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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Editor’s Foreword by jim colvill
Introduction by jim knipfel
1991–1995 GODFREY CHESHIRE
High Styles: My Own Private Idaho; The Rapture
Silence of the Wolves: Cape Fear
Hollywood Square: Naked Lunch
Deeper Roots: Daughters of the Dust
Three Women and a Little Murder: The Player
Parting Shots: Unforgiven
Zhang Yimou’s Funny, Low-Budget Latest Looks More Real Than Reality—and It Almost Is: The Story of Qiu Ju
Scorsese’s Symphony on Celluloid; an Old Age New: The Age of Innocence
Taipei, Film Capitol of Taiwan, Is No Hollywood East
The Cemetery of Good Taste: Natural Born Killers
Quentin’s Second Coming Is All About Second Chances: Pulp Fiction
No Redemption: Bresson’s Pleasure in Despair: The Devil, Probably
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Bring Me the Head of Sam Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch
Phantoms. The Movies Were Born on Lower Broadway
The Cure For What Ails Us: Safe
Big-Screen Tabloid TV: To Die For
1995–1997 GODFREY CHESHIRE, MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
Dreams So Real: Wild, Indiscreet & Nightmare Alleys: Wild Bill [MZS]
Dark Nixon: An Unimpeachable Masterpiece: Nixon [GC]
Frankenheimer’s Flame [MZS]
Mayberry BFD: Zero Visibility at Sundance [GC]
Jean Seberg Gets the Rock Hudson Treatment From the Journals of Jean Seberg [MZS]
Rearview Mirror. What’s Really Driving Travis Bickle: Taxi Driver [MZS]
The Coens Loiter with Intent: Fargo [GC]
Iran, the Art Film’s Last Stand [GC]
Tom Is Tight: Mission: Impossible [MZS]
Busting Rocks: The Rock [MZS]
Livin’ Lars: Breaking the Waves [GC]
So Great He’s Forgotten [GC]
DAH-Da. Da-Da-Da-DAH-Da [MZS]
Just Sundance Kidding [GC]
Double Identity: Donnie Brasco [MZS]
Nights in Tehran [GC]
Heart of Palme d’Or [GC]
1997–2000 GODFREY CHESHIRE, MATT ZOLLER SEITZ, ARMOND WHITE
Bleeding Heartiness: For Ever Mozart [AW]
Darkness, Darkness [MZS]
The Deadpan Stare [MZS]
Happy Together [AW]
Boogie Nights [GC]
Gummo [MZS]
Deconstructing Harry [AW]
The Rainmaker [MZS]
Amistad [GC]
Titanic [AW]
Sphere [MZS]
The Big Lebowski [GC]
Taste of Cherry; Frozen [GC]
He Got Game [MZS]
Bulworth [AW]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [MZS]
Call It Cosmopolitan: Last Days of Disco [AW]
Gone With the Wind [AW]
The Truman Show [MZS]
It’s Always Fair Weather [AW]
Out of Sight [AW]
Saving Private Ryan [AW]
Saving Private Ryan [AW]
When Trumpets Fade; Saving Private Ryan; Regeneration [MZS]
Happiness [GC]
La Sentinelle [GC]
Nashville [AW]
Affliction [MZS]
To the Walls [MZS]
The Thin Red Line [GC]
The Thin Red Line [AW]
Days of Heaven [MZS]
A Man Escaped [GC]
The Matrix [MZS]
Election [AW]
Alfred Hitchcock at 100 [MZS]
France’s Generation Vexed: Lovers on the Bridge [AW]
A Dream Bestirred: Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train [AW]
Kubrick—The First Film Nerd: The Killing [AW]
The Photographer’s Final Frames: Eyes Wide Shut [GC]
Witch Reality: The Blair Witch Project [GC]
A Cinematic Wedgie: The Blair Witch Project [AW]
A French Harvest: Autumn Tale [GC]
Culture’s End [AW]
The Death of Film/The Decay of Cinema [GC]
The Venice Film Festival [GC]
Ready, Set, Cinema: Three Kings; Beau travail [AW]
The Year’s Best Film: The Straight Story [GC]
Men in Decline [MZS]
Raging Bulldykes: Boys Don’t Cry [AW]
The World Is Not Enough [MZS]
Beyond the Clouds [GC]
Symphonies for the Bedeviled: Rosetta; The Silence [AW]
Film in the Mirror: A Moment of Innocence [GC]
Close-Up [GC]
The 1990s in Film [GC, MZS, AW]
American Holocaust: Waco: The Rules of Engagement [GC]
Topsy-Turvy [MZS]
Magnolia [MZS]
The Magnolia Syndrome [AW]
A Brighter Summer Day [GC]
Rear Window [GC]
Supernova [AW]
Mission to Mars [MZS]
Wonder Boys [MZS]
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai [AW]
The Filth and the Fury [GC]
American Psycho; This Is Not an Exit [MZS]
Time Code; The Idiots [GC]
Hamlet [GC]
Film Going Digital [GC]
Barry Lyndon [MZS]
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps [AW]
Gimme Shelter [GC]
Almost Famous [AW]
Yi Yi [GC]
George Washington [AW]
George Washington [GC]
Iran 2000 [GC]
Traffic [MZS]
Pushing Mother Down a Flight of Stairs [MZS]
2001–2006 MATT ZOLLER SEITZ, ARMOND WHITE
Hannibal [MZS]
Last Resort [MZS]
A Summer’s Tale [AW]
Memento [MZS]
Moulin Rouge! [AW]
A.I. Artificial Intelligence [AW]
Intelligence Quotient [AW]
A.I. Artificial Intelligence [MZS]
Pauline Kael [MZS]
Requiem for the Twins [MZS]
On Guard [AW]
Mulholland Drive [MZS]
The Man Who Wasn’t There [AW]
Lola [AW]
Wes Anderson [AW]
Ocean’s Eleven [AW]
The Year in Pictures [MZS]
Gosford Park [AW]
Black Hawk Down [AW]
Domestic Violence [MZS]
Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones [AW]
What is It? Crispin Glover on Bartleby, Spielberg & His Unmade Films [MZS]
Songs from the Second Floor [AW]
24 Hour Party People [AW]
The Pinochet Case [MZS]
Far from Heaven [MZS]
Femme Fatale [AW]
Adaptation [MZS]
Russian Ark [MZS]
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [AW]
95-Minute Rape: Irreversible [MZS]
Lost in Translation [AW]
Scarface Remakes Movie History [AW]
A Few of His Favorite Things: Kill Bill Vol. 1 [MZS]
P.S. AK-47: Elephant [AW]
Their Souls For a Freebie. The New York Film Critics Circle Is Killing Movie Culture [AW]
The Man Who Shot JFK [MZS]
Raising the Barre: The Company [AW]
Eye of the Critic [MZS]
Freedom and Death: Battle of Algiers [AW]
First Tango in Paris: The Dreamers [AW]
Red-State Deicide: The Passion of the Christ [MZS]
Digital Video Dogpatch: Dogville [AW]
Kubrick Is Dead! Kubrick Is Dead! Long Live the Coen Brothers!: The Ladykillers (2004) [MZS]
Ribbons of Revenge [MZS]
Forget-Me-Nots: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [AW]
America’s Best Friend: The Terminal [MZS]
Polyester Pimp Daddy: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy [MZS]
Paranoia for President: The Manchurian Candidate ; The Village [AW]
Killers: Collateral [MZS]
Bright Lights, Funny Bunnies: The Brown Bunny; Bright Leaves [MZS]
The Black Natural: Mr. 3000 [AW]
Last Chinese Picture Show: Goodbye, Dragon Inn [AW]
The Aviator [MZS]
Yellowy Submarine: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou [AW]
The Flickering Flame: Histoire(s) du cinéma [AW]
Get It, Then Beget It: Masculine, Feminine [MZS]
They Call Me Jackie: Kung Fu Hustle [AW]
A Darth Is Born: Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith [MZS]
Bat Dung: Batman Begins [MZS]
The Welles Run Deep: F for Fake [AW]
Theme Park Planet: The World; Tropical Malady [MZS]
Supersonic Strap-On: The Island [MZS]
Cronenberg’s Revenge Thriller: A History of Violence [MZS]
Not Just Another J-Horror Film: Pulse [MZS]
Spielberg Climbs Another Mountain: Munich [AW]
A Genius View of Jamestown: The New World [MZS]
Re-Imagining History: The New World Re-Edit [AW]
Thickets Among Tombstones: The Fallen Idol; The Ister [MZS]
Young Again: Neil Young: Heart of Gold [AW]
Welcome to the 9/11 Show: United 93 [MZS]
Western Matters: Down in the Valley; The Proposition [MZS]
Angel of America: Superman Returns [MZS]
2006–2011 ARMOND WHITE
The American Character: World Trade Center
Black Book
Eye-Catching: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Control
A Guilt-Soaked Epic: There Will Be Blood
Opiate of the Lasses: Sex and the City
Knight to Remember: The Dark Knight
High-Grade Shit: Pineapple Express
Mean Lean Filmmaking Machine
Scene of the Time: Of Time and the City
Capuccinos and Gitanes: 35 Shots of Rum
Blue in the Face: Avatar
Bad Bitcharama: Resident Evil: Afterlife
Discourteous Discourse
The Bland and the Bonkers: Jackass 3D
Gritty and Good: True Grit
The Middle-Aged Network: Another Year
Unintelligent Design: The Tree of Life
Indecent Exposure
Appendix
Appendix: Year-End Top Ten Lists
Index of Film Titles
Thanks
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