THIS MONTH… A YEAR IN MOVIES
Every year it happens. As we slip into December, people start grumbling about what a poor year it’s been for film, and how the quality of modern cinema has nosedived. “They don’t make ’em like they used to,” is the cliched refrain, and the 1990s are inevitably dragged up, to say nothing of the 1970s, often referred to as ‘The Last Golden Age of American Cinema’.
The naysayers will inevitably reach for the year of 1999 as Exhibit A, pointing out that in this year alone we had Fight Club, The Matrix, Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut, The Insider, The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project, Sleepy Hollow, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Three Kings, American Beauty, Election, The Iron Giant, The Virgin Suicides and Being…
