Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 587 Films to Buy & Rent
- Drumline (2002)
- Dir. Charles Stone III
Feat. Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones
- Depicting the journey of a talented street drummer from Harlem into the world of big–time stadium marching bands, this is short on story moves,…
- Face (2002)
- Dir. Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Feat. Ling Bai, Will Yun Lee, Kirsty Wu…
- Chinese–American drama that deals commendably with familiar themes of relationships, marriage and cultural identity.
Alternating its…
- Far From Heaven (2002)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert
- An exquisitely designed pastiche of 50s soap opera that mimics the look and acting style of vintage–movie melodrama but cleverly deviates by…
- Full Frontal (2002)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny…
- Director Stephen Soderbergh calls on the favours of famous friends for a makeshift, semi–improvised poke at the film industry that only a…
- Funny Ha Ha (2002)
- Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Kate Dollenmayer
- Less 'funny ha ha' than funny peculiar drama about a young woman's desultry efforts to move on in life after completing her university degree. Its…
- Gerry (2002)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Casey Affleck, Matt Damon
- A stark return to experimentalism for dir. Van Sant, in the form of a narrative about two friends, both named Gerry (Damon and Affleck), whose hiking…
- Good Girl, The (2002)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly…
- Quirky, downbeat comedy about people stuck with dead end lives in small–town America adds a string to the bow of acting challenges for starlet…
- Igby Goes Down (2002)
- Dir. Burr Steers
Feat. Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum…
- More than meets the eye in this indie New York satire about an over–educated ‘slacker’ experiencing growing pains amid upper…
- Invincible (2002)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Tim Roth, Udo Kier
- An interesting treatment of the lives of the (secretly) Jewish strongman Zishe Breitbart and nightclub impressario Erik Jan Hanussen (Roth), who…
- Laurel Canyon (2002)
- Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale…
- Dropping in on the LA music scene, the writer–director of HIGH ART returns to her pet theme of conservatism yielding to a bohemianism, but…