Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
Raid, The (The Raid: Redemption) (2011)
- Dir. Gareth Evans
Feat. Iko Uwais
- The finest Asian action export since ONG–BAK, pitting an out–of–their–depth SWAT team against a tenement of drug dealers,…
Rebellion (2011)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi…
- A proficient, airtight geopolitical thriller from dir. Kassovitz, who also stars as the captain of a counterterrorist division sent to New Caledonia…
Salt of Life, The (2011)
- Dir. Gianni Di Gregorio
Feat. Gianni Di Gregorio
- Gianni Di Gregorio's delightful follow–up to MID–AUGUST LUNCH, about a house husband at the whim of his wife, daughter, neighbour, and…
Sector 7 (2011)
- Dir. Ji-hun Kim
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Sung-kee Ahn
- Produced by the director of tidal wave catastrophe HAEUNDAE, this big budget monster movie (Korea's first in 3D) lurches between hokey character…
Separation, A (2011)
- Dir. Asghar Farhadi
Feat. Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat…
- Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this masterfully layered domestic drama sees the wheels of justice turn slowly against a…
Sex and Zen - Extreme Ecstasy (2011)
- Dir. Christopher Sun Lap Key
Feat. Hiro Hayama, Leni Lan, Saori Hara…
- Touted as "the first 3D erotic movie", this Ming Dynasty bonk–fest under–performs as both a porny period spectacle, and a randy sex…
Shaolin (2011)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Jackie Chan…
- Feuding warlords threaten to tear China apart and only a group of Shaolin monks stand in the way of annihilation.
Silence, The (Das letzte Schweigen) (2011)
- Dir. Baran bo Odar
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Katrin Sass, Wotan Wilke Möhring
- German thriller set in 2009, 23 years after the unsolved rape and murder of an 11–year old girl, when a remarkably similar crime attracts the…
Skin I Live In, The (2011)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes…
- Over twenty years after their last collaboration, a gracefully middle–aged Antonio Banderas returns for Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar to play…
Skylab (2011)
- Dir. Julie Delpy
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Emmanuelle Riva, Eric Elmosnino…
- Julie Delpy directs this nostalgic crowd–pleaser, set around a rowdy family gathering in the summer of 1979, whose youngest member believes…