2000 Films

Oct 6: Digimon: Space Digital Monster -- Animated Japanese import. website

Oct 6: Requiem for a Dream -- d. Darren Aronofsky; wr. Darren Aranofsky, Hubert Selby Jr.; st. Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn. Bleak drama about heroin addicts, from the director of "Pi". website

Oct 13: Billy Elliot -- d. Stephen Daldry; wr. Lee Hall; st. Jamie Bell, Julie Walters. British crowd-pleaser about a coal miner's son who wants to learn ballet. website | IMDb

Oct 13: The Contender -- d. Rod Lurie; st. Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman,. Political drama about a vice president candidate under fire. website

Oct 13: Lost Souls -- d. Janusz Kaminski; st. Winona Ryder, John Hurt. Much-delayed thriller, directed by "Schindler's List" cinematographer. website | IMDb

Oct 20: Bedazzled -- d. Harold Ramis; st. Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley. Comedy in which a computer technician sells his soul to Satan, for seven wishes; remake of 1967 Dudley Moore film. website

Oct 20: Pay It Forward -- d. Mimi Leder; wr. Leslie Dixon; st. Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, Jim Caviezel. How to make the world a better place, from the director of Deep Impact. website

Oct 27: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 -- d. Joe Berlinger. Follow-up to last year's low-budget, surprise hit. website | IMDb

Oct 27: George Washington -- wr./d. David Gordon Green; st. Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden. Film festival hit about rural Southern youths. website | IMDb

Oct 27: The Little Vampire -- d. Ulrich Edel. Fantasy based on children's book by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. website | IMDb

Nov 10: Red Planet -- d. Antony Hoffman; screenplay Chuck Pfarrer and Jonathan Lemkin; story Chuck Pfarrer; st. Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Terence Stamp. A mission to Mars is marooned there. (Warner Bros.) website | IMDb

Nov 10: You Can Count On Me -- wr./d. Ken Lonergan; st. Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin. Lots of Indie buzz about a sister and brother in upstate New York town. website | IMDb

Nov 17: Bounce -- wr./d. Don Roos; st. Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow. The latest from the director of ''The Opposite of Sex''; a man swaps airline tickets with a stranger, and the plane he was to have taken crashes. website | IMDb

Nov 17: How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- d. Ron Howard; st. Jim Carrey. Based on Dr. Seuss. (Universal) website | IMDb

Nov 17: The Sixth Day -- d. Roger Spottiswoode; wr. Cormac and Marianne Wibberley; st. Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Robert Duvall. Arnold is cloned. (Columbia) website | IMDb

Nov 17: The Wolves of Kromer -- d. Will Gould. British mystery about gay werewolves. IMDb

Nov 22: Quills -- d. Philip Kaufman; screenplay Doug Wright, based on his play; st. Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine. Period drama about the Marquis de Sade. website | IMDb

Nov 22: Unbreakable -- wr./d. M. Night Shyamalan; st. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn. The next from the writer/director of ''The Sixth Sense''. (Touchstone) website | IMDb

Dec 8: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- d. Ang Lee; wr. Wang Hui Ling and James Schamus and Tsai Kuo Jung; st. Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh. Martial arts film set in ancient China. website | IMDb

Dec 8: Dungeons and Dragons -- d. Courtney Solomon; wr. Topper Lilien, Carroll Cartwright; st. Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch. IMDb

Dec 15: Chocolat -- d. Lasse Hallström; wr. Robert Nelson Jacobs; st. Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench. Modern-day fairy tale about a woman who opens a shop in a French village, selling magically delicious confections; from a novel by Joanne Harris. website | IMDb

Dec 15: The Emperor's New Groove -- d. Mark Dindal; wr. David Reynolds, Chris Williams, Mark Dindal; st. David Spade, John Goodman, etc. (voices). Animated Disney feature, in the slapstick cartoon mode, about the emperor of a mythical South American kingdom who's turned into a llama. website | IMDb

Dec 15: Pollock -- d. Ed Harris; st. Ed Harris, Marcy Gay Harden. Biopic of the painter. IMDb

Dec 15: What Women Want -- d. Nancy Meyers; screenplay Josh Goldsmith & Cathy Yuspa; story Josh Goldsmith & Cathy Yuspa and Diane Drake; st. Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei. A chauvinistic Chicago ad exec gets electrocuted and discovers he can read minds. (Paramount) website | IMDb

Dec 19: Finding Forrester -- d. Gus Van Sant; wr. Mike Rich; st. Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin. A reclusive writer mentors a brilliant basketball star. website | IMDb

Dec 20: The Gift -- d. Sam Raimi; wr. Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson; st. Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Greg Kinnear, Keanu Reeves. A Savannah Georgia widow's paranormal gift reveals secrets about her neighbors. IMDb

Dec 22: Before Night Falls -- d. Julian Schnabel; st. Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp. Biography of Cuban poet/novelist Reinaldo Arenas, by the director of Basquiat. website | IMDb

Dec 22: Cast Away -- d. Robert Zemeckis; wr. William Broyles, Jr.; st. Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt. A FedEx employee is marooned in the South Pacific. website | IMDb

Dec 22: Dracula 2000 -- d. Patrick Lussier; st. Gerard Butler, Jonny Lee Miller, Christopher Plummer. "Wes Craven presents" Count Dracula among today's Goths. IMDb

Dec 22: The Family Man -- d. Brett Ratner; wr. David Weissman, David Diamond; st. Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni. What-if comedy-romance about an investment banker who finds out what his life would have been like if he'd married his college sweetheart. website | IMDb

Dec 22: The House of Mirth -- d. Terence Davies; st. Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Ackroyd, Laura Linney. Adaptation of Edith Wharton novel. website | IMDb

Dec 22: O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- d. Joel Coen; wr. Ethan & Joel Coen; st. George Clooney, John Turturro, Holly Hunter. Depression era comedy set during a hot Southern summer; latest from the Coen brothers, its title an in-joke from Preston Sturges. website | IMDb

Dec 22: State and Main -- wr./d. David Mamet; st. William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Farce about shooting a movie in a small Vermont town. website | IMDb

Dec 25: All the Pretty Horses -- d. Billy Bob Thornton; wr. Ted Tally; st. Matt Damon, Henry Thomas. Coming of age Western set in the 1940s, from the novel by Cormac McCarthy. IMDb

Dec 25: Thirteen Days -- d. Roger Donaldson; wr. David Self; st. Kevin Costner. Drama about the Cuban Missile Crisis. website | IMDb

Dec 27: Traffic -- d. Steven Soderbergh; wr. Stephen Gaghan; st. Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benecio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones. Political thriller about drug trafficking. website | IMDb

Dec 29: Shadow of the Vampire -- d. E. Elias Merhige; wr. Steven Katz; st. Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich. The filming of 1922 German horrorfilm "Nosferatu" in which the lead actor really is a vampire. website | IMDb

Dec 31: 2001: A Space Odyssey -- d. Stanley Kubrick. Re-release.