SIGHT AND SOUND Magazine Covers from 2000

2000

Issue 105
January

The cage of reason: Tim Burton is not the only creative force behind Sleepy Hollow, which may be why it's pitched between horror and the spoofery that made his name,... more

Issue 106
February

Issue 107
March

No smoking gun: Michael Mann's The Insider turns a true story of one man's fight to expose the lethal policies of the tobacco industry into an intense conspiracy thriller. Nick... more

Issue 108
April

Death and the maidens: Sofia Coppola's adaptation of The Virgin Suicides goes beyond most dystopian visions of susburbia to a poignant landscape of nostalgia and loss.
Deadpan afterlife: Buster... more

Issue 109
May

Issue 110
June

Issue 111
July

East is best: Cannes 2000: From the new Wong Kar-Wai to the new Lars von Trier, this year's Cannes offered quality and controversy in equal measure, as Nick James reports.... more

Issue 112
August

In the mood for Edinburgh: Wong Kar-Wai talks about his most difficult film-making experience with Tony Rayns. Plus festival highlights: Japan's horror hit The Ring, Mike Figgis' split-screen Time Code,... more

Issue 113
September

How do you solve a problem like Von Trier?: With Bjork plausible in the lead role and her true pop self singing her own songs, what else is it about... more

Issue 114
October

Beauty's slow fade: The House of Mirth, a sumptuous adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, marks a triumphant change of direction for Terence Davies. Philip Horne explains its virtues and talks... more

Issue 115
November

Ugly (In a nice way): Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is one of Australia's most notorious killers. Nick Roddick asks Chopper director Andrew Dominik what attracted him to a man said... more

Issue 116
December

Stealth and duty: Ang Lee's ravishing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon introduces full-throttled romance to the martial-arts genre. Philip Kemp finds out why the director keeps tackling projects so mould-breaking they... more