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Film Festivals 2002

A great diversity of titles this year included David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' the fascinating 'Donnie Darko', unusual and very funny bio-pic '24 Hour Party People' and the haunting 'Kandahar'. Isabelle Huppert was rivetting as 'The Piano Teacher' alongside sharp-tongued 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' and Richard Linklater's rotoscope feature 'Waking Life'. Wes Anderson produced 'The Royal Tenenbaums', 'Life and Debt' investigated the effects of globalisation on Jamaica's economy, while back home, Rogernomics came under the lens in 'In a Land of Plenty'

Paths of Glory ( Blu-ray ) (1957)

8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

Stanley Kubrick gives us a scathing indictment against the staff-officer mentality that cares about promotions more than the men who make those promot... Read more

Scratch (2001)

7.9/10
Director: Doug Pray

The definitive hip-hop DJ documentary. From the birth of hip-hop, when pioneering DJs began extending breaks on their party records (helping to inspir... Read more

Sidewalks of New York (2001)

6.5/10
Director: Edward Burns
Starring: Edward Burns, Heather Graham, Rosario Dawson, David Krumholtz, Brittany Murphy,...

Absorbing romantic comedy from writer/actor/director Edward Burns ("The Brothers McMullen") focuses on the interrelated - and often complicated - love... Read more

Sunshine State (2002)

6.9/10
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Jane Alexander, Angela Bassett, Gordon Clapp, Edie Falco, Miguel Ferrer, Timothy...

Edie Falco, Angela Bassett, Timothy Hutton and Mary Steenburgen lead a terrific all-star cast in this charming comic drama from acclaimed director Joh... Read more

Swing (2002)

7.2/10
Director: Tony Gatlif
Starring: Oscar Copp, Lou Rech, Tchavolo Schmitt, Mandino Reinhardt

Max, a young boy on his summer holidays, finds himself drawn to the spellbinding guitar playing of Miraldo, a virtuoso of the guitar. This music becom... Read more

Taking Sides (2001)

7.2/10
Director: Istvan Szabo
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgard, Moritz Bleibtreu

Filmmaker Istvan Szabo follows up his acclaimed "Sunshine" with this mediation on Wilhelm Furtwangler. As the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orc... Read more

The Business of Strangers (2001)

6.4/10
Director: Patrick Stettner
Starring: Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Fred Weller

Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles star in this brisk and edgy tale of two career women who form an unlikely and potentially unstable bond in order to... Read more

The Claim (2000)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan, Sarah Polley

Inspired by Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge", this sumptuosly photographed saga from Michael Winterbottom ("Jude") is set in a small town in... Read more

The Devil's Backbone (2001)

7.5/10
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Federico Luppi, Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes

From Guillermo Del Toro comes this haunting ghost story set in a Spanish orphanage that houses children of left-wing families during the final days of... Read more

The Gleaners and I (2000)

7.1/10
Director: Agnes Varda

A self-described 'wandering-road documentary', director Agnes Varda focuses her acclaimed non-fiction film on 'the gleaners', those who scour already-... Read more