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The way they wore

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Mar 2000

Playful, vintage looks dominated the Oscar fashion parade, reports Sarah Tippit.

Oscar sticks to the script

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Mar 2000

Oscar 2000 was just too polished and genteel to fully satisfy Xan Brooks.

Toys keep swinging

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Mar 2000

Review: Toy Story 2

Will Oscar stop looking back?

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Mar 2000

Period pieces have dominated the Oscars for a decade, but this year the pattern might be broken. Mark Morris rates the nominees and wonders if time is up for history.

Heel against their heads

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Mar 2000

Feel-good movie Heel Against the Head has left a trail of debt and bad blood. Andrew Worsdale reports.

Aw, shucks, you shouldn’t have…

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Mar 2000

On Sunday the film world will turn towards Hollywood and this year's Oscars. But you will search in vain for an award for overacting, and there'll be no mention of the Best Performance By An Arse. Righting that wrong, Andrew Collins presents the Alternative Oscars.

What’s a nice girl like Sue doing in a place like this?

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Mar 2000

Alison Powell on Girl, Interrupted and the American art of going mildly, stylishly loopy.

Truly, madly, Ripley

Article Shaun De Waal & Staff Reporter - 17 Mar 2000

Review: The Talented Mr Ripley

Obscene satire

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Mar 2000

Review: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Director out to murder

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Mar 2000

Boys Don't Cry director Kimberly Peirce is caught up in queer culture and the drama of the murder mystery. She spoke to William Pretorius.

Jude awakening

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Mar 2000

His Dickie Greenleaf in The Talented Mr Ripley is an arrogant playboy, but in real life Jude Law is just a highly confident movie star - with an Oscar nomination. He talks to Emma Brockes.

Rainbows on death row

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Mar 2000

Review: The Green Mile

Movie industry Hi Jacked

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Mar 2000

Oliver Schmitz, director of the acclaimed Mapantsula, is making a new feature film after 13 years. But while the actors are local, the money is all foreign, reports Andrew Worsdale.

It’s a wonderful death

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Mar 2000

'To me the core of film-making is to stir the emotions of the audience,' says Frank Darabont, director of tear-jerking prison movie The Green Mile. Stuart Jeffries tries not to laugh.

True believer

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Mar 2000

Seventies comedian Andy Kaufman has been immortalised on celluloid in Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey. British comic Matt Lucas explains his fascination with America's ultimate hoaxer.

Love in Greeneland

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Mar 2000

Review: The End of the Affair

Funny-peculiar

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Mar 2000

Review: Man on the Moon

A flurry of fine films

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Feb 2000

There was a strong South African presence at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. Andrew Worsdale was there.

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