Subgenre Sampler
Rental > New Zealand: 795 Films to Rent
Shifter (2000)
- Dir. Colin Hodson
Feat. Colin Hodson, Samara McDowell, Diane McAllen…
- A study of loose–ended flatting relations and social paranoia directed by Aro Valley local Colin Hodson.
Improvisational in its treatment…
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…
Stickmen (2000)
- Dir. Hamish Rothwell
Feat. Robbie Magasiva, Scott Wills, Simone Kessell…
- A crowd–pleasing and assured sports–fetish movie, this doesn't shy from being dubbed 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Pool Cues', with its…
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…
Whirling Man, The (2000)
- Dir. Gretchin Mornin, James Hollings
Feat. Arnold Brooker
- Brief compelling whirl through the world of Arnold Brooker, an eccentric fixture on the streets of Wellington who campaigns for the rights of the…
Campaign (1999)
- Dir. Tony Sutorius
- Close–up account of the cracking political contest for the marginal seat of Wellington Central during the 1996 general election, given a…
Channeling Baby (1999)
- Dir. Christine Parker
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Kevin Smith
- 'First sight' romance between a blind pacifist and a shell–shocked soldier in the 70s ended in heartbreak after the tragic 'disappearance' of…
Destination Disaster - The Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov (1999)
- Compelling document of the 1986 sinking of Soviet cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov in the Marlborough Sounds. Delves into the controversial aftermath of…
Getting to Our Place (1999)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston, Anna Cotrell
- The creation of NZ’s national museum, Te Papa, was an exciting, self–conscious and fraught journey in defining the nation’s identity, this…
Heaven (1999)
- Dir. Scott Reynolds
Feat. Martin Donovan, Joanna Going, Danny Edwards…
- Banished into virtual anonymity by Miramax studio indifference, we can only assume they found this 'arty' thriller too slippery to pigeonhole and…