Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3044 Films to Buy & Rent
Deep Blue (2004)
- A luminous feature documentary from the makers of THE BLUE PLANET series, that utilises ground–breaking technology to explore and photograph…
Derek Jarman: Life as Art (2004)
- Dir. Andy Kimpton-Nye
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry
- Maddeningly conventional portrait of the iconoclastic director is lacking Jarman's own formal audaciousness, and is too often a clunky mix of talking…
Dig! (2004)
- Dir. Ondi Timoner
- Arguably the best and most illuminating of the recent wave of 'rock docs', this intimately charts the polarising fortunes of two buddy rock bands,…
Dogora (2004)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
- A filmic mediatation on Cambodia, loosely in the style of BARAKA, for which dir. Leconte travelled to the formerly wartorn country to capture the…
Double Dare (2004)
- Dir. Amanda Micheli
Feat. Zoe Bell, Jeannie Epper
- Stunt double Zoe Bell steps into the spotlight as the infectious, rough–and–tumble subject of a documentary on her rise to (almost)…
Dragon's World - A Fantasy Made Real (2004)
- Dir. Justin Hardy
- Interesting TV hybrid, poses the question "what if dragons were real?", and unfolds the story of a group of hikers who stumble upon the frozen…
Duke Ellington - The Classic Hollywood Years (2004)
- The legendary jazz composer, bandleader and pianist Duke Ellington featured in various Hollywood films during his career and this DVD compiles short…
Earth From Above (Terre vue du ciel, La) (2004)
- Dir. Renaud Delourme
- Awe–inspiring documentary of French photographer Yann Arthus–Bertrand’s ‘Earth From Above’ series – exhibited in New Zealand as…
Edgeplay - A Film about The Runaways (2004)
- Dir. Victory Tischler-Blue
- Minus the input of Joan Jett (who denied the filmmakers access to her songs), this rough–and–ready retrospective of The Runaways' heady…
End of Suburbia, The (Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream) (2004)
- Dir. Gregory Greene
- Boldly spelled out in its full title, this provocative (and possibly profound) documentary convincingly mounts a thesis around the issue of "Peak…