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Culloden – The War Game

  • March 1, 2003

Director Peter Watkins' mid-1960s work for the BBC still shines. Culloden recreated the famous battle as if covered by a modern news team—a radical approach for the time. More controversially,…

Asian Dub Foundation – Enemy Of The Enemy

  • March 1, 2003

ADF have expanded their line-up and brought in Adrian Sherwood as executive producer. However, their energy and principles are the same as those that infused and undergirded 2000's Community Music.…

Amon Düül II

  • March 1, 2003

Re-release of classic krautrock albums with bonus tracks

Electric Dreams

  • March 1, 2003

Four re-releases spanning disco innovator's career

Narc

  • March 1, 2003

Gritty cop thriller favours style over surprises

Live Forever

  • March 1, 2003

Spurious but amusing documentary about Britpop

  • March 1, 2003

Atmospheric 1967 Norman Jewison thriller, and its weaker 1970 sequel from Gordon Douglas. The first, which won Oscars for Best Picture and Rod Steiger, is dryly observed, with Steiger's bigoted…

Waking Life

  • March 1, 2003

Richard Linklater takes the po-faced monologues of Slacker up a level with this extraordinary, state-of-the-art, animated dream trip. The endless navel-gazing and philosophising (Are we alive? Are we imagining everything?…

The Driller Killer

  • March 1, 2003

Abel Ferrara's 1979 directorial debut achieved notoriety as a video nasty, but those seeking gore will be largely disappointed. It's an exceedingly bleak portrait of an artist (Ferrara) cracking up…

Monster’s Ball

  • March 1, 2003

An immaculate, determinedly unsentimental Marc Forster film, with breathtakingly honest performances from Halle Berry and, especially, Billy Bob Thornton. Death Row prison guard Thornton's family are traditionally racist; Berry's husband…