Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1355 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Fight Club (1999)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
- Those grim forebodings of the pre–millennial zeitgeist form a backdrop to this flawed but thoroughly unique thriller–satire.
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