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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

 

Film Review

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.

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Music Review

    Patrick O’Donnell: Limbo

by Mark Desrosiers

Skoda Records—and its founder Patrick O’Donnell—deserve praise for giving the indie-rock community a chance to hear the psycho freakout Czech band Uz Jzme Dona (think the Residents...

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