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Black and White - 1999
James Toback directs an all-star cast featuring Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Joe Pantoliano, Brooke Shields, Ben Stiller, Mike Tyson , Allan Houston, Elijah Wood, Claudia Schiffer, and more. Beginning, when a high school hipster starts hanging out with an aspiring rap artist, a documentary filmmaker fascinated by this collision of cultures, attempts to capture the phenomenon on camera. Meanwhile, an NYPD detective seeks revenge on his heartless ex-girlfriend, who dumped him a star basketball player and friend of the rapper’s. Before long, everyone wants something from someone else in a clash of social and economic cultures. |
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Endurance - 1999
Acclaimed documentarians Bud Greenspan and Leslie Woodhead direct the story of Ethiopian distance runner Haile Gebrsellasie. As the winner of the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Haile is considered one of the greatest runners of all time. The biographical dramatization follows Haile’s life from his roots as a meek farm boy in the war torn world of Ethiopia in the eighties to his dominating achievements that would lead him to the long distance gold medal in 1996. Beautifully shot in the Africa’s landscape, Endurance flies high with the power and achievement of one man who would ran against all odds. Domestic Distribution through Disney. |
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Legionnaire - 1998
Directed by Peter MacDonald and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. In 1920s Paris, a Belgian club owner gets in trouble with a powerful gangster when he falls for his chanteuse girlfriend. After then being wrongly accused of killing two gendarmes, the Belgian exercises his only option--a five year stint in the French Foreign Legion. Marching through the deserts of Morocco, the Legion is pitted against a Berber tribe and, after surviving the odds, the Belgian returns to Paris to exact revenge on the gangster. Also starring Steven Berkoff. |
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New Rose Hotel - 1998
Based on the novel by William Gibson. Directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, and Christopher Walken, the cyber punk thriller takes place in a future Manhattan where corporations are at war for tomorrow’s genetic technology. Two men looking to get rich quick by stealing priceless genetic information, enlist the help of a call girl to seduce and extort the corporate powerhouses, leading to a trail of seduction and deceit.
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Two Girls and a Guy - 1997
Directed by James Toback and featuring an intimate cast starring Robert Downey Jr., Heather Graham, and Natasha Gregson Wagner. Two girls, Carla and Lou meet of the street outside a loft waiting for their boyfriends. In a short time, they find out that they're waiting for the same guy - young actor Blake. Angry, they break into his loft, and when he returns, a round of accusations and explanations begins. |
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The Blackout - 1997
Abel Ferrara directs the eclectic cast starring, Dennis Hopper, Claudia Schiffer, Béatrice Dalle, and Mathew Modine as ‘Matty’, a troubled actor with substance abuse problems. After his girlfriend Annie leaves him, Matty’s pal Mickey sets him up with another woman named Annie, with whom he films them interacting as if it was the same relationship as the first Annie – Matty blacks out. Months later he is sober living in New York with a new woman. But when he returns to Miami, he is plagued with memories of killing Annie while drunk. He resolves to discover exactly what did happen that night. |
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The Winter Guest - 1997
A directorial debut by Alan Rickman and starring Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law. In a Scottish shore community filled with colorful locals, Frances, a newly widowed photographer, is toying with the idea of moving to Australia with her teenage son, Alex. Her mother aggressively forces her to choose between her loyalty to the living and the memory of the dead. While they argue, Alex is awkwardly approaching his first sexual experience with a young local girl while two old ladies are introduced as professional mourners who attend every funeral in town. The stories layer upon one another and address themes of life and death, age and youth. Co-Produced with Ken Lipper.
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The Crow: City of Angels - 1996
Directed by Tim Pope, starring Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, and Iggy Pop. This sequel to the 1994 cult classic marks a new character in the Crow saga, ‘Ashe Crowe’. This time, a man and his son are killed by a deranged gang after witnessing a murder. The father, Ashe, is brought back to life by the crow to exact revenge on his murderers. |
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The Island of Dr. Moreau - 1996
Directed by John Frankenheimer, This remake of the 1977 classic film, based on the H.G Wells novel, stars Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, and Fairuza Balk. Set in the year 2010, Dr. Moreau has successfully combined human and animal DNA to make a crossbreed animal. After a man, Edward Douglas, is rescued and brought to Moreau’s secret island, the experiments take a turn for the worse leaving Edward to put an end to Moreau’s madness. |
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City Hall - 1996
Written by Paul Schrader, Ken Lipper, Nicholas Pilegi, and Bo Goldman. Directed by Harold Becker, and starring an all-star cast including Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, and Martin Landau. City Hall follows a web of intrigue after a young boy dies from a stray bullet during a shootout between a cop and a member of the mob. The mobster had been ‘suspiciously’ paroled, only to break the terms of his sentence, leading New York's Deputy Mayor, in a search for the truth. |
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Judge Dredd - 1995
Directed by Danny Cannon, and starring, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, and Sylvester Stallone as the futuristic Judge Dredd, the most formidable and revered of the Street Judges who act as the police, jury, and executioner all in one. Yet, after Dredd is convicted of the murder of a snooping reporter, he enlists the help of a prisoner who he himself convicted, in order to clear his name.
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Street Fighter - 1994
Directed by Steven E. de Souza, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Raul Julia. Street Fighter, based on the popular video game, follows Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes as they fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts. Also starring Kylie Minogue and Ming-Na Wen. |
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The Crow - 1994
Directed by Alex Proyas, and starring Brandon Lee in his prolific final acting role as Eric Draven, “The Crow”. Eric and his fiancé are brutally murdered on Devil's Night when the henchmen of crime-boss, Top Dollar, traditionally indulge in wanton acts of violence and arson. A crow brings Draven's restless soul back from the dead and he sets out to wreak revenge upon his killers so he and the woman he loves may rest in peace. Also starring Michael Wincott and Bai Ling. |
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Dream Lover - 1994
Directed by Nicholas Kazan. Starring Mädchen Amick, and James Spader as Ray, a successful owner of an architectural firm. After a painful divorce, Ray’s friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of bachelor hood. Still, for Ray, marriage and stability is too important, and then comes along the beautiful Lena. They marry quickly, have their first child, and live in bliss, until Lena’s dark past finds Ray searching for the truth of his marriage. |
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Hoffa - 1992
Written by David Mamet, Danny DeVito directs and stars in the portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa played by Jack Nicholson. As seen through the eyes of Hoffa’s friend, Bobby Ciaro, the film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA, President Roosevelt, and all the way to a conclusion that theorizes Hoffa’s disappearance in 1975. Also starring John C. Riley, Armand Assante, JT Walsh, and Frank Whaley. |
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Bad Lieutenant - 1992
Written by Zoë Lund and directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel as a Police Lieutenant corrupted by his many vices. After accumulating a massive gambling debt, his bookies are beginning to get agitated. All, the while, the Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. When he is put on assignment to investigate the rape of a nun, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle. Winner of the Independent Spirit Award for best actor for Harvey Keitel.
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Storyville - 1992
Written and directed by Mark Frost and starring James Spader as a politician whose private moments quickly become public record. A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his father and their political careers. Also starring Jason Robards, Joanne Whalley and Michael Warren. |
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Year of the Gun - 1991
Directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Andrew McCarthy and Sharon Stone. David Raybourne is an American journalist covering political news in Italy during the 1970’s. He is involved with the Red Brigades when trying to help a friend who photographed the Brigades in action and revealing the mafia’s network of terror. |
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Homicide - 1991
Directed by David Mamet and starring Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy. Policeman Bob Gold has to capture a murderer that not even the FBI has been able to find. But before he can even start he is re-assigned to the murder of an old lady in a black area. The evidence points at Jewish arms-smugglers and he discovers connections between them and his previous case. Also starring Natalia Nogulich. |
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Iron Maze - 1991
Directed by Hiroaki Yoshida and starring Bridget Fonda and Jeff Fahey. In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg, a Japanese businessman wanting to tear down the closed iron mills and build an amusement park, is found half dead. Bellboy Barry admits to have done it - in self defense. Chief Ruhle interrogates him and many others to get through the maze of contradictory statements. Co-Produced with Oliver Stone.
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Reversal of Fortune - 1990
Directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Glen Close and Jeremy Irons in his Academy Award Winning Performance as ‘Claus von Bulow’. Reversal of Fortune is based the autobiographical story of Alan Dershowitz, a brilliant professor of law, who is hired by wealthy socialite, Claus von Bulow, attempting to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his wealthy wife. Also starring Ron Silver, Christine Baranski, Uta Hagen, and Julie Hagerty. |
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To Sleep with Anger - 1990
Written and directed by Charles Burnett and starring Danny Glover, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Mary Alice, Paul Butler, Richard Brooks. Witness how the generational disputes between the family patriarch, his wife and their two married sons become amplified when an unexpected visitor drops in. Enter Harry, a smiling charmer from the old days in the Deep South. Is he in fact an evil spirit, setting a curse upon the house? Harry, a bonafied trixter serves as a catalyst to explore the conflicting beliefs of the middle-class black family. Winner of four Independent Spirit Awards including Best Male Lead for Danny Glover. |
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Waiting for the Light - 1990
Written and directed by Christopher Monger. Starring Teri Garr and Shirley MacLaine as a former vaudeville magician who moves her niece and two mischievous children to a small town. When the kids get in trouble with a neighbor for stealing, the aunt concocts an illusion of ghosts in revenge. Soon enough the whole town believes it is real and the press swarms the town and a major magic trick is required for everyone to save face. |
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Martians Go Home - 1990
Directed by David Odell and based on book of the same name by Federic Brown. Starring Randy Quaid as song writer Mark Devereaux who accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they aren't dangerous, just wise-cracking, intrusive, pain in neck, annoyances. No one can escape their distracting influence. It's up to Mark to figure out how they got here, and most importantly, how to get rid of them before they drive everyone crazy! Also starring Margaret Colin, and Rob Schneider.
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Blue Steel - 1990
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Clancy Brown, Tom Sizemore, and Ron Silver. Blue Steel is the story of a female rookie in the police force engaged in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who soon becomes obsessed with her.
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