Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (2000)- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson, Robin Laing, Charles Dance - A rather fascinating speculation which dramatises the real–life relationship between "Sherlock Homes"–author Arthur Conan Doyle (Laing)…
My Family (TV Series) (2000-2006)- Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Robert Lindsay
- Sturdy British sitcom with Zoe Wanamaker and Robert Lindsay at the head of middle–class family whose dysfunctions range from the petty…
My Mother Frank (2000)- Dir. Mark Lamprell
Feat. Sinead Cusack, Sam Neill, Sacha Horler… - Sober comedy with an 'it's never too late' theme, is nicely done despite some rather convenient plotting. Mother and widow Sinead Cusack decides…
Nicholas Nickleby (TV Series) (2000)- Dir. Stephen Whittaker
Feat. James D'Arcy, Charles Dance - An ITV version of Charles Dickens’ saga of family misfortune. Young Nicholas (James D’Arcy) must fight his malevolent uncle (Charles Dance) to…
Nuremberg (2000)- Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox…
- This two part miniseries follows the Chief Prosecutor through the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.
O (Othello) (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles - Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Platform (Zhantai) (2000)- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao - Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…
Pledge, The (2000)- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Helen Mirren… - Sean Penn as director's pledge to the stuff of raw drama pays off with a thriller/parable centred round a powerhouse turn from Jack Nicholson. As…
Pollock (2000)- Dir. Ed Harris
Feat. Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan… - The life of ‘Abstract Expressionist’ painter Jackson Pollock, is rendered with bold, heartfelt strokes by dir. Harris in his debut effort (also…
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