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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Conversing with Rudy Wurlitzer: ‘A Beaten-up Old Scribbler’

by Rodger Jacobs

[6.Feb.09] :. My conversations with Rudy Wurlitzer were not unlike a road journey itself with plenty of unplanned side trips along the way.

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Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Cash, Jones, Kristofferson, and Mellencamp (Episode 8)

by Zeth Lundy

[21.Jan.09] :. On tonight’s episode of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… (airing Wednesdays at 9pm EST/PST on the Sundance Channel), Costello brings together Rosanne Cash, Norah Jones, Kris...

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Kris Kristofferson chucked a military career to become a songwriter, singer and actor

by Sarah Linn [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Oct.08] :. Rhodes Scholar. Army captain. Helicopter pilot. Actor. Country superstar. Kris Kristofferson has done it all. “When I look back on it, I’m kind of amazed that I wasn’t more...

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Elvis: Return to Tupelo

by Christel Loar

[2.Oct.08] :. Before Memphis and the world made him king, Tupelo made him Elvis.

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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[8.Mar.07] :. This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.

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Kris Kristofferson’s lyrical journey continues

by Jim Smith [McClatchy Newspapers]

[27.Feb.07] :. BRADENTON, Fla. - Kris Kristofferson still talks about The Letter. Early in his Nashville days, before the hits started coming for one of America’s most accomplished songwriters, Kristofferson...

 
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Misc. Artists: Outlaw Country: Live From Austin, TX [DVD]

by Leigh H. Edwards

[7.Dec.06] :. The effort to share music with fellow travelers and the appreciative Austin audience is a key part of that painful, uncertain effort to reach insight and express meaning through the music.

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Fast Food Nation (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. Unabashedly didactic, Fast Food Nation points out the cruel lot of immigrant laborers without rights.

 

Kris Kristofferson: This Old Road

by Dan MacIntosh

[7.Mar.06] :. Kris Kristofferson is back writing and performing his own songs again, God bless him. But until he restores his lyrical palate completely to its expansive B.A. (before acting) state, he still won't be entirely all the way back.

 

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. Though Ben is gruff and finds it difficult to cuddle up with his adorable daughter, the movie gives him good (or least movie-like) reason.

 

The Jacket (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jul.05] :. Jack's experience fragments so radically and time turns so out of joint that you might think he's insane, as do his white-coated doctors.

 

Blade: Trinity: Unrated Version (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.May.05] :. All this stuff only emphasizes that the film is a mighty endeavor and the kids trained long and hard.

 

The Jacket (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.05] :. It's an apt description of how war, waged by the Organization for the Organized, works on its warriors, victims and heroes both.

 

Silver City (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.05] :. Dickie Pilager embodies U.S. political-corporate mythology, the 'shining city on a hill' reduced to basic elements.

 

Blade: Trinity (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Dec.04] :. Blade (Wesley Snipes) looks tired. I mean, weary. He's been fighting vampires for three films now, and it shows.

 

Silver City (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Sep.04] :. It's easy to make assumptions about a political candidate named Dickie Pilager.

 

Kris Kristofferson: The Essential Kris Kristofferson

by Will Harris

[19.Apr.04] :. One of my fondest memories of growing up is riding along with my dad in his green Ford pick-up truck, listening to Johnny Cash’s Live at Folsom Prison on eight-track tape. (Yes,...

 

Blade II (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Mar.02] :. The Daywalker has his own agenda, still fever-dreaming and raging, but changed too.

 

Planet of the Apes (2001)

by Josh Jones

As Tim Burton's new version of 'Planet of the Apes' demonstrates in many ways, some subtle, some not so, the recycling of cultural milestones is not simply a marketing device, but a way to rejuvenate cultural mythology, be it science fiction or religious fable.

 

Planet of the Apes (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

Tim Burton should never have been given this assignment. There are no humans in his films, which can impress, but never move us.

 

Limbo (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Polar bears. Carved totem poles. Eskimo dolls on souvenir shop shelves. Salmon getting their heads chopped off on an assembly line. These are the images that welcome you to 'America's Last Frontier,' or more precisely, to the Juneau, Alaska of John Sayles's latest film, Limbo. As this opening sequence suggests, the frontier is less wild than it once was; nowadays, it's exploited and compromised, shaped and reshaped daily by routine and thoughtless violence.