Goodfellas
November 1990
GOODFELLASDirected by Martin Scorsese, with Robert DeNiro
Metropolitan
December 1990
METROPOLITANDirected and written by Whit Stillman
PC Cinema: Psychobabble Gets Nasty
PSYCHOBABBLE GETS NASTY
September 1991
For The Bourgeoisie
December 1992
FOR THE BOURGEOISIE MY FATHERS GLORY, AND MY MOTHER’S CASTLEOne movie in two parts, directed by Yves Robert.
French, with subtitles
Hear My Song
JULY 1992
The Player
August 1992
A River Runs Through It
February 1993
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH ITDirected by Robert Redford
A picture about fly-fishing in Montana? For an urban New York type like myself who wouldn’t know a fly-fisherman from a surfer, who thinks that fish should be caught in giant nets, and who believes that once you’ve seen one mountain or tree, you’ve seen them all? And from someone who had never heard of Norman Maclean, from whose autobiographical sketch this movie was made?
The Oscars
May 1993
A French Masterpiece!
May 1993
Faithful readers of mine are in for a severe shock. As they well know, I am notoriously hostile to films that are (a) slow, (b) dark and murky, (c) with long close-ups of suffering actors’ faces substituting for dialogue, and (d) in a foreign language. Indeed these four elements almost always go together.
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