Steve Buscemi
Director, Actor
- Parting Glances (1986)
- Dir. Bill Sherwood
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Richard Ganoung
- A gay classic and pioneering film of the independent movement, this is widely enjoyed as a truthful picture of gay life and relationships and also as…
- Slaves of New York (1989)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Bernadette Peters, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt…
- Screen adaptation of Tama Janowitz' cult novel about the pretensions and perversions of fashionable New Yorkers. Stars Bernadette Peters.
- Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-series) (Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, Return to Lonesome Dove) (1989-1993)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover…
- A hefty star cast congregate for this acclaimed TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about two former Texas Rangers (Duvall, Jones) who retire to…
- King of New York (1990)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes…
- A ruthless drug lord (Walken) is determined to resume his throne as the king of New York's underworld after five years behind bars. A vicious crime…
- Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (1990)
- Dir. John Harrison
Feat. Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi…
- Quirky selection of stories from the popular 80s horror series TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE strung together by an inconsequential narrative and starring…
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi…
- Partners–in–crime Keitel, Roth, Buscemi, Madsen and others reel from a botched jewel heist in an abandoned warehouse. Tarantino's…
- In the Soup (1992)
- Dir. Alexandre Rockwell
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals…
- Steve Buscemi lends his bug–eyed innocence as a wannabee film–maker who becomes involved with a charismatic hood who promises to raise…
- Ed and His Dead Mother (1992)
- Dir. Jonathan Wacks
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty
- Steve Buscemi distinguishes this otherwise routine comedy–horror about about a mommie's boy who can't sever the apron strings, even after…
- Airheads (1993)
- Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler…
- Three frustrated metal–heads hold a radio–station to ransom in a vain attempt to get their music played and become rock stars. The cool…
- Twenty Bucks (1993)
- Dir. Keva Rosenfeld
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, Brendan Fraser…
- The path of a twenty dollar note connects a number of comic vignettes, most of which hit the mark. Polished up from a recently discovered 1935…
- Last Outlaw, The (1994)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine…
- Kiwi director's bloody Western with Rourke as a psychopathic confederate hunting down the remnants of his white trash gang.
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman…
- With just his second film, Quentin Tarantino not only became a household name but a massive cultural phenomenon.
He miraculously surpasses…
- Desperado (1995)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi…
- Rodriguez' big–budget blow up of his cult hit EL MARIACHI, with Latino golden–boy Antonio Banderas as the vengeance–bent…
- Living in Oblivion (1996)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney
- Another low–budget gem from the director of JOHNNY SUEDE, this time a deliriously cheeky backhander aimed at various icons of the indie film…
- Fargo (1996)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy
- The gifted Coen Brothers cross two of their previous treasures – RAISING ARIZONA and BLOOD SIMPLE for this lovingly mocking tale of insurance…
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1996)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Gabrielle Anwar…
- Things get messy for 'good guy' Andy Garcia under the sadistic tutelage of crippled crime–boss Christopher Walken.
Cool and confident…
- Trees Lounge (1996)
- Dir. Steve Buscemi
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, Anthony LaPaglia…
- Lovelorn, unemployed mechanic Steve Buscemi drags himself downstairs each day to the local watering hole of the title for bouts of…
- Con Air (1997)
- Dir. Simon West
Feat. Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich…
- The prison genre meets the airborne thriller(!) but invigorated no end by super–slick production and direction and the ever–dependable…
- Real Blonde, The (1997)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Maxwell Caulfield…
- Light yet insightful lampoon of the acting/modelling industry from the director of LIVING IN OBLIVION nicely captures (and skewers) the hollowness of…
- Big Lebowski, The (1998)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore…
- Rolling another warped vision down the gutter, the inscrutable minds of the Coen Brothers (FARGO, RAISING ARIZONA) endow this bowling comedy with…
- Armageddon (1998)
- Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton…
- After the tragedy of DEEP IMPACT, we get to witness the end of the world again, this time Jerry Bruckheimer–style (CON AIR, THE ROCK). That…
- 28 Days (1999)
- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Diane Ladd…
- Fun–loving NY journalist Sandra Bullock doesn't know when to say 'when' and gets slapped with a month in rehab after a drink driving incident.…
- Animal Factory (2000)
- Dir. Steve Buscemi
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Tom Arnold…
- Retaining the indie principles that distinguished TREES LOUNGE, dir. Buscemi crafts unflashy, insightful drama out of ex–con Edward…
- Grey Zone, The (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel…
- Earnest examination of one of the 'greyest' moral zones of the Holocaust – the role of the Jewish Sonderkommandos in concentration camps, who…
- Double Whammy (2001)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. Denis Leary, Steve Buscemi, Luis Guzman…
- Indie twist on classic genre material by dir. Dicillo (LIVING IN OBLIVION), with ‘rotten–luck’ cop Denis Leary enduring dodgy partners…
- Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (2001)
- Dir. Hironobu Sakaguchi
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, David Sutherland…
- Derived from a computer game scenario, this sci–fi actioner, set on an Earth ravaged by alien invasion, is notable as the first movie to…
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Dir. Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich
Feat. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Jennifer Tilly…
- Discovering that children’s screams can be converted into an energy source (‘Scream Heat’), monsters lurk in their closets to feed the…
- Ghost World (2001)
- Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Feat. Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi…
- Nothing to do with the paranormal, but everything to do with the anti–normal, this independent gem is a surprisingly endearing tale of two…
- Spy Kids 2 - The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Steve Buscemi…
- The diminutive spies of the hit family thriller return for another colourful, goofy round of saving the day for the grownups.
In team with a rival…
- Laramie Project, The (2002)
- Dir. Moisés Kaufman
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Clea Duvall, Jeremy Davies…
- Moisés Kaufman directs this film based on his own play, set in the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student in…