2001-2010

  • David Lynch – Mulholland Dr. (2001)

    2001-2010David LynchDramaUSA

    A love story in the city of dreams . . .
    Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other.Read More »

  • Mark Rydell – James Dean (2001)

    2001-2010DocumentaryDramaMark RydellUSA

    Quote:
    The brief, but mythical, life and career of film acting legend James Dean is dramatized in this biographical 2001 feature, originally produced for cable television. Dean is portrayed here as a hard worker and wild man, yet a sensitive lost… The brief, but mythical, life and career of film acting legend James Dean is dramatized in this biographical 2001 feature, originally produced for cable television. Dean is portrayed here as a hard worker and wild man, yet a sensitive lost soul whose own turbulent life mirrored the roles he took on his short, but greatly influential career. Dean is played by James Franco under the direction of Hollywood veteran Mark Rydell, a friend of Dean during his life. Rydell’s insights provide an especially insightful look at studio politics and procedure in the 1950s.Read More »

  • Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Qian xi man bo aka Millennium Mambo (2001)

    2001-2010DramaHsiao-hsien HouTaiwan

    Nick Schager – Lessons of Darkness wrote:
    As the new millennium dawns, Vicky (Qi Shu) balances separate love affairs with abusive, drug-smoking Hao-Hao (Chun-hao Tuan) and paternal petty gangster Jack (Jack Kao) in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s exquisite Millennium Mambo. Narrated (in hindsight) by Vicky from the year 2011, the film’s splintered, flashback-heavy narrative nominally concerns Vicky’s tumultuous two romances, though the storyline is – even more than usual for Hou – largely inconsequential. Supposedly part of a trilogy about Taiwanese youth culture, Millennium Mambo is similar to Hou’s superior Goodbye South, Goodbye in that both chart small-timers’ aimless search for money, love, or, at least, some fleeting feeling of genuine human connection.Read More »

  • Marco Bellocchio – Il regista di matrimoni AKA The Wedding Director (2006)

    2001-2010DramaItalyMarco BellocchioMystery

    A merchant’s house in the Stockholm archipelago. Katha, an old woman comes here every year. So does her father, who once built the house. She wants the family, her children and their children to join her at Paradistorg. This leads to conflicts.Read More »

  • Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Nagoriyuki AKA The Last Snow (2002)

    2001-2010DramaJapanMusicalNobuhiko Obayashi

    A story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song.Read More »

  • Sion Sono – Noriko no shokutaku AKA Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005)

    2001-2010DramaHorrorJapanSion Sono

    Synopsis:
    A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko’s “family circle”, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.Read More »

  • Gabriel Pelletier – Karmina 2 (2001)

    2001-2010CanadaComedyGabriel PelletierHorror

    imdb wrote:
    Following the first Karmina, all the vampires need to take the special potion to be humans. The potion is made by Ghislain Chabot and sent to Transylvania for the others vampires. Chatbot’s wife isn’t a vampire yet and she wishes to be one. Ghislain doesn’t want that, because of all the rules and responsibilities of being a vampire, so she throws Ghislain out of the house without the potion. Ghislain tries to get back in there to get the potion for the others with the help of Vlad. Meanwhile, Philippe comes to Montréal because they’re running out of potion in Transylvania.Read More »

  • Vincent Gallo – The Brown Bunny (2003)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaUSAVincent Gallo

    Quote:
    Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.Read More »

  • Christophe Ali & Nicolas Bonilauri – Camping sauvage aka Wild Camp (2005)

    2001-2010ArthouseChristophe AliDramaFranceNicolas Bonilauri

    Camille, 17, bored during family camping vacation, flirts with married sailing instructor Blaise to make her boyfriend jealous, despite their age gap and Blaise’s marital status and child, leading to an inappropriate dynamic between them.Read More »

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