Thank you for proving them wrong. Empire Magazine is going to have to figure out a way of giving me another lifetime achievement award in 15 years' time. It was named best British film, Roger Michell was hailed best director and star Hugh Grant took the award for best actor. However, the gentle romantic comedy lost out on the overall best film title to a movie packed with lavish special effects and stylish action sequences - Keanu Reeves' futuristic US blockbuster The Matrix. Director Norman Jewison says he likes bringing controversial movies like The Hurricane to the Berlin International Film Festival because of its intellectual feel.
People take films more seriously here.
After narrowly escaping the electric chair he was cleared by a federal judge in 1985 and released in 1988. Jewison defended his film against critics who say he skimmed over the real story's depth and complexity. It is the relationship between a young man and someone who gives him hope to fight again. They are going back to that council estate where I lived whether they like it or not. You are going to have to go to that factory which was shut down.