Category: 1990s
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One scene that stood out to me in Swoon (1992) was during the courtroom scene, where the psychologist starts to describe Nathan and Dick’s sexual encounters in front of a homophobic audience. Suddenly, Nathan and Dick are shown in bed, and it appears as though they are about to have sex in front of the…
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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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