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Subgenre Sampler

 
Winter's Tale, TheWinter's Tale, The (2006)
Dir. Dominic Cooke
Feat. Sir Antony Sher
The Royal Shakepeare Company's 2006 adaptation of one of Shakespeare's 'problem' plays is, as you would expect, a vibrant, perfectly studied affair,…
World Trade CenterWorld Trade Center (2006) Recommended
Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Powerful and gripping rendering of the plight of two NYC cops who became trapped in the rubble of the collapsing World Trade Center in the 9/11…
Wristcutters: A Love StoryWristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Dir. Goran Dukic
Feat. Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits
Wilfully eccentric suicide comedy (!?) set in a warped and washed–out afterlife inhabited solely by suiciders, in which a young no–hoper…
3 Needles3 Needles (2005)
Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Chloe Sevigny, Lucy Liu, Stockard Channing
Three globally sprawling dramas about the A.I.D.S. crisis set in South Africa, China and Canada. Attempting to replicate the effect TRAFFIC had on…
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
Dir. Stewart Main
Feat. Rima Te Wiata
Rural New Zealand forms a stylised background to this unusual rites–of–passage drama which combines whimsy, pathos and cruelty for a…
AccusedAccused (Anklaget) (2005)
Dir. Jacob Thuesen
Feat. Troels Lyby, Sofie Grabol
Unnerving Danish chamber–piece concerns the accusation by a 14–year–old girl that her father has sexually abused her – a…
Actress, TheActress, The (2005)
Dir. Zak Hilditch
Feat. Matt Hardie, Catlin Higgins, Steve Mccall
An observational black comedy centering on a Perth household of three sex–starved 20–somethings who invite a seductive actress to be…
Adam's ApplesAdam's Apples (2005) Recommended
Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen
Roguishly sardonic Danish black comedy about a sanguine country vicar (CASINO ROYALE’s Mikkelsen) who encounters resistance from a neo–Nazi…
Airlift, TheAirlift, The (2005)
Dir. Dror Zahavi
Feat. Heino Ferch, Ulrich Tukur, Bettina Zimmerman
Sweeping historical drama set in post–WWII Berlin with the love affair between a German single mother and an American General complicated by…
Alice, The (TV Series)Alice, The (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Erik Thomson, Simon Burke
Compulsive Aussie melodrama –spiked with touches of quirky humour and ponderings on fate – set in the baking outback town of Alice…

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