Subgenre Sampler
Controversy: 193 Films to Buy & Rent
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006)
- Dir. Patty Kim, Chris Sheridan
- This startling, blow–by–blow account of a notorious Japanese abduction reveals a staggering conspiracy at the heart of a…
Book of Revelation, The (2006)
- Dir. Ana Kokkinos
Feat. Tom Long, Greta Scacchi
- Daring, if not entirely coherent gender–subversion recalls in flashback the ordeal of a talented male dancer (Long) who's abducted, tortured…
Borat (Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) (2006)
- Dir. Larry Charles
Feat. Sacha Baron Cohen
- A savage, often side–splitting, satire from balls–of–steel British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who moves a minor character from his…
Bridge, The (2006)
- Dir. Eric Steel
- Controversial, yet thoughtful documentary which captures – and in turn addresses – suicide through a series of fatal leaps from San…
Da Vinci Code, The (2006)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen…
- Adapted from Dan Brown's blockbusting novel, this rollicking, if over–weighty adventure has an American historian (Hanks) getting dragged into…
Destricted (2006)
- Dir. Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Sam Taylor-Johnson
- A challenging – though some may argue, laughable – exercise in reclaiming the pornographic film, this omnibus commissions seven artists to each…
Dirty Sanchez: The Movie (2006)
- Dir. Jim Hickey
- Deplorable, downright heinous version of JACKASS sees four British louts subject themselves to a myriad of irresponsible stunts and…
Dudesons Movie, The (2006)
- Dir. Jarno Laasala
- It's JACKASS, Scandinavian–style, with a group of equally insane extremists subjecting themselves a series of painful and humiliating…
Ever Again (2006)
- Dir. Richard Trank
- Documentary on the re–emergence of anti–semitism paying particular attention to the politicization of Europe's Neo–Nazi movement…
Jesus Camp (2006)
- Dir. Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- A disturbing guided tour of extremist 'Jesus Camps' in the US, run by politically–aligned Evangelical Christian groups intent on indoctrinating…