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Liberty HeightsLiberty Heights (2000)
Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Adrien Brody, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth
Drawing once again on memories of his Baltimore childhood, dir. Levinson (DINER) examines life for a Jewish family on the eve of the rock'n'roll era…
Love and BasketballLove and Basketball (2000)
Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood
Feat. Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Debbi Morgan
Engaging romantic drama about two next–door neighbours in Los Angeles who each pursue their basketball careers before eventually falling for…
LumumbaLumumba (2000) Recommended
Dir. Raoul Peck
Feat. Eric Ebouaney
A strident and fittingly uncompromising biopic about an African political icon, Patrice Lumumba, who liberated the Congo from Belgium in the late…
Luzhin Defence, TheLuzhin Defence, The (2000)
Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. John Turturro, Emily Watson
Combining the intricacies of the chessboard with manoeuvres of the heart, this Nabakov adaptation opens its game at a chess tournament in 1920s…
Mad Dogs and EnglishmenMad Dogs and Englishmen (How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog) (2000)
Dir. Michael Kalesniko
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright, Jared Harris
Kenneth Branagh brings a rumpled, harassed charm to his role as a playwright whose career is interrupted by 'writer's block', a condition exacerbated…
Madame BovaryMadame Bovary (2000)
Dir. Tim Fywell
Feat. Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Frances O’Connor
Typically lavish BBC costumer, here tackling Gustave Flaubert's classic French tragi–romance with gusto and explicit sex. Frances O'Connor…
MagnoliaMagnolia (2000)
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Robards Jr., William H. Macy
A sprawling, stylistically–impressive but moribund domestic melodrama about Californian amorality and redemption (of sorts), with interleaved…
MalenaMalena (2000)
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Monica Bellucci
The dir. of CINEMA PARADISO throws an amber–lit glow around a man’s memory of a boyhood infatuation in his hometown in WWII Sicily.…
Me You ThemMe You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000) Recommended
Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia
Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
Men of HonourMen of Honour (2000)
Dir. George Tillman Jr.
Feat. Cuba Jr. Gooding, Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron
As a US Navy serviceman in WW2, Cuba Gooding Jnr. overcomes institutionalised racism, then prejudice in another form later in life when he suffers a…

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