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Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen
- Title
- Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen / Brian Raftery.
- Author
- Raftery, Brian
- Publication
- New York : Simon and Schuster, 2019.
- ©2019
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- 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"--
- Fight Club. The Matrix. Office Space. Election. The Blair Witch Project. The Sixth Sense. Being John Malkovich. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. These are just some of the landmark titles released in a dizzying movie year, as a group of daring filmmakers and performers pushed cinema to new limits-- and took audiences along for the ride. Raftery provides a definitive account of 1999, a culture-conquering movie year none of us saw coming... and that we may never see again. -- adapted from jacket
- Alternative Title
- Best. Movie. Year. Ever.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 19-3401
- ISBN
- 9781501175381
- 1501175386
- 9781501175398
- 1501175394
- LCCN
- 2019000244
- OCLC
- 1039363108
- Author
- Raftery, Brian, author.
- Title
- Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen / Brian Raftery.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon and Schuster, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- THE YEAR 1999 AS A LANDMARK YEAR IN MOVIE AND IN POP-CULTURE HISTORY.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- MFL 19-3401