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Subgenre Sampler

 
Self Made Hero, ASelf 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…
ShineShine (1996) Recommended
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…
SleepersSleepers (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 FacesSmall 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 ForestSnow 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 SonSome 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, TheSpitfire 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…
StonewallStonewall (1996) Recommended
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…
Summer in La GouletteSummer in La Goulette (1996)
Dir. Ferid Boughedir
Feat. Sonia Mankai, Ava Cohen-Jonathan, Sarah Pariente
Three families of disparate cultures enjoy harmony in Tunisian paradise, until three of their beautiful daughters flirt with losing their virginity,…
Temptress MoonTemptress Moon (1996)
Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Gong Li, Leslie Cheung
Chen Kaige elevates the sumptuous Chinese epoch of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE with this visually rapturous, though far less coherent saga of epic…

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