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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'.

Felicia's Journey (1999)

7/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Peter McDonald, Arsinee Khanjian

Felicia (Elaine Cassidy), a young Irish woman in search of her soldier boyfriend in the British Midlands, is befriended by Joseph Hilditch (Bob Hoskin... Read more

Festen ( The Celebration ) (1998)

7.5/10
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Thomas Bo Larsen, Henning Moritzen, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen

A hugely dysfunctional family arrives at a secluded hotel for a 60th birthday party for the family patriarch. Suffice it to say, things don't go as ch... Read more

Freaks (1932)

7.9/10
Director: Tod Browning
Starring: Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams

Inspired by childhood recollections of running away with the circus and befriending the sideshow freaks, Tod Browniing's vision of sideshow life is bo... Read more

Get Carter (1971)

7.5/10
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland

A cheap hood returns home to investigate his brother's death. Capturing the dreary quality of life in the industrial North of England, this film is pr... Read more

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

7.5/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Cliff Gorman, Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey

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

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

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

Jesus' Son (1999)

7/10
Director: Alison Maclean
Starring: Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary, Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Jack Bl...

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

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

7.9/10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki

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

Kikujiro (1999)

7.8/10
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Yusuke Sekiguchi, Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto

Japanese director 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano is perhaps best known to international audiences for his violent and stylish crime flicks 'Violent Cop' and '... Read more