Cinemax Vanguard Cinema 1992 - 1997
Cinemax showcased critically acclaimed independent, new wave, documentary, and foreign films under its Vanguard banner. The films were sourced from film festivals around the world and many had limited distribution. From 1992 to 1997, Cinemax had a dedicated weekly time slot for Vanguard. Friday Vanguard aired from 1992-1993, and Wednesday Vanguard from 1993-1997.
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- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLothaire BluteauCatherine WilkeningJohanne-Marie TremblayA group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.Friday Vanguard air date:
January 3, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Jesus of Montreal ★★★ (1989)
Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening.
Star of play ironically fits the part. 'R' Adult situations, language, violence. (120 minutes) MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V]
Film festivals:
Cannes Film Festival;
Seattle International Film Festival;
Toronto International Film Festival - DirectorJohn FeldmanStarsAnnabelle LarsenRoger KablerMary McLainThree young New Yorkers decide to travel South for a few days away from the Big Apple. They pick up a beautiful, mysterious young sightless woman with a strange and unsettling past. All three are captivated and fascinated by her, but can she be trusted?Friday Vanguard air date:
January 10, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Alligator Eyes ★★ (1990)
Annabelle Larson, Roger Kabler.
Two men and woman pick up blind hitchhiker with her own agenda. 'R' Adult situations, language, nudity, violence. (101 minutes) MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V]
Film Festivals:
San Sebastian International Film Festival - DirectorJerry SchatzbergStarsJason RobardsChristien AnholtSamuel WestTwo young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. After that summer and the election of Hitler, things change as anti-semitism gains fervor. After the core of the film deals with that era, the film flashes to the present and the Jewish man now returns to his boyhood home and seeks his old friend with some surprises.Friday Vanguard air date:
January 17, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Reunion ★★ (1989)
Jason Robards, Christian Anholt.
Jewish man recalls himself and friend amid Nazis in 1933. 'PG-13' Adult situations, violence. (110 minutes) MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V]
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Cannes Film Festival - DirectorRobert MulliganStarsWhoopi GoldbergMichael OntkeanKathleen QuinlanA Jamaican woman becomes the housekeeper for a rich Baltimore family and bonds with a disillusioned teenage boy.Friday Vanguard air date:
January 24, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Clara's Heart ★ (1988)
Whoopi Goldberg as a nanny helping her prep-school charge (Neil Patrick Harris) through trying times. (108 minutes) 'PG-13' Adult situations, language. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorStephen FrearsStarsAnjelica HustonJohn CusackAnnette BeningA small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.Friday Vanguard air date:
January 31, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
The Grifters ★★★ (1990)
John Cusack, Anjelica Huston.
No-win triangle of con man, mother and girlfriend. 'R' Adult situations, language, nudity, violence. (110 minutes) MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V]
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Toronto Festival of Festivals - DirectorMalcolm MowbrayStarsSteve GuttenbergJami GertzShelley LongCartoonist Gus has survived cancer treatment and now his romance novelist sister tries to find him a woman and guide him. Will they succeed?Friday Vanguard air date:
February 7, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
(Aired under original title: Don't Tell Her It's Me)
TV listing:
Don't Tell Her It's Me ★ (1990)
Steve Guttenberg, Jami Gertz.
A total makeover transforms a cartoonist into a stud so he can woo his dream date. 'PG-13' Adult situations, language. (102 minutes) MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovPyotr ZaychenkoVladimir KashpurA comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.Friday Vanguard air date:
February 14, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Taxi Blues ★★★ (1990)
Tale of the unlikely friendship between a brutish Moscow cabbie (Pyotr Zaitchenko) and a free-spirited musician (Pyotr Mamonov). (110 minutes) 'NR' Adult situations, language, nudity, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V]
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Cannes Film Festival - DirectorKen LoachStarsFrances McDormandMaurice RoëvesRobert PattersonWhen an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.Friday Vanguard air date:
February 21, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Hidden Agenda ★★★ (1990)
Frances McDormand, Brian Cox.
U.S. activist and British sleuth probe Belfast slayings. 'R' Adult situations, violence. (108 minutes) MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V]
Film festival
Cannes Film Festival - DirectorPhillip BadgerStarsTerry O'QuinnKristy McNicholBlair ParkerA recently widowed writer moves into a Victorian house that is supposedly haunted. Although he is attracted to his pretty next-door neighbor, he finds himself being seduced by the spirit of a woman who had been murdered in his house 100 years previously.Friday Vanguard air date:
February 28, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
The Forgotten One ★★ (1990)
Terry O’Quinn, Kristy McNichol.
Writer sees ghostly beauty; so does his girlfriend. 'R' Language, nudity, violence. (98 minutes) MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorJohn BradshawStarsCasey SiemaszkoLeslie HopeLouis FerreiraA pair of aspiring mystery novelists, knowing next to nothing about crime, decide to live out their adventures, and gets in way over their heads, meeting a femme fatale not making their world easier.Friday Vanguard air date:
March 6, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
The Big Slice ★★ (1991)
Casey Siemaszko, Leslie Hope.
Two would-be writers see crime from both sides. (85 minutes) 'R' Adult situations, language, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorMichael KeuschStarsFelicity WatermanChris LemmonNick MancusoA woman gets caught up in a smuggling case when her luggage is accidentally switched with an identical case.Friday Vanguard air date:
March 13, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Lena's Holiday ★★ (1991)
Felicity Waterman, Chris Lemmon.
Young East German has wild trip to Los Angeles. (97 minutes) 'PG-13' Language, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorJames IvoryStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardSaundra McClainSet during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.Friday Vanguard air date:
March 20, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge ★★★ (1990)
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward.
Rich lawyer, his wife and their children grow apart in the WW II era. (125 minutes) 'PG-13' Adult situations, language, nudity. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.Friday Vanguard air date:
March 27, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
GoodFellas ★★★★ (1990)
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta.
Irish-ltalian hood joins 1950s New York Mafia for life. (146 minutes) 'R' Adult situations, language, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorNat ChristianStarsJerry OrbachAudrey LandersTyrone Power Jr.Stagehand at a nightclub falls for one of the performers. He wins her heart after taking lessons on suavity from a gigolo "count".Friday Vanguard air date:
April 3, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
California Casanova ★ (1991)
Jerry Orbach, Audrey Landers.
A young man learns how to woo women from an expert. (94 minutes) 'R' Language, nudity, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorMario OrfiniStarsTrudie StylerGregg HenryBill MoseleyGene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Unable to win her back, he decides to take revenge by locking Eva in her new apartment, inside which he has released a deadly mamba snake.Friday Vanguard air date:
June 19, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Fair Game ★★ (1991)
Gregg Henry. Trudie Styler.
Man traps artist wife with mamba, then watches. (82 minutes) 'R' Language, nudity, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorWayne CoeStarsJames Earl JonesBrad DourifWill Hare"Grim Prairie Tales" is a 1990 horror anthology movie where a cynical bounty hunter and a clerk traveling through the prairie rest by the campfire telling four stories of terror to each other.Friday Vanguard air date:
June 26, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Grim Prairie Tales ★★ (1990)
James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif.
Bounty hunter and clerk tell tales around campfire. (86 minutes) 'R' Language, nudity, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsNatasha RichardsonFaye DunawayAidan QuinnUnder a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children. Those young women who can live in a form of sexual slavery to provide children for influential families.Friday Vanguard air date:
July 3, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
The Handmaid’s Tale ★★ (1990)
Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall.
Young woman forced to breed for couple In future world. (109 minutes) 'R' Language, nudity, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorBradley BattersbyStarsD.B. SweeneyCourteney CoxCraig ShefferTwo men rattle a comic-book artist who has moved to a desert town after her trauma in New York.Friday Vanguard air date:
July 10, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Blue Desert ★★ (1991)
Courteney Cox, D.B. Sweeney.
Two men rattle comic-book artist in desert town. (96 minutes) 'R' Adult situations, language, nudity, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. [V] - DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsPaul McGannAmanda DonohoeFrederick TrevesA lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.Friday Vanguard air date:
October 9, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Paper Mask ★★★ (1990)
Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe.
Young Briton poses as emergency-room doctor; nurse knows. (105 minutes) 'R' Adult situations, nudity, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. 313996 [V] - DirectorNat ChristianStarsBurt YoungAllen GarfieldJudy LandersA gangster's girlfriend is framed and sent to a minimum-security prison.Friday Vanguard air date:
October 16, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Club Fed ★ (1991)
Burt Young, Judy Landers.
High jinks inside a prison. (93 minutes) 'PG- 13' Adult situations, language. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. 874697 [V] - DirectorJohn SaylesStarsVincent SpanoTony Lo BiancoStephen MendilloAn intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.Friday Vanguard air date:
November 6, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
City of Hope ★★★ (1991)
Vincent Spano, Joe Morton. Developer's son and councilman, two in a corrupt city. (130 minutes) 'R' Language, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. 957524 [V] - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsRichard LinklaterRudy BasquezJean CaffeineA day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.Friday Vanguard air date:
November 13, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Slacker ★★★ (1990)
Actors portray varieties of a type: the new bohemian. (100 minutes) 'R' Language. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. 176665 [V] - DirectorYves RobertStarsPhilippe CaubèreNathalie RousselDidier PainAt the end of the nineteenth century, little Marcel lives with his parents in the Provence countryside. During his holiday, Marcel meets Lili, a local boy who knows all the secrets of the hills, and the two become fast friends.Friday Vanguard air date:
November 20, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
My Father’s Glory ★★★ (1990)
Philippe Caubere, Nathalie Roussel.
French boy summers with family in the country. (109 minutes) 'G' MAX Fri. 7 p.m. 436643 [V] - DirectorDon BoydStarsPatsy KensitJack ShepherdPatrick RyecartKatie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old girl. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.Friday Vanguard air date:
November 27, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Twenty-One ★★ (1991)
Patsy Kensit, Jack Shepherd.
Sassy London flirt moves to New York. (101 minutes) ’R’ Adult situations, language, nudity. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. 712669 [V] - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPeter WellerJudy DavisIan HolmAfter developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.Friday Vanguard air date:
December 4, 1992 - 8 PM / 7 Central
TV listing:
Naked Lunch ★★★ (1991)
Peter Weller.
Bug killer hallucinates, kills wife, becomes writer. (116 minutes) ‘R’ Adult situations, language, nudity, violence. MAX Fri. 7 p.m. 356839 [V]