Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8090 Films to Buy & Rent
Singing Detective, The (2003)
- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Robin Wright, Jeremy Northam…
- A not unthoughtful remake of Dennis Potter's iconic 1980s TV Series, in which a psoriasis–afflicted crime writer hallucinates mystery plots and…
Six Feet Under - Season 3 (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…
- Further episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home.
13 episodes over 5 DVDs: Perfect Circles, You Never Know, The Eye Inside,…
Snow Walker, The (2003)
- Dir. Charles Martin Smith
Feat. Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell
- An adventure story well told about a pilot and an injured Inuit woman who struggle for survival against the harsh elements of the Canadian…
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
- Dir. Nancy Meyers
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves…
- Smoothly fashioned comic drama in which aging music–industry womaniser Nicholson suffers a heart attack and falls for grey–haired…
Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
- Dir. Aisling Walsh
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen
- Vivid, if overly simplistic account of abuses at an Irish Boys Reformatory in the late 1930s. Quinn plays an idealistic teacher who blows the whistle…
Sopranos, The (TV Series) - Season 4 (2003)
- Continuing episodes of the groundbreaking TV–series that ironically portrays the life of a New Jersey Mafia clan. 13 episodes over 4 discs or…
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom) (2003)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Oh Young-Soo, Kim Ki-Duk, Kim Young-Min…
- As the seasons pass through many years, the inhabitants of a floating temple on a woodland pond – a young boy and his wizened mentor –…
Springtime in a Small Town (2003)
- Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Long–awaited followup to THE BLUE KITE for dir. Zhuangzhuang (who was banned from filmmaking for three years afterwards), constructing a…
Statement, The (2003)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam…
- Michael Caine plays an ex–Nazi collaborator who has remained beyond the law for fifty years in post–WW2 France thanks to the Roman…
Station Agent, The (2003)
- Dir. Tom McCarthy
Feat. Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale
- As laid back as its rural New Jersey hamlet setting, this award–winning, small–scale film truthfully captures the worldview of a dwarf.…