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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Road Home, The (2000)- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Zhang Ziyi, Honglei Sun, Hao Zhang - Tackling the period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, period dir. Zhang Yimou (RAISE THE RED LANTERN) gives the story of a young man's return home…
Shirt, The (2000)- Dir. John Laing
Feat. Brian Sargent, Kirsty King-Turner, Jeff Szusterman… - Chiefly the creation of Wellingtonian writer/producer Ross Bevan, this hits hard as a raw study of three career–junkies ‘led’ by a…
Shower (Xizhao) (2000)- Dir. Zhang Yang
Feat. Pu Cunxin, Zhu Xu - A popular success with international audiences, this Chinese comedy is centred around a modern–day bathhouse in Beijing without a…
Subway Stories (2000)- Dir. Various
Feat. Denis Leary, Lili Taylor, Christine Lahti… - Renewing the London TUBE TALES concept on the NYC subways, this tele–movie saw 10 true–life experiences (submitted by HBO viewers)…
Timecode (2000)- Dir. Mike Figgis
Feat. Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter… - Dividing the screen into four quadrants, each carrying an unbroken 90 min shot, the dir. of LEAVING LAS VEGAS juxtaposes four stories set in the…
Two of Us (2000)- Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Jared Harris - TV–movie centred around the intriguing prospect of a mid–70s meeting in New York between John Lennon (Quinn) and Paul McCartney (Harris).…
Where the Money Is (2000)- Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney - A still–charismatic Paul Newman is an aged bank–robber esconsed in a nursing home after suffering a stroke, though his nurse Linda…
Agnes Browne (1999)- Dir. Anjelica Huston
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Ray Winstone - Anjelica Huston adapts Brendan O'Carroll best–selling novel through an American romantic prism of working class Irish culture. The director…
Barber of Siberia, The (1999)- Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
Feat. Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Oleg Menshikov - Oddly toned blend of historical epic and comedy set in late 19th century Russian, where an American inventor seeks to sell his timber harvesting…
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