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Subgenre Sampler
Igby Goes Down (2002)
- Dir. Burr Steers
Feat. Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum… - More than meets the eye in this indie New York satire about an over–educated ‘slacker’ experiencing growing pains amid upper…
L'Homme du Train (Man on the Train) (2002)- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday - An elegantly amusing role–switching tale that's equal parts social comedy, existential drama and subtle thriller, tinged with melancholy…
Laurel Canyon (2002)- Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale… - Dropping in on the LA music scene, the writer–director of HIGH ART returns to her pet theme of conservatism yielding to a bohemianism, but…
Linda Green (TV Series) (2002)- Feat. Liza Tarbuck
- Surprisingly endearing comic drama, follows the life of swinging single girl Linda (played by former TV presenter Liza Tarbuck) from work to home to…
Man Without a Past, The (2002)- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen - Another understated, double–take comedy from Finnish dir. Kaurismaki, making perhaps his most cleverly balanced work yet. An itinerant…
Monsieur Batignole (2002)- Dir. Gerard Jugnot
Feat. Gerard Jugnot - An ironic comedy set in WW2 Paris, in which the titular butcher helps himself to an apartment vacated by a Jewish family who have been rounded up by…
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Stella Gonet, Christopher Plummer, Tom Courtenay… - Able–handed version of Dicken's classic of Victorian–age injustice, that respects both the comic and tragic sides to the tale. After…
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson… - The bittersweet dramatics of dir. Meadows (ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) get a fresh telling in this Nottingham drama, with the added spin of some ironic…
Ping Pong (2002)- Dir. Fumisiko Sori
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Arata - A madcap, yet gently humourous Japanese sports tale, set around two table tennis hotshots (Kubozuka and Arata) preparing for a ferocious battle at a…
Pumpkin (2002)- Dir. Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Feat. Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn - Politically–confused blackly comic satire that follows the progress of Christina Ricci's 'inappropriate' romantic fixation with a disabled…
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