Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
Notorious Bettie Page, The (2005)
- Dir. Mary Harron
Feat. Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn…
- Perfectly–cast and perfectly shaped, Gretchen Mol busts out as the 'notorious' Bettie Page, giving body and soul to the pin–up queen’s…
OC, The (TV Series) - Season 3 (2005)
- Third year of the extraordinarily popular ironic, knowing soap opera.
24 episodes over 6 DVDs (+ 7th sp. features disc).
DVD 1: The Aftermath,…
Oliver Twist (2005)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley
- The latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic sees prominent Polish dir. Polanski helm an artful, if not straightforward interpretation of the…
On a Clear Day (2005)
- Dir. Gaby Dellal
Feat. Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley…
- Smoothly delivered feelgooder has Peter Mullan (MY NAME IS JOE) playing a middle–aged Glaswegian dockworker who decides to affirm himself and…
Once You're Born (Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti) (2005)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
Feat. Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti
- Frank Italian adventure by acclaimed director Marco Tullio Giordana (THE BEST OF YOUTH) telling the coming–of–age story of a wealthy…
One Stays, One Leaves (L' un reste, l'autre part) (2005)
- Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nathalie Baye…
- Witty French comedy with an undercurrent of angst in which two philandering middle–aged husbands do their utmost to juggle fresh–faced…
Opal Dream (2005)
- Dir. Peter Cattaneo
Feat. Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie
- Semi–precious gem of a family drama about a precocious 10–year–old girl in Australian 'opal country', who wreaks a cute brand of…
Over There (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Josh Henderson, Luke MacFarlane, Erik Palladino
- Demanding Iraqi War excursion from Steven Bochco (NYPD BLUE) focuses on a US army unit’s dispatch to Iraq. Light on politics, this nevertheless…
Pierrepoint (The Last Hangman) (2005)
- Dir. Adrian Shergold
Feat. Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson
- Timothy Spall is typically excellent in this biopic of Albert Pierrepoint, who had an alarmingly prolific career as a state hangman in pre– and…
Point Pleasant (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show
- Short–lived, mildly cultish series may interest BUFFY fans as a brief alternative: it concerns a mysterious girl who washes up on the shoreline…