Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3363 Films to Buy & Rent
Black Belt (Kuro-obi) (2007)
- Dir. Shunichi Nagasaki
Feat. Akihito Yagi, Tatsuya Naka
- Defence meets attack in this measured martial arts drama set in 1930s Japan, in which two karate experts (played by real–life karate pros) take…
Blind Mountain (2007)
- Dir. Yang Li
Feat. Huang Lu
- A superbly executed kidnapping drama that’s also surprisingly achieved given its critical portrait of Chinese society, this concerns the heinous…
Caramel (Sukkar banat) (2007)
- Dir. Nadine Labaki
Feat. Nadine Labaki
- Charming Lebanese soap opera with a social conscience, the latest in an emerging wave of dissenting Middle Eastern dramas divulges the stifled lives…
Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent (2007)
- Dir. Olivier Meyrou
- Intimate portrait of Yves Saint–Laurent, focussing on the legendary fashion designer's final show, as well as his complex relationship with…
Chacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007)
- Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August
- 35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film…
Chaotic Ana (Caótica Ana) (2007)
- Dir. Julio Medem
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Gerrit Graham, Manuela Vellés
- Spanish auteur Julio Medem (SEX AND LUCIA) returns with this abstractly ambitious, idiosyncratic undertaking, meshing the self–exploration of a…
Checkmate Provenzano (2007)
- Dir. Claudio Mariano Cirino, Paolo Santolini
- Detailed docu–drama recreates the last few months in hiding of notorious Mafia don Bernardo Provenzano whose capture after forty–three…
Chrysalis (2007)
- Dir. Julien Leclercq
Feat. Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller…
- Relentless French sci–fi flick shot in gun–metal blue and packed with fine examples of classic and contemporary science–fictional…
City of Men (Cidade dos Homens) (2007)
- Dir. Paulo Morelli
Feat. Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha
- Salty Rio back–blocks melodrama from the producers of CITY OF GOD revolving around two orphaned street kids on the brink of adulthood faced…
Concrete Romance (Cemento armato) (2007)
- Dir. Marco Martani
Feat. Nicolas Vaporidis, Giorgio Faletti, Carolina Crescentini
- Brutal Italian thriller focused on a young petty crim unwittingly caught up in a deadly revenge plot by a Mafia kingpin after damaging his…