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1996

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Trainspotting film image; man lying across train tracks

Trainspotting

Dir. Danny Boyle
94 min
90s, Baby!

Danny Boyle's blistering movie was a sensation in 1996: a kick in the teeth of old school British kitchen sink realism, it fearlessly transformed the dire circumstances of Edinburgh heroin addicts into an experience by turns exhilarating and devastating.

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Fri Jul 31
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Thu Aug 06
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Crash

Dir. David Cronenberg
100 min
90s, Baby!

Sex drive, David Cronenberg-style. The car-crash fetishists who orbit Cronenberg's metrosexual Toronto (they include James Spader, Holly Hunter, and Deborah Unger) obsessively seek a fusion of metal and flesh... Fender bender as the ultimate orgasm.

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Fri Jul 31
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7:30 pm
Sun Aug 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Thu Aug 06
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Fargo

Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
100 min
90s, Baby!

Have the Coen brothers ever made a more satisfying movie than Fargo? This grisly comedy pits one of cinema's most pure-hearted cops (Frances McDormand's pregnant cop, Marge Gunderson) against the machinations of weak and mercenary men.

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6:20 pm
Sat Aug 01
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Tue Aug 04
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Set It Off

Dir. F. Gary Gray
120 min
90s, Baby!

If you love boosters, you'll love Set It Off, in which four Black women (Jada Pinkett, Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah, Kimberly Elise) repurpose their office-cleaning operation to clean out a bank.

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Sat Aug 01
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Tue Aug 04
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8:10 pm
Thu Aug 06
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Lone Star

Dir. John Sayles
135 min
90s, Baby!

John Sayles's modern day Western is a murder mystery which draws sheriff Chris Cooper to investigate two of his predecessors, the notoriously corrupt Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson), and his own father, Buddy (Matthew McConaughey).

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Sat Aug 01
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Sun Aug 02
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4:00 pm
Tue Aug 04
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Secrets & Lies

Dir. Mike Leigh
142 min
90s, Baby!

Mike Leigh's bittersweet tearjerker won the Palme d'Or in 1996. When a 27 year old adopted child reaches out to her birth mother they're both in for a shock.

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Sun Aug 02
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Tue Aug 04
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