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Simon Magus And The Nine Lives Of Thomas Katz and The King Is Alive
101 Reykjavik
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2000; Director: Baltasar Kormákur; Writer: Hallgrímur Helgason, Baltasar Kormákur; Stars: Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Baltasar Kormakur)
A hedonistic young man gets more than he bargained for when a Spanish flamenco dancer moves in with he and his mother.
6ixtynin9 (Ruang Talok 69, Sixtynine, 69)
(Country: Thailand; Year: 1999; Director: Pen-ek Ratanaruang; Writer: Pen-ek Ratanaruang; Stars: Lalita Panyopas, Tasanawalai
Ongartittichai, Black Phomtong,
Sritao, Arun
Wannardbodeewong)
A girl finds that coming into
money unexpectedly can be
murder.
Aberdeen
(Country: UK Norway; Year: 2000; Director: Hans Petter Moland; Writer: Hans Petter Moland, Kristin Amundsen; Stars: Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey, Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Hethrington, Louise Goodall)
A woman is forced to confront her past and present on a trip to see her dying mum.
Addicted to Solitude
(Country: Denmark; Year: 1999; Director: Jon Bang Carlsen; Writer: Jon Bang Carlsen)
Documentary tracks two women in post-apartheid South Africa.
Amores Perros (Love's A Bitch)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 1999; Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu; Writer: Guillermo Arriaga Jordan; Stars: Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia
Bernal, Goya Toledo, Alvaro
Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche,
Jorge Salinas, Rodrigo Murray
Prisant)
Interlinking stories, connected by
a car crash and dogs.
County Kilburn and Groove
Audition (Odishon)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1999; Director: Miike Takashi; Writer: Daisuke Tengan, based on a story by Ryu Murakami; Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda, Renji Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura)
A widower becomes infatuated with a shy ex-ballet dancer and her mysterious past.
Anatomie (Anatomy)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2000; Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky; Writer: Stefan Ruzowitzky; Stars: Franka Potente, Anna Loos,
Sebastian Blomberg)
An anatomy student encounters
creepy goings on at med school.
Billy Elliot
(Country: UK; Year: 1999; Director: Stephen Daldry; Writer: Lee Hall; Stars: Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Bell, Jamie Draven, Jean Heywood, Stuart Wells, Matthew Thomas)
Young lad from up north finds freedom through ballet.
Benjamin Smoke
(Country: USA; Year: 1999; Director: Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen; Stars: Benjamin Smoke, Tim Campion, Brian Halloran, Coleman Lewis, Bill Taft)
Documentary about an outsider musician.
Blinker
(Country: Belgium; Year: 1999; Director: Filip Van Neyghem; Writer: Rudi Van Den Bossche, based on the book by Marc de Bal; Stars: Joren Seldeslachts, Melissa Gorduyn, Mattias Meersmans, Saskia Aelen, Benny Claessens, Warre Borgmans, Els Olaerts, Chris Lomme, Mieke Verheyden, Natalie Meskens)
Intelligent adventure film for kids with its heart in the right place.
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble and Love And Sex
A Brief History of Errol Morris
(Country: UK/USA; Year: 1999; Director: Kevin Macdonald; Stars: Errol Morris, Phillip Glass, Werner Herzog)
Documentary about the non-fiction film-maker.
Caesar's Park
(Country: USA; Year: 2000; Director: Sarah Price)
A filmmaker documents her new
neighbourhood.
Chuck And Buck (Chuck & Buck)
(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Miguel Arteta; Writer: Mike White; Stars: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe
Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz,
Maya Rudolph, Mary Wigmore,
Paul Sand, Gino Buccola,
Annette Murphy, Glory Simon)
An emotionally retarded man has
sexual obsession for his
childhood friend.
Code Unknown (Code Inconnu)
(Country: France; Year: 2000; Director: Michael Haneke; Writer: Michael Haneke; Stars: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic,
Luminata Gheorghui, Ona Lu
Yenke, Helene Diarra)
Self-consciously obtuse drama.
County Kilburn
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Elliot Hegarty; Writer: Elliot Hegarty; Stars: Ciaran McMenamin, Rick Warden, John Bowe, Simon Sherlock, Georgia Mackenzie, Kay D'Arcy, Patrick Duggan, Tony Bluto, Norman Rodway, Jim Barclay, Paul O'Grady)
Feel-good comedy about an Irish barman in a dead end job.
Letter From An Unknown Woman and The Earrings Of Madame De...
Cut
(Country: Australia; Year: 2000; Director: Kimble Rendall; Writer: Dave Warner; Stars: Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue, Jessica Napier, Simon Bossell, Sarah Kants, Geoff Revell, Frank Roberts, Sam Lewis, Stephen Curry)
Slasher parody about a film set that's a real killer.
Dark Days
(Country: USA; Year: 2000; Director: Marc Singer; Stars: Marc Singer)
Documentary following the
people who survive in the New
York underground.
Dancer In The Dark
(Country: Denmark/Sweden; Year: 2000; Director: Lars von Trier; Writer: Lars von Trier; Stars: Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, David
Morse, Peter Stormare, Cara
Seymour, Jean-Marc Barr)
A Czech migrant saves for an eye
op for her son while dreaming of
Hollywood song and dance
numbers.
Deep In The Woods (Promenons-Nous Dans Les Bois)
(Country: France; Year: 2000; Director: Lionel Delplanque; Writer: Annabelle Perrichon, Celine Breuil-Japy, Pierre Alain Lods; Stars: Clotilde Courau, Clement Sibony, Alexia Stresi, Vincent Lecoeur, Maud Buquet)
Horror tale revolving round retellings of Little Red Riding Hood.
De Grote Vakantie (The Long Holiday)
(Country: France / Netherlands; Year: 2000; Director: Johan van der Keuken; Writer: Johan Van Der Keuken)
Documentary following the
director's battle with prostate
cancer.
Anatomie and Me And Isaac Newton
Les Diseurs de Verite (Speakers Of The Truth)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2000; Director: Karim Traida; Writer: Karim Traida; Stars: Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Mireille Perrier, Jaap Spijkers, Monic Hendrickx, Mahmoub Benyacoub, Rabah Loucif, Said Bouskra, Karim Traida)
Intense drama about the plight of a political refugee.
Djomeh
(Country: Iran; Year: 2000; Director: Hassan Yektapanah; Writer: Hassan Yektapanah; Stars: Jalil Nazari, Mahmoud
Behraznia, Rashid Akbari)
A young Afghani in Iran tries to
woo a prospective bride.
Drole de Felix
(Country: France; Year: 1999; Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques
Martineau; Writer: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques
Martineau; Stars: Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Ariane
Ascaride, Pierre-Loup Rajot,
Charly Seergue, Maurice
Benichou)
Gay man goes on road trip to see
his dad.
The Earrings Of Madame De... (Diamond Earrings, Madame De)
(Country: France/Italy; Year: 1953; Director: Max Ophuls; Writer: Marcel Achard, Max Ophuls, Annette Wademant, based on the novel by Louise de Vilmorin; Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Jean Galland, Mireille Perrey, Paul Azaïs, Josselin, Hubert Noël, Lia Di Leo, Madeleine Barbulée)
A countess sells her earrings, little realising the huge impact the move will have on her life.
Everything Put Together
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Marc Forster; Writer: Adam Forgash, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Marc Forster; Stars: Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullally,
Catherine Lloyd Burns,
Jacqueline Heinze, Courtney
Watkins, Matt Malloy, Mark
Boone Junior, Blake Rossi, Justin
Louis, Michele Hicks, Alan Ruck)
A woman's life begins to unravel after her baby dies.
Cut and Miss Julie
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
(Country: USA; Year: 1999; Director: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato; Stars: Tammy Faye Bakker, Roe Messner, Jim Bakker, Rev. Mel White, Rupaul Charles)
A thoroughly entertaining romp through the life and times of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.
Empty Days (Rien a Faire)
(Country: France; Year: 1999; Director: Marion Vernoux; Writer: Santiago Amigorena; Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Patrick
Dell'Isola, Sergi Lopez and
Florence Thomassin)
Two people from opposite ends
of the social scale, both
previously laid off from very
different positions at the same
company meet in the
supermarket.
Eu Tu Eles (Me You Them)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2000; Director: Andrucha Waddington; Writer: Elena Soarez; Stars: Regina Case, Lima Duarte,
Stenio Garcia, Luiz Carlos
Vasconcelos, Nilda Spencer)
A woman has to keep the peace
between her three hubbies and
four kids.
The Exile
(Country: USA; Year: 1947; Director: Max Ophuls; Stars: Rita Corday, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, Maria Montez, Nigel Bruce and Milton Owen)
Charles II's attempts to elude the Roundheads.
Extension Du Domaine De La
Lutte (Whatever)
(Country: France; Year: 1999; Director: Philippe Harel; Writer: Philippe Harel, Michel
Houellebecq; Stars: Philippe Harel, Jose Garcia,
Catherine Mouchet, Cecile
Reigher, Philippe Agael, Philippe
Bianco)
Bleak look at life for single men in
the modern world.
Billy Elliot and Shiri
Faithless (Trolosa)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2000; Director: Liv Ullmann; Writer: Ingmar Bergman; Stars: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson,
Krister Henriksson, Thomas
Hanzon, Michelle Gylemo, Juni
Dahr, Phillip Zanden, Therese
Brunnander, Marie Richardson,
Stina Ekblad)
A woman tells the tale of her
infidelity.
Gaea Girls
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams)
Investigation into a school for female wrestlers in Japan.
George Washington
(Country: USA; Year: 2000; Director: David Gordon Green; Writer: David Gordon Green; Stars: Candace Evanofski, Donald
Holden, Curtis Cotton III, Eddie
Rouse, Damian Jewan Lee,
Rachael Handy, Paul Schneider)
A rites-of-passage for black kids
in small town North Carolina.
The Gleaners And I (Les Glaneurs Et La Glaneuse)
(Country: France; Year: 2000; Director: Agnes Varda; Writer: Agnes Varda)
Director Agnes Varda goes in
search of those who live on what
others leave behind.
Girlfight
(Country: USA; Year: 2000; Director: Karyn Kusama; Writer: Karyn Kusama; Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli,
Paul Calderon, Santiago
Douglas, Ray Santiago, Víctor
Sierra, Elisa Bocanegra,
Shannon Walker Williams, Louis
Guss, Herb Lovelle, Thomas
Barbour)
18-year-old girl from Brooklyn
learns to become a boxer.
The Gleaners And I and Our Song
Gohatto (Taboo)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1999; Director: Nagisa Oshima; Writer: Nagisa Oshima; Stars: Takashi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda,
Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano
and Koji Matoba)
A period tale of Samarai warriors
and their obsessions with
honour, love and death.
Groove
(Country: USA; Year: 1999; Director: Greg Harrison; Writer: Greg Harrison; Stars: Lola Glaudini, Hamish Linklater,
Denny Kirkwood, Steve Van
Wormer, Rachel True, Mackenzie
Firgens, Vincent Riverside, Ari
Gold, Angelo Spizzirri, John
Digweed)
Relationships are formed and
broken at a San Francisco rave.
Hollow Man
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Paul Verhoeven; Writer: Andrew W Marlowe; Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg, Joey Slotnick, Mary Randle, William Devane, Rhona Mitra, Pablo Espinosa, Margot Rose)
Modern take on the Invisible Man sees Kevin Bacon do a disappearing act.
The House Of Mirth
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Terence Davies; Writer: Terence Davies, based on the novel by Edith Wharton; Stars: Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Laura Linney, Anthony LaPaglia, Jodhi May, Elizabeth McGovern, Eric Stoltz)
A New York socialite faces financial ruin after falling victim to the rumour of an affair.
Human Resources (Ressources Humaines)
(Country: France; Year: 1999; Director: Laurent Cantet; Writer: Laurent Cantet, Gilles Marchand; Stars: Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod,
Chantal Barre, Veronique de
Pandelaere, Michel Begnez,
Lucien Longueville)
Clever son of factory worker
returns to work for the
management.
Chuck And Buck and Water Drops On Burning Rocks
Hidden Whisper (Xiao Bai Wu Tin Ji)
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2000; Director: Vivian Chang; Writer: Vivian Chang; Stars: Hsiao Shu-shen, Shu Qi, Elaine
Jin, Leon Dai, Tammy Tseng,
Hsia Ching-ting, Huang
Pin-hsuan. Jack Kao, Chang
Kuo-chu, Chia Hsiao-kuo)
Three Mother/daughter
relationships receive eloborate
cinematic analysis in a beautiful
but overlong drama.
Hotel Splendide
(Country: UK/France; Year: 2000; Director: Terence Gross; Writer: Terence Gross; Stars: Toni Collette, Danial Craig,
Stephen Tomkinson, Katrin
Cartidge, Peter Vaughn, Hugh
O'Conner, Helen McCrory)
Black comedy about a dark and dreary hotel spa.
In The Mood For Love
(Country: France / Hong Kong; Year: 2000; Director: Wong Kar Wai; Writer: Wong Kar Wai; Stars: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chen, Siu Ping-lam)
The history of a love affair that never was.
The Irrefutable Truth About
Demons
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2000; Director: Glenn Standring; Writer: Glenn Standring; Stars: Karl Urban, Katie Wolfe, Sally
Stockwell, Tony MacIver, Neill
Rea, Jonathon Hendry, Peter
Daubé, Keelson Henderson, Mel
Johnston, Perry Piercy)
Anthropologist falls foul of satanic
cult.
I Love (080, I Love 080)
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 1999; Director: Yang Li-chou)
Lonely soldiers make for
revealing viewing in this involved
documentary.
Everything Put Together and The House Of Mirth
The Jaundiced Eye
(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Nonny de la Pena; Writer: Nonny de la Pena; Stars: Melvin Matthews, Stephen
Matthews)
Documentary about two gay
men's struggle to overturn
convictions for child abuse.
The Junction (Torowisko)
(Country: Poland; Year: 1999; Director: Urszula Urbaniak; Writer: Urszula Urbaniak; Stars: Karoline Dryzner, Ewa Lorska,
Adam Woronowicz, Michal
Litwiniec, Ewa Dalkowska)
A lonely young romantic running
the signal box at a dilapidated
station plans her escape from her
small town in this touching little
drama.
Keeping The Faith
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Edward Norton; Writer: Stuart Blumberg; Stars: Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Milos Forman, Eli Wallach, Ron Rifkin)
Love triangle between a workaholic businesswoman, a rabbi and a Catholic priest.
The King Is Alive
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2000; Director: Kristian Levring; Writer: Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: David Bradely, Janet McTeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Romane Bohringer, Bruce Davison, Miles Anderson, David Calder, Brion James, Peter Kubheka, Vusi Kuene)
The social order starts to break down after bus travellers become stranded.
Koroshi
(Country: Japan; Year: 2000; Director: Masahiro Kobayashi; Writer: Masahiro Kobayashi; Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Nene Ootsuka,
Ken Mitsuishi, Takashi
Yamamoto)
After losing his job, Hawazaki
becomes a paid assassin of other
unemployed men.
Empty Days and The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Krampack
(Country: Spain; Year: 2000; Director: Cesc Gay; Writer: Cesc Gay, Tomas Aragay; Stars: Fernando Ramallo, Jordi
Vilches, Marieta Orozco, Esther
Nubiola, Cisco Amado)
Spanish teenage
rites-of-passage summer holiday
discovery of sexuality.
Legacy
(Country: USA; Year: 2000; Director: Tod S Lending; Writer: Tod S Lending)
The true life traumas of one
amazing family and their struggle
out of the housing projects that
have so badly affected their lives.
Letter From An Unknown Woman
(Country: USA; Year: 1948; Director: Max Ophuls; Writer: Howard Koch, Max Ophüls, Stefan Zweig; Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith, Carol Yorke, Howard Freeman, John Good, Leo B. Pessin, Erskine Sanford, Otto Waldis)
A woman falls for her neighbour
and maintains her unrequited
love down the years.
Life Doesn't Scare Me (La Vie Ne Me Fait Pas Peur)
(Country: France; Year: 1999; Director: Noemie Lvovsky; Writer: Noemie Lvovsky; Stars: Magalie Woch, Ingrid Molinier,
Julie-Marie Parmentier, Camille
Rousselet, Valeria Bruni
Tedeschi , Jean-Luc Bideau)
Four girls come of age in a movie
about love, sex and friendship.
Lista de Espera (Waiting List)
(Country: Spain / Cuba / France / Mexico / Germany; Year: 2000; Director: Juan Carlos Tabio; Writer: Juan Carlos Tabio and Arturo
Arango)
A group of Cubans create a
socialist utopia when they are
stranded in a bus station.
Blinker and Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
The Little Vampire
(Country: Germany/UK; Year: 2000; Director: Ulrich Edel; Writer: Karey Kirkpatrick, Larry Wilson,
based on the novels by Angela
Sommer-Bodenburg; Stars: Jonathan Lipnicki, Richard E
Grant, Rollo Weeks, Jim Carter,
Alice Krige, John Wood)
American kid in Scotland makes
friends with vampire boy.
Last Resort
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Paul Pawlikowski; Writer: Rowan Joffe; Stars: Dina Korzun, Artyom Strelnikov,
Paddy Considine, Steve Perry,
Perry Benson, Katie Drinkwater,
Dave Bean, Adrian Scarborough,
David Auker, Bruce Byron, James
Trevelyan)
A Russian and her son strive to cope with claiming political asylum in the UK.
Lola Montes (Lola Montez, The Fall of Lola Montes, The Sins of Lola Montes)
(Country: France/Germany; Year: 1955; Director: Max Ophuls; Writer: Annette Wademant, Max Ophuls, Jacques Natanson, Franz Geiger, Claude Heymann, Peter Ustinov, based on the novel La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montes by Cecil Saint-Laurent; Stars: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost, Oskar Werner, Jean Galland, Will Quadflieg)
Colourful and genuinely revolutionary film, which shows off the considerable imagination and technical prowess of the director. Newly restored version is being show at NYFF 2008.
Love And Sex (Love & Sex)
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Valerie Breiman; Writer: Valerie Breiman; Stars: Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich, Ann Magnuson, Cheri Oteri, Josh Hopkins, Robert Knepper, Vincent Ventresca, Kristen Zang, David Steinberg, Elimu Nelson)
On-off relationship between an artist and a writer.
Love At First Hiccough (Kaerlighed Ved Forste Hik)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 1999; Director: Tomas Villum Jensen; Writer: Soren Frellesen and Dennis
Jurgensen; Stars: Robert Hansen, Sofie
Lassen-Kahlke, Karl Bille, Mira
Wanting, Jonas Gulstorff,
Rasmus Albeck, Jocachim Knop)
A Danish American Pie, this
keenly observed and wickedly
funny romantic comedy is a real
winner.
Nurse Betty and Dark Days
The Low Down
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Jamie Thraves; Writer: Jamie Thraves; Stars: Aiden Gillen, Kate Ashford, Dean Lennox Kelly, Rupet Proctor, Tobias Menzies, Samantha Powers, Deanna Smiles)
Lives and loves of a group of twentysomethings.
The Luzhin Defence
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Marleen Gorris; Writer: Peter Berry, based on a story by
Vladimir Nabokov; Stars: John Turturro, Emily Watson,
Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson,
Christopher Thompson, Fabio
Sartor)
A chess player falls for a
socialite.
Marshal Tito's Spirit (Marsal, Marshal)
(Country: Croatia; Year: 1999; Director: Vinko Bresan; Writer: Ivo Bresan, Vinko Bresan; Stars: Drazen Kuhn, Linda Begonja, Ivo
Gregurevic, Ilija Ivezic, Boris
Buzancic, Ljubo Kapor)
Communism resurrected in a
sweet Croatian Ealing style
comedy.
Me And Isaac Newton (Me & Isaac Newton)
(Country: USA; Year: 1999; Director: Michael Apted; Stars: Gertrude Elion, Ashok Gadgil,
Michio Kaku, Maja Mataric,
Steven Pinker, Karol Sikora,
Patricia Chapple Wright)
A documentary exploring the
inspiration which drives a
remarkable group of seven
scientists.
Miss Julie
(Country: UK; Year: 1999; Director: Mike Figgis; Writer: Helen Cooper, based on the play
by August Strindberg; Stars: Peter Mullan, Saffron Burrows,
Maria Doyle Kennedy)
A count's daughter is seduced by
a footman.
A Brief History of Errol Morris and Legacy
My Heart (Jung, Jeong)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2000; Director: Bae Chang-ho; Writer: Bae Chang-ho, Kim Yoo-mee; Stars: Kim Yoo-mee, Kim Myung-kon,
Yoon Yoo-sun, Nam Jung-hee)
Tragic story sees a woman recall
her life.
Nurse Betty
(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Neil LaBute; Writer: John C Richards, James Flamberg; Stars: Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Tia Texada, Crispin Glover, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Allison Janney, Kathleen Wilhoite, Elizabeth Mitchell)
A waitress becomes obsessed with chasing her soap opera dreams after witnessing her husband's murder.
One Day In The Life Of Andrei Arsenevich
(Country: France; Year: 1999; Director: Chris Marker; Writer: Chris Marker; Stars: Andrei Tarkovsky)
Documentary about director Andrei Tarkovsky.
One Life Stand
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: May Miles Thomas; Writer: May Miles Thomas; Stars: Maureen Carr, Gary Lewis, John Kielty, Archie Lal, Alyson Orr, Johanna Law)
Life is tough for a single mum in a Glasgow tenement.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (o brother where art thou, o brother)
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Joel Coen; Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen; Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Burke Nelson, Holly Hunter, John Goodman)
Chain gang escapees in Deep South emulate a comic Odyssey.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? and George Washington
Our Song
(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Jim McKay; Writer: Jim McKay; Stars: Kerry Washington, Anna Simpson, Melissa Martinez)
Three teenage girls coping with growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
The Price Of Milk
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2000; Director: Harry Sinclair; Writer: Harry Sinclair; Stars: Danielle Cormack, Karl Urban, Willa O'Neill, Rangi Motu, Micheal Lawrence, Lawrence Makoare, Chris Graham, Ray Bishop, Toi Iti, Jeram Bhana)
Romantic and fantastical cow farming odyssey.
Purely Belter
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Mark Herman; Writer: Mark Herman, based on The Season Ticket by Jonathan Tuloch; Stars: Chris Beattie, Greg McLane, Charlie Hardwick, Tim Healy, Roy Hudd, Kevin Whately, Jody Baldwin, Kerry Ann Christiansen, Tracy Whitwell)
Two kids bunk off school and come up with scams to make cash for a Newcastle season ticket.
Ring 0 (Ringu 0: Baasudei, Ring 0: Birthday)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2000; Director: Norio Tsuruta; Writer: Koji Suzuki; Stars: Yuki Nakama, Kumiko Aso, Daisuke Ban, Chinami Furuya, Mashami Hashimoto, Kazue Kadokae)
Prequel to the infamous Ring cycle.
Ring 2 (Ring Two, Ringu 2)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1999; Director: Hideo Nakata; Writer: Hiroshi Takahashi; Stars: Miki Najatabu, Kyoko Fukada, Yuko Takeuchi, Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada)
Effective sequel to the original Ring.
De Grote Vakantie and The Junction
Rio Escondido (Hidden River)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 1999; Director: Mercedes Garcia Guevara; Writer: Mercedes Garcia Guevara; Stars: Paola Krum, Juan Palomino, Pablo Cedrón, María José Gabín, Laura Melillo, Inés Baum, Matías Del Pozo, Rafael Alaniz, Luis Alcaíno, Elías Carrasco, Mirta Ceballos)
A woman heads to her husband's home town after she begins to suspect he is cheating on her.
Ring (Ringu)
(Country: Japan/South Korea; Year: 1998; Director: Hideo Nakata; Writer: Hiroshi Takayashi, based on the novel by Koji Suzuki; Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato)
A cursed video that spawned a thousand sequels and remakes makes its debut.
La Ronde (Roundabout)
(Country: France; Year: 1950; Director: Max Ophuls; Writer: Louis Ducreux, Kurt Feltz, Jacques Natanson, Max Ophuls, based on the play Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler; Stars: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey, Odette Joyeux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Isa Miranda, Gérard Philipe)
The love lives of a series of inter-related characters.
The Season Of Men (La Saison Des Hommes)
(Country: France; Year: 2000; Director: Moufida Tlatli; Writer: Nouri Bouzid, Moufida Tlatli; Stars: Rabiaa Ben Abdallah, Sabah Bouzouita, Ghalia Ben Ali, Hend Sabri, Ezzedien Gennoun, Mouna Noureddine)
Tunisian women spend 11 months of the year together on an island without their men.
Shiri (Swiri)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 1999; Director: Kang Je-gyu; Writer: Kang Je-gyu; Stars: Han Suk-kyu, Choi Min-sik, Kim Yoon-jin, Song Kang-ho, Derek Kim)
Excellent and enjoyable action flick with high body count - think Korean Nikita.
101 Reykjavik and Eu Tu Eles
La Signora Di Tutti (Everybody's Woman)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1934; Director: Max Ophuls; Writer: Curt Alexander, based on the novel by Salvatore Gotta; Stars: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Friedrich Benfer, Tatyana Pavlova and Nelly Corradi)
The story of a woman who has lived a scandalous life.
Simon Magus And The Nine Lives Of Thomas Katz
(Country: UK; Year: 1999; Director: Ben Hopkins; Writer: Ben Hopkins (Simon Magus); Thomas Browne, Ben Cheek, and Ben Hopkins (Tomas Katz); Stars: Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend, Sean McGinley, Rutger Hauer, Ian Holm, Embeth Davidtz. Tomas Katz: Tom Fisher, Ian McNeice)
Two films by director Ben Hopkins.
Some Voices
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Simon Cellan Jones; Writer: Joe Penhall; Stars: Daniel Craig, David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Graham, Peter McDonald, Nicholas Palliser, Huss Garbiya, Edward Tudor-Pole, Ashley Walters, Gem Durham, Cate Fowler)
Love story between ex-mental health patient and pregnant Scots girl in London.
Tell Me Something (Telmisseomding)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 1999; Director: Chang Yoon-hyun; Writer: Chang Yoon-hyung, In Eun-ah, Kim Eun-jeong, Kong Su-chang, Shim Hye-weon; Stars: Han Suk-kyu , Shim Eun-ha , Jang Hang-seon, An Seok-hwan, Park Cheol-ho , Yu Jun-sang, Lee Hwan-jun)
Multiple murders appear connected to a mysterious girl.
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: John Hay; Writer: Simon Mayle, John Hay, Rik Carmichael; Stars: Robert Carlyle, Gina McKee, Ray Winstone, Lewis McKenzie, Ben Miller, Jane Lapotaire)
A misfit schoolkid dreams of being a footie star.
The Exile and Koroshi
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her
(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Rodrigo Garcia; Writer: Rodrigo Garcia; Stars: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Holly Hunter, Amy Brenneman)
Disparate lives of five Californan women in search of something else.
Timecode 2000 (Timecode, Time Code, Time Code 2000)
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Mike Figgis; Writer: Mike Figgis; Stars: Salma Hayek, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Stellan Skarsgard, Saffron Burrows, Kyle MacLachlan, Holly Hunter, Julian Sands)
Experimental film, using split-screen to tell its story about the day in the life of Hollywood folk.
A Time For Drunken Horses (Zamani Baraye Masti Ashba)
(Country: Iran; Year: 2000; Director: Bahman Ghobadi; Writer: Bahman Ghobadi; Stars: Nezhad Ekhtiar-Dini, Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini, Madi Ekhtiar-Dini)
A young Kurdish boy must support his family in Northern Iran.
Titus
(Country: USA; Year: 1999; Director: Julie Traynor; Writer: Julie Taymor, based on Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare; Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, James Frain, Angus Macfadyen, Matthew Ryhs, Alan Cumming, Laura Fraser)
Modern reworking of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy.
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Oh! Soo-Jung)
(Country: Korea; Year: 2000; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Lee Eun-joo, Jung Bo-suk, Moon Sun-keun, Lee Hwang-Ui)
Sex and romance in Seoul.
Aberdeen and Life Doesn't Scare Me
Water Drops On Burning Rocks (Gouttes D'eau Sur Pierres Brûlantes)
(Country: France; Year: 2000; Director: Francois Ozon; Writer: Francois Ozon, based on the play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Stars: Bernard Girandeau, Ludivine Sagnier, Malik Zidi, Anna Thomson)
A businessman seduces a twentysomething man, only for trouble to ensue after he moves in with him.
You Can Count On Me
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Kenneth Lonergan; Writer: Kenneth Lonergan; Stars: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Rory Culkin, Jon Tenney, Gaby Hoffman)
A drifter brother returns home to stay with sister and eight-year-old son in upstate New York.
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