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'
Ghost World (2001)
7.4/10
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Illeana Douglas, Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro
For sardonic high schoolers and best buds Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, the world around them is filled with living targets for their scorn and... 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 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
Dark Blue World (2001)
7.3/10
Director: Jan Sverak
Starring: Ondrej Vetchy, Krystof Hadek, Tara Fitzgerald
Enthralling WWII drama from "Kolya" director Jan Sverak details the adventures of pilot pals Ondrej Vetchy and young Krystof Hadek, who are forced to... 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
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
Donnie Darko (2001)
8.1/10
Director: Richard Kelly
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Duval, Jena Malone, Katharine Ross, Mary...
Dark and disturbing, destined-for-cult status tale stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a gifted but troubled 80s high school student whose adolescent horrors tak... Read more
Mulholland Drive (2001)
8/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Ann Miller, Laura Harring, Robert Forster, Dan Heda...
David Lynch pulls out all the stops, upends all expectations, and, well, goes all Lynchian in this maniacal, mind-bending mix of Hollywood satire, fil... Read more
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
7.6/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben S...
Gene Hackman is Royal Tenenbaum, a once prominent New York lawyer who fakes a terminal illness in order to reunite with estranged wife Anjelica Huston... Read more
Metropolis (Blu-Ray) (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