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1999 Stories by Diane Carson

• BEST OF THE NORTHWEST FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

  published December 8, 1999

  Compilation programs benefit from the variety and brevity of individual pieces. So it is with Best of the Northwest Film and Video... More >>

• 2000 Seen By ...

  published September 15, 1999

  More delirium induced by millennial fever, 2000 Seen By ... gives a group of filmmakers leave to vamp on end-of-the-century themes.... More >>

• 2000 Seen By ...

  published September 8, 1999

  More delirium induced by millennial fever, 2000 Seen By ... gives a half-dozen filmmakers leave to vamp on end-of-the-century themes.... More >>

• St. Louis International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

  published September 1, 1999

  The eighth annual St. Louis International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival begins Sept. 8 and continues through Sept. 16 at the Tivoli Theatre, 6350... More >>

• TRICK

  published August 18, 1999

  If any naysayers still doubt that gay films have cross-gender appeal or still believe gay topics encompass only outing, AIDS and other... More >>

• Festival of Light

  published June 9, 1999

  The fourth annual Jewish Film Festival plays June 13-16 at the West Port Cine, Page & I-270, and June 17 at the Jewish Community Center (JCC)'s... More >>

• In the Beginning ...

  published May 19, 1999

  STAR WARS: EPISODE I -- THE PHANTOM MEANCE Written and directed by George Lucas For those who have virtually made a religion of George... More >>

• Landslide Victory

  published May 5, 1999

  ELECTION Co-written and directed by Alexander Payne The latest release from Paramount Pictures' bouncing baby, MTV Films, is set in a... More >>

• Sex Education

  published April 28, 1999

  THE SCHOOL OF FLESH Directed by Benoit Jacquot The love affair at the heart of Benoit Jacquot's The School of Flesh has to be... More >>

• It's All in the Game

  published April 21, 1999

  EXISTENZ Written and directed by David Cronenberg Just as David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) came off as an organic reaction to a... More >>

• A Side of Bacon

  published April 14, 1999

  Love is the Devil Written and directed by John Maybury In 1964, as art legend and John Maybury's Love Is the Devil would have it, East... More >>

• Sharp Cookie

  published April 7, 1999

  Cookie's Fortune Directed by Robert Altman Has any major American director had quite so many career swings as Robert Altman? Maybe not,... More >>

• Tube-Tied

  published March 24, 1999

  TRUE CRIME Directed by Ron Howard "I hope it's better than The Truman Show," said the woman in line behind me at the publicized... More >>

• No. 1 With a Bullet

  published March 10, 1999

  LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS Written and directed by Guy Ritchie Immodesty becomes Guy Ritchie, the British... More >>

• Psycho Killer

  published March 3, 1999

  ANALYZE THIS Co-written and directed by Harold Ramis When hitmen wore hats and Cadillacs had running boards, the average Mafia don... More >>

• Town Without Pity

  published February 17, 1999

  AFFLICTION Written and directed by Paul Schrader In the archetypal dead-end town of Lawford, N.H., cold-eyed men looking for trouble... More >>

• Crime-Family Man

  published February 10, 1999

  THE GENERAL Written and directed by John Boorman Jimmy Cagney brought the same electric physicality to gangsters that he did... More >>

• Central Casting

  published February 3, 1999

  Recently in the news more for its economic woes than for its filmic triumphs, Brazil once justifiably boasted of its distinguished Cinema Novo.... More >>

• The Art of War

  published January 13, 1999

  THE THIN RED LINE Written and directed by Terrence Malick Writer/director Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, the filmmaker's... More >>