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Subgenre Sampler
Promise, The (Wu ji) (2005)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang, Cecilia Cheung… - Visually exquisite, if utterly frivolous Golden Globe–nominated romantic epic from the director of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE relays the story of…
Shinobi (2005)- Dir. Ten Shimoyama
Feat. Joe Odagiri, Yukie Nakama - Set in an ancient Japan complete with magical trappings, this action epic posits a forbidden love story between members (Odagiri and Nakama) of two…
Aviator, The (2004)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale… - Top flight cinematic biopic of fascinating 20th century figure, Howard Hughes, told with consummate skill and style by Martin Scorsese, marking a…
Jasmine Women (Mo li hua kai; Blossoming Jasmine; Jasmine Flower) (2004)- Dir. Yong Hou
Feat. Joan Chen, Wen Jiang, Zhang Ziyi - Intergenerational Chinese weepie about women who are unlucky in love, set during the 1920s, '50s and '80s, and based on the book by Su Tong (also the…
Weeping Meadow, The (To Livadi pou dakryzei) (2004)
- Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
- The first part of an intended trilogy of films dealing with 20th century Greece, this monumental epic depicts the travails of a Greek refugee family…
Last Samurai, The (2003)- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton… - Swathed in the scenery of New Zealand, this enactment of the Japanese civil wars of the late 19th century is an ambitious, though…
Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003)- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen… - Peter Jackson's adaptation of J R R Tolkien's fantasy trilogy of 'Middle Earth' reaches its spectacular climax, drawing the story–threads…
Singing Behind Screens (Cantando dietro i paraventi) (2003)- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Bud Spencer, Davide Dragonetti - Visually opulent Italian epic directed by Ermanno Olmi (THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS) set in coastal China and centred on a plucky widow who takes her…
Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian di ying xiong) (2003)- Dir. He Ping
Feat. Wen Jiang, Xueqi Wang, Vicki Zhao - A lavish post–CROUCHING TIGER epic derived from a Chinese folktale about an Imperial assassin who is sent forth to the Gobi desert to eliminate…
Devdas (2002)- Dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai - The most expensive production in Bollywood history to date is this gorgeously extravagant soap opera based on one of India’s most widely–read…
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