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Subgenre Sampler
Suburbia (1997)- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn… - Dir. Linklater returns to his favourite milieu – the teen angst movie – only this time working from someone else's material, a play by…
Ulee's Gold (1997)
- Dir. Victor Nunez
Feat. Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Jessica Biel - Peter Fonda gives good grace as an ageing, emotionally reticent beekeeper who is much less at ease with what's going on in his family's hive, a unit…
Under the Skin (1997)- Dir. Carine Adler
Feat. Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham - After her mother's untimely death, a young woman bereaves through a series of casual sexual, and increasingly masochistic, encounters. Samantha…
Basquiat (1996)- Dir. Julian Schnabel
Feat. Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman… - The director sends a post–mortem loveletter to his friend and contemporary, Jean–Michel Basquiat, a celebrated but fragile New York black…
Breaking the Waves (1996)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge… - Significant art–house hit about obsessive faith and self–sacrifice, set in a puritanical village on the Scottish coast. A naive young…
Dogs (Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint) (1996)- Dir. Eve Annenburg
Feat. Pam Columbus, Pam Gray, Melody Beal… - Four Brooklyn women opt for a life of running an illegal bookie joint, over the dead–end, unemployed lifestyle of the local area. In her debut,…
Driftwood (1996)- Dir. Ronan O'Leary
Feat. James Spader - A washed–up, amnesiac James Spader is beachcombed in remote Ireland by borderline obsessive Anne Brochet, who gets rather possessive when he…
Feeling Minnesota (1996)- Dir. Steve Baigelman
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Vincent D'Onofrio… - Another in a line of sorry tales of violence, aimlessness and broken dreams, this represents everything that was bad about independent (American)…
Get On the Bus (1996)- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Glover, Will Smith, Wesley Snipes - A highly combustible mixed–bag of black men journey by bus to the Million Man March in Washington DC, a march of affirmation for a troubled…
Girls Town (1996)- Dir. Jim McKay
Feat. Lili Taylor, Idina Harris, Anna Grace - Winner of both the Filmmaker's Trophy and the Special Jury prize at Sundance, this little seen film was one of genuine highlights of the 1997 NZ Film…
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