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Seattle in the ’90s: Leaving Loserdom

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Seattle in the ’90s: Leaving Loserdom

How to be in Seattle in the last decade of the 20th century.

Film

Senseless sensibilities

Novice director Alan Rickman traps his excellent cast in a frozen sea of pretension.

Film

After thought

A near-miss by a potentially brilliant director.

Film

Sinderella

Drew Barrymore in a bodice!

Film

Love, among the ruins

The new documentary 'Kurt and Courtney' swims with the bottom-feeders.

Arts & Culture

Eating by the Book

Or, why a pregnant woman should eat corn dogs.

Arts & Culture

Books Quarterly: Provincials at Play

Seeing California through New York eyes,and DC with Beltway blinders.

Film

Touch me, I’m sick

It's sooo tragic when beautiful young white people die.

Film

Light of my life, fire of my lens

All fetish and foreplay, Adrian Lyne's movie falls flat of a satisfying climax.

Film

Doorwomen

Woman is the way in and out of this French film.

Film

Egghead salad

A close and critical look at one of America's great intellectual milieus.

Film

Clunk

If this is Paradise, I'll take the Inferno.

Film

Going nowhere

Sometimes nothing happens, and that’s good. Seinfeld. Eric Rohmer movies. The fiction of Raymond Carver. We’re left with…

Film

Fishing for love

They meet—in an aquarium.

Film

Spielberg grows up

Finally, the director reins in his own worst instincts.

Film

I hate Hollywood, but I love LA

A celebration and dissection of the Hollywood novel.

Film

Au revoir les enfants

Eric Rohmer says goodbye to youth.

Film

Lost in space

How concert films free the viewer from the constraints of narrative.

Arts & Culture

You’re Gonna Make It After All

Why Wendy Lesser is 1999's girl-writer-made-good.

Film

Nitrocharm

Richard Linklater skillfully directs a cast of heartthrobs with really weird names.