Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 835 Films to Buy & Rent
Bamboozled (2001)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith…
- Dir. Spike Lee bamboozles with a jaw–dropping satire on the commercialisation of black culture, with Damon Wayans as a writer who is ordered by…
Business of Strangers, The (2001)
- Dir. Patrick Stettner
Feat. Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller
- In what amounts to a gender–flip of “In the Company of Men”, Stocking Channing and Julia Stiles are business women polarized by money,…
Comic Book Villains (2001)
- Dir. James Dale Robinson
Feat. Natasha Lyonne
- A comic thriller set in the 'pocket world' of comic–book fans and store owners. Gathers some good black comedy and in–jokes on its fairly…
Donnie Darko (2001)
- Dir. Richard Kelly
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore…
- Admired by critics and an ardent fanbase for its originality and eclecticism, this quirky teen fantasy is arguably a slick patchwork of other movie…
Down and Out With the Dolls (2001)
- Dir. Kurt Voss
- Based around the rise and fall of an all–grrl goth–rock band in early 1990s Portland, Oregon, this packs enough scene authenticity to…
Fast Food Fast Women (2001)
- Dir. Amos Ollek
Feat. Anna Thomson
- Set within a New York diner and the coming–and–going of customers and staff, this gentle indie–drama serves up some charming comedy…
Festival in Cannes (2001)
- Dir. Henry Jaglom
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell…
- Not a documentary, but just as ‘real’ in the hands of veteran independent director Henry Jaglom, who fashions a delightfully candid…
Four Days (2001)
- Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers…
- This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
Gang Tapes (2001)
- Dir. Adam Ripp
- An original twist on the largely moribund 'gangbanger' thriller, in which the camcorder home–videos of a ghetto–based gang member are…
Ghost World (2001)
- Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Feat. Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi…
- Nothing to do with the paranormal, but everything to do with the anti–normal, this independent gem is a surprisingly endearing tale of two…