Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 833 Films to Buy & Rent
Normal (2007)
- Dir. Carl Bessai
Feat. Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers, Callum Keith Rennie
- Multi–character drama links the seemingly unrelated stories of three strangers whose lives are altered overnight after a tragic car…
Paranoid Park (2007)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Taylor Momsen
- Gus Van Sant shoots Blake Nelson’s coming–of–age novella, about a young skateboarder’s complicity in the death of a security guard,…
Poor Boy's Game (2007)
- Dir. Clement Virgo
Feat. Rossif Sutherland, Danny Glover, Flex Alexander…
- Quietly powerful boxing drama follows a paroled pugilist as he struggles with life on the outside. At times dir. Virgo's customary visual panache…
Rats and Cats (2007)
- Dir. Tony Rogers
Feat. Jason Gann
- Warped black comedy from the makers of strange comedy series WILFRED, tracking down a talentless retired movie star, 'Darren McWarren', who retreats…
Rebirth of a Nation (2007)
- Dir. Paul D. Miller
- 'Remix' of D.W. Griffith's landmark original by dir. Miller – aka 'DJ Spooky' – turns cinema into a club track, deconstructed and put…
Rocket Science (2007)
- Dir. Jeffrey Blitz
Feat. Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Denis O'Hare…
- Pointy–headed comedy from the dir. of the documentary SPELLBOUND that switches the subject to high–school debating, and the travails of…
Shotgun Stories (2007)
- Dir. Jeff Nichols
Feat. Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs…
- Sturdy, atmospheric independent drama detailing the simmering rivalry between two sets of half–brothers which boils over after the death of…
Slipstream (Slipstream Dream) (2007)
- Dir. Anthony Hopkins
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, Camryn Manheim…
- Anthony Hopkins cartwheels into the director's chair and attempts to channel David Lynch for this befuddling ensemble fantasy in which a screenwriter…
Snow Angels (2007)
- Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano…
- Grimly rewarding relationship drama set in smalltown '70s New England, based on the novel by Stewart O'Nan, in which a group of ordinary townsfolk…
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
- Dir. Andrew Wagner
Feat. Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor…
- An aging, all–but–forgotten author (Langella) finds himself the object of an eager grad student’s attention when she decides to make…