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

Middle East 04/11/01
* The film of Harry Potter will soon compete with the screen
version of Lord of the Rings - how Hollywood fell in love with
fantasy 04/11/01 B 24 1>7 Photographs
* Review of Osmosis Jones/The Animal/New Year's
Day/Gabriel & Me/This Filthy Earth 04/11/01 R 7 1>6
Photographs
* Review of The Others 04/11/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* Review of the London Film Festival 11/11/01 R 6 3>5
Photograph
* Philip French's top five films on current release 11/11/01 R 7
4>5
* Review of Kiss of the Dragon/Strictly Sinatra/Jump
Tomorrow/The Body 11/11/01 R 7 1>3 Photograph
* Review of La Strada 11/11/01 R 7 4>5
* Review of The Piano Teacher 11/11/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* Aurore Clement was devastated when her role in Apocalypse
Now was cut, but more than 20 years on, she's ready to take her
chance to shine 11/11/01 R 8 1>6 Photographs
* Review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 11/11/01
R 9 1>7 Photographs
* Few homegrown actors are capable of 'opening' a movie, so
what's a producer to do when Hugh, Kate and Ewan are
otherwise engaged? - see Actors & Actresses 18/11/01
* Review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 18/11/01
R 7 1>6 Photographs
* Review of Kandahar 18/11/01 R 7 1>8 Photograph
* Review of Ghost World/Disco Pigs/Mr Brother Tom 18/11/01
R 9 1>8 Photograph
* David Baddiel is best known as one half the comic duo
Baddiel and Skinner, now he is to breathe new life into the
country's film industry by finding funny film ideas - see Comedy
25/11/01
* Review of Apocalypse Now Redux 25/11/01 R 9 5>8
Photograph
* Review of Heist 25/11/01 R 9 1>8 Photographs
* Review of Spy Game/Eloge de l'amour/Me Without
You/Glitter/Baby Boy 25/11/01 R 9 1>4 Photographs
* The British actor Ewan McGregor was in Berlin last night to
collect a European cinema award for his role as a lovesick writer
in Moulin Rouge - see McGregor, Ewan 02/12/01
* Philip French's top five films on current release 02/12/01 R 7
4>8 Photographs
* Review of Meet Me in St Louis 02/12/01 R 7 1>3 Photograph
* Review of Storytelling 02/12/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* Review of The Devil's Backbone/Bandits/Jay and Silent Bob
Strike Back/Zoolander/John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
02/12/01 R 7 4>8 Photographs
* Writer-directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee's second
film in eight years is worth the wait 02/12/01 R 9 1>6
Photographs
* Next week, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings will try to leap
from being Book of the Century to Movie of the Millennium
09/12/01 R 5 1>7 Photographs
* Philip French's top five films on current release 09/12/01 R 7
2>3
* Review of A Ma Soeur!/Riding in Cars with Boys/Women
Talking Dirty/The 51st State/Dog Eat Dog/Christmas Carol -
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The Movie 09/12/01 R 7 1>5 Photograph
* Review of The Believer 09/12/01 R 7 1>6 Photographs
* As she makes her film debut in Benoit Jacquot's Tosca,
Romanian diva Angela Gheorghiu talks to Peter Conrad
09/12/01 R 9 1>6 Photograph
* On the eve of a powerful new film, the reality and legend of
Muhammad Ali - see Ali, Muhammad 16/12/01
* Review of South Pacific/Privates on Parade/Aladdin 16/12/01
R 11 1>8 Photographs
* Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
16/12/01 R 7 1>5 Photographs
* The starry image of Los Angeles is familiar from a million
movies but David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is one of the few
films to capture the darker, bizarre side of the city 16/12/01 R 8
1>6 Photographs
* Philip French's top five films on current release 16/12/01 R 9
7>8
* Review of The Deep End/Djomeh/American Outlaws/Blue
Velvet 16/12/01 R 9 1>6 Photograph
* The brilliant mathematician John Forbes Nash was a troubled
young man who grappled mind-bending problems, but a
controversial new film makes no mention of his gay past - see
Nash, John Forbes 23/12/01
* Films of the Year: Philip French 23/12/01 R 11 1>6
Photographs
* Review of Mean Machine/The Princess Diaries/Serendipity
23/12/01 R 15 1>8 Photographs
* Hollywood heartthrob Ewan McGregor blasts the 'shallow'
acting world as he recasts himself as a wildlife film-maker - see
McGregor, Ewan 30/12/01
* Review of Monsoon Wedding 30/12/01 R 12 1>8 Photographs
* Review of The Day I Became a Woman/Lovely Rita/The
Hired Hand 30/12/01 R 12 4>8 Photograph
* Preview of coming releases in 2002 30/12/01 R 7 8
Photograph
* Film 2002: Akin Ojumu 30/12/01 R 9 1>6 Photographs
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
* Maggie Hyde's company futures for 2001 07/01/01 N 2 1>7
Photographs
* The big four banks are under attack for dragging their heels in
providing information vital to customers who want to switch
accounts 07/01/01 N 2 8
* The independence of City analysts' research is to come under
the spotlight as part of the Government's review of institutional
investment 14/01/01 N 1 6>7
* Equitable Life guaranteed annuity policyholders could soon be
in line for a handout totalling £1.5bn according to the Equitable
Life Action group 14/01/01 N 2 2>7
* Tesco is hoping to entice customers across the UK to bank, top
up their pensions, and buy their cornflakes at the same time
21/01/01 N 1 1>3
* Money online 28/01/01 C 10>11 1>6 Illustrations
* Last year's rollercoaster left many investment groups nursing
bruises 28/01/01 C 22 1>6 Photograph
* The well-publicised problems of Equitable Life and its withprofits
fund could signal the end for a type of investment that has
been in use since the Napoleonic Wars 28/01/01 C 23 1>6
Photograph
* Bank of Scotland is threatening to pull out of merger talks with