Book mail 💌 1999 was a fantastic year for film and actually a year just in general I look back on with fondness ❤️ excited about this! I know it‘s going to make me want to binge a bunch of classics tho 😅
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Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen | 
Book mail 💌 1999 was a fantastic year for film and actually a year just in general I look back on with fondness ❤️ excited about this! I know it‘s going to make me want to binge a bunch of classics tho 😅
pickI don't know that I agree with the author's premise, that 1999 was the best movie year ever, for me it's probably 1982 or 1984, but his dissection of the movies of 1999 was insightful and entertaining. 3 💥💥💥 1/2
so-soWhile insightful in parts and often quite elegant in its structure, Raftery's book works better as a historical account of the late 20th century film industry than as a meditation on the films themselves.
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Been cleaning my room this weekend, and found this pair of new socks in a forgotten drawer.
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pickA readable and very well researched look at some of the most memorable films from 1999 - including The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty (and Pie), Election, Office Space, The Phantom Menace, to name only a few - and how the culture and media of the late 90s and the end of the 20th century spoke to these film and filmmakers. Raftery also contrasts 1999 with 1969 (the Raging Bulls, Easy Rider film year) and 2019. A fun read for film fans.
Twenty years later, movie studios are still pumping out unwanted remakes and sequels. Just with bigger budgets. From Brian Raftery‘s Best. Movie. Year. Ever. about the movies that came out in 1999 - this chapter is about the Wachowskis and The Matrix. Out on Tuesday #amreading
