Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 837 Films to Buy & Rent
I'll Make You Happy (1998)
- Dir. Athina Tsoulis
Feat. Jodie Rimmer, Michael Hurst
- A comical hotchpotch set among Auckland's K–Road denizens, featuring Jodie Rimmer as a peppy prositute who plots to rip–off pimp Michael…
Intervention, The (Suicide, the Comedy) (1998)
- Dir. Glen Freyer
Feat. Jamie Harris, Alison Eastwood
- Black comedy in which a struggling screenwriter researches a film script about suicide but worries his friends and family that he has real tendencies…
Last Days of Disco (1998)
- Dir. Whit Stillman
Feat. Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale
- Not so much a nostalgia trip as a literate comedy of manners a la 1980s Manhattan, dissecting the sashays on the social dancefloor among a troupe of…
Love And Rage (1998)
- Dir. Cathal Black
Feat. Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig, Stephen Dillane
- Tantalising Irish melodrama starring Greta Scacchi as an English aristocrat who hires Daniel Craig as manager for her sumptuous estate and ends up…
Lulu On the Bridge (1998)
- Dir. Paul Auster
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Willem Dafoe
- A baffling series of events beset jazz–saxophonist Harvey Keitel after a near–death experience in this hard–to–summarise,…
Men with Guns (1998)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Frederico Luppi
- Criminally denied a theatrical release, this masterful study of Third World realities is arguably prolific indie dir. John Sayles most accomplished…
Miss Monday (1998)
- Dir. Benson Lee
Feat. James Hicks, Andrea Hart
- An improving indie thriller sets its improbable but well–realised story around a struggling screenwriter, who sneaks into a woman's apartment…
Music from Another Room (1998)
- Dir. Charlie Peters
Feat. Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly, Martha Plimpton…
- Rising British star Jude Law (GATTACA) tries it down–home Yankee style in this off–beat drama, varnished with folksy charm and crammed…
Next Stop, Wonderland (1998)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Hope Davis (DAYTRIPPERS) utterly captivates as a jilted blonde indisposed to the dating scene, who finds little sign of Mr. Right in the long queue…
Other Sister, The (1998)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Juliette Lewis, Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt
- Free–spirited, yet 'simple' Juliette Lewis runs riot much to the consternation of her uptight parents, Diane Keaton and Tom…