Tag: 1990s

September 26, 2024 / Comedy

An Elvis impersonator with a wounded psyche, unflinching in his quest to keep the King’s spirit alive bets it all on one night of glory, a headlining spot at dingy Tinseltown dive.

September 26, 2024 / Television

The 1900 House is a historical reality television programme made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. The show is about a modern family that tries to the live in the way of the late Victorians in 1900 for three months in a modified house. It was shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and on PBS in the United States.

September 24, 2024 / Experimental

The film attempts to negotiate with the duality that is associated with the ceremonial veneration of the Mother Goddess Kali. It ruminates on the nuanced transness that is prevalent, in the ceremonial performance of male devotees cross dressing as Kali. This is interwoven with grotesque elements of a sacrificial ceremony, which forms a vital part of the worship of the Goddess.

September 23, 2024 / Drama

An adaptation of ‘Priest Island’ by E.L. Grant Watson. A man is exiled to a lonely island after he is caught stealing sheep to pay the dowry for his beloved. He is sentenced to spend his life on an uninhabited island with only a few simple tools. Mary, a maid, intrigued by the story and the man, decides to join him there.

September 21, 2024 / Arthouse

The mother of the Indian female singer Pallavi is at the end of her life. She was master and teacher for her daughter for the art of Indian singing. But she will not be able to complete her lessons. So Pallavi experiences the lack of the guru of her mother. Finally she finds him in a very young street-girl who is able to sing marvelously. But this girl keeps disappearing again and again…

September 21, 2024 / Drama

Looking to escape a troubled marriage, a woman returns to her hometown, where she repairs a broken friendship with her cousin and finds true happiness.

July 25, 2024 / Biography

This documentary focuses on AIDS activist, novelist and film writer and National Book Award winner Paul Monette’s life, from his childhood in Massachusetts up to his life in Hollywood and diagnosis and death from AIDS. His story is told in readings from his memoirs and by those who knew him. Narrated by Linda Hunt.

July 14, 2024 / Drama