bedevilled…
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