Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
Attack the Gas Station (1999)
- Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang…
- Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea.
Gleefully tearing apart…
Audition (1999)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
- An almost–masterpiece of the macabre that sets up and sustains itself brilliantly with a restrained pace and jewel of a premise, then careens…
Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. John Cusack, John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz…
- Surrealist comic marvel distinguished by the most bizarre of plots – washed–up puppeteer John Cusack's new position as a filing clerk…
Blackadder - Back and Forth (1999)
- Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry…
- The old gang return for a one–off episode, whereby a present–day Lord Blackadder steps into a time–machine for a jaunt back through…
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames…
- Drawn from the hell–bent memoirs of a New York ambulance driver, this sees dir. Scorcese returning to home–turf, a script by Paul…
Celebrity Deathmatch (TV Series) (1999)
- Genuinely amusing clay–mation generated by MTV, stages fantasy bouts–to–the–death between various celebrity pairings, like:…
CKY Trilogy (1999-2003)
- Feat. Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo
- Sampling scenes from the 'Camp Kill Yourself' videos and documentary, this is an excellent compilation of skate–boarding and twisted stuntwork.…
Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)
- Expose of the BLAIR WITCH PROJECT back–story, keeping up the pretence of 'fact' and wringing more than a modicum of new twists out of the…
Dilbert (TV Series) (1999-2000)
- Feat. Daniel Stern
- Note–perfect animation of the syndicated 90s comic–strip concerning a beleagured computer engineer stranded in his office cubicle,…
Dogma (1999)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Kevin Smith, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck…
- Eccentric meditation on Roman Catholicism in a modern–day context from writer/director Kevin Smith (CHASING AMY), that's just as bizarre as it…