Inside Indiewood Inside Indiewood
The Nation asked seven prominent members of the independent film community, including several filmmakers who released major films this year, to take the temperature of the movem
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood
The film Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop will be released in 2000...we hope.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Danny Hoch
Runaway Shops Runaway Shops
Remember those great scenes in Blues Brothers 2000 that evoked the urban grit and soul of southside Chicago and Joliet? Well, sorry.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
Boys, Toys and Girl Trouble in 1999’s Top Ten Boys, Toys and Girl Trouble in 1999’s Top Ten
It was, of course, predestined that the top-grossing movie of 1999 would be Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, which outstripped its closest competition by nearly $200 mill...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ella Taylor
The Awful Truth The Awful Truth
Special thanks to Alison Mann.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Manohla Dargis
Independents’ Day Independents’ Day
The most important day in the history of American independent film was May 8, 1947, which witnessed the opening of a picture so personal--no, so heedlessly self-revelatory--that ...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
All the President’s Mien All the President’s Mien
Leon Aron, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has over the past few years become known as an authority on Boris Yeltsin, a man he patently likes and has vig...
Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg
Executioners’ Songs Executioners’ Songs
The Control Equipment such as Voltage Regulators, Auto Transformers, Oil Circuit Breakers, Panel Board, etc., was designed by and supplied by General Electric Company.
Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski
Planetary Realignments Planetary Realignments
Last night a teenager killed himself below my bedroom window. I heard it happen: first a crescendo of police sirens coming up the avenue at two in the morning, then a crash.
Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Infinite Jest Infinite Jest
Dave Eggers's memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, has been a bit too loudly hyped as an ironic tearjerker, and a media juggernaut has branded its author a tragic h...
Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elise Harris