Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1355 Films to Buy & Rent
- Avalon (2001)
- Dir. Mamoru Oshii
- A landmark technical achievement from the director of Anime classic GHOST IN THE SHELL, this distinctive 'hybrid' Anime is curiously inspired by…
- Bat Thumb (2001)
- Dir. David Bourla
- Further thumb puppetry from writer Steve Oedekerk, this time spoofing the BATMAN franchise, in the parallel universe of 'Gaaathumb City'. Here, Wuse…
- Broken Saints (TV Series) (2001)
- Dir. Brooke Burgess
- One of the most celebrated online animations – which began as a grassroots guerilla exercise and grew into a sprawling, prize–winning…
- Dog Days (2001)
- Dir. Ulrich Seidl
Feat. Maria Hofstatter, Alfred Mrva, Erich Finsches…
- A wilfully transgressive Euro–drama examining middle–class dysfunction and despair in a Viennese suburb over a few days in a summer heat…
- Educational Archives - Social Engineering 101 (2001)
- A delightful mixture of government American educational films from the 1940–70 period which were shown in schools to tutor children in the ways…
- Fluffer, The (2001)
- Dir. Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
- Salacious piece of fluff about an aspiring filmmaker whose fascination with a male porn star leads him to scoring a job on the set. He soon rises to…
- Girl Next Door / Campus (2001)
- Two Japanese anime films that veer into the pornographic.
"Campus" concerns a man's recurring dreams of an ancient love affair. "Girl Next Door"…
- Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano…
- A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
- Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
Feat. John Cameron Mitchell
- Robbed of his rightful place in rock history by a former protégé, transsexual rocker Hedwig is resigned to playing on the lowest rung of the tour…
- Isle, The (2001)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Suh Jung, Kim Yoo-Suk, Park Sung-Hee
- An art–shocker with a distinctly Asian streak of the perverse, this counterpoints a striking visual tableaux and tranquil setting with the…