Subgenre Sampler
Road Movie: 273 Films to Buy & Rent
Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004)
- Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mercedes Morán
- Sumptuously filmed two–wheeled road trip across 1950s South America with the youthful, asthmatic Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Bernal), and friend…
Sideways (2004)
- Dir. Alexander Payne
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen…
- Reserve quality odd–couple comedy–drama from the consistent talent behind ELECTION and ABOUT SCHMIDT, about two middle–aged friends…
Behaviours of the Backpacker (2003)
- Dir. Sandor Lau
- Chinese/Hungarian–American film student, Sándor Lau, walked 500km alone from Auckland to Cape Reinga – New Zealand's geographic and…
Brown Bunny, The (2003)
- Dir. Vincent Gallo
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Chloe Sevigny
- Notoriously egocentric gem from Vincent Gallo, who stars, directs, writes, shoots, edits and produces an intriguingly desultry road–trip across…
Go Further (2003)
- Dir. Ron Mann
Feat. Woody Harrelson
- A quirky, semi–stoned travelogue that gets on the bus with activist–actor Woody Harrelson and his entourage on a 'consciousness raising'…
Koktebel (2003)
- Dir. Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky
Feat. Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich
- A delicately imagined journey through the Ukrainian countryside in the company of a widower and his 11–year old son, who set off on foot from…
Travellers and Magicians (2003)
- Dir. Khyentse Norbu
Feat. Tsewang Dandup, Sonam Lhamo
- A puckishly effective road movie from the Himilayan kingdom of Bhutan, this follows a young villager who gets the opportunity to travel forth from…
Twentynine Palms (2003)
- Dir. Bruno Dumont
Feat. Katia Golubeva, David Wissak
- Provocative in both form and content, dir. Dumont (L'HUMANITE) crafts an opaque thriller around a dysfunctional couple's 'holiday' in the American…
Historias Minimas (Intimate Stories) (2002)
- Dir. Carlos Sorin
Feat. Javier Lombardo
- Gentle, uneventful road movie drifts between three separate journeys from a remote village in Argentina to San Julian. Softly observed, this quietly…
Monday Morning (Lundi Matin) (2002)
- Dir. Otar Iosseliani
Feat. Jacques Bidou
- A whimsical comic journey for a French factory worker, who uproots from his village and family in search of philosophical and liquid refreshment in…