Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8090 Films to Buy & Rent
Auto Focus (2002)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe
- A savvy true Hollywood story detailing the sordid life of “Hogan’s Heroes” TV star Bob Crane, whose illicit 'sex addiction' led to…
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
- Dir. Dai Sijie
- Lovingly photographed fable of freedom, set during China's 'Cultural Revolution' in 1971 and based on the dir.'s own adolescence.
Two young…
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
- Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates…
- Above–board portrait of the relationship between George VI and future wife Elizabeth Bowes–Lyon – better known as the 'Queen…
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
- Dir. Justin Lin
Feat. Perry Shen, Jason J. Tobin, Sung Kang…
- Spinning a novel twist on a few cliches, this parable concerns a group of bored Asian–American high schoolers in Orange County, California who…
Between Strangers (2002)
- Dir. Edoardo Ponti
Feat. Sophia Loren, Pete Postlethwaite, Mira Sorvino…
- The lives of three quite different women move into thematic proximity in this lightweight, but worthy drama.
As played by Loren, Sorvino and…
Birthday Girl (2002)
- Dir. Jez Butterworth
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel…
- Competent comic–thriller in which the limited social horizons of bank–clerk Ben Chaplin lead him to ‘order’ Russian mail–order…
Black and White (2002)
- Dir. Craig Lahiff
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kerry Fox, Charles Dance…
- Stirring courtroom drama based on the dubious conviction for murder of an Aboriginal man in 1950s Adelaide, which dragged the government and press…
Blissfully Yours (Sud Sanaeha) (2002)
- Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- One–of–a–kind filmmaker Weerasethakul embarks on a delicate, ethereal journey through Thailand’s magical wilderness, to beguiling…
Bloody Sunday (2002)
- Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Kathy Kiera Clarke
- Captured with handheld 'real–time' immediacy, this is a gripping recreation of the infamous 'Bloody Sunday' massacre in 1972 Northern Ireland,…
Blue Car (2002)
- Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, David Strathairn
- A rites–of–passage drama of distinction, this is realistic and affecting in its account of a high–school student whose flair for…