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Book

Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen

Call Number

  • 791.43 R138 (CEN)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon and Schuster, 2019.

Physical Description

xxvi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999--arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history"--

Notes

"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."

Contents

  • Prologue: Losing all hope was freedom : December 31, 1999
  • "I'm scared to close my eyes. I'm scared to open them." : The Blair Witch Project
  • "After the game is before the game." : Following/Go/Run Lola run
  • "We need to talk about your TPS reports." : Office space
  • "Whoa." : The matrix
  • "I don't want your life." : Varsity blues/She's all that/Cruel intentions/10 things I hate about you/American pie
  • "Sign up for tomorrow today!" : Election/Rushmore/The virgin suicides
  • "At last, we will have revenge." : Star Wars : episode I--The phantom menace/The iron giant/Galaxy quest
  • "Fidelio." : Eyes wide shut/The mummy
  • "I see dead people." : The sixth sense/The Blair Witch Project
  • "It's karma, baby." : The best man/The wood
  • "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it." : American beauty
  • "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." : Fight club
  • "Ever want to be someone else" : Being John Malkovich
  • "Are we shootin" people, or what?" : Three kings/The limey
  • "I'm running out of heroes, man." : The insider
  • "The bluest eyes in Texas." : Boys don't cry
  • "The goddamn regret." : Magnolia
  • Epilogue: "We are the middle children of history." : March 26th , 2000.

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