Film Festivals 2000
A broad spectrum of films this year offered up Miyazaki's beautiful anime 'Princess Mononoke', kiwi comedy 'Magik and Rose', and also from a New Zealand director, Alison McLean's wonderful 'Jesus' Son'. Eric Bana piled on the pounds for his role as 'Chopper' and Christian Bale played a different kind of maniac in 'American Psycho'. The Dogme team brought us the deliciously disturbing 'Celebration' and from China came the sumptuous historical epic 'The Emperor and the Assassin'.
Tadpole (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Ritter, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Iler, Aaron Stanford
Returning home from his posh boarding school for Thanksgiving, intellectual 15-year old Oscar Grubman intends to declare his love for his stepmother,... Read more
American Psycho (2000)
7.6/10
Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Christian Bale, Guinevere Turner, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon,...
Bret Easton Ellis' infamous 1991 novel is turned into a darkly humourous horror show that slyly skewers 1980s values. Director Mary Harron ('I Shot An... Read more
American Psycho ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
7.6/10
Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Bill Sage, Chloe Sevigny, Christian Bale, Guinevere Turner, Jared Leto, Reese Wi...
Bret Easton Ellis' infamous 1991 novel is turned into a darkly humourous horror show that slyly skewers 1980s values. Director Mary Harron ('I Shot An... Read more
Songcatcher (2000)
7.2/10
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Starring: Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Jane Adams, Pat Carroll
A film about a woman whose drive to pursue the things she believes in leads her on an unexpected path to self-discovery. It is 1907, and musicologist... Read more
Innocence (2000)
7.5/10
Director: Paul Cox
Starring: Julia Blake, Charles Tingwell, Terry Norris
Lovers in Belgium during WWII, Claire (Julia Blake) and Andreas (Charles Tingwell) are shocked to find after a 45 year seperation, they are neighbours... Read more
Beautiful People (2000)
8.3/10
Director: Jasmin Dizdar
Starring: Charlotte Coleman, Charles Kay, Rosalind Ayres
A brave mix of dark satire, war horrors and social politics, this acclaimed film from first time director Jasmin Dizdar is set in London 1993, where,... Read more
High Fidelity (2000)
7.5/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, Tim Robbins, Jack Black, Lisa Bo...
Sharp, witty comedy from Nick Hornby's acclaimed novel stars John Cusack as the music and list obsessed proprietor of a funky Chicago music store who... Read more
Timecode (2000)
6.2/10
Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Stellan Skarsgard, Holly Hunte...
Shot in real time on digital video and unfolding on four different sections of the screen, this experimental effort by Mike Figgis ("Leaving Las Vegas... Read more
Chopper (2000)
7.2/10
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field, Dan Wyllie
Standover man, unrepentant underworld executioner, inventive raconteur, and Australia's most infamous living criminal, whose deadpan wit and colourful... Read more
Rosetta / La Promesse (1999)
Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Starring: Emilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux, Jeremie Renier, Olivier Gourme...
'Rosetta' (1999, 90 mins) Winner of the 1999 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and widely hailed as a masterpiece, 'Rosetta' is an extraordinary... Read more