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Subgenre Sampler
Eight Men Out (1989)- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd… - True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
Hush-A-Bye-Baby (1989)- Dir. Margo Harkin
Feat. Seamus Ball, Rosina Brown, Sean Carlin… - Excellent portrayal, using 'workshop' methods, of the tribulations of four teenage girls in Northern Ireland, as they negotiate the local facts of…
In Fading Light (1989)- Dir. Amber Film Collective
Feat. Joe Caffrey, Maureen Harold - Amber collective's admirable film focuses on the plight of a fishing town on the English north coast, in the face of Thatcherite corporate investment.
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
- Dir. Uli Edel
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh - A harrowingly realistic adaptation of a contentious novel about civil unrest during the New York dock workers strike in the 1950s. Jennifer Jason…
Metropolitan (1989)- Dir. Whit Stillman
Feat. Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman - Sundance–winning arthouse hit focuses on the disappearing Manhattan debutante scene. An unknown ensemble play upper–class adolescents who…
Mystery Train (1989)- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Joe Strummer, Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Three consecutive stories that take place at the same time and place; one night in a seedy Memphis hotel. Quirky and thought–provoking with…
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. James Spader, Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell… - Palm d'or winning exploration of modern sexuality concerns an enigmatic drifter who affects the dysfunctional lives of an old college pal, his wife…
Unbelievable Truth, The (1989)- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Adrienne Shelly, Robert Burke, Chris Cooke… - The folk of a backward American town get a mite nervous when a mechanic returns after spending 15 years in prison for murdering his father and…
Down by Law (1988)- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, John Lurie - Three disparate misfits become friends after sharing an escape from a crummy Southern jail. Art and humour rarely mix better than in this eccentric…
Heat and Sunlight (1988)- Dir. Rob Nilsson
Feat. Rob Nilsson, Consuela Faust - This film documents the final, agonising hours of a love affair between a man and his exotic dancer girlfirend. An intriguing, erotic oddity with…
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