Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 833 Films to Buy & Rent
Forty Shades of Blue (2004)
- Dir. Ira Sachs
Feat. Rip Torn, Dina Korzun
- Languid, deep focus Memphis melodrama, in which a Russian trophy wife (Korzun) oscillates between the false love of a wealthy music producer (Torn),…
Garden State (2004)
- Dir. Zach Braff
Feat. Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm…
- Sitcom actor Zach Braff compliments his career in "Scrubs" as the ambitious writer, director and star of this personal, melancholy comedy that became…
Garth Method, The (2004)
- Dir. Gregory Pakis
Feat. Gregory Pakis
- Unhinged comedy based on the true story of an out–of–work actor who kidnapped members of the public and forced them to act in his…
Heights (2004)
- Dir. Chris Terrio
Feat. Glenn Close, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford
- The collective aspirations and angst of a group of attractive New Yorkers, all loosely connected to the theatre and art world, collide in showers of…
Keane (2004)
- Dir. Lodge Kerrigan
Feat. Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan
- A powerful and unnerving feat of ‘mental’ endurance, dir. Kerrigan’s follow–up to the equally unsettling CLEAN, SHAVEN plunges the viewer…
Land of Plenty (2004)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Michelle Williams, John Diehl
- There's good intentions aplenty in dir. Wenders latest dramatic meditation on the state of post–9/11 America, set mainly around the…
My Summer of Love (2004)
- Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
Feat. Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine
- A sunlit teenage escapade, set around two girls who develop an unlikely relationship amid the unpretty but impressive Yorkshire Dales.
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Michelle Trachtenberg…
- An acclaimed realisation of 'New Queer Cinema' dir. Araki's early promise, with an uncompromising fable based around a teenage hustler who is…
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- Dir. Jared Hess
Feat. Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell…
- Destined for cult status, this plays like a high school comedy made by its alienated students, with its quirky in–jokes and non–sequiturs…
Palindromes (2004)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh
- A queasy fairytale about a suburban teenage girl who quests to fall pregnant, does so, but is then forced by her mother (Barkin) to have an abortion,…