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Subgenre Sampler

 
Up in the AirUp in the Air (2009) Recommended
Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
A cautionary business tale wrapped in a frisky romantic comedy, with George Clooney starring as a compulsive traveller whose job it is to dismiss…
Vampire Diaries, The (TV Series)Vampire Diaries, The (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder
The TWILIGHT zeitgeist is vamped up as a 90210–style serial in this melodramatic teen soap, about a troubled girl torn between her brooding…
Van Diemen's LandVan Diemen's Land (2009) Recommended
Dir. Jonathan auf der Heide
Feat. Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft
Forbidding re–enactment of the "legend" of Alexander Pearce, who escaped from a penal colony in 1822 into the unforgiving Tasmanian wilderness…
Vicious Kind, TheVicious Kind, The (2009)
Dir. Lee Toland Krieger
Feat. Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, J.K. Simmons
Bilious familial drama stylistically indebted to Neil Labute features Adam Scott spitting misogynistic aphorisms at his brother's new girlfriend,…
VincereVincere (VIctory) (2009)
Dir. Marco Bellocchio
Feat. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi
Provocative portrait of Benito Mussolini's spurned first wife and their brief romance as Il Duce begins ascent to Italy's leadership. Stylistically…
Vintner's Luck, TheVintner's Luck, The (2009)
Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jeremie Renier, Gaspard Ulliel
Contentious, opulent NZ–made adaptation of the much–loved Elizabeth Knox novel, ostensibly about the relationship between a guardian…
Wah Do DemWah Do Dem (What They Do) (2009)
Dir. Sam Fleischner, Ben Chace
Feat. Sean Bones, Carl Bradshaw, Norah Jones
A young indie musician suffers solo through a disaster–prone Caribbean holiday in this shaggy road movie with a sweetly comic sensibility.…
Waiting City, TheWaiting City, The (2009)
Dir. Claire McCarthy
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton, Samrat Chakrabarti
Idiosyncratic relationship drama with an Australian couple traveling to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival finds their efforts…
WelcomeWelcome (2009) Recommended
Dir. Philippe Lioret
Feat. Vincent Lindon, Audrey Dana, Firat Ayverd
An illegal Iraqi immigrant is befriended by a dispirited swim coach, who agrees to help smuggle the teenager into England by way swimming the English…
Whip ItWhip It (2009) Recommended
Dir. Drew Barrymore
Feat. Elliot Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig
Drew Barrymore's directorial debut is a joyful tale of a small town outsider (Page) who empowers herself through the bruising sport of roller…

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