| 721 |
Shine (1996) #151
FILM
Main
Directed by Scott Hicks. With Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd. Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. |
| 722 |
Breaking the Waves (1996) #213
FILM
Main
Directed by Lars von Trier. With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr. Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another. |
| 723 |
Brassed Off (1996) #536
FILM
Main
Directed by Mark Herman. With Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band. 4:3 |
| 724 |
Shine (1996) #538
FILM
Main
Directed by Scott Hicks. With Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd. Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. |
| 725 |
Brassed Off (1996) #1002
FILM
Main
Directed by Mark Herman. With Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band. Best copy. |
| 726 |
This Life Season 1 (1996) #1241
TV DRAMA
Special
11x40min episodes. BBC. Drama series about a group of aspiring young lawyers in London. 1/11 Coming Together. Anna attends an interview at a well-to-do firm of solicitors. 2/11 Happy Families. Anna hopes to rekindle her romance with Miles. 3/11 Living Dangerously. Egg takes on a medical negligence case and becomes emotionally involved with a client. 4/11 Sex, Lies and Muesli Yoghurt. Delilah outstays her welcome and Anna resorts to devious means to get her way. 5/11 Fantasy Football. Egg takes his work worries to a therapist but finds that football is the only way forward. 6/11 Family Outing. Warren fears that Kira might 'out' him to the rest of the family. 7/11 Brief Encounter. Anna has a one-night stand, but discovers that there's no such thing as casual sex. 8/11 Cheap Thrills. Milly is losing patience with Egg's novel-writing career. 9/11 Just Sex. Warren decides to stop living a lie, Milly and O'Donnell become closer. 10/11 Father Figure. O'Donnell could prove to be Milly's knight in shining armour. 11/11 Let's Get It On. Tensions mount as jealousy, lust and shame combine to test the five flatmates. |
| 727 |
Hamlet (1996) #1503
FILM
Disk
4h 2m Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing. |
| 728 |
Braveheart (1995) #242
FILM
Main
Directed by Mel Gibson. With Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen. When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England. |
| 729 |
A Close Shave (1995) #1190
ANIMATION
Main
Directed by Nick Park. With Peter Sallis, Anne Reid, Justin Fletcher, Peter Hawkins. Wallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot. |
| 730 |
Pride & Prejudice (1995) #1292
TV DRAMA
Special
With Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha. While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy. Novel by Jane Austen. |
| 731 |
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) #1557
FILM
Disk
105mins. A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives. |
| 732 |
The Lion King (1994) #430
FILM
Main
Directed by Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. With Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg. Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble. Disney |
| 733 |
Forrest Gump (1994) #1113
FILM
Main
Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. |
| 734 |
Much Ado About Nothing (1993) #529
FILM
Main
Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Keaton. Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. Shakespeare. |
| 735 |
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) #1154
FILM
Main
Directed by Nora Ephron. With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rita Wilson. A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. |
| 736 |
The Remains of the Day (1993) #1392
FILM
Main
The Remains of the Day: Directed by James Ivory. With John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson. A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer |
| 737 |
Aladdin (1992) #1077
FILM
Main
Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker. With Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman. When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her. |
| 738 |
Beauty and the Beast (1991) #431
FILM
Main
Directed by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. With Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart. Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead, unaware her captor to be an enchanted prince. Disney |
| 739 |
Bobby (1991) #568
COMEDY
Main
Stop frame animation. Caroline Sobol. Stills taken with a Canon-ion - the RC-260. This was an electronic still video camera introduced by Canon in 1991 as a follow up to the RC-250. As with other models of this type, it was not a true digital camera; instead it recorded analog TV scan lines onto special 2" Video Floppy disks. It was given the branding Ion and sold in the European market. The RC-260 had a non-zooming 9.5 mm f/2.4 lens, giving a 35mm equivalent of 51 mm. |
| 740 |
Bobby (1991) #1201
COMEDY
Main
Stop frame animation. Caroline Sobol. Stills taken with a Canon-ion - the RC-260. This was an electronic still video camera introduced by Canon in 1991 as a follow up to the RC-250. As with other models of this type, it was not a true digital camera; instead it recorded analog TV scan lines onto special 2" Video Floppy disks. It was given the branding Ion and sold in the European market. The RC-260 had a non-zooming 9.5 mm f/2.4 lens, giving a 35mm equivalent of 51 mm. |
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