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'.
Magik and Rose (1999)
5.6/10
Director: Vanessa Alexander
Starring: Alison Bruce, Nicola Murphy, Oliver Driver, Simon Ferry, Florence Hartigan
The Annual Wild Food Festival in Hokitika is the setting for this delightful tale of fertility, maternity and female solidarity. When Magik (approachi... 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
Me and Isaac Newton (1999)
Director: Michael Apted
"Me and Isaac Newton" is a documentary in which seven scientists ranging in occupation from theoretical physicist to wildlife expert explain what they... Read more
Not One Less (1999)
7.7/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike
Follow the adventures of a 13 year old girl who, despite her age, finds herself working as a substitute teacher in the school of her small Chinese vil... Read more
Office Killer (1997)
4.9/10
Director: Cindy Sherman
Starring: Barbara Sukowa, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Carol Kane
In this camp comedy thriller directed by artist/photographer Cindy Sherman, Dorine Douglas suffers depression when relegated to performing her job for... Read more
Point Blank (Copy) (1967)
7.4/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Betrayed by his partner and left for dead, a man who engineered a heist of mob money recovers and plans his revenge, but the mob is after both of them... Read more
Point Blank (Copy) (1967)
7.4/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Betrayed by his partner and left for dead, a man who engineered a heist of mob money recovers and plans his revenge, but the mob is after both of them... Read more
Princess Mononoke (1997)
8.4/10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson, Minnie Driver
This stunning masterpiece by animation wizard Hayao Miyazaki is set during Japan's Muromachi era, when a maddened Boar God infects a prince with a dea... Read more
Princess Mononoke ( Blu-ray ) (1997)
8.4/10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson, Minnie Driver,...
This stunning masterpiece by animation wizard Hayao Miyazaki is set during Japan's Muromachi era, when a maddened Boar God infects a prince with a dea... Read more
Ratcatcher (1999)
7.5/10
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, Leanne Mullen
Set in Glasgow in the 1970s, Ratcatcher is seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old James Gillespie, a young boy haunted by a secret. Feeling increasi... Read more