July 7, 1994
The Final Option (1994) *
Directed by Gordon Chan. With Michael Wong and Carmen Lee. The harsh training of new recruits to a special police SWAT team unit.
Farinelli: Il Castrato (1994) *
Long, tedious film about an Italian castrato. It will only please opera music fans.
Cross My Heart And Hope To Die (1994) **
Bizarre Norvegian film about a little boy befriending a young adolescant.
Before The Rain (1994) **
Complex film about ethnic hatreds in Macedonia. A co-winner of the Gold Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Wing Chun (1994) **
Michelle Yeoh plays a female martial arts expert in this entertaining film from Hong Kong.
Ashes Of Time (1994) **
A cross between Sergio Leone and Michelangelo Antonioni, directed by Wong Kar-Wai.
Samowolka (1994) *
Wstrzasajacy dramat o tzw. "docieraniu kociakow" - okrutnym traktowaniu mlodych poborowych przez starszych rezerwistow. Film Feliksa Falka ostro potepia te wojskowe zwyczaje, wprowadzone jeszcze w PRL-u, ktore dalej byly tolerowane przez zawodowych oficerow.
June 6, 1994
Ladybird, Ladybird (1994) *
Sad British film about a pathetic woman whose children are taken away from her by social workers. Crude and extremely manipulative.
Whale Music (1994) **
Canadian film about a reclusive composer and a delinquant girl who ran away from an institution. **
Once Were Warriors (1994) *
Very unpleasant and very disturbing New Zealand's film about spousal abuse. The winner of the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the Montreal Film Festival.
May 5, 1994
Mon amie Max (1994) *
A woman is searching for her son that was taken away from her at birth when she was 17.
Embrasse-moi, c'est pour la vie (1994) *
Video feature about a young music student falling in love with his new girlfriend. Well acted.
Kabloonak (1994) *
The filming of "Nanook Of The North" by Robert Flaherty in Northern Quebec in 1921 is the subject of this picture.
April 4, 1994
Da Viss (1994) ****
Buddy Holly (1994) ****
Emilie Muller (1994) ****
Liberation (1994) ***
A superb Pet Shop Boys' music video directed by Howard Greenhalgh. Beautiful, computer-animated imagery.
89 mm od Europy (1994) ***
Scratch Ticket (1994) **
Directed by J.Fawcett. A short film from Alberta, about two young guys winning an instant lottery ticket and getting into trouble. It won the First Prize for Short Film at the Montreal Film Festival.
The Passion Of John Ruskin (1994) **
An art critic cannot bring himself to deflower his beautiful wife (Neve Campbell).
My Sweet Peony (1994) **
A guide at the Chinese Garden in Montreal encounters some weird people. Length: 31 min.
Gary Larson's Tales From The Far Side (1994) ****
The Janitor (1994) ***
Animastress (1994) ***
The horrible realities of industrial chicken farming are denounced with biting humor and cruel satire.
The Wooden Leg (1994) ***
Melancholic cartoon about a young girl with a wooden leg. Animation consists of etchings on negative.
Ex-enfant (1994) ***
A 13-year-old boy is drafted into the army. An impressive cartoon about the ravages of war. Like all Drouin's films, it uses the pinscreen animation technique (also known as the Alexeiff-Parker method).
The Big Story (1994) ***
Very short cartoon with three Kirk Douglases at different stages of his career.
Automania (1994) **
A poor chap cannot open his car, but still refuses to take the bus or even a bicycle. If it wasn't for his daughter's roller skates, he never would have made it to work.
Divine Fate (1994) **
A pretentious New Age fantasy full of spiritual mumbo-jumbo. Visually very imaginative, but hopelessly naive in its anti-technological preachiness.
Overdose (1994) **
The daily routine of a child: breakfast, school, homework and bed. Over and over again.
Baroque'n Roll (1994) *
Puppet-animated film about racial tolerance. It's about children playing on a thin ice.
Au bord du lac (1994) *
Semi-abstract film that won the Second Prize (short subject) at the Montreal Film Festival.
Alpsee (1994) *
Directed by Matthias Muller. Experimental film about a young boy. The most memorable scene - milk flood.
March 3, 1994
Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Wart palac Paca (1994) ***
"On za duzy a ona za mala" **
"Notatki z nieudanych rekolekcji paryskich" *
"Tokszok to tega glowa" **
"Zacałuj mnie na śmierć" ("Skumbrie w tomacie") **
"Cyrk" **
"Kici kici" *
"Zbudz sie narodzie" **
Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Kto kogo w konia (1994) ***
"Cos gadaja" **
"Nie donos na mnie" *
"Ciele placze" *
"Koledzy tak byc nie moze" ("Wesolych Swiat") *
"Szczur pod podloga" **
"Nie moje malpy nie moj cyrk" **
"Handlarze marzen" **
Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Bedzie jak byc musi (1994) ***
"Mucha" *
"Piosenka na zamowienie rzadowe" *
"Myku myku" ***
"A zoladki jednakowe" ("Nasi i elektorscy") **
"Zosia" **
"Kozakiewicza gest" **
Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: I po balu (1994) ***
"Nieznany rekopis St. Wyspianskiego" **
"Udusimy cerwonego kura" **
"Malkontent" **
"Hej, uzyjmy zywota" *
"Dolary" *
"Dysproporcje" **
"Cicha noc" *
"I po balu" **
February 2, 1994
Color Of Night (1994) **
The New Age (1994) **
Judy Davis and James Woods star in this bizarre black comedy, directed by Michael Tolkin.
Mrs Parker And The Vicious Circle (1994) **
Slightly pretentious drama about the famous New York writer. The film's highlights are Robert Benchley's brilliantly satiric "lectures". Jennifer Jason Leigh gives an excellent performance as Dorothy Parker.
The Madness Of King George (1994) **
Tragicomical historical drama starring Nigel Hawthorne as George III.
Federal Hill (1994) **
Intelligent film about two close friends from an Italian neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island.
Wyatt Earp (1994) **
This epic western, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, isn't half as bad as most critics have claimed. It's a flawed, but very interesting film (especially in the first hour).
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1994) **
Incredible true story of Leon Therem, Russian-born inventor of an electronic musical instrument who was kidnapped by the Soviet secret police from his New York appartment.
Romeo Is Bleeding (1994) **
Were it not for excessive pathos, this uneven black comedy might be quite watchable. It's an extremely unpleasant, sickenly violent, but occasionally brilliant film noir.
The River Wild (1994) **
Clearly inspired by "Deliverance" (1972), it's an effective thriller starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon.
Princess Caraboo (1994) **
Simple story of a mysterious girl found in England and believed to be an Asian princess, kidnapped by sailors.
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