Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 833 Films to Buy & Rent
Mean Creek (2003)
- Dir. Jacob Aaron Estes
Feat. Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelly
- Skillful 'delinquent thriller' about a group of highschool kids who plot to humiliate the overweight school bully on a boating daytrip.
Though the…
Murmurs (2003)
- Dir. Alexander Greenhough, Elric Kane
Feat. James Ashcroft, Daniel Northcott, Kristin Smith…
- The daily movements of a Mt Victoria flat are wryly observed in this sophomore DV feature from the directors of KISSY KISSY.
Ensconced in a…
My Date with Drew (2003)
- Dir. Brian Herzlinger, Jon Gunn, Brett Winn
Feat. Brian Herzlinger
- Taking the showbiz reality genre to its logical nadir, 'regular Joe' and amateur film–maker Brian Herzlinger documents his quest to, er, get a…
My Life Without Me (2003)
- Dir. Isabel Coixet
Feat. Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Deborah Harry…
- This award–winning vignette concerns a young woman (Polley), told by her doctor she has only a short time to live, who strives to secretly…
Northfork (2003)
- Dir. Michael Polish
Feat. Nick Nolte, James Woods, Daryl Hannah…
- Eerie, heavily–stylized independent film with a prestige cast and exquisite design and photography that serve less of a storyline than its…
Open Water (2003)
- Dir. Chris Kentis
Feat. Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis
- An admirable independent film that broke through to the multiplexes, this ocean–peril thriller reliably whitens the knuckles with its candid…
Owning Mahowny (2003)
- Dir. Richard Kwietniowski
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt…
- Phillip Seymour Hoffman stars in this fact–based story of a Toronto bank manager who became legendary for gambling away millions of his…
Party Monster (2003)
- Dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Feat. Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny
- A dramatization of the rise and fall of dandy NY nightclub promoter Michael Alig, who murdered one of his acolytes in the late 1980s, this depicts…
Pieces of April (2003)
- Dir. Peter Hedges
Feat. Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke…
- The uncomfortably comic family reunion done in the DAYTRIPPERS mold, with a tattooed Katie Holmes as the spacey black sheep of the clan, who invites…
Rage in Placid Lake, The (2003)
- Dir. Tony McNamara
Feat. Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Miranda Richardson…
- Tale of an eccentric bullied teenager, this mordant comedy executes its satire of abnormality without mercy.
The titular Lake (Ben Lee)…