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Subgenre Sampler
21 Grams (2003)- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro… - For his English–language debut, the celebrated Mexican director of AMORES PERROS weighs in with an unconventional, soul–baring drama that…
Blind Flight (2003)- Dir. John Furse
Feat. Ian Hart, Linus Roache - True story of the 4–year kidnapping in 80s Lebanon of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy, given an affecting depth by its…
Heaven (2002)- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi - An art–thriller worked from a script by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski which follows the enigmatic trail of recently widowed and vengeful Cate…
Four Days (2001)
- Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers… - This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
Love the Hard Way (2001)- Dir. Peter Sehr
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pam Grier - Big–city fable with Brody playing a snakeskin–jacketed thief with some polished one–liners, who nurses a secret ambition to be a…
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…
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…
Channeling Baby (1999)- Dir. Christine Parker
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Kevin Smith - 'First sight' romance between a blind pacifist and a shell–shocked soldier in the 70s ended in heartbreak after the tragic 'disappearance' of…
Players Club, The (1998)- Dir. Ice Cube
Feat. Monica Calhoun, Lisa Raye, Jamie Foxx… - Proving a talent on his first directorial outing, actor–rapper Ice Cube enlists a no–name cast in this seriocomic glimpse into a tawdry…
Blood and Wine (1997)- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Jennifer Lopez… - Jack Nicholson dusts off his cynical, scowling persona of the 70s, as a desperate, philandering Florida wine merchant who enlists Michael Caine for a…
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