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'.
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
Show Me Love (1998)
7.6/10
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlon, Alexandra Dahlstrom
Aka 'Fucking Amal'. Elin and Agnes are two teenage girls growing up in a small Swedish town. Elin is bored with her life in a community where things a... Read more
The Color of Paradise (1999)
8.2/10
Director: Majid Majidi
Starring: Mohsen Ramezani
This beautifully rendered film centers on an 8-year-old blind boy named Mohammad whose poor, widowed father has no interest in raising him. After he's... 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
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
8/10
Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Ray Bolger, Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Mar...
Follow Dorothy over the rainbow and down the Yellow Brick Road, along with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, Cowardly Lion and Toto, too, for fun and adven... 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
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
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
The Widow Of Saint-Pierre (1999)
7.3/10
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Emir Kusturica
1850 Saint-Pierre, a forgotten small island near Canada. Neel Auguste is found guilty and condemned to death, but in Saint-Pierre there is neither gui... 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