Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Eureka (2001)- Dir. Shinji Aoyama
Feat. Aoi Miyazaki, Koji Yakusho - Unforgettably beguiling Japanese road trip movie shot in sepia–toned cinema scope, following the existential odyssey of a group of emotionally…
Four Days (2001)
- Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers… - This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna - Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
Blackboards (2000)- Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
Feat. Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari - Set in politically unstable Kurdistan, this followup to THE APPLE by dir. Makhmalbaf, traces the adventures of a group of teachers searching the…
Himalaya (2000)- Dir. Eric Valli
Feat. Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe… - A journey into the life of a remote Nepalese village which relies on an annual pilgrimage to collect salt from the Tibetan side of the Himalayas,…
Straight Story, The (2000)- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Richard Farnsworth - Far from wild at heart, this soft–peddle road movie from the infamous David Lynch is a serene, supremely dignified fable (though based on a…
Crazy in Alabama (1999)- Dir. Antonio Banderas
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffiths, Rod Steiger - Antonio Banderas' directorial debut is an amiable film of two halves, split between a dramatic re–telling of the civil rights struggle in 1960s…
Finding Graceland (1999)- Dir. David Winkler
Feat. Johnathon Schaech, Harvey Keitel, Bridget Fonda - Heartbroke Johnathon Schaech is speeding away from his ex–wife when he picks up Harvey Keitel, an Elvis impersonator who takes his…
Siam Sunset (1999)- Dir. John Polson
Feat. Linus Roache, Danielle Cormack - Bright brain candy that puts a surreal, antipodean tilt on road–movie/black comedy familiarities, with dazed Brit Linus Roache suffering an…
Central Station (1998)- Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Fernanda Montenegro - A cantankerous woman who writes letters for the illiterate at Rio De Janeiro's train station obliges to help a 9–year–old boy locate his…
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