Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Eighth Day, The (1996)- Dir. Jaco Van Dormael
Feat. Daniel Auteuil - The director of the much–loved TOTO THE HERO makes another film about magic at ground level, with Daniel Auteuil having his humdrum life…
Every Little Thing (La Monindre des choses) (1996)- Dir. Nicolas Philibert
- Documentarian extraordinaire Nicholas Philibert observes the rehearsals and performance of an annual summer play by the inmates of an idyllic French…
Fiesta (1996)- Dir. Pierre Boutron
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gregoire Colin - Biting, rigorously intelligent parable of the Spanish Civil War, watches unblinking as a young soldier is intiated into the brutalities by his…
Fire (1996)
- Dir. Deepa Mehta
Feat. Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das - Blazing melodrama defiantly targets Indian sexual hypocrisy and tradition, not to mention trangressing 'Bollywood' taboo, in portraying two women…
Flower of My Secret, The (1996)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Marisa Paredes - An artistic maturing for the director of kitsch sex comedies like HIGH HEELS and KIKA, this is an introspective study of a successful authoress…
Forbidden City Cop (1996)- Dir. Vincent Tak-Chiu
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao) - Hysterical and kinda crazy semi–sequel to the smash hit comedy FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE, splices James Bond with A CHINESE GHOST STORY, following…
French Twist (Gazon Maudit) (1996)- Dir. Josiane Balasko
Feat. Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko - Radiant Spanish star Victoria Abril plays a betrayed wife teased into an affair with a butch lesbian (director Balasko). Many permutations of a very…
Fudoh - The Next Generation (1996)- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Shosuke Tanihara, Kenji Takano, Marie Jinno - Possibly the first film that gave the Western world an inkling of dir. Miike's unhinged worldview, investing a tale of yakuza vengeance with surreal,…
Gabbeh (1996)- Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Feat. Abbas Sayah, Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami… - Unique combination of lyricism and social realism from one of the icons of Iranian cinema – a story of a remote struggling tribe, the…
God of Cookery, The (1996)- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao) - Stephen Chow cooks up a comic storm as a mercilessly ego–centric chef who, in great narrative tradition, is forced to truly earn his title…
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