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film series - 1999 season

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.


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).


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.

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.

The political and social satire Election (Paramount Pictures) featured Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon.

 


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.

The pyschological thriller Instinct (Touchstone Pictures) starred Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Donald Sutherland.

 


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)

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.

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