Directed by Spike Lee • 1999 • United States
Starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino
Spike Lee’s fever-pitch vision of murder, mass hysteria, and machismo run amok charts the escalating paranoia within an Italian American Bronx neighborhood during the sweltering summer of 1977 as the Son of Sam serial killings turn neighbor against neighbor and the lives of two childhood friends—John Leguizamo’s wannabe Tony Manero and Adrien Brody’s wannabe Sid Vicious—spin out of control. Punk, disco, gay panic, Studio 54 sex parties, Catholic guilt, cocaine, baseball: Lee blends it all into a totally wired, darkly comic hit of pure cinema.
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The Virgin Suicides
Directed by Sofia Coppola • 1999 • United States
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Kathleen Turner, James WoodsWith this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugeni...
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Velvet Goldmine
Directed by Todd Haynes • 1998 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette, Christian BaleA CITIZEN KANE for the glittering, hedonistic glam-rock explosion, Todd Haynes’s deliriously flamboyant third feature follows journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) as he launc...
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Directed by Mark Christopher • 1998 • United States
Starring Ryan Phillippe, Mike Myers, Salma HayekA glitter-spritzed plunge into the orgiastic excess of New York City’s 1970s disco inferno, this reclaimed queer cult classic casts a fascinatingly against-type Mike Myers as Steve Rubell, owner ...
