Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen /
Raftery, Brian
Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen / Brian Raftery. - First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition - xxvi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-361) and index.
Prologue: 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 -- "I have seen one or two things in my life, but never, never anything like this." : Eyes wide shut -- "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 -- "We are the middle children of history." : 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: March 26th , 2000.
"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"--
9781501175398 (paperback) 1501175394 (paperback)
2019000244
Motion pictures--History.--United States--20th century
Cine --Historia--Estados Unidos --Siglo XX
PN 1993.5 / R139b 2020
791.430973
Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen / Brian Raftery. - First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition - xxvi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-361) and index.
Prologue: 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 -- "I have seen one or two things in my life, but never, never anything like this." : Eyes wide shut -- "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 -- "We are the middle children of history." : 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: March 26th , 2000.
"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"--
9781501175398 (paperback) 1501175394 (paperback)
2019000244
Motion pictures--History.--United States--20th century
Cine --Historia--Estados Unidos --Siglo XX
PN 1993.5 / R139b 2020
791.430973