1999 Stories by Bret Fetzer
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published August 18, 1999
TEACHING MRS. TINGLE purports to be about three teenagers fighting back against a tyrannical history teacher, but it's really about... More >>
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published August 11, 1999
ALICE (CLAIRE DANES) and Darleen (Kate Beckinsale) decide to go to Thailand instead of Hawaii after graduation—and it's there that... More >>
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published July 21, 1999
EVERY TIME TOM Cruise and Nicole Kidman use the word "fuck" in Eyes Wide Shut, it comes out of their mouths like some new teen... More >>
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published July 14, 1999
THE HOLE SHOWS nothing of Taiwan but the inside of a huge industrial apartment complex, upon which rain falls relentlessly,day... More >>
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published July 7, 1999
SOMEONE IS CLEARLY frightened of the female orgasm: There's a charming teen sex comedy called Coming Soon that can't find a... More >>
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published June 30, 1999
Just as all male activity is meant to impress girls (or boys, depending), writers write to seduce their readers. Naturally,... More >>
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published June 30, 1999
A FRENCH TELEVISION company commissioned seven directors from seven different countries to somehow capture the turn of the millennium on... More >>
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published June 23, 1999
FOR YEARS, the early plays of Oscar Wilde were dismissed as sentimental melodramas with snippets of sparkling wit. But recently, An... More >>
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published June 16, 1999
ANIMATION BRINGS OUT the best in Tarzan. The impossible flexibility of a cartoon ape-man leaps out first: He twines through the trees,... More >>
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published June 9, 1999
THERE'S A THESIS waiting to be written about how you're not laughing at Mike Myers as much as you are laughing at yourself for laughing... More >>
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published June 2, 1999
IN I WANT YOU, a moody guy named Martin comes home after spending eight years in prison for murder. In the course of moping and... More >>
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published May 12, 1999
IF YOU PERCEIVE the Seattle International Film Festival as an oasis of glamour in our desert of drab, you probably don't work for it.... More >>
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published May 5, 1999
THINK YOUR JOB IS a drag? Imagine you're a Seattle International Film Festival programmer who has to sort through more than 1,000... More >>
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published May 5, 1999
WRITER-DIRECTOR ALEXANDER PAYNE debuted with a satirical comedy about abortion. Not surprisingly, that movie (Citizen Ruth,... More >>
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published April 28, 1999
THE HOLLYWOOD OBSESSION with cool keeps getting worse, whatever the movie's setting or story. The hero can be a fighter pilot, a hit... More >>
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published April 21, 1999
SIMPLE IN ITS OUTLINES but entrancing in its emotional richness, The Dreamlife of Angels follows two young women as their... More >>
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published April 7, 1999
ROBERT ALTMAN HAS made some of the darkest, most devastating American movies ever made—movies like Nashville, The Long... More >>
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published April 7, 1999
ANNIE SPRINKLE—POST-PORN modernist, tantric sex worker, "the Yoko Ono of porn"—is quick to defend her background: "If people... More >>
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published March 31, 1999
AN ATMOSPHERE OF WARTIME desperation and recklessness permeates the opening scene of Dr. Akagi. Three American fighter planes... More >>
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published March 24, 1999
IT'S FASCINATING to discover who works on TV and who doesn't. Some high-wattage movie stars would be unbearable on the small screen. The... More >>
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published March 17, 1999
Despite the undeniable entertainment power of sequins, cleavage, and appalling musical numbers, the Oscar ceremony tends to be dull. Sure,... More >>
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published February 24, 1999
MOST MOVIES GO TO great pains to make their characters likable and at least apparently soulful. The new comedy 200 Cigarettes, on... More >>
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published February 24, 1999
IT'S EASY TO BE prejudiced against The Other Sister. For one thing, its director, Garry Marshall, created such awful but... More >>
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published February 10, 1999
MOST MOVIE RETROSPECTIVES focus on a director or actor; to build one around a cinematographer is to argue that a movie's look is as... More >>
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published February 3, 1999
MY NAME IS JOE has everything against it: It's about a recovering alcoholic and a social worker; it's set in a poverty-stricken... More >>
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