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