Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1355 Films to Buy & Rent
- X-Files Movie, The (1998)
- Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
- Following the STAR TREK model, the '90s TV phenomenon, featuring terminally–perturbed FBI agents Mulder and Scully, beams up onto the big…
- Young Thugs - Nostalgia (1998)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoto Takenaka
- Apparently dir. Miike's (AUDITION) favourite of his own films, this semi–autobiographical rites of passage tale is a prequel to YOUNG THUGS…
- Another 9 1/2 Weeks (Love in Paris) (1997)
- Dir. Anne Goursaud
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Angie Everhart, Steven Berkoff…
- Depending on your sensibilities this Parisian set sequel either represents a career nadir for Rourke or some kind of gonzo triumph. Either way…
- King of the Hill (TV Series) (1997-2006)
- Feat. Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Brittany Murphy
- Smart animated sitcom about a redneck Texan salesman 'Hank Hill' and his family, which finds its own middle–American way into the cult…
- Kingdom II, The (Riget II) (1997)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Udo Kier
- Lars Von Trier's compulsive TV creation continues into its second series of medical soap opera, supernatural horror and black comedy.
Raising the…
- Kurt and Courtney (1997)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
- Not even an unofficial biography of 'Nirvana', Kurt Cobain or Courtney Love, but instead a wickedly amusing slice of pop–cultural…
- Liquid Television 2 (1997)
- Dir. Various
- Another collection of bizarre and fringy animation from the MTV stable.Includes Winter Steele, Bobby & Billy, Brad Dharma, Cut–Up Camera and…
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty…
- Welcome to Lynchland. Where picket fences surround troubled, violent, sexual twisted souls who converse in awkwardly measured rhythms.
David Lynch…
- Nowhere (1997)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton…
- Final installment of Gregg Araki's teen apocalypse' trilogy, trawling the teenage shallowlands of L.A. in a kind of R–rated flip to Beverly…
- Perfect Blue (1997)
- Dir. Satoshi Kon
- Coherent and mature product of Japanese 'anime' is an unsettling psycho–drama about a burnt–out teen pop idol, simultaneously plagued by…