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Subgenre Sampler

 
Remains of the DayRemains of the Day (1993) Recommended
Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve
Note–perfect adaptation of the Booker–winning novel plays out its key themes of duty and betrayal, love and loss with effortless class,…
Rich in Love (1993)
Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kyle MacLachlan
A knock–out cast bring to life the comic and tragic of a splintered yet tightly knit South Carolinan family.
RudyRudy (1993) Recommended
Dir. David Anspaugh
Feat. Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty
Unheralded sports movie is one of the genre’s best: it dramatizes the true story of an athletically–challenged young man determined to play…
Salt On Our Skin (1993)
Dir. Andrew Birkin
Feat. Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio
Greta Scacchi and Vincent D'Onofrio duet in this lush, erotically charged (Eu)romance as lovers who are wrong for each other, but happen to sizzle in…
Sarafina! (1993)
Dir. Darrell James Roodt
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg
Screen version of the anti–apartheid stage musical posits Whoopi Goldberg as a Soweto school–teacher who liberates an impressionable…
Scent of a WomanScent of a Woman (1993)
Dir. Martin Brest
Feat. Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Gabrielle Anwar
Al Pacino finally method–acts his way to Oscar glory as a blind war veteran who, with the reluctant young chaperone, ventures to New York to…
Scent of Green Papaya, TheScent of Green Papaya, The (1993) Recommended
Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Tran Nu Yen-Khe, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong
Drama as crisp and luxuriant as its title observes a wealthy Saigon family over two turbulent decades through the eyes of a peasant servant girl. Its…
Schindler's ListSchindler's List (1993) Aro Favourite
Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Spielberg deservedly swept the '94 Oscars with this compassionate, consummately–crafted tale of a prominent Nazi's precarious mission to save…
Searching for Bobby FischerSearching for Bobby Fischer (Innocent Moves) (1993)
Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley
Sensitive film about a nine–year–old boy with a special gift for chess. Some poignant moments about parental expectations and the price…
Second Best (1993)
Dir. Chris Menges
Feat. William Hurt
An earnest Irish drama in which William Hurt sports a curly red wig for the role of an ordered and reclusive bachelor whose world is thrown into…

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