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Subgenre Sampler

 
Under the SkinUnder the Skin (1997)
Dir. Carine Adler
Feat. Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham
After her mother's untimely death, a young woman bereaves through a series of casual sexual, and increasingly masochistic, encounters. Samantha…
BasquiatBasquiat (1996)
Dir. Julian Schnabel
Feat. Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman
The director sends a post–mortem loveletter to his friend and contemporary, Jean–Michel Basquiat, a celebrated but fragile New York black…
Bottle RocketBottle Rocket (1996) Recommended
Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd
Merciless slacker/heist movie about three no–hopers who struggle at being even small–time hoods. Quirky, charismatic and blessed with a…
Box of MoonlightBox of Moonlight (1996)
Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. John Turturro, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney
The ungainly John Turturro contorts through another whacked–out odyssey of crisis, mid–life in this instance, as an anally retentive…
Breaking the WavesBreaking the Waves (1996) Recommended
Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge
Significant art–house hit about obsessive faith and self–sacrifice, set in a puritanical village on the Scottish coast. A naive young…
Denise Calls UpDenise Calls Up (1996)
Dir. Hal Selwen
Feat. Alannah Ubach, Tim Daly
Twee New York low–budget indie in which six people, most of whom have never met, conduct the gamut of human relations using only the telephone.…
DogsDogs (Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint) (1996)
Dir. Eve Annenburg
Feat. Pam Columbus, Pam Gray, Melody Beal
Four Brooklyn women opt for a life of running an illegal bookie joint, over the dead–end, unemployed lifestyle of the local area. In her debut,…
Driftwood (1996)
Dir. Ronan O'Leary
Feat. James Spader
A washed–up, amnesiac James Spader is beachcombed in remote Ireland by borderline obsessive Anne Brochet, who gets rather possessive when he…
Feeling MinnesotaFeeling Minnesota (1996)
Dir. Steve Baigelman
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Vincent D'Onofrio
Another in a line of sorry tales of violence, aimlessness and broken dreams, this represents everything that was bad about independent (American)…
FreewayFreeway (1996)
Dir. Matthew Bright
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland
Grim white trash road–movie black comedy made of The Brothers' Grimm's "Little Red Riding Hood" sends young Reese Witherspoon on a lost highway…

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