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Chicago
Dir: Rob Marshall. US. 2002. 113minsMoulin Rouge last year proved that there was box-office life in the movie musical. The eagerly anticipated Chicago should confirm that, at least in North America, where it opens on Dec 27, and other English-language territories. Buzz is furious on both coasts for the film ...
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Analyze That
Dir. Harold Ramis. US. 2002. 95mins.Analyze That reunites the cast and creative talent of the hit 1999 comedy and, as with most sequels, the result is a half-measure. But while critics are apt to consider the glass half-empty, audiences are sure to find it half-full, although its $11m opening on ...
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Abouna (Our Father)
Dir: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Chad 2002. 81mins. An engaging, low-key coming-of-age story that rings the emotional changes with confidence elegance, the second feature from Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the director of Bye Bye Africa, is a tender, accessible piece that has better prospects for wide exposure than any African feature in a long ...
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Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
Dir: George Clooney. US 2002. 112minsGeorge Clooney dons two hats for Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind - actor and director - but that's nothing compared to the double life that the film's real-life protagonist enjoys. If former TV game show creator Chuck Barris (The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, The ...
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Sonny
Dir: Nicolas Cage. US. 2002. 110mins.Nicolas Cage's first film as a director is a moody, atmospheric Southern drama starring up-and-comer James Franco in a sexily tragic role that Cage reportedly considered taking on himself earlier in his career. While it could eventually lead to bigger jobs behind the camera for ...
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The Housekeeper (Une Femme De Menage)
Dir: Claude Berri. France. 88 min.Wistful, wry and touching, The Housekeeper is a small but finely observed tale about a middle-aged man who takes on a young girl as a cleaning woman and gets more than he bargained for. Claude Berri closes out a fabulously successful year as France's leading ...
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
Dir: Peter Jackson. New Zealand-US. 2002. 179mins.The second film in Peter Jackson's trilogy of JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings is one of the year's best. Having introduced the elaborate story and its myriad characters in the much-garlanded first film The Fellowship Of The Ring, Jackson is now free ...
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Gangs Of New York
Dir: Martin Scorsese. US. 2002. 165 mins.In terms of old-fashioned spectacle, few films today come anywhere near Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York. Already a part of movie folklore, the shooting of Gangs on mammoth sets at Rome's Cinecitta Studios is probably the last of its kind. A gargantuan undertaking, ...
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Foreign Language Oscar submissions
National submissions for Best Foreign Language OscarClick on the underlined titles to read the Screen International reviewAfghanistan FireDancer- Jawed WasselAlgeria Rachida - Yamina Bachir-Chouikh Argentina Kamchatka - Marcelo PineyroAustria Gebirtig (Gebuertig)- Lukas Stepanik and Robert SchindelBangladesh The Clay Bird (Matir Moina) - Tareque MasudBelgium The Son (Le Fils) - Jean-Pierre ...
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Deathwatch
Dir: Michael J Bassett. UK. 2002. 95 mins.The old maxim that war is hell gets dusted down yet again for Deathwatch, a horror film set in the trenches of World War I which will attract attention as Jamie Bell's first role since his applauded and awarded performance in Billy Elliott ...
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Eight Crazy Nights
Dir: Seth Kearsley. US 2002. 71 minutesAdam Sandler has been extending his acting range recently but Eight Crazy Nights, an animated film in which he voices most of the key characters, is not likely to be confused with Punch Drunk Love. Comedies are always a tough sell abroad and Sandler ...
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I'm Taraneh, 15
Dir: Rassul Sadr-Ameli. Iran. 2002. 110 mins. A young single mother's struggle for survival is the theme of a compelling story that's both universally recognisable and packed with revealing detail unique to contemporary Iran. The country's official candidate for the Foreign Language Oscar and a critical and popular hit there, ...
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Out
Dir: Hideyuki Hirayama. Japan. 2002. 119 mins.Every once in a while a Japanese movie comes along that translates well across borders, whether as an original or a remake. Hideo Nakata's Ringu was one, Hideyuki Hirayama's Out, a black comedy about three women who chop up bodies for cash, is another, ...
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Solaris
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US 2002. 99 minutes For a film which purports to be about the deepest recesses of the human heart, this sci-fi romance is curiously lacking in emotion. It is a fatal flaw and, while the marquee value of international heartthrob Clooney and wunderkind film-maker Soderbergh promises encouraging ...
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Treasure Planet
Dir: John Musker & Ron Clements. US. 2002. 95 mins. Walt Disney Feature Animation follow up the delightful Lilo & Stitch with a more conventional holiday programmer in Treasure Planet, an entertaining, but perfunctory animated adventure which will come third on kids' wishlists after live-action family movies Harry Potter And ...
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Wild Bees (Divoke Vcely)
Dir: Bohdan Slama. Czech Republic. 2001. 94minsThis good-natured countryside romp has already secured a place in a number of film festivals, from Rotterdam onwards. While there is no denying its unspoilt natural flavour and its light, insouciant charm, it is also difficult to ignore its lack of a real story, ...
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Gebirtig
Dirs: Lukas Stepanik, Robert Schindel. Austria 2002. 115minsAdapted from Robert Schindel's own successful novel of the same name, this Austrian candidate for the 2002 foreign Oscars delivers one of the more intelligent, caustic and lucid films made on the country's share in Nazi guilt, an issue that has been repeatedly ...
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Adaptation
Dir: Spike Jonze. US. 2002. 114mins "The best script I've ever read" is a line oft spoken, by star Meryl Streep among many others, of Adaptation, the eagerly awaited reunion of writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze after 1999's Being John Malkovich turned American movies on their head. The ...
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See How They Run (Embrassez Qui Vous Voudrez)
Dir: Michel Blanc. France. 103minsFrench comedy writer-actor Michel Blanc has struck critical and commercial pay dirt with his fourth directing effort in two decades. See How They Run is a darkly funny, sometimes farcical comedy of manners during a traditional summer holiday at the French seaside. Tart comic portraiture and ...