If anything, Hoberman’s comment underestimated the seismic impact that “Schindler’s List” would have on the public imagination. Even for the youngsters and grandchildren of survivors — raised into awareness but starved for understanding — Spielberg’s popcorn version with the Shoah arrived with the power to complete for concentration camps what “Jurassic Park” experienced done for dinosaurs earlier the same year: It exhumed an unfathomable duration of history into a blockbuster spectacle so watchable and well-engineered that it could shrink the legacy of the entire epoch into a single vision, in this case potentially diminishing generations of deeply personal stories along with it. 

A miracle excavated from the sunken ruins of the tragedy, and also a masterpiece rescued from what seemed like a surefire Hollywood fiasco, “Titanic” may very well be tempting to think of as the “Casablanca” or “Apocalypse Now” of its time, but James Cameron’s larger-than-life phenomenon is also quite a bit more than that: It’s every kind of movie they don’t make anymore slapped together into a 52,000-ton colossus and then sunk at sea for our amusement.

star Christopher Plummer won an Oscar for his performance in this moving drama about a widowed father who finds love again after coming out in his 70s.

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The patron saint of Finnish filmmaking, Aki Kaurismäki more or less defined the country’s cinematic output during the 80s and 90s, releasing a steady stream of darkly comedic films about down-and-out characters enduring the absurdities of everyday life.

Out from the gate, “My Own Private Idaho” promises an uncompromising experience, opening with a close-up of River Phoenix getting a blowjob. There’s a subversion here of Phoenix’s up-til-now raffish Hollywood image, and the moment establishes the extent of vulnerability the actors, both playing extremely sensitive male intercourse workers, will put on display.

The second of three minimal-finances hotmail log in 16mm films that Olivier Assayas would make between 1994 and 1997, “Irma Vep” wrestles with the inexorable presentness of cinema’s earlier in order to help divine its future; it’s a lithe and unassuming piece of meta-fiction that goes all the way back to the silent era in order to arrive at something that feels completely new — or that at least reminds audiences of how thrilling that discovery could be.

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Studio fuckery has only grown more annoying with the vertical integration on the streaming period (just ask Batgirl), but the ‘90s sometimes feels like Hollywood’s last true golden age of hands-on interference; it was the last time that a Disney subsidiary might greenlight an ultra-violent Western horror-comedy about U.

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The crisis of identification in the heart of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 international breakthrough “Heal” addresses an essential truth about Japanese Modern society, where “the nail that sticks up gets pounded down.” But the provocative existential dilemma at the core of your film — without your occupation and your family and your place during the world, who have you been really?