Le Vent de la Nuit (1999)

Le vent de la nuit / Night Wind

1999 | France | Philippe Garrel | ★★★

Revered French film-maker Philippe Garrel's almost overpoweringly downbeat Le Vent de la Nuit is a beautifully crafted but only mildly diverting relationship drama, buoyed by the sensitive turns of Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Duval.

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"Le Vent de la nuit (Night Wind in English) is a French drama film that came out in 1999, starring Catherine Deneuve and directed by Philippe Garrel, with a score by John Cale. It tells a story of transient loves and willed deaths, in which a callow young man abandons an older woman and loses a wiser friend." Wikipedia

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

1999 | USA | Jim Jarmusch | ★★★★★

Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a quietly funny and touchingly thoughtful samurai gangster flic, featuring unpredictable plotting, memorable scoring, and an excellent central performance from Forest Whitaker.

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"Killer-for-hire Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) lives his life by the ancient Samurai code Hagakure. When his sometime employer Louie (John Tormey) hires him to assassinate gangster Handsome Frank - at the behest of Mafia don Ray Vargo (Henry Silva) - Ghost Dog carries out the job. However, when Vargo discovers that there was a witness to the killing, he orders the reluctant Louie to have Ghost Dog taken out. After Vargo's men ransack his home and slaughter his beloved pigeons, Ghost Dog vows to revenge himself on the crime bosses in true Samurai fashion." VCI Entertainment

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Stotty's 1990s Favourites