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1999 Stories by Andy Klein

• The Damon Switch Project

  published December 30, 1999

  Writer-director Anthony Minghella has chosen to follow up his Oscar-laden The English Patient with another literary adaptation -- this... More >>

• Austen Power

  published December 23, 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 >>

• Hokeymon

  published December 2, 1999

  The wide-screen debut of Pokémon has two subtitles: The First Movie, which implies, with almost tragic inevitability, the... More >>

• Pixar Shtick

  published November 25, 1999

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

• Junk Bond

  published November 25, 1999

  Poor old MGM -- the once-golden studio that has been battered and abused by ever-changing ownership and management for nearly three decades now ... More >>

• French Tickler

  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... More >>

• Princess Broods

  published November 11, 1999

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

• Found Highways

  published November 4, 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... More >>

• L.A. Noir

  published October 14, 1999

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

• Stranger Danger

  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 >>

• Cop Corn

  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 >>

• Exorcise in Futility

  published September 16, 1999

  Modern word processing has made life easier for screenwriters: no need to retype some old classic with your own little changes; nowadays you can... More >>

• Frost Gump

  published September 9, 1999

  It's bad enough when a major studio -- in this case Warner Bros. -- blows $40 million (or more) on a by-the-numbers film. It's worse when they... More >>

• Shakespeare in Like

  published August 26, 1999

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

• Death WarmedOver

  published July 29, 1999

  Robert Wise's 1963 version of The Haunting (from Shirley Jackson's novel) has long been considered one of the milestones of the horror... More >>

• Gnash Rambler

  published July 22, 1999

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

• Maim That Toon!

  published July 8, 1999

  The animated TV show South Park was the big sensation of the 1997-98 season--or at least as big a hit as a cable channel like Comedy Central... More >>

• Five Uneasy Pieces

  published June 17, 1999

  Anthology films are an odd-duck genre: While there once was a time--long gone--when books of short stories were published with nearly the... More >>

• Pushing the Envelope

  published May 27, 1999

  The Love Letter has the dubious distinction of being the other studio film to open this past week. In a week when all the other majors have run... More >>

• The Saigon Time Around

  published May 20, 1999

  Nearly a quarter of a century after the fall of Saigon, only a small film industry has managed to grow on Vietnam's war-scarred soil. And what has... More >>

• The Down Underdogs

  published May 13, 1999

  The Castle is a modest little comedy from Australia and director Rob Sitch that falls into the subgenre of Capraesque idealism, in the... More >>

• Waiting for Altman

  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 30 years have made... More >>

• Youth Must Be Serviced

  published March 11, 1999

  For Cruel Intentions, his directorial debut, writer Roger Kumble has come up with the clever idea of updating Choderlos de Laclos' durable... More >>

• Snuff Already

  published March 4, 1999

  "Honey," Ellen Burstyn's character in The Last Picture Show remarks to her daughter, "everything gets old if you do it often enough." The specific... More >>

• The Madre Squad

  published February 25, 1999

  The independent production/distribution company The Shooting Gallery probably got a lot more attention when Monica Lewinsky showed up in... More >>