Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Wild Iris (2001)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Laura Linney, Fred Ward…
- Superior tele drama that cultivates a convincingly dysfunctional relationship between mother Gena Rowlands and daughter Laura Linney, returning home…
Wind Will Carry Us, The (2001)
- Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Behzad Dourani
- Carried by the dir.’s deadpan comic instincts and more minimally poetic, this quasi–fable concerns (what seems to be) a documentary crew who…
World Traveler (2001)
- Dir. Bart Freundlich
Feat. Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, James LeGros…
- Anonymous architect Billy Crudup busts out of his dissatisfying job and family, hitting the road for a drunken odyssey across the US of…
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
- Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
Yards, The (2001)
- Dir. James Gray
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron…
- Shot through with epic ambitions, this crime–drama, set amid the corruption of a New York subway–repair yards, boasts a compelling lead…
Zookeeper, The (2001)
- Dir. Ralph Ziman
Feat. Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen…
- A quiet, little–seen drama set in a wartorn Communist country in Eastern Europe, with a zookeeper (Neill) struggling to care for the animals…
101 Reykjavik (2000)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Victoria Abril
- An endearingly skewed yet unexpectedly poignant sex comedy moored in the 30–below temperatures of the Icelandic winter, about a…
A Huey P. Newton Story (2000)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Roger Guenveur Smith
- An award–winning stageplay about the co–founder of the Black Panther Party, translated into cinema with considerable verve by dir. Spike…
Aberdeen (2000)
- Dir. Tony Spataro, Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson
- Bleakly funny dysfunctional family drama set in Aberdeen, Scotland, where a dying mother (Charlotte Rampling) enlists the help of her daughter to…
Ali - An American Hero (2000)
- Dir. Leon Ichaso
Feat. David Ramsey, Vondie Curtis Hall, Joe Morton…
- TV–Movie biopic of boxing's greatest personality Cassius Clay/Muhummad Ali, with David Ramsey donning the gloves and mantle of charisma.