S&S: October 1999

Introduction for newcomers

G:MT: Greenwich Mean Time

Sight & Sound

October 1999

Vol. 9 No. 10

After Life

ワンダフルライフ

Japan - 1998 - 118m - col

ICA (PG)

D: Hirokazu Kore-eda

À la place du cœur

(aka: Where the Heart Is)

France - 1998 - 112m - col

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Robert Guédiguian
Dolby Stereo SR

American Pie

USA - 1999 - 96m - col

UIP (15)

D: Paul Weitz
Followed by: American Pie 2 (2001, Nov/2001), American Wedding (2003, Oct/2003), American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005), American Pie Presents The Naked Mile (2006), American Pie Presents Beta House (2007), American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009), American Reunion (2012, Jun/2012).
Audio: 5.1

Big Daddy

USA - 1999 - 93m - col

Columbia TriStar (12)

D: Dennis Dugan
Audio: 5.1

Buena Vista Social Club

Ger - 1998 - 105m - col

Film Four (U)

D: Wim Wenders
Audio: 5.1

Disturbing Behavior

USA/Australia - 1998 - 84m - col

Columbia TriStar (15)

D: David Nutter
Audio: 5.1

Drop Dead Gorgeous

USA/Germany - 1999 - 98m - col

Icon (15)

D: Michael Patrick Jann
Audio: 5.1

Election

USA - 1999 - 103m - col / scope

UIP (15)

D: Alexander Payne
Audio: 5.1

Felicia’s Journey

UK/Canada - 1999 - 116m - col / scope

Icon (12)

D: Atom Egoyan
Audio: 5.1

The General’s Daughter

USA/Germany - 1999 - 116m - col / scope

UIP (18)

D: Simon West
Audio: 5.1

G:MT: Greenwich Mean Time

UK - 1998 - 118m - col

Icon (18)

D: John Strickland
Audio: 5.1

Goodbye Lover

USA/Ger - 1998 - 101m - col / scope

Warner (15)

D: Roland Joffé
Audio: 5.1

Greenwich Mean Time

[see: G:MT: Greenwich Mean Time]

Instinct

USA - 1999 - 124m - col / scope

Buena Vista (15)

D: Jon Turteltaub
Audio: 5.1

Julie and the Cadillacs

UK - 1997 - 102m - col

Capricorn (PG)

D: Bryan Izzard
Audio: 5.1

A Kind of Hush

UK - 1998 - 95m - col

Metrodome (15)

D: Brian Stirner
Dolby Stereo

L.A. Without a Map

UK/France/Finland/Luxembourg - 1998 - 107m - col

United Media (15)

D: Mika Kaurismäki
Audio: 5.1

The Love Letter

USA - 1999 - 87m - col

UIP (15)

D: Peter Chan Ho-sun
Audio: 5.1

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

USA/Germany - 1999 - 120m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (PG)

D: Michael Hoffman
Dolby Stereo

Mifune

Mifunes sidste sang

Denmark/Sweden - 1999 - 101m - col

Alliance (15)

D: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Dolby Stereo SR

Nights of Cabiria
Le notti di Cabiria
(aka: Cabiria)
Italy/France - 1957 - 117m - bw
BFI (PG)
D: Federico Fellini
Also reviewed: May 1958.

Paperback Hero

Australia - 1998 - 96m - col

PolyGram (15)

D: Antony J. Bowman

Sweet Angel Mine

UK/Canada - 1996 - 88m - col

Optimum (18)

D: Curtis Radclyffe
Dolby Stereo

The Theory of Flight

S.Africa/UK - 1998 - 101m - col

Buena Vista (15)

D: Paul Greengrass
Audio: 5.1

The Trench

UK/France - 1999 - 99m - col

Entertainment (15)

D: William Boyd
Audio: 5.1