Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3363 Films to Buy & Rent
What Time Is It There? (2001)
- Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Cecilia Yip, Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Three forlorn individuals bide their time between grief, ennui and loneliness in this minimalist – and unusually talky – masterpiece from…
Wind Will Carry Us, The (2001)
- Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Behzad Dourani
- Carried by the dir.’s deadpan comic instincts and more minimally poetic, this quasi–fable concerns (what seems to be) a documentary crew who…
Would I Lie to You Again? (2001)
- Dir. Thomas Gilou
Feat. Richard Anconina, Jose Garcia, Bruno Solo…
- Boys–will–be–boys comedy revisits the ‘Jewish’ entrepreneurs of WOULD I LIE TO YOU?, now in need to an all–new…
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
- Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
101 Reykjavik (2000)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Victoria Abril
- An endearingly skewed yet unexpectedly poignant sex comedy moored in the 30–below temperatures of the Icelandic winter, about a…
A Moment of Innocence (2000)
- Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- A slowly unfolding tale of the dir.'s own involvement in the stabbing of a policeman when he was an Islamic radical in the 1970s.
Subsequently…
Amazon (Amazone) (2000)
- Dir. Phillipe De Broca
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Arielle Dombasle
- Convoluted sci–fi adventure has jewel thief Belmondo stumbling upon an alien visitor in the guise of a twelve year old girl.
Almost…
Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo…
- Bursting forth with passion, cinematic mettle and pungent local flavours, this debut feature, a triptych of stories set in polyglot Mexico City, is…
Anatomie (2000)
- Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
Feat. Franke Potente
- Franke Potente (RUN LOLA RUN) stars as a bright medical student at an elite college who discovers her fellow freshmen and women are turning up as…
Bang Rajan (2000)
- Dir. Tanit Jitnukul
- Truly ferocious action spectacular based on the true tale of how a small Siamese village tried to withstand the efforts of 100 000 invading Burmese…