The 1999 Season of the Town Hall Feature Film Seminar
The 1999 season began with the "lush, erotic" Tango released by Sony Classics. A ravishing homage to the legendary Argentine dance and the Buenos Aires culture from which it springs.
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Subsequent films were ...
The Other Sister, billed as a love story for the romantically challenged, this uplifting bittersweet comedy starred Dianne Keation, Juliette Lewis, Tom Skeritt and Giovanni Ribisi (Touchstone Pictures).
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Director Paul Quinn's debut, the "sincere and effective romantic drama" This is My Father (Sony Picture Classics) featured Aidan Quinn, James Cann, Stephen Rea and John Cusak. |
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David Mamet's absorbing The Winslow Boy (Sony Pictures Classics) featured Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northan and Rebecdca Pidgeon in a true story that gripped England earlier in this century. |
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The political and social satire Election (Paramount Pictures) featured Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon.
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The drama Limbo (Sony Pictures) featuring David Straithairn and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was a tale about people trying to reinvent themselves in America's last frontier. |
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The pyschological thriller Instinct (Touchstone Pictures) starred Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Donald Sutherland.
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A film by François Girard, with Samuel L. Jackson that follows the journey of an instrument for three centuries across several continents The Red Violin (Lions Gate) |
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The series closed with Arlington Road (Sony Pictures) starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusak in a film that makes you think twice about your neighbors. |