Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Bystanders (Diary of June) (2005)
- Dir. Kyung-Soo Im
Feat. Yunjin Kim
- Proficient Korean thriller grapples with a murder mystery of cryptic diary notes left inside the bodies of murder victims; the handwriting matched to…
Cave of the Yellow Dog, The (2005)
- Dir. Byambasuren Davaa
- The dir. of THE WEEPING CAMEL weaves an enchanting tale of nomads through the eyes of a young girl, using her friendship with a stray dog as a launch…
Child, The (L'enfant) (2005)
- Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Feat. Jeremie Renier, Deborah Francois
- The latest humanist imprint from the Dardenne's is a gripping, logical extension of their socio–economic character studies, here following the…
Crime Novel (Romanzo criminale) (2005)
- Feat. Kim Rossi Stuart, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria…
- Novel–based Italian crime drama concerning a group of small–town crims who went on to become Rome's most merciless crime family and a…
Dark Horse (Voksne mennesker) (2005)
- Dir. Dagur Kari
Feat. Jakob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro
- Charmingly offbeat slacker comedy from the director of NOI THE ALBINO, following a Copenhagen graffiti artist who spends his days dodging parking…
Days of Abandonment, The (I Giorni dell'abbandono) (2005)
- Dir. Roberto Faenza
Feat. Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti
- Shattering Italian drama with Margherita Buy in a breathtakingly brutal performance as a middle–age woman left by her husband who deteriorates…
Death of Mr Lazarescu, The (2005)
- Dir. Cristi Puiu
Feat. Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu
- Whirling, labyrinthine black comedy follows with interest the Kafkaesque plight of an ailing elderly drunk, whose stomach pains are met with…
Death Trance (2005)
- Dir. Yuji Shimomura
Feat. Tak Sakaguchi
- Another insane, neo–samurai fantasy from the VERSUS camp involving the battle over a mysterious coffin that, if opened, could destroy the…
Duelist (Hyeongsa) (2005)
- Dir. Lee Myung-Se
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Sung-kee Ahn, Dong-won Kang
- A restless, meta–revisionist sword epic from the dir. of NOWHERE TO HIDE places two undercover police officers in pursuit of an elusive…
El Violin (2005)
- Dir. Francisco Vargas
Feat. Angel Tavira
- A one–handed violinist commands this potent political history of Mexico’s 1970s Guerrero peasant revolt.
Plotting to befriend the…