Tag: 2002

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Scott Coffey, Rebekah Del Rio, Laura Harring
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

In a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.

Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Charles Aznavour, Brent Carver, Eric Bogosian
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada | France

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Kamran Adl
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | France

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.

Director: Lucas Belvaux
Stars: Catherine Frot, Lucas Belvaux, Dominique Blanc
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

After nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover, and avoid the cop on his tail. An unexpected event, however, brings cop and crook closer than they ever could have expected.

Director: Carlos Reygadas
Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.

Director: Kwon-taek Im
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Sung-Ki Ahn, Ho-jeong Yu
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Korea

In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.

Director: Susanne Bier
Stars: Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Valérie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon, Hélène de Saint-Père
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

It’s Friday night–she’s moving in with her boyfriend tomorrow–so she goes out, but gets stuck in traffic–where she meets a handsome stranger.

Director: Niki Caro
Stars: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand | Germany

A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Director: Tareque Masud
Stars: Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Bangladesh

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.

Director: Tareque Masud
Stars: Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Bangladesh

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | Germany | Spain

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

Director: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
Stars: Jacques Derrida, Marguerite Derrida, René Major
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary about French philosopher (and author of deconstructionism) Jacques Derrida, who sparked fierce debate throughout American academia.

Director: Carlos Sorin
Stars: Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, Aimee Mullins
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

The third film of a five-part art-installation epic — it’s part-zombie movie, part-gangster film.

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Stars: Kate Dollenmayer, Mark Herlehy, Christian Rudder
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Marnie just graduated from college, drinks likes she’s still in school, and is looking for a temporary job but a permanent boyfriend. She loves a guy who doesn’t love her (?), ping-pongs between awkward romantic alternatives and even less suitable jobs.

Director: Chris Leavens
Stars: Jack Nance, John Achorn, Leo Bulgarini
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Biography of actor Jack Nance, who became famous when he appeared in the 1977 cult film “Eraserhead.”

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Germany | Spain

In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get “in between the wolf’s teeth and avoid being chewed up”. Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.

Director: Nae Caranfil
Stars: Mircea Diaconu, Gheorghe Dinica, Mara Nicolescu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | France

Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Stars: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Canada

After her beloved husband’s suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland, but find that grief is something that you can’t run away from forever.

Director: Alireza Raisian
Stars: Leila Hatami, Nezam Manouchehri, Mehran Rajabi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple’s transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife’s heart.

Director: Bill Weber, David Weissman
Stars: Larry Brinkin, Peggy Cass, The Cockettes
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Shahab Ebrahimi, Faegh Mohamadi, Allah-Morad Rashtian
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Alex Lewis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

Director: Andrzej Sekula
Stars: Kari Matchett, Geraint Wyn Davies, Grace Lynn Kung
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada

Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

Director: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
Stars: Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: Brazil

On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator’s background.

Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong

A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.

Director: David Strohmaier
Stars: Lowell Thomas, Fred Waller, Jim Morrison
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual Cinerama clips, rare behind the scenes footage and new interviews, CINERAMA ADVENTURE takes the viewer back to a lost era of movie showmanship, placing this American cinema phenomenon into historical perspective.

Director: Tom Piozet
Stars: Edward Edwards, Ed Harris, Shirley Knight
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and resistance.

Director: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Stars: Traudl Junge
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Country: Austria

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler’s personal secretaries during WWII.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A refugee family is trying to reach more peaceful lands illegally inside trucks.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK | Ireland

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: France

A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.

Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Stars: Catherine Borek, Karen Greene, Ebony Starr Norwood-Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Dominguez High, in the infamous Compton, CA, has not produced a play in over twenty years. With no money and no stage, two teachers and twenty-four students attempt to produce Thornton Wilder’s American Classic OUR TOWN.

Director: David C. Thomas
Stars: Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary on the MC5.

Director: Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
Stars: Mai Thi Kim, Heidi Neville-Bub, Gerald Ford
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

Separated at the end of the Vietnam war, an “Americanized” woman and her Vietnamese mother are reunited after 22 years.

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Wanda Jean Allen, Jesse Jackson, David Presson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in the modern era.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Bodan Litnanski, Macha Makeïeff, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Agnes Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film.

Director: Elia Suleiman
Stars: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Morocco | Germany | Palestine

Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.

Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Stars: Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Terry Gilliam’s doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.

Director: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK | Germany | USA | Vietnam | Australia | France | Canada

An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Director: Lance Bangs, Kim Gordon, Spike Jonze, Dan Koretzky, Thurston Moore, Tom Surgal
Stars: Stephen Malkmus, Mark Ibold, Scott Kanberg
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999. The DVD also compiles all of their music videos, rare live footage, audio commentary from the band and directors, and two live concerts available with multiple angles.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Kanokporn Tongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Pongpas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand | France

The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | Netherlands

The impact of the decline of heavy industry on workers and their families in the Tiexi district of Shenyang, China, at the turn of the 21st century, documented unflinchingly by a fly-on-the-wall camera.

Director: Steve Rosenbaum
Stars: Rasheed J. Daniel, Peter DiPilato, Jim Goetz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This documentary from director Steven Rosenbaum presents the experiences of a diverse group of regular Americans in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Featuring footage from the area surrounding the World Trade Center shot as early as 10:05 a.m. on the day of the tragedy, SEVEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER looks at the way 9/11 changed the lives of a firefighter’s wife, a Muslim-American woman, an 11-year-old boy, and many others.

Director: Maureen Muldaur
Stars: Joan Baez, Jack Benny, David Bianculli
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The history of the irreverent “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” and the content battles it fought with its television network.

Director: Jeroen Berkvens
Stars: Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Gabrielle Drake
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Netherlands

A study, mostly chronological, of the life of Nick Drake (1948-1974). Gabrielle, his older sister, tells us of her brother’s birth in Burma, childhood in Warwickshire, life at Cambridge and in London, then back to his parents’ home in Tanworth. His parents describe his habits and personality. Two friends and the producer, arranger, sound engineer, and photographer for his three albums comment. His mother, a musician and poet, is an early influence. His quiet folk style made his one tour a disaster. His lack of success and gradual withdrawal end with his death at 26. Eleven of his recordings play on the soundtrack, usually as we see his room, a city, or the Warwickshire countryside.

Director: Lee Hirsch
Stars: Abdullah Ibrahim, Duma Ka Ndlovu, Vusi Mahlasela
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: South Africa | USA

Interviews, archival footage, and filmed performances highlight the role of music in the South African struggle against apartheid.

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Stars: Brian Cox, Henry Kissinger, Anna Chennault
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK | Denmark | France | Canada | Australia

A film about the war crimes of the American diplomat, Henry Kissinger.

Director: Paul Justman
Stars: Joe Hunter, Jack Ashford, Uriel Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the Funk Brothers, a group of Detroit musicians who backed up dozens of Motown artists.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Annikki Tähti
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | Germany | France

M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.

Director: Yôji Yamada
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan

As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

Director: AJ Schnack
Stars: John Flansburgh, John Linnell, Gina Arnold
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the music group They Might Be Giants.

Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian
Stars: Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong | France | Netherlands

The eight-year marriage of Liyan and Yuwen has left them both unfulfilled and distant. A visitor arrives from Shanghai, a doctor who’s an old school friend of Liyan’s and, unbeknownst to her husband, Yuwen’s childhood sweetheart.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Undocumented immigrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom.

Director: Pelin Esmer
Stars: Mithat Esmer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Turkey

This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who lives in his own house like a guest of his collections. A man who tries to freeze time, as if to hold on to present. In this documentary, you will follow this passionate collector through the vivid streets of Istanbul, among the crowd, in search of new collection items while trying to understand his perception of life and collection.