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'.
The Third Man ( Blu-ray ) (1949)
8.2/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Alida Valli, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
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
Magik and Rose (1999)
5.6/10
Director: Vanessa Alexander
Starring: Alison Bruce, Nicola Murphy, Oliver Driver, Simon Ferry, Florence Hartigan
The Annual Wild Food Festival in Hokitika is the setting for this delightful tale of fertility, maternity and female solidarity. When Magik (approachi... 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
The Third Miracle (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Ed Harris, Anne Heche, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Ed Harris is a Catholic priest investigating whether a recently deceased woman should be recommended for sainthood. During his inquiry, the skeptical... Read more
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
Not One Less (1999)
7.7/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike
Follow the adventures of a 13 year old girl who, despite her age, finds herself working as a substitute teacher in the school of her small Chinese vil... Read more
Tumbleweeds (1999)
6.7/10
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Janet McTeer, Noah Emmerich, Michael J Pollard, Kimberly Brown
In the aftermath of another ill-fated relationship, free-spirited Southern sexpot Janet McTeer shepherds 12 year-old daughter Kimberley Brown into the... Read more
The Cup (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Khyentse Norbu
Starring: Jamyang Lodro, Neten Chokling
Filmed in the central Asian country of Bhutan and directed by Khyentse Norbu (recognised by Buddhists as an incarnation of a 19th century Tibetan sain... Read more
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
Yellow Submarine (Blu-ray) (1968)
7.4/10
Director: George Dunning
Starring: Dick Emery, Lance Percival, John Clive, Geoffrey Hughes, (Voices of) , Paul Ange...
The Beatles have arrived in high definition with the revelatory Blu-ray release of Yellow Submarine. The 1999 standard DVD reissue of the animated f... Read more