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

* It's taken seven years, but the director of Bhaji on the Beach
has steered the follow-up through Hollywood 19/08/01 R 9 1>4
Photographs
* A French blockbuster starring Gerard Depardieu will steal
Hollywood's thunder next month when it becomes the first film
to be shown using revolutionary digital technology 26/08/01 B
22 1>8 Photographs
* Cameron Diaz is tipped to star as the glamorous dotcom
founder of boo.com who helped to squander £100m when the
story is turned into a Hollywood blockbuster 26/08/01 B 3 1>6
Photographs
* Films that flop 26/08/01 R 5 1>5 Photographs
* Quality is forsaken as Hollywood studios perfect the 'hit' and
run 26/08/01 N 7 1>5 Photographs
* Review of Lucky Break/Le Secret/At the Height of
Summer/Heartbreakers/Josie and the Pussycats/Crocodile
Dundee in Los Angeles 26/08/01 R 8 1>6 Photographs
* Review of Tears of the Black Tiger 26/08/01 R 8 1>5
Photographs
* This year's surprise US hit, The Fast and the Furious, is the
latest high-octaine film to celebrate cars on screen 26/08/01 R 9
1>4 Photographs
* Hollywood stars Russell Crowe and Kenneth Branagh will
both portray Sir Ernest Shackleton in two screen treatments of
the explorer's heroic attempt on the South Pole - see Shackleton,
Sir Ernest 02/09/01
* Philip French's top five films on current release 02/09/01 R 7
4>5
* Review of A Knight's Tale 02/09/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Review of What's Cooking/Suspicious River/Hedwig and the
Angry Inch/Angel Eyes 02/09/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Pauline Kael 1919-2001, the film critics' film critic - see
Deaths 09/09/01
* Review of Moulin Rouge 09/09/01 R 7 1>5 Photograph
* Review of startup.com 09/09/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Review of The Forsaken/Scary Movie 2 09/09/01 R 7 6
* Autumn film round-up 09/09/01 R 8>9 1>5 Photograph
* Antonio Banderas is to play Ayrton Senna, who died in a blaze
of glory, in a Hollywood movie that will electrify the world of
Formula 1 - see Sport: Motor Racing 16/09/01
* Following in the steps of the poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge
in the West Country as a new film cements their legend - see
Travel 16/09/01
* Interview with actress Frances O'Connor who stars in A.I. - see
O'Connor, Frances 16/09/01
* Review of Battle Royale/Shiner/The Fast and the Furious/
Greenfingers/The Martins 16/09/01 R 7 1>4 Photographs
* Review of Pandemonium 16/09/01 R 7 1>5 Photograph
* Review of the re-release of Sweet Smell of Success 16/09/01
R 7 5>6 Photograph
* Britain's film industry is drawing up contingency plans to
avoid the worst effects of an actors' strike already paralysing
some of the biggest films planned for release next year 23/09/01
B 7 1>4 Photograph
* Movie fans vote for poster with a real bite 23/09/01 B 7 5>6
Photograph
* Review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence 23/09/01 R 7 1>4
Photographs
* Review of The Circle/crazy/beautiful/The Centre of the World
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23/09/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Audiences have lot their appetites for hijackings and violence,
just as in the years after the war and the JFK assassination,
escapist entertainment will dominate TV and the movies
23/09/01 R 9 1>5 Photographs
* For his debut film, South West Nine, director Richard Parry
wanted to capture the authentic face of Brixton, south London,
so he took to casting straight off its streets - see Parry, Richard
30/09/01
* Will Buckley watches a screening of Mike Bassett: England
Manager with a few brave souls and it leaves him feeling gutted
- see Sport: Football 30/09/01
* Italian cinema brings sensuality to the screen 30/09/01 M
28>35 1>4 Photographs
* Review of Enigma/Mike Bassett: England Manager/George
Washington/The Brothers 30/09/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* Review of The Score 30/09/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Historians and war veterans have attacked the makers of
'Enigma' the new British blockbuster, for producing a film that is
a 'travesty of history' - see History 07/10/01
* Review of Amelie 07/10/01 R 9 1>6 Photographs
* Review of Original Sin/Driven/La Cienaga/The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre 2 07/10/01 R 9 1>6 Photographs
* Pierce Brosnan, Bond star, returns to his Irish roots to film
cathartic story that chimes with his own unhappy past - see
Brosnan, Pierce 14/10/01
* Since they met while filming State of Grace in 1990, Sean
Penn and Robin Wright Penn have made four more movies
together - see Penn, Sean & Robin Wright 14/10/01
* A handful of young directors are breaking with the past to
bring a daring new view of Britain 14/10/01 R 8 1>7
Photographs
* Jason Solomons's top five films on current release 14/10/01 R
9 6>7
* Review of South West Nine/Peaches/American Pie 2/Un
Banco En El Parque 14/10/01 R 9 1>5 Photographs
* Review of The Pledge 14/10/01 R 9 1>6 Photographs
* Interview with the veteran director, Bernardo Bertolucci - see
Bertolucci, Bernardo 21/10/01
* Review of America's Sweethearts/La Ville est
tranquille/Jeepers Creepers/Atlantis: The Lost Empire 21/10/01
R 7 1>5 Photographs
* Review of Brotherhood of the Wolf 21/10/01 R 7 1>6
Photographs
* Review of the re-release of Annie Hall 21/10/01 R7 7 6>7
Photograph
* Profile on Chris Columbus, film director, writer and producer -
see Columbus, Chris 28/10/01
* Philip French's top five films on current release 28/10/01 R 7
3>4
* Review of Legally Blonde/Wild About Harry/Asoka/Eureka/
Little Otik/Presque Rien 28/10/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* Review of The Man Who Wasn't There 28/10/01 R 7 1>5
Photographs
* The Others, the first grown-up horror movie in years owes
nothing to effects and everything to childish nightmares and
Nicole Kidman 28/10/01 R 9 1>7 Photographs
* Even George Bush wants to see a new film about the suffering
in Afghanistan under the Taliban - see International Affairs: