December 28, 1995January 4, 1996 movies Nixon Oliver Stone’s Nixon is best when it’s dazed and confused. by Cindy Fuchs Directed by Oliver Stone A Hollywood Pictures Release “Always remember: Others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t…
June 27July 4, 1996 movies Stealing Beauty A message to Bertolucci’s voyeurs: Get over it! by Cindy Fuchs Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci A Fox Searchlight Release By all appearances, the major selling point of Bernardo Bertolucci’s new film is Liv…
March 2128, 1996 movies Girl 6 Spike Lee weaves a tangled web in his latest joint. by Cindy Fuchs Directed by Spike Lee. Fox Searchlight Pictures. Spike Lee’s newest movie is nothing if not self-conscious. It opens with Girl 6…
March 714, 1996 movies Fargo A true-crime movie that turns the genre inside out. by Cindy Fuchs Directed by Joel Coen A Gramercy Pictures Release recommended Fargo, you read before the credits begin, “is a true story.” Like most true-story…
February 29March 7, 1996 movies City of Lost Children Fairy-tale logic operates in a weird world where children are never safe. by Cindy Fuchs Written and directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet A Sony Pictures Classics Release In the…
January 1825, 1996 movies From Dusk Till Dawn A TV star, coolguy filmmakers, buckets of gore: this vampire movie has it every which way. by Cindy Fuchs Directed by Robert Rodriguez A Dimension Films Release You could say that this…
November 2330, 1995 movies Leaving Las Vegas by Cindy Fuchs Directed by Mike Figgis As its title implies, Leaving Las Vegas takes a different attitude toward the city’s incarnation of anxiety and aggression: its neon signs are seedy, its nights…
November 29, 1995 movie shorts TOTAL ECLIPSE The opening crawl for Angieszka Holland’s film lays out its ambitious premise: Arthur Rimbaud’s poems, written when he was between the ages of 16 and 19, “forever changed the face of modern poetry.”…
October 1219, 1995 movies Strange Days Cyber shocks and downloaded death in the year 2000. by Cindy Fuchs Directed by Kathryn Bigelow A 20th Century Fox Release recommended Point of view from a car’s backseat: You’re getting talked at by…
September 28October 5, 1995 movies Devil in a Blue Dress Denzel Washington stars in a complex murder mystery. by Cindy Fuchs Written and directed by Carl Franklin A TriStar Pictures Release recommended Morning, LA, 1948. Carl Franklin’s Devil in a…
