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'.
42 Up (1998)
8.3/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield
In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children for the documentary '7 Up'. He's been back to film them every seven yea... Read more
A Pornographic Affair (1999)
Director: Frederic Fonteyne
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Sergi Lopez
Aka 'An Affair of Love'. Nathalie Baye is a Parisian woman who takes out a personal and in a magazine and has a steamy encounter with Spanish-born res... Read more
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
7.7/10
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine
Twelve-year-old Romeo and friend Gavin spend days just behaving like boys and putting up with their families. A much older boy, Morell, takes a fancy... 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
An Autumn Tale (1998)
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
Eric Rohmer's romantic comedy concludes his film cycle "The Tales of the four Seasons". Set in Southern France, where a lonely woman (Beatrice Romand)... 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
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
Dick (1999)
6.1/10
Director: Andrew Fleming
Starring: Dan Hedaya, Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dave Foley, Will Ferrell
Good-natured Watergate satire stars Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams as high school students who become official dog-walkers for President Nixon af... Read more
East / West (1999)
7.5/10
Director: Regis Wargnier
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr
In this Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film, Russian emigres are invited to return home by Stalin following World War II. But when a doctor, h... Read more