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Subgenre Sampler

 
Far From HeavenFar From Heaven (2002) Aro Favourite
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 FrontalFull 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 HaFunny Ha Ha (2002) Recommended
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…
GerryGerry (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, TheGood 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 DownIgby Goes Down (2002) Recommended
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…
InvincibleInvincible (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 CanyonLaurel 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…
LeoLeo (2002)
Dir. Mehdi Norowzian
Feat. Elisabeth Shue, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Hopper
A murderer freshly released from prison attempts to get his life back to an orderly state while assisting a friend to deal with an alcohol dependent…
Love LizaLove Liza (2002) Recommended
Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates
Freshly widowed after his wife’s suicide, Phillip Seymour Hoffman staggers through and downward in an endearingly wacky yet affecting portrait of…

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