Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3348 Films to Buy & Rent
Alive (2002)
- Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Hideo Sakaki, Koyuki, Tak Sakaguchi
- A convicted murderer is sentenced to death, only to escape execution and become the subject of bizarre prison experiments in this inventive marriage…
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte…
- A smooth exercise in self–satire from dir. Lelouch, with Jeremy Irons playing a shifty jewel–thief who hooks up with lounge–singer…
Angela (2002)
- Dir. Roberta Torre
Feat. Donatella Finocchiaro
- A solid, if oblique drama depicting the doings of the 1980s Sicilian Mafia as seen through the eyes of mob–wife Finocchiaro.
Although…
Asterix and Obelix - Mission Cleopatra (2002)
- Dir. Alain Chabat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Alain Chabat, Monica Bellucci…
- The core cast of 1999's disastrous ASTERIX AND OBELIX TAKE ON CAESAR return for a far more successful adaptation of one of those classic…
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
- Dir. Dai Sijie
- Lovingly photographed fable of freedom, set during China's 'Cultural Revolution' in 1971 and based on the dir.'s own adolescence.
Two young…
Black Angel (Senso '45) (2002)
- Dir. Tinto Brass
Feat. Anna Galiena, Gabriel Garko, Franco Branciaroli
- Typically lurid Brass outing with well–connected Galiena drawn into a torrid affair with an SS Officer during the Nazi occupation of Venice.…
Blissfully Yours (Sud Sanaeha) (2002)
- Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- One–of–a–kind filmmaker Weerasethakul embarks on a delicate, ethereal journey through Thailand’s magical wilderness, to beguiling…
Bollywood Hollywood (2002)
- Dir. Deepa Mehta
Feat. Rahul Khanna, Lisa Ray
- The dir. of the 'elements trilogy' (FIRE, EARTH, WATER) conceived this less artful, but rather clever insider's take on the Bollywood musical…
Braquo (TV Series) (2002)
- Dir. Olivier Marchal, Xavier Palud
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Joseph Malerba, Karole Rocher…
- Grungy French police series in which four officers of the SDPJ Hauts–de–Seine have their lives turned upside down after a colleague…
Broken Wings (K’nafayim Shvurot) (2002)
- Dir. Nir Bergman
Feat. Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron
- The fraught shuffle of daily life for an Israeli family after the death of the male head of the household, is depicted with touching and intimate…