Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Safe (1996)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley… - This subtly gripping and rewarding portrait of neurosis stars Julianne Moore as a fragile '80s LA housewife who takes refuge at a health compound in…
Secrets and Lies (1996)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Claire Rushbrook… - Winner of the Palm D'or at Cannes '96, and surprise box–office smash thanks to good old word of mouth. A dramatic tour–de–force…
Self Made Hero, A (1996)- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz - Mattieu Kassovitz (director of LA HAINE) proves to be no slouch actor here as a WW2 idler who swats up and cheekily ascends the ranks of the…
Shine (1996)
- Dir. Scott Hicks
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor - Geoffrey Rush's upset win of the Best Actor Oscar was the jewel in the crown of this little Oz movie's incredibly charmed life. A moving recital…
Sleepers (1996)- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman - Based on a purportedly fact–based novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, a disastrous prank lands four schoolboys in a borstal where they suffer…
Small Faces (1996)- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden - An anti–nostalgic hark back to the mean streets of late '60s Glasgow into which a wee spotty lad becomes unwittingly drawn. Eschewing the…
Snow White in the Black Forest (A Tale of Terror) (1996)- Dir. Michael Cohn
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill - A Brothers Grimm fairytale more grim than fairy–ish. Sigourney Weaver steps into the wicked–stepmother robes for a nice little bedtime…
Some Mother's Son (1996)- Dir. Terry George
Feat. Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen… - The ever–topical Northern Ireland conflict provides more inspiration for the writer of IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, here dissecting the moral…
Spitfire Grill, The (1996)- Dir. Lee David Zlotoff
Feat. Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden… - If you enjoyed the down–home cookin' of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES you might wanna sample this fare, but otherwise this is a folkie melodrama, with a…
Stonewall (1996)- Dir. Nigel Finch
Feat. Guillermo Diaz, Fred Weller, Brendan Corbalis… - Mismarketed as a comedy to cash in on the post–Priscilla 'drag' craze, this has serious things to say about what it was like to be 'gay' well…
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