Category: 1990s
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Christian Slater plays a irreverent yet reserved pirate radio host in this spunky flick that mixes free speech commentary with poignancy. Who knew how easy it could be to make masturbating sound effects with your hands? Hard Harry does. Mark Hunter is kind of like Superman. By day, he is a reclusive and antisocial teenager…
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At a 4K Restoration at the SBIFF Riviera Theater, Masayuki Suo’s tale of a businessman learning ballroom dancing is as timeless as ever. In one pivotal scene from Masayuki Suo’s Shall We Dance? (1996), successful Japanese businessman Shohei Sugiyama dances alone underneath a bridge, while the private investigators his wife hired to follow him look…
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Burnt by the Sun tells the story of three generations of reckoning with Stalinism in a remote Russian village, as local celebrations of Stalin’s birthday looms over the family. The family is visited by the matriarch Masrusia’s former lover Mitia, who is now working for the secret political police and is tasked with bringing Kotov…
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I was aware of Candyman’s racial impact before having seen the movie, although I hadn’t truly grasped it before last night’s screening. I was aware of the 2018 remake by Nia DaCosta that aimed to more fully tackle the racial elements of the 1982 film, but all I had heard was that it failed to…
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