Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
Legend of the Fist - The Return of Chen Zhen (2010)
- Dir. Andrew Lau
Feat. Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong…
- Belated sequel to Bruce Lee's FIST OF FURY (remade with Jet Li as FIST OF LEGEND) picks up well after the Dojo–busting triumphs of those films,…
Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
- Dir. Wen Jiang
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You, Wen Jiang…
- Cocksure 'noodle' western – best described as a Chinese variation on Kurosawa's YOJIMBO – pits a notorious bandit against the mob boss of…
Little Big Soldier (2010)
- Dir. Sheng Ding
Feat. Jackie Chan, Lee-Hom Wang
- Charismatic anti–war comedy stars Jackie Chan as a lowly foot soldier who strikes it lucky when he captures a wanted enemy General (Wang).…
Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs) (2010)
- Dir. Guillaume Canet
Feat. Francois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel…
- Airy ensemble from the dir. of TELL NO ONE about a group of French sophisticates whose annual seaside reunion is disturbed when one of them is badly…
Longlasting Youth (TV Mini-series) (Le cose che restano) (2010)
- Dir. Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Feat. Lorenzo Balducci, Daniela Giordano
- A four–part mini–series about a Roman family who take separate paths after the death of their youngest son.
Loose Cannons (2010)
- Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Riccardo Scamarcio
- An cheerfully overstuffed family comedy of a gay young man who attempts to come out to his ultra traditionalist parents in the south of Italy.
Lope (The Outlaw) (2010)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala
- Splendid biopic of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theare.
Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) (2010)
- Dir. Roberta Torre
Feat. Carla Marchese, Donatella Finocchiaro
- A 13–year–old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word…
Love Crime (2010)
- Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier, Olivier Rabourdin
- Kristin Scott–Thomas sinks her teeth into the bitchiest role of her career as a ruthless, high–flying executive whose attempts at…
Love Like Poison (2010)
- Dir. Katell Quillévéré
Feat. Clara Augarde, Michel Galabru, Stefano Cassetti…
- A potent variation on an oft–told theme, this carefully observed drama considers the fraught adolescence of a 14–year–old girl torn…