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

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Column: The Box Office Belletrist

Woolf at the Door

by Jennifer Makowsky

[1.Mar.09] :. Both Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours offer an illuminating look at the choices we make, the roles we play, and the hours that hinge our lives together.

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News

Oscar-winning ‘Juno’ screenwriter turns to TV with new Showtime series

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[18.Jan.09] :. Starline Tours, a noble institution that crams out-of-towners into minibuses for the chance to see Matthew Perry’s gardener pruning the hedges, recently dropped by the home of Diablo...

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TV Review

United States of Tara

by Kirsten Markson

[18.Jan.09] :. Tara (Toni Collette) and her relatives try to fit in and never quite make it, but find love and support along the way, tempered by the occasional humiliation.

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Film Review

Towelhead

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Sep.08] :. As viewers of Towelhead must know (and Jasira, eternally ripe and optimistic, will never know), the future has only become more constricted.

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Short Ends and Leader

Girl Gone Child: The Trouble with ‘Towelhead’

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. There is a fine line between illustration and exploitation. Put another way, there’s a clear delineation between drama and dreck. Dress it up any way you want, but penetration turns the...

Short Ends and Leader

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

 

The Best Big Screen Eye Candy of 2007

by Daynah Burnett

[4.Jan.08] :. When flipping through my mental catalog of the year's films, certain scenes stand out. This past year offered a veritable feast of visual goodies.

 

Evening (2007)

by Mike Scalise

[6.Jul.07] :. More troubling than Evening's technical failures, the film suffers from a host of cynical political and social themes that undercut the drama throughout.

 

The Dead Girl (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.07] :. An anthology of five stories organized around the titular corpse, the movie is a bleak but oddly robust homage to women's survival and defeat in the face of violence, oppression, and non-options.

 

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

 

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

by Kate Williams

[8.Jan.07] :. Little Miss Sunshine is that rare comedic film that earns its laughs through textured characterizations and authentic, humanizing contradictions.

 

The Night Listener (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Aug.06] :. Tapping into recent public outrages over writers who lie, The Night Listener's indictments are drearily unsubtle.

 

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[26.Jul.06] :. Even as Sheryl and Grandpa try to soothe little Olive, her father's "refuse to lose" credo creates a mountain of expectation.

 

In Her Shoes (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.05] :. In Her Shoes is formula of the quality sort. Formula that showcases big performances and metaphors, and mood-indicating rock songs.

 

Japanese Story (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.May.04] :. Such immersion in Sandy's evolving perceptions shifts the film away from what would seem its generic romance outline.

 

Japanese Story (2003)

by Kirsten Markson

[22.Jan.04] :. Like the striking landscape where it is filmed, Japanese Story is unpredictable, hard-edged, and strangely beautiful.

 

The Hours (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jul.03] :. 'What I learned seeing the movie is that yes, you do lose that ability to go into people's minds, but you gain Meryl Streep's ability to separate an egg, in a way that tells you everything you need to know about who that person is at that point.'"

 

The Hours (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.03] :. The women are also functions of a coherent narrative, made comprehensible as embodiments of historical patterns.

 

About A Boy (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.02] :. 'About A Boy' is not 'The Hugh Show'. Thank goodness.

 

Changing Lanes (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.02] :. PULL.

 

Shaft (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It’s Isaac Hayes’s music, of course, that resonates. Whatever else you say about that “complicated man” named John Shaft, that whaa-whaa-whaa theme song identifies him...

 

8 1/2 Women (1999)

by Susan M. E. Glen

For all their superficial differences, the women are actually surprisingly homogenous, in attitude as well as their intellectual and emotional void, and in their collective role as the 'exotic other.'"