Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Volcano High (Whasango) (2001)
- Dir. Tae-gyun Kim
- Wildly action–packed Korean thriller, set in a future high–school where combat–trained, telekinetic students and staff slug it out…
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
- Nourishing sex fable in which Japanese everyman Koji Yakusho, down and out after losing his wife and job, discovers the joys of making love to a…
What Time Is It There? (2001)
- Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Cecilia Yip, Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Three forlorn individuals bide their time between grief, ennui and loneliness in this minimalist – and unusually talky – masterpiece from…
Wind Will Carry Us, The (2001)
- Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Behzad Dourani
- Carried by the dir.’s deadpan comic instincts and more minimally poetic, this quasi–fable concerns (what seems to be) a documentary crew who…
Would I Lie to You Again? (2001)
- Dir. Thomas Gilou
Feat. Richard Anconina, Jose Garcia, Bruno Solo…
- Boys–will–be–boys comedy revisits the ‘Jewish’ entrepreneurs of WOULD I LIE TO YOU?, now in need to an all–new…
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
- Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
101 Reykjavik (2000)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Victoria Abril
- An endearingly skewed yet unexpectedly poignant sex comedy moored in the 30–below temperatures of the Icelandic winter, about a…
A Moment of Innocence (2000)
- Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- A slowly unfolding tale of the dir.'s own involvement in the stabbing of a policeman when he was an Islamic radical in the 1970s.
Subsequently…
Amazon (Amazone) (2000)
- Dir. Phillipe De Broca
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Arielle Dombasle
- Convoluted sci–fi adventure has jewel thief Belmondo stumbling upon an alien visitor in the guise of a twelve year old girl.
Almost…
Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo…
- Bursting forth with passion, cinematic mettle and pungent local flavours, this debut feature, a triptych of stories set in polyglot Mexico City, is…