Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Weatherwoman Returns (1996)
- Dir. Tomoaki Hosoyama
Feat. Misa Aika, Kiyomi Ito, Ayako Kato
- Sequel to WEATHERWOMAN, is equally unsettling in the way its nasty thrills are clad in cheap satire. As in the first, the rivalry between various TV…
When the Cat's Away (1996)
- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem
- A movie for cat lovers and young romantics alike, this Latino–tinged, funky, yet alluringly modest French film follows the dowdy–cute…
Will It Snow for Christmas? (1996)
- Dir. Sandrine Veysset
Feat. Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval
- Not a seasonal film 'for the whole family', rather a slow–paced evocation of hard–won, rural life for an impoverished French family of…
A Weatherwoman (1995)
- Dir. Tomoaki Hosoyama
Feat. Kei Mizutani
- Manga–based comedy where debut TV weatherwoman Kei Mizutani disregards all public standards in pursuit of ratings and her own fetishistic…
All Things Fair (1995)
- Dir. Bo Widerberg
Feat. Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz
- The late Bo Widerberg's swansong records a bittersweet memoir of his love affair with a teacher 22 years his senior. The casting of his young son in…
Bait, The (L'Appat) (1995)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Marie Gillain
- A claustrophobic psychological thriller dealing with a trio of young friends who naively conspire to commit a home invasion, that becomes a study of…
Beyond the Clouds (Al di là delle nuvole) (1995)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irene Jacob…
- Michelangelo Antonioni's final film weaves together four stories of discontented love in his characteristic cinematic style.
Featuring a huge…
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (1995)
- Dir. T.F. Mous
- This extreme 'shocker' depicts in grisly detail the story of the massacre of 300 000 Chinese by Japanese soldiers following the invasion of Nanking…
Brother of Sleep (1995)
- Dir. Joseph Vilsmaier
Feat. Andre Eisermann, Dana Vavrova, Ben Becker…
- A bastard child born in remote 19th century Bavaria proves to have an eerie, powerful musical gift, causing consternation among the inbred, somewhat…
Campfire (Short Films by Bavo Defurne) (1995-2000)
- Dir. Bavo Defurne
- Four short films by the renowned gay Belgian filmmaker Bavo Defurne, whose work is distinguished by an aesthetic that combines an astute sense of…