Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen Audiobook (Free)

From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the films of 1999—“a terrifically fun snapshot of American film culture around the brink from the Millennium….Mandatory for any movie-lover or pop-culture nut” (Gillian Flynn).

In 1999, Hollywood as we know it exploded: Combat Membership. The Matrix. Office Space. Election. The Blair Witch Task. The Sixth Sense. Becoming John Malkovich. Superstar Wars: The Phantom Menace. American Beauty. The Virgin Suicides. Children Don’t about Best. Movie. Yr. Ever.: How 1999 Blew In the SILVER SCREEN Cry. THE VERY BEST Man. Three Kings. Magnolia. Those are just some of the landmark titles released within a dizzying film year, one in which a group of daring filmmakers and performers forced cinema to fresh limits—and took viewers along for the ride. Free of the restraints of budget, technology, or even flavor, they produced a slew of classics that took on every topic imaginable, from sex to violence to the finish of the world. The effect was a highly unruly, deeply important set of movies that would not only modification filmmaking, but also give us our first glimpse from the arriving twenty-first century. It was a watershed second that also created The Sopranos; Apple’s Airport; Wi-Fi; and Netflix’s unlimited Dvd and blu-ray rentals.

“A spirited celebration of the calendar year’s films” (Kirkus Evaluations), Best. Movie. Year. Ever. is the tale of not only how these films were made, but how they re-made our very own vision from the globe. It features a lot more than 130 brand-new and special interviews with such directors and stars as Reese Witherspoon, Edward Norton, Steven Soderbergh, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Nia Long, Matthew Broderick, Taye Diggs, M. Night Shyamalan, David O. Russell, James Van Der Beek, Kirsten Dunst, the Blair Witch kids, any office Space dudes, the guy who performed Jar-Jar Binks, and dozens more. It’s “the full portrait of what it had been like to spend a year inside a cinema at the perfect moment in time” (Chuck Klosterman).