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Film Festivals 1997

Yet another all-sorts year with something for all tastes. From Atom Egoyan's controversial "The Sweet Hereafter" and Kirby Dick's provocative "Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Lanagan, Supermasochist" to the warm and witty "Kolya" from the Czech Republic and the harrowing and visually stunning "Zero Kelvin" from Norway. The Wachowski Brothers' stylish contemporary noir "Bound" was good company for David Cronenberg's not-for-all-tastes minor masterpiece "Crash". Peter Greenaway offered up his stylistic "The Pillow Book".

Vertigo (1958)

8.3/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes, Kim Novak, James Stewart, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones

Critics have hailed 'Vertigo' as Alfred Hitchcock's ultimate masterpiece. This haunting tale of obsession, fear and murder stars Hitchcock's favourite... Read more

Big Night (1996)

7.3/10
Director: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
Starring: Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini, Minnie Driver, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub

An impeccably crafted, endearing story of Italian immigrant brothers trying to survive as restauranteurs in 1950's America. Isabella Rossellini, Ian H... Read more

Brassed Off (1997)

7.1/10
Director: Mark Herman
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald

When a small Yorkshire mining town's pit is about to be closed, putting the town out of work, the miners' vote to strike at the same time the town's b... Read more

When We Were Kings (1996)

8/10
Director: Leon Gast
Starring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown

Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 heavyweight championship fight that suddenly turned Zaire into the temporary sports a... Read more

Jazz On A Summer's Day (1959)

8.1/10
Director: Bert Stern
Starring: Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry

This precursor to Woodstock is the granddaddy of all concert films, a chronicle of the Newport, Rhode Island Jazz Fest where music greats like Louis A... Read more

Swingers (1996)

7.3/10
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Jon Favreau, Heather Graham

Doug Liman's debut is a surprisingly winning look at the romantic and social entanglements of a group of Los Angeles lounge lizards. Jon Favreau and V... Read more

Zero Kelvin (1995)

7.4/10
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Gard B Eidsvold, Bjorn Sundquist, Camilla Martens

Visually stunning and psychologically intense, 'Zero Kelvin' finds three men at odds with the elements and each other when they embark on a fur-trappi... Read more

Pillow Talk (1959)

7.5/10
Director: Michael Gordon
Starring: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter

Rock Hudson and Doris Day are at their best in their first romantic comedy together. Doris is an uptight interior decorator forced to share a party li... Read more

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

7.6/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Alberta Watson

This controversial, spellbinding offering focuses on a school bus accident in the Canadian wilderness killing 14 children. A tormented attorney (Ian H... Read more

The Pillow Book (1996)

6.7/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Yoshi Oida, Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor

Peter Greenaway's bold stylistic experiment has as it's theme, the 'correspondence' between the daughter of a famous writer and a publisher, written o... Read more