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'.
Saving Grace (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo
On discovering she is left penniless after her husband's death, Grace turns for comfort to the one thing she loves - her greenhouse. But even Grace's... 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
Magnolia (1999)
8/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William...
Paul Thomas Anderson's third feature film is an exhilarating, almost reckless display of cinematic ambition. Weaving together more than a dozen charac... Read more
Soft Fruit (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Christina Andreff
Starring: Russell Dykstra, Linal Haft, Genevieve Lemon, Jeanie Drynan
Following an auspicious career in short films, New Zealander Christina Andreff dives headfirst into the realm of family dysfunction in this brilliant... 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
The Terrorist (1998)
7.2/10
Director: Santosh Sivan
Starring: Ayesha Dharker, Vishna Vardhan, Bhana Prakash
A highly acclaimed offering about a teen terrorist (Ayesha Dharkar) who, being a veteran of killings during 30 covert operations with a resistance gro... 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
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
The Book of Life (1998)
6.7/10
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Martin Donovan, Thomas Jay Ryan, P J Harvey
This French produced quirky offering tells of the Second Coming of Christ. Jesus (Martin Donovan) and his assistant Magdalena (P J Harvey) are sent b... 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