Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3342 Films to Buy & Rent
La Nostra Vita (Our Life) (2010)
- Dir. Daniele Luchetti
Feat. Elio Germano, Raoul Bova, Luca Zingaretti…
- A construction worker's discovery of an illegal immigrant's body on site sets off a chain of events that radically alters his own life. An absorbing…
Last Circus, The (2010)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang
- Clown rivalries collide in this violent, OTT genre riot from Spanish trash auteur, Alex de la Iglesia, set at both ends of Franco's dictatorship…
Le Quattro Volte (2010)
- Dir. Michelangelo Frammartino
Feat. Giuseppe Fuda
- This mesmerizing blend of wordless narrative fiction and spontaneous nature documentary – about the 'cycle of life' in a rugged valley in Italy’s…
Legend of the Fist - The Return of Chen Zhen (2010)
- Dir. Andrew Lau
Feat. Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong…
- Belated sequel to Bruce Lee's FIST OF FURY (remade with Jet Li as FIST OF LEGEND) picks up well after the Dojo–busting triumphs of those films,…
Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
- Dir. Wen Jiang
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You, Wen Jiang…
- Cocksure 'noodle' western – best described as a Chinese variation on Kurosawa's YOJIMBO – pits a notorious bandit against the mob boss of…
Little Big Soldier (2010)
- Dir. Sheng Ding
Feat. Jackie Chan, Lee-Hom Wang
- Charismatic anti–war comedy stars Jackie Chan as a lowly foot soldier who strikes it lucky when he captures a wanted enemy General (Wang).…
Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs) (2010)
- Dir. Guillaume Canet
Feat. Francois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel…
- Airy ensemble from the dir. of TELL NO ONE about a group of French sophisticates whose annual seaside reunion is disturbed when one of them is badly…
Longlasting Youth (TV Mini-series) (Le cose che restano) (2010)
- Dir. Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Feat. Lorenzo Balducci, Daniela Giordano
- A four–part mini–series about a Roman family who take separate paths after the death of their youngest son.
Loose Cannons (2010)
- Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Riccardo Scamarcio
- An cheerfully overstuffed family comedy of a gay young man who attempts to come out to his ultra traditionalist parents in the south of Italy.
Lope (The Outlaw) (2010)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala
- Splendid biopic of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theare.