Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Pledge, The (2000)
- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Helen Mirren… - Sean Penn as director's pledge to the stuff of raw drama pays off with a thriller/parable centred round a powerhouse turn from Jack Nicholson. As…
Series 7: The Contenders (2000)- Dir. Daniel Minahan
Feat. Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke - The scourge of ‘reality–TV’ gets its comeuppance (or homage?) in this ultraviolent satire. We’re in the near–future,…
Shirt, The (2000)- Dir. John Laing
Feat. Brian Sargent, Kirsty King-Turner, Jeff Szusterman… - Chiefly the creation of Wellingtonian writer/producer Ross Bevan, this hits hard as a raw study of three career–junkies ‘led’ by a…
Trixie (2000)- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Emily Watson, Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney… - Uneven attempt at a film–noir spoof by cult dir. Rudolph (who did it better in LOVE AT LARGE) with Emily Watson as a low–wattage…
Urbania (2000)- Dir. Jon Shear
Feat. Dan Futterman, Alan Cumming, Matt Keesler - Edgy indie hit following the insomniac wanderings of a dashing yuppie who is coping with the death of his partner. A hit at the 2000 Sundance Film…
Virgin Suicides, The (2000)
- Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods… - An aptly seductive adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ acclaimed romantic tragedy set in a sleepy Michigan community in the mid–70s. Kirsten…
Viva Las Nowhere (Dead Simple) (2000)- Dir. Jason Bloom
Feat. Daniel Stern, Patricia Richardson, Lacey Kohl… - Checking into a deserted motel in the “geographical centre of the USA” run by luckless, aspiring country–songwriter Daniel Stern, this darn…
Waiting Place, The (2000)- Dir. Cristobal Araus Lobos
- A carefully made 'DV–feature' about two unstable prison–escapers who traverse an overgrown rural landscape towards a rendezvous at an…
WayDownTown (Way Down Town) (2000)- Dir. Gary Burns
Feat. Don McKellar, Fabrizio Filippo - An imaginative low–budget comedy, has office workers in Calgary, Canada running a wager to see who can avoid going into the outside world the…
You Can Count On Me (2000)- Dir. Kenneth Lonergan
Feat. Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Kieran Culkin… - Winner of Best Picture at Sundance 2000, this bittersweet comedy, woven around the smalltown reunion of long–separated siblings Laura Linney…
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