Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Charisma (1999)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Ren Osugi
- An eerie 'ecological horror' from the mind of dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, here following the path of a police detective (Yakusho Koji) who has been…
Children of the Marshlands (Les Enfants du Marais) (1999)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Jacques Villeret, Michel Serrault, Eric Cantona
- Old–fashioned French drama, whose 1930s Loire Valley setting is refreshingly free of the usual cliches, while remaining utterly charming and…
Colour of Paradise, The (1999)
- Dir. Majid Majidi
Feat. Mohsen Ramezani
- A gripping, compassionate study of a blind Iranian boy’s attempts to connect with his egotistical father and a carpentry tutor when he is taken to…
Criminal Lovers (Amants criminels, Les) (1999)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Natacha Regnier, Miki Manojlovic
- Before he made the lighter 8 WOMEN, dir. Ozon established his credentials with this twisted wee horror, which fearlessly ventures into sadistic and…
Cup, The (1999)
- Dir. Khyentse Norbu
Feat. Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling, Jamyang Lodro
- This charming, slyly comic tale of soccer–mad young monks obsessed with viewing the World Cup has found broad worldwide appreciation with its…
Dead or Alive (Hanzaisha) (1999)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Ren Osugi
- A jaw–dropping, wickedly amoral revenge thriller from the dir. of AUDITION, who blows the dust (and the roof) off gangster movie cliches and…
East / West (Est / Ouest) (1999)
- Dir. Regis Wargnier
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr…
- A 'woman's picture' in the proudest sense of the term, this lush historical melodrama from the dir. of INDOCHINE again finds a French woman in a…
Emperor and the Assassin, The (Jing Ke Ci Qin Wang) (1999)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Gong Li, Zhang Fenyi
- Vast, gilded historical spectacle set in the 3rd Century BC, centred on China's legendary first Qin emperor's struggle to consolidate a unified…
Girl on the Bridge, The (1999)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis
- This glossy slice of modern 'poetic realism' has an attractive visual component but its arch–Romanticism won't be everyone's glass of Chablis.…
Gloomy Sunday (Ein Lied Von Liebe Und Tod) (1999)
- Dir. Rolf Schubel
Feat. Joachim Krol, Erika Marozsan, Ben Becker…
- Captivating drama which pivots around the apocryphal origins of the classic melancholy song 'Gloomy Sunday' in pre–WW2 Budapest.
An amiably…