Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8090 Films to Buy & Rent
Elephant (2003)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, Timothy Bottoms…
- A smoothly crafted, but troubling depiction of the Columbine High School massacre in which two disaffected teenagers planned and staged the multiple…
Emile (2003)
- Dir. Carl Bessai
Feat. Ian McKellen, Deborah Kara Unger, Tygh Runyan
- A worthy homage to Bergman's WILD STRAWBERRIES, with McKellen here playing a retired professor, whose journey back to his roots in Canada stirs up a…
Enzo Ferrari (2003)
- Dir. Carlo Carlei
Feat. Sergio Castellitto
- An Italian telemovie biopic of one of the great names of the automobile world, Enzo Ferrari, who rose from poverty to become a successful and…
Event, The (2003)
- Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley…
- The taboo of assisted suicide is broached in this measured Canadian ensemble drama about an AIDS–afflicted musician (McKellar) who takes his…
Evil (Ondskan) (2003)
- Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundstrom, Gustaf Skarsard
- Based on a renowned novel, this dramatic thriller is set in the 1950s Sweden, where a high school bully (Wilson) is expelled and sent by his mother…
Facing Windows (La Finestra di fronte) (2003)
- Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova
- An Italian woman finds her life and desires fraying away, as she struggles to support her family in the apartment blocks of Rome, while coming to…
Father and Son (Otets i syn) (2003)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksei Nejmyshev, Aleksandr Razbash
- A loose 'sequel' to dir. Sokurov's arthouse hit MOTHER AND SON, this again uses an oblique, dreamlike visual style, here for an exploration of filial…
Fear and Trembling (Stupeur et tremblements) (2003)
- Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Sylvie Testud
- A Belgian translator (Testud) takes a job in the corporate world of Tokyo (a city where she was born and grew up) hoping to rediscover the culture…
Finished People, The (2003)
- Dir. Khoa Do
- Zeroing in on the plight of homeless people of the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, this award–winning drama has a cast of non–professionals…
For Good (2003)
- Dir. Stuart McKenzie
Feat. Michelle Langstone, Timothy Balme, Miranda Harcourt…
- Deserving of a wider audience, this assured and well–focused NZ feature debut belies its limited budget with a pertinent crime story executed…