Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Devdas (2002)
- Dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai
- The most expensive production in Bollywood history to date is this gorgeously extravagant soap opera based on one of India’s most widely–read…
Dolls (2002)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Miho Kanno, Tatsuya Mihashi
- Beautiful to behold with its spectacular Japanese vistas, but unfocused in content, dir. Takeshi stumbles with an art film that feels stranded…
Double Vision (Shuang tong) (2002)
- Dir. Chen Kuo Fu
Feat. David Morse, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Rene Liu
- A slickly effective horror film, in which cross–cultural cop buddies Leung and Morse hunt a demonic serial killer in Taiwan.
Imbued with a…
Drowned Out (2002)
- Dir. Franny Armstrong
- A forerunner, and now excellent companion piece to the much vaunted UP THE YANGTZE, this captures in sobering close–up the plight of an Indian…
El Bonaerense (2002)
- Dir. Pablo Trapero
- An authentically macho tale about the notoriously clannish and corrupt police force of Buenos Aires (members are known as 'el Bonaerense') which…
Enlightenment Guaranteed (2002)
- Dir. Doris Dorrie
Feat. Uwe Ochsenknecht, Gustav-Peter Wohler
- Entertainment is guaranteed for those in the right headspace with this droll comedy, in which two befuddled German brothers on holiday in Japan stray…
Etre et Avoir (To Be and to Have) (2002)
- Dir. Nicolas Philibert
- Acclaimed internationally for its inspirational power and transcendence of the documentary form, this non–fiction film observes the simple,…
Eye, The (2002)
- Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou
- Almost guaranteed to give you goosebumps, this unnerving Asian horror show follows in the footsteps and spirit of the watershed RING films, though…
Fiancée of Dracula (2002)
- Dir. Jean Rollin
Feat. Cyrille Gaudin, Jacques Orth, Thomas Smith
- A late addition in the filmography of cult fantasy director Jean Rollin, who once again turns his attention to vampire mythology in this tale of a…
Gada Meilin (2002)
- Dir. Feng Xiaoning
- Lauded, but rather obscure action drama set in 1930s Mongolia, where the nomadic tribal leader Gada Meilin tried to prevent the 'desertification' of…