Reviews by members of the AWC Film Group of films slated to open in Hamburg in 2003

Excerpts from the April 2003 Currents Special Film Supplement

May 2003: X2 - X Men United, Swimf@n, The Quiet American, The Matrix Reloaded, Rabbit Proof Fence (Long Walk Home)

June 2003: A Man Apart (Extreme Rage), Ganz und Gar, 28 Days Later, Japón, Antwone Fisher, Dark Blue, Plots With a View (Grabgeflüster), What Time Is It There?, Bruce Almighty (Bruce Allmächtig), Auto Focus, Bollywood Hollywood, Bulletproof Monk, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

July 2003: Full Frontal, Piglet's Big Movie, What a Girl Wants, Der Letzte Lude, Charlie's Angels, FearDotCom, Marry Me (Heirate Mich), Legally Blonde 2, Sindbad - Legend of the Seven Seas, Lichter (Distant Lights), Soul of a Man, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

August 2003: Spun, Swimming Pool, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Whale Rider, Brown Sugar, Die Ritterinnen, Agent Cody Banks, Tears of the Sun (Tränen der Sonne)

September 2003: My Life Without Me, Pirates of the Caribbean (Fluch der Karibik), A View from the Top (Flight Girls), Veronica Guerin, In This World, Rosenstrasse, Seabiscuit, Secretary, Shaolin Soccer (Shaolin Kickers), Till Eulenspiegel, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Hamburg Film Festival, September 2003: Abjad (The First Letter); Belleville Rendezvous; Between Strangers; Calendar Girls; Carandiru; Changes; Deep Breath; Dogville; Down by Love; Effroyables Jardins (Strange Gardens); Fuse; La Grande Séduction (Seducing Doctor Lewis); The Green Butchers; Hoy y Mañana (Today and Tomorrow); In America; James’ Journey to Jerusalem; Die Klasse von '99; Kops; The Last Train; Music for Weddings and Funerals; The Night We Called It a Day; Old, New, Borrowed and Blue; Reconstruction; Return of the Tudelband; Le Soleil Assassiné (The Sun Assassinated); Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring; The Stroll; Le Temps du Loup (Time of the Wolf, Wolfzeit); The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part I: The Moab Story; Vert Paradis (Green Paradise); Wisegirls

October 2003: Jet Lag, Return of the Tudelband, The Wild Guys (Die Wilde Kerle), Bad Boys II, The Good Thief, The Mother (Die Mutter), Kill Bill: Volume 1, Pumuckl and his Circus Adventure (und sein Zirkusabendteuer), Das Wunder von Bern (The Miracle of Bern), Dogville, Gigli (Liebe mit Risiko), Intolerable Cruelty (Ein Unmöglicher Härtefall), L’homme sans L’occident, Die Klasse von ’99 (The Class of’99), Luther

November 2003: The Matrix Revolutions, Heirankl, The Barbarian Invasion (Les Invasions Barbares), The Italian Job, Kops, L’Auberge Espagnole, Finding Nemo, The Guys, Love Actually (Tatsächlich…Liebe), Between Strangers (Zwischen Fremden), Mystic River