S&S: September 1997

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

September 1997

Vol. 7 No. 9

187

[see: One Eight Seven]

Addicted to Love

USA - 1997 - 100m - col

Warner (15)

D: Griffin Dunne
Audio: 5.1

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

USA - 1997 - 95m - col / scope

Guild (15)

D: Jay Roach
Followed by: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999, Aug/1999), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002, Sep/2002).
Audio: 5.1

Career Girls

UK - 1997 - 87m - col

Film Four (15)

D: Mike Leigh
Dolby Stereo SR

Cloud-Capped Star
Meghe Dakha Tara
মেঘে ঢাকা তারা
India - 1960 - 127m - bw
BFI
D: Ritwik Ghatak

Conspiracy Theory

USA - 1997 - 135m - col / scope

Warner (15)

D: Richard Donner
Audio: 5.1

Deep Crimson

Profundo carmesí

Mexico/France/Spain - 1996 - 115m - col

Metro Tartan (18)

D: Arturo Ripstein

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson

USA - 1995 - 106m - col

The Bedford Communications Group (15)

D: Francis Megahy

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

UK/France - 1996 - 71m - col

BFI

D: Isaac Julien

The Full Monty

USA/UK - 1997 - 91m - col

20th Century Fox (15)

D: Peter Cattaneo
Audio: 5.1

Gallivant

UK - 1996 - 104m - col

Electric (15)

D: Andrew Kotting

Head Above Water

USA - 1996 - 92m - col

Warner (15)

D: Jim Wilson
Audio: 5.1

House of America

UK/Netherlands - 1996 - 96m - col

First Independent (15)

D: Marc Evans

Jump the Gun

UK/S.Africa - 1996 - 124m - col

Film Four (15)

D: Les Blair
Dolby Stereo

The Leading Man

UK - 1996 - 100m - col

Guild (15)

D: John Duigan
Dolby Stereo

Lost Highway

USA - 1996 - 134m - col / scope

PolyGram (18)

D: David Lynch
Audio: 5.1

Love! Valour! Compassion!

USA - 1997 - 114m - col

Entertainment (15)

D: Joe Mantello
Audio: 5.1

Mrs Brown

UK/USA/Ireland - 1996 - 104m - col

Buena Vista (PG)

D: John Madden
Dolby Stereo

My Best Friend’s Wedding

USA - 1997 - 105m - col / scope

Columbia TriStar (15)

D: P.J. Hogan
Audio: 5.1

Night Falls on Manhattan

USA - 1996 - 113m - col

First Independent (15)

D: Sidney Lumet
Audio: 5.1

One Eight Seven

USA - 1997 - 119m - col

Warner (15)

D: Kevin Reynolds
Audio: 5.1

Photographing Fairies

UK - 1997 - 106m - col

Entertainment (15)

D: Nick Willing
Audio: 5.1

Purple Noon
Plein soleil

(aka: Blazing Sun)
(aka: Lust for Evil)
France/Italy - 1959 - 118m - col
BFI (PG)
D: René Clément
Also reviewed: Jul 1961.

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

USA - 1997 - 92m - col

Buena Vista (12) (cut)

D: David Mirkin
Followed by: Romy and Michele: In the Beginning (2005).
Audio: 5.1

The Slab Boys

UK - 1997 - 98m - col

Film Four (15)

D: John Byrne

That Old Feeling

USA - 1997 - 105m - col

UIP (12)

D: Carl Reiner
DTS Stereo