Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8090 Films to Buy & Rent
Radical Digital Cinema - Vol. 1 (Egoshooter, Half the Rent) (2002-2004)
- Dir. Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe, Marc Ottiker
Feat. Tom Schilling, Stephan Kampwirth
- The brainchild of Wim Wenders, this digital cinema incubator provides a supportive framework for young filmmakers to push the envelope of the…
Radical Digital Cinema - Vol. 2 (Summer Moon (aka Junimond), Fools) (2002-2003)
- Dir. Hanno Hackfort, Tom Schreiber
- The brainchild of Wim Wenders, this digital cinema incubator provides a supportive framework for young filmmakers to push the envelope of the…
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
- Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte
- A sensitive, appealing urban coming of age story set in a Hispanic New York subculture that rewardingly favours low–key incident over…
Relative Evil (Ball in the House) (2002)
- Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Jonathan Tucker, Jennifer Tilly, David Strathairn…
- Deceptively marketed as a kind of "wicked stepmother" thriller, this is instead a well–constructed, paranoid black comedy about a teenage…
Respiro (Grazia's Island) (2002)
- Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Feat. Valeria Golino
- Highly charged and mostly insightful depiction of a free–spirited woman whose near–psychotic episodes have a profound effect on her small…
Roger Dodger (2002)
- Dir. Dylan Kidd
Feat. Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Jennifer Beals…
- Dodging expectations all–round, this devastating black comedy has a standout script and performances, especially Campbell Scott as the callous…
Rookie, The (2002)
- Dir. John Lee Hancock
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez…
- Disney sports drama based on the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career in 1999–2000.
Rosa Parks Story, The (2002)
- Dir. Julie Dash
Feat. Angela Bassett, Cicely Tyson, Peter Francis James
- A drama based on the life of Mrs. Rosa L. Parks from director Julie Dash (DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST).
In America in 1955, her courageous act of…
Russian Ark (2002)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
- Distinguised by its dazzling cinematic conceit – 300 years of Russian history staged in the Hermitage Museum (with 2000 extras) and captured in…
Satin Rouge (2002)
- Dir. Raja Amari
Feat. Hiam Abbass, Hend El Fahem
- A still–attractive but lonely widow is liberated through the world of belly–dancing in this infectious romantic drama from Tunisia.
At…