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'.
Joseph Cotten is pulp fiction writer Holly Matins, who arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to be told that Lime h... Read more
Rarely does a film touch so many hearts or reach such artistic heights as the highly accliamed 'Kiki's Delivery Service', the magical adventure of an... Read more
Paul Thomas Anderson's third feature film is an exhilarating, almost reckless display of cinematic ambition. Weaving together more than a dozen charac... Read more
This stunning masterpiece by animation wizard Hayao Miyazaki is set during Japan's Muromachi era, when a maddened Boar God infects a prince with a dea... Read more
Gorgeously restored and re-mastered in Dolby stereo, this celebrated adaptation of Giorgio Bassani's novel views the life of an aristocratic Jewish fa... Read more
Set in Glasgow in the 1970s, Ratcatcher is seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old James Gillespie, a young boy haunted by a secret. Feeling increasi... Read more
In Jim Jarmusch's fascinating meshing of gangster, urban and samurai action, Forest Whitaker is Ghost Dog, a mysterious hit man who rubs out targets f... Read more
Billy Crudup plays a well-meaning but drug-addled young man whose trip across the back roads of 70's America with fellow addict and girlfriend Samanth... Read more
This acclaimed drama from Zhang Yang is set in and around a Beijing bathhouse run by its elderly owner and his slow witted son. The proprietor's older... Read more
This electrifying documentary on the Sex Pistols, complete with rare archival footage and contemporary interviews, sets the record straight about punk... Read more