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1999 Stories by Andy Klein

• Austen Powers

  published December 2, 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... More >>

• See How They Run

  published November 25, 1999

  How do you make a sequel to a nearly perfect film? Toy Story, the 1995 hit from Disney and Pixar, not only was the first fully... More >>

• To Market, To Market

  published November 18, 1999

  The engaging and delightful low-budget feature Where's Marlowe? began life as an unaired one-hour TV pilot. Somehow director Daniel... More >>

• Ruined in Rouen

  published November 11, 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... More >>

• Of Gods and Demons

  published November 11, 1999

  Much like the religion that has swirled around the Star Wars trilogy for twenty-some years, the fanaticism evidenced among American fans of... More >>

• The Wedding Swinger

  published October 28, 1999

  Since there is no way to talk about The Best Man without eventually invoking the phrase "Spike Lee's cousin," let's just get it out... More >>

• Stringing Us Along

  published October 28, 1999

  Wes Craven -- purveyor of fine horror movies, including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven's New Nightmare and the... More >>

• Found Highways

  published October 21, 1999

  And now...a G-rated movie from David Lynch! No, Lynch hasn't lost his mind. He hasn't gone soft in the head. And he hasn't sold out to the... More >>

• Bold Is Beautiful

  published October 21, 1999

  Steven Soderbergh may have had some rocky times after his 1989 breakthrough with sex, lies, & videotape, but these days he's on a roll.... More >>

• Less Than Zero

  published October 7, 1999

  There's a long tradition of stories about mysterious drifters who arrive in a small town and either create trouble or catalyze an explosion of... More >>

• Fops and Robbers

  published September 30, 1999

  In general, period films are not what you would call a commercial sure shot in the current marketplace -- unless, of course, the period in... More >>

• World Without End

  published September 23, 1999

  As American film has increasingly dominated the world's cinemas and once-healthy European film industries have grown unable to sustain themselves,... More >>

• It's No Gem

  published September 16, 1999

  Since his TV show ended, Martin Lawrence has gotten more ink for his off-camera life than for his movie career. There's nothing about Blue... More >>

• One Steppe Beyond

  published September 16, 1999

  Joan Chen, director and co-writer of Xiu Xiu the Sent Down Girl, is best known as an actress: American audiences probably identify... More >>

• Play Right

  published August 19, 1999

  As a filmmaker, actor John Turturro clearly believes in drawing from personal experience: His directorial debut, the 1992 Mac (which won... More >>

• Not a Ghost of a Chance

  published July 29, 1999

  Robert Wise's 1963 version of The Haunting, from Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House, has long been considered one of the... More >>

• One Big Croc

  published July 15, 1999

  You can tell the first wave of summer blockbusters have shot their wad when the studios start tossing out their second- and third-string films.... More >>

• Death as an Amateur Theatrical

  published April 8, 1999

  Has any major American director had quite so many career swings as Robert Altman? Maybe not, but if there's one thing the last thirty years have... More >>

• All That Heaven Allows

  published March 25, 1999

  The last decade has been an extraordinary period for Iranian cinema. Restricted by minuscule budgets, filmmakers have been forced to fall back on... More >>

• Hero or Villain?

  published March 18, 1999

  The Corruptor should come as something of a relief to fans of Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat, who were mostly disappointed with his American... More >>

• Through the Past, Starkly

  published February 4, 1999

  The new Mel Gibson vehicle, Payback, is arguably the first major-studio release this year to have even a modicum of aesthetic ambition. For his... More >>

• Mission Accomplished?

  published January 7, 1999

  Writer-director Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, the filmmaker's adaptation of James Jones's 1962 bestseller about the World War II battle for... More >>