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'
The Killing (1956)
8/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
An early Stanley Kubrick classic about an elaborate race track robbery filmed with total artistic freedom using a multilayered simultaneous storyline.... Read more
Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
7.7/10
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Tom Drake
Judy Garland is the classic American teenager in love, in song, in one of the brightest hours of her career. 'Meet Me in St Louis' is a charming turn-... Read more
Va Savoir (2001)
7/10
Director: Jacques Rivette
Starring: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler
Aka ' Who Knows?'. Jacques Rivette's delightfully bittersweet and highly entertaining comedy follows the romantic escapades of Camille (Jeanne Balibar... Read more
The Man Without A Past (2002)
7.7/10
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Starring: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemela, Kaija Pakarinen
The second part of Aki Kaurismaki's "Finland" trilogy (coming after "Drifting Clouds"), the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten... Read more
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2002)
7.2/10
Director: Andre Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
From 1942 to 1945, Traudl Junge served as personal secretary to Adolf Hitler. In her most in-depth and shockingly candid interview ever, the now 81-ye... 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
My Wife is an Actress (2001)
6.5/10
Director: Yvan Attal
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp
A French sports journalist (Yvan Attal, who also wrote and directed) is constantly vexed by the attention lavished upon his beautiful actress wife (At... 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
Metropolis (2001)
7.3/10
Director: Rintaro
In this anime feature based on Osamu Tezuka's reinvention of Fritz Lang's sci-fi classic, Tima, an artificial lifeform designed to control the high-te... Read more
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (2000)
6.9/10
Director: Paul Cox
Starring: David Wenham, Derek Jacobi, Sam Neill, Kris Kristofferson, Peter O'Toole
David Wenham plays the canonized Father Damien, a dedicated priest who sacrificed his own life in order to bring dignity and hope to the inhabitants o... Read more