Films
Wristcutters: A Love Story (Goran Dukic, 2006)
Attention: here’s more evidence of American teens’ apparently terminal ennui. Patrick Fugit and Shannyn Sossamon are Zea and Mikal, two kids who commit suicide… and then fall in love.
Cocaine Cowboys (Billy Corben, 2006)
Forget Scarface, Cocaine Cowboys is the insane true story of the mid-eighties drug rush that brought guns, goods, bullets, bitches and a shit load of money to Miami, transforming the entire city from a dilapidated backwater into a millionaires’ playground and gangsters’ paradise.
Running Stumbled (John Maringouin, 2006)
A tough but rewarding watch, this documentary (which occasionally mutates into fiction) follows US director John Maringouin as he returns home to visit his deranged parents, only to see them endlessly bickering over their meds and threatening to kill each other.
The Walker (Paul Schrader, 2007)
Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson) is a society ‘walker’ – a professional hag-fag employed to squire the wives of Washington DC’s powerful from opera house to Canasta game and back again.
Seraphim Falls (David Von Ancken, 2006)
Seraphim Falls is an old-fashioned western, albeit one that frequently flirts with the fantastical and downright macabre.
Eagle vs Shark (Taika Cohen, 2007)
This apparent clash of animals is, in fact, a heart-warming romance between a pair of social misfits – burger-flipping Lily (Loren Horsley) and shop-patsy Jarrod (Jemaine Clement).
Legacy (Géla and Temur Babluani, 2006)
Georgia, 2007 – a naïve French woman inherits a castle and, accompanied by two friends, arrives in the former Soviet Republic to claim her prize.
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito, 2005)
What’s this? Underage transgender Filipino movie making? Sounds great!
