Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
O (Othello) (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles
- Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
Platform (Zhantai) (2000)
- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
- Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…
Railway Children, The (2000)
- Dir. Catherine Morshead
Feat. Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen, Richard Attenborough
- Reviving Edith Nesbit’s classic turn–of–the–century tale of three siblings displaced to the English countryside is this freshly…
Road Trip (2000)
- Dir. Todd Phillips
Feat. Tom Green
- How you take this sophomoric comedy depends on your appreciation of the bizarro hi–jinks of MTV 'personality' Tom Green, or just plain how old…
Save the Last Dance (2000)
- Dir. Thomas Carter
Feat. Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas
- Unhappy with her move from mid–west to a black area of Chicago, Julia Stiles seeks dance–stage salvation. Her saviour arrives in the form…
Scary Movie (2000)
- Dir. Keenan Ivory Wayans
Feat. Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
- A mostly on–target spoof of SCREAM and its progeny from the Wayans' Brothers, the comic clan still most noted for their 'In Living Colour' TV…
Scream 3 (2000)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…
- Less comic than before but otherwise it's more ironic psycho–trouble on the Woodsboro lot for regulars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David…
Skulls, The (2000)
- Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Craig T. Nelson
- In the bowels of an Ivy League Campus, is an elite, secret society that entices young men with luxury trappings and primes them for important…
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
- Dir. John Hay
Feat. Lewis McKenzie, Robert Carlyle, Gina McKee…
- Feelgood hit about one boy's quest for football fame in the estates of Manchester, where he emerges from the school–of–hard–knocks…
Where the Heart Is (2000)
- Dir. Matt Williams
Feat. Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing
- A likeable chick flick tracking Natalie Portman's path from pregnant, jilted trailer–trash, towards some kind of happiness. The movie's…