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 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
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
Titus (1999)
7.2/10
Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Alan Cumming, Colm Feore, Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Harry Lennix
"Titus Andronicus", Shakespeare's first tragedy, is given striking treatment by director Julie Taymor, who melds ancient settings with modern accoutre... Read more
The Emperor and the Assassin (1999)
7.3/10
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian, Sun Zhou, Lu Xiaohe, Wang Zhiwen
This lavishly produced, epic historical drama is set in the third century B.C. and tells the multi-faceted story of the man who became the first Emper... 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
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
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
Shower (1999)
7.5/10
Director: Zhang Yang
Starring: Zhu Xu, Pu Cun Xin, Jiang Wu
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
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