Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 924 Films to Buy & Rent
Long Time Dead (2001)
- Dir. Marcus Adams
Feat. Joe Absolom, Lara Belmont
- Though hip, slick and atmospheric, this British horror entry for the multiplexes is at once straight–faced and silly, and strictly…
Millennium Mambo (2001)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Shu Qi
- The first in dir. Hou’s ‘contemporary youth’ trilogy is a light–infused strobe of aimless young adults living in the accelerated urban…
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
- Dir. Joel Gallen
Feat. Chris Evans, Chyler Leigh, Molly Ringwald…
- Yes, yet another teen movie. Assembling the cliches, obligatory scenes and stereotypes of the US High–School comedy, this trots out an…
Princess Diaries, The (2001)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway
- PYGMALION–style tale of an initially gawky Anne Hathaway getting made over as a princess, that doesn’t exactly get the royal treatment…
Purely Belter (2001)
- Dir. Mark Herman
Feat. Chris Beattie, Greg McLane
- A pair of spotty Newcastle lads make a pact to stay out of trouble and devise legit money–making schemes to score themselves football season…
Rollerball (2001)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Jean Reno, Chris Klein, LL Cool J…
- Now–notorious flop ‘remake’ of the James Caan original, set around the violent futuristic game of the title (kind of a cross between…
Say It Isn't So (2001)
- Dir. J.B. Rogers
Feat. Heather Graham, Chris Klein, Sally Field
- A romantic chase–comedy with a difference, this Farrelly Bros (KINGPIN) produced effort sees young couple Heather Graham and Chris Klein split…
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
- Dir. Keenan Ivory Wayans
Feat. Tori Spelling, James Woods
- The Wayans clan (Marlon, Shawn and Keenan) again agreeably pastiche the (already self–parodic) SCREAM slasher genre, yet the law of diminishing…
Secret Life of Us, The (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Claudia Karvan, Deborah Mailman
- Surprisingly consistent dramedy set in funky, downtown Melbourne amongst a group of romantically ambitious young people. Maintains a quirky lightness…
Tart (2001)
- Dir. Christina Wayne
Feat. Dominique Swain, Brad Renfro, Lacey Chabert…
- Dominique Swain (LOLITA) comes a cropper in New York’s prestigious prep–school, Hewitt College, becoming involved with cocaine,…