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Subgenre Sampler

 
Live From BaghdadLive From Baghdad (2002)
Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard
Media drama set in war–time Iraq tracking a gutsy group of CNN journalists who are among the few to choose to remain in Baghdad to capture the…
Lost World, The (TV Mini-series)Lost World, The (TV Mini-series) (2002) Recommended
Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Peter Falk, James Fox
Sterling BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure novel, where an intrepid bunch of Victorians explore the Amazon jungle for dinosaurs…
Love LizaLove Liza (2002) Recommended
Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates
Freshly widowed after his wife’s suicide, Phillip Seymour Hoffman staggers through and downward in an endearingly wacky yet affecting portrait of…
Madame SataMadame Sata (2002)
Dir. Karim Ainouz
Feat. Lazaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Felippe Marques
The underbelly of 1930s Rio de Janeiro glistens in this atmospheric drama about the celebrated João Francisco dos Santos (Ramos), a flamboyant gay…
Magdalene Sisters, TheMagdalene Sisters, The (2002) Recommended
Dir. Peter Mullan
Devastatingly sober and straight–forward account of three young women who in 1965 were incarcerated in an Irish Roman Catholic centre for…
Man Without a Past, TheMan Without a Past, The (2002) Recommended
Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen
Another understated, double–take comedy from Finnish dir. Kaurismaki, making perhaps his most cleverly balanced work yet. An itinerant…
Marie-Jo and her Two LovesMarie-Jo and her Two Loves (2002)
Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gerard Meylan
A dreamy, perceptive romance gently steered under the Mediterranean sun by dir. Guédiguian, who again uses the vibrant setting of his native…
Mataku (TV Series)Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005)
Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison
A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
MaxMax (2002)
Dir. Menno Meyjes
Feat. John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski
Recommendable though flawed drama, concerns a fictional friendship in 1918 Munich between budding–artist Adolf Hitler and a Jewish…
Monsieur BatignoleMonsieur Batignole (2002) Recommended
Dir. Gerard Jugnot
Feat. Gerard Jugnot
An ironic comedy set in WW2 Paris, in which the titular butcher helps himself to an apartment vacated by a Jewish family who have been rounded up by…

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