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A Quality Year After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply
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December 29, 1999
In Albert Brooks' summer comedy The Muse, a ravishing daughter of Zeus -- in the person of Sharon Stone -- gives a burned-out Hollywood... More>>
Any Given Sunday Any Given Sunday
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December 22, 1999
Let's hear it for sports movies! The most avid sports fan can occasionally be bored by lackluster games, but even the casual spectator can... More>>
Man on the Moon Man on the Moon
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December 22, 1999
Ah, what a miracle that Andy Kaufman was. So sublime his wit, so pioneering his spirit. Astonishing! A hero to be loved, adored, and emulated by... More>>
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Land and Freedom and Desperate Living
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December 22, 1999
Land and Freedom"Things here are fairly unorthodox," says the Red Vic Movie House's Dennis Conroy, with a certain degree of understatement. For... More>>
Stuart Little Stuart Little
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December 15, 1999
It's too tempting to resist. You see, there's a secret about Stuart Little that the fine folks at Sony don't want to blow. It's not that each one... More>>
Ride With the Devil Ride With the Devil
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December 15, 1999
Nobody is innocent in America, but there is one segment of the population that seems doggedly determined to deny its own ignorance, ugliness, and... More>>
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Zan Boko and The Accused
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December 15, 1999
Zan BokoFrom its cluttered, no-frills offices overlooking the grimy corner of Ninth Street and Market, California Newsreel single-handedly flies... More>>
The Green Mile The Green Mile
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December 08, 1999
Have you ever endured a relationship in which your partner beat you up mercilessly, just so he could "heal" you and play the redeemer later on?... More>>
Liberty Heights Liberty Heights
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December 08, 1999
Although he couldn't have known it at the time, growing up in Baltimore during the 1950s would prove to be filmmaker Barry Levinson's smartest... More>>
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Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear
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December 08, 1999
Freedom on My MindIt barely qualifies as news that the sprawling Sundance Film Festival lineup features a clutch of new films by local artists.... More>>
The End of the Affair
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December 01, 1999
"Hell is a sort of high-class nightclub," wrote George Orwell, "entry to which is reserved for Catholics only." This sentiment is on stark... More>>
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La Regle de Jeu, Cell 16, and Big Wednesday
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December 01, 1999
La Regle de JeuThis has been a year of nonstop ecstasy for Francophile cinemaphiles, as the PFA, Castro, and S.F. Film Society mounted one... More>>
End of Days
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November 24, 1999
The last time Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in an apocalypse-themed action movie with a Guns N' Roses soundtrack, it was Terminator 2, the... More>>
Toy Story 2
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November 24, 1999
How do you make a sequel to a nearly perfect film? Toy Story, the 1995 hit from Disney and Pixar, was not only the first fully computer-animated... More>>
Mansfield Park
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November 24, 1999
The last half-decade has been very good to Jane Austen: Besides Ang Lee's estimable 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility, we've been given film... More>>
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Eyes Wide Shut and Stonewall
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November 24, 1999
Eyes Wide Shut I called Philip Kaufman's office and, lo and behold, Northern California's greatest (and shiest) filmmaker answered the phone... More>>
Sleepy Hollow
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November 17, 1999
"The spectre is known at all the country firesides by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow," writes Washington Irving in his... More>>
The World Is Not Enough
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November 17, 1999
Poor old MGM -- the once-golden studio that has been battered and abused by ever-changing ownership and management for nearly three decades now... More>>
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Point Blank and A Better Tomorrow
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November 17, 1999
Point BlankPersonal to independent filmmakers: There is an upside to financing your movie with your credit cards. Consider Evan Aaronson's... More>>
Dogma
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November 10, 1999
"Yesterday I wasn't even sure God existed," laments Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), the reluctant yet divinely touched heroine of Kevin Smith's... More>>
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc New
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November 10, 1999
Luc Besson, director of La Femme Nikita, The Professional, and The Fifth Element, is not the first name that would leap to mind to helm a biopic... More>>
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The Tingler, Stupor Mundi, National Velvet
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November 10, 1999
The TinglerIt's not quite as mammoth a job as hoisting the big top when the clowns and carnies and elephants come to town, but the Castro is... More>>
The Insider
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November 03, 1999
In the eyes of the general public, Michael Mann is still best-known for Miami Vice. He has received a great deal of critical acclaim for films... More>>
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Floating Clouds and Field Sketches
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November 03, 1999
Floating CloudsFrom Canyon Cinema to Strand Releasing (now based in L.A.) to Roxie Releasing to the now-defunct Tara Releasing to Turbulent Arts,... More>>
Music of the Heart
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October 27, 1999
Wes Craven -- purveyor of fine horror movies, including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and the Scream trilogy -- has... More>>
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