Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 833 Films to Buy & Rent
On_Line (OnLine) (2001)
- Dir. Jed Weintrob
Feat. Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Isabel Gillies…
- Modest ‘indie’ effort that explores the relationships of six people who connect via the chat room of a sex–based website run by two of the…
Safety of Objects, The (2001)
- Dir. Rose Troche
Feat. Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson…
- A multi–stranded drama set in a quietly unusual version of American suburbia where seamy dysfunction co–exists with surreal…
Session 9 (2001)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Peter Mullan, David Caruso, Josh Lucas…
- A “haunted house” movie with a difference, this is an intense, thinking person’s spook session involving a team of tradesmen hired to clean up…
Tape (2001)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Robert Sean Leonard
- Three school friends reunite for an evening of reminiscence and recrimination, in this tense, coiled drama filmed in ‘fly on the wall’ style by…
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
- Dir. Jill Sprecher
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Alan Arkin, John Turturro…
- Not just chit–chat, but drama with its philosophical head screwed on, the various lives of middle–class Bostonians (a hot–shot…
This is Not a Love Story (2001)
- Dir. Keith Hill
Feat. Stephen Lovatt, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
- Exploring the dynamics of a love–triangle between a soap–opera actor and two women, this local 'DV drama' from debuting dir. Hill catches…
Tortilla Soup (2001)
- Dir. Maria Ripoll
Feat. Hector Elizondo, Raquel Welch, Jacqueline Obradors
- Tangy comedy in which Mexican–American widower Elizondo has kept his family – three adult daughters – together and at home through…
Waking Life (2001)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Wiley Wiggins
- A luminous, visually unique reprise of dir. Linklater’s SLACKER, whereby a lone protagonist (Wiley Wiggins) wanders the streets of Austin, Texas…
Animal Factory (2000)
- Dir. Steve Buscemi
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Tom Arnold…
- Retaining the indie principles that distinguished TREES LOUNGE, dir. Buscemi crafts unflashy, insightful drama out of ex–con Edward…
Believer, The (2000)
- Dir. Henry Bean
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell…
- The darker side of Jewish identity is examined in this risky, provocative drama about a disillusioned young man who tries to reconcile his repressed…