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VersusVersus (2001)
Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Tak Sakaguchi, Kenji Matsuda
The zombie genre is resurrected yet again, here spliced with Asian combat routines and punk–gangster gunplay, and set in the local woods on an…
Vertical Ray of the Sun, TheVertical Ray of the Sun, The (At the Height of Summer) (2001)
Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Tran Nu Yen-Khe, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Le Khanh
Conjuring once more the scent, hue and atmosphere of Vietnam, the dir. of SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA depicts the complicated sisterhood of three women in…
Volcano HighVolcano High (Whasango) (2001)
Dir. Tae-gyun Kim
Wildly action–packed Korean thriller, set in a future high–school where combat–trained, telekinetic students and staff slug it out…
Warm Water Under a Red BridgeWarm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) Recommended
Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
Nourishing sex fable in which Japanese everyman Koji Yakusho, down and out after losing his wife and job, discovers the joys of making love to a…
What Time Is It There?What Time Is It There? (2001) Recommended
Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Cecilia Yip, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Three forlorn individuals bide their time between grief, ennui and loneliness in this minimalist – and unusually talky – masterpiece from…
Wind Will Carry Us, TheWind Will Carry Us, The (2001) Recommended
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Behzad Dourani
Carried by the dir.’s deadpan comic instincts and more minimally poetic, this quasi–fable concerns (what seems to be) a documentary crew who…
Would I Lie to You Again?Would I Lie to You Again? (2001)
Dir. Thomas Gilou
Feat. Richard Anconina, Jose Garcia, Bruno Solo
Boys–will–be–boys comedy revisits the ‘Jewish’ entrepreneurs of WOULD I LIE TO YOU?, now in need to an all–new…
Y Tu Mama TambienY Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
101 Reykjavik101 Reykjavik (2000) Recommended
Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Victoria Abril
An endearingly skewed yet unexpectedly poignant sex comedy moored in the 30–below temperatures of the Icelandic winter, about a…
A Moment of InnocenceA Moment of Innocence (2000) Recommended
Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A slowly unfolding tale of the dir.'s own involvement in the stabbing of a policeman when he was an Islamic radical in the 1970s. Subsequently…

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