The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

* Review of Vertical Limit/Bounce/Requiem For a Dream/The
Lost Lover/Beautiful Creatures 21/01/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* The Claim is an epic western with a difference - it's made by a
British team and the story is by Thomas Hardy 21/01/01 R 8
1>5 Photographs
* In 'What Women Want', Mel Gibson can read women's
thoughts - five writers reveal the mysteries of what really goes
on inside their heads - see Film 28/01/01
* Robert Redford's annual Sundance Film Festival has sold it's
soul to rock 'n' roll 28/01/01 B 22 7>8 Photograph
* Cinemagoers have voted for their favourite actor and film
genre 28/01/01 B 7 1>8 Photograph
* Philip French's top five films on current release 28/01/01 R 8
6
* Review of Pay It Forward/Woman on Top/The Low Down
28/01/01 R 8 1>6 Photographs
* Review of Traffic 28/01/01 R 8 1>5 Photographs
* Philip French looks at the contenders at the Oscars and picks
his personal favourites 28/01/01 R 9 1>5 Photographs
* Director Terry Gilliam's £32m film about Don Quixote, wasn't
meant to be - see Gilliam, Terry 04/02/01
* The 10 best sporting films of all time - see Sport 04/02/01
* Pearl Harbour survivors attack new Hollywood movie
04/02/01 B 14 1>8 Photographs
* Review of The Claim 04/02/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Review of What Women Want/Shadow of the
Vampire/Second Skin 04/02/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Shocked US audiences prove that Anthony Hopkins still has an
appetite for his role in Hannibal 04/02/01 R 9 1>5 Photographs
* Sundance Film Festival 04/02/01 R 9 1>3
* Bombay's film industry lives on escapism, but is stalked now
by death - see International Affairs: Indian Sub-Continent
11/02/01
* Euan Ferguson meets… Ken Russell - see Russell, Ken
11/02/01
* Kate Winslet appeared at the Berlin International Film Festival
to promote the film Quills, about the Marquis de Sade - see
Winslet, Kate 11/02/01
* Review of Almost Famous/Remember the Titans/Dude,
Where's My Car?/The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
11/02/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Review of Faithless 11/02/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* Philip French's top five films on current release 11/02/01 R 8
5
* David Gritten joins the shoot of the Oscar-tipped Chocolat in a
typical sunlit French garden - somewhere in Somerset 11/02/01
R 9 1>5 Photographs
* The centre of old Saigon stepped back nearly 50 years as
filming started on an Australian adaptation of Graham Greene's,
The Quiet American - see International Affairs: S.E. Asia
18/02/01
* The man who decides what's fit for us to see at the cinema is
predicting an end to legally-enforced ratings 18/02/01 B 11 1>6
Photographs
* The new Harry Potter film is seriously behind schedule
18/02/01 B 6 1>8 Photographs
* Review of Hannibal 18/02/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Review of Songs From the Second Floor/State and
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Main/Centre Stage/Breakfast at Tiffany's/The Emperor's New
Groove/Dungeons and Dragons 18/02/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* Oscar viewpoint with Philip French 18/02/01 R 8 5
Photograph
* Liam Neeson and Bob Hoskins are to star in multi-million
pound Hollywood film about the ordeal of Stephen Downing,
who was imprisoned for 27 years for a murder he did not commit
- see Downing, Stephen 25/02/01
* To portray Jackson Pollock in the movie Pollock, Ed Harris
learnt to paint, slept in the artist's bed and smoked his fags - it
paid off 25/02/01 R 5 1>5 Photographs
* The rush to sign up film rights to the hot new books of British
writers 25/02/01 B 6 1>8 Photographs
* The Servant - the film and its impact 25/02/01 R 6 1>5
Photographs
* When it comes to sex, the film world is more neurotic than
erotic - directors tell how the deal with love scenes 25/02/01 R 7
1>5 Photographs
* Philip French's top five films on current release 25/02/01 R 9
4>5
* Review of Liam 25/02/01 R 9 1>5 Photographs
* Review of The Legend of Baggier Vance/Finding
Forrester/The Invisible Circus 25/02/01 R 9 1>6 Photographs
* Last month's 10 best sporting films - see Sport 04/03/01
* Privatisation plans for the famed Mosfilm studios in Russia
have outraged leaders of a struggling industry - see International
Affairs: Russia 04/03/01
* The future of Britain as a film production centre could be
threatened if the Treasury moves to reform valuable tax breaks
04/03/01 N 1 1>3 Photograph
* The British film industry knows its place in the world -
servicing Hollywood 04/03/01 N 12 1>8 Photographs
* Preview of the new British movie, Bridget Jones's Diary
04/03/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* As two new movies about US Presidents head for Britain,
Peter Preston asks why America turns its leaders into gods while
ours remain mortal 04/03/01 R 8 1>6 Photographs
* Review of Chocolat/The Gift/The Tao of Steve 04/03/01 R 9
1>3 Photograph
* Review of Proof of Life 04/03/01 R 9 1>5 Photographs
* You Can Count On Me beat the odds to become this year's
indie success story 11/03/01 R 10 1>5 Photographs
* The new film by acclaimed French director Luc Besson was
set to be a box-office hit, but the director is being sued by the
film's scriptwriters 11/03/01 B 23 1>2 Photographs
* Review of Best in Show 11/03/01 R 9 1>5 Photographs
* Review of Born Romantic/The Watcher/Dark Days 11/03/01
R 9 1>6 Photographs
* Chicken Run, the film that has made more than $100m in the
US is the subject of a claim by Alan Davidson that it is based on
his book, Escape from Cold Ditch, published in 1994 18/03/01
B 16 1>5 Photograph
* Review of Last Resort 18/03/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Review of Thirteen Days/Enemy at the Gates/Malena/Audition
18/03/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* As two new films satirise the excesses of TV, Adam Smith
asks why does Hollywood always sneer at the small screen?
18/03/01 R 8 1>5 Photographs
* A week before the Oscars, Philip French salutes the most