Email Author Manohla Dargis

1999 Stories by Manohla Dargis

• Et Cetera, Et Cetera, Et Cetera!

  published December 23, 1999

  The King and I without Rodgers and Hammerstein, much less Deborah Kerr -- what will they think of next? Oklahoma! without the corn? Misplaced... More >>

• Robbing the Cradle

  published December 16, 1999

  Photo by Demmie ToddIT TAKES NERVE TO POKE FUN AT Bertolt Brecht and Orson Welles, but if you're Tim Robbins it apparently doesn't take much... More >>

• The Human Factor

  published December 9, 1999

  Neil Jordan‘s take on the Graham Greene novel The End of the Affair is so beautiful in looks and tasteful in sentiment that it’s hard not ... More >>

• Down, Not Out

  published December 2, 1999

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• It's a Small, Small World

  published November 25, 1999

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• Smokin'

  published November 11, 1999

  Photo by Frank ConnorNOT FAR ALONG IN THE NEW MOVIE THE INSIDER, after the players have been introduced and the preliminaries sketched out,... More >>

• Pulp Fiction

  published October 21, 1999

  A slap-happy critique of capitalism, a stroke movie for girls and boys, a romp, a satire, a dirge and a folly -- David Fincher‘s Fight Club i... More >>

• Lethal Weapon

  published September 30, 1999

  French director Catherine Breillat has a dirty mind, the sort that usually gets women into trouble, jail or the bitch house, and only sometimes... More >>

• The Movie Chasers

  published September 9, 1999

  ”We were sitting around in the editing suite,“ says writer-director Robinson Devor. ”It was very depressing. Things were kind of dragging, ... More >>

• A Man's World

  published September 2, 1999

  Rialto Pictures/Janus FilmsPATRICE CHéREAU'S THOSE WHO LOVE ME CAN TAKE the Train opens with an image of repose, but there's barely a f... More >>

• I'll Be Your Mirror

  published August 26, 1999

  RECENTLY A FRIEND MENTIONED A TRIP FROM HIS PAST, spent with friends and a woman he'd loved, and called it a Paris Trance moment, using the... More >>

• The Total Filmmaker

  published August 19, 1999

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• Pretty Vacant

  published August 5, 1999

  Photo by Ron BatzdorffIN THE SOAPY ROMANTIC COMEDY RUNAWAY BRIDE, Richard Gere plays a man whose venomous regard for women is rewarded with... More >>

• Also Ran

  published July 29, 1999

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• Peep Show

  published July 22, 1999

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• Black Like Who?

  published July 8, 1999

  IN THE NEW FILM VERSION OF THE OLD TELEVISION series The Wild Wild West, one of America's biggest black stars stands next to a hangman's... More >>

• Lazy Boy

  published July 1, 1999

  Photo by Myles AronowitzADAM SANDLER IS THE UNFUNNIEST FUNNYMAN in show business, so why is he a star? The Brooklyn-born 32-year-old has appeared... More >>

• International Men of Mystery

  published June 17, 1999

  THINK OF HIM AS THE ORIGINAL PHANTOM MENACE. Harry Lime, an American racketeer with a face as wide and pale as the moon, slips through the streets... More >>

• Under the Skin

  published June 3, 1999

  DELIRIUM SET IN SOMETIME MIDFESTIVAL. THE crowds had become a roiling, nearly impenetrable swirl into which attendees at the 52nd Festival de... More >>

• States of Grace

  published May 20, 1999

  HOW TO WRITE ABOUT ROBERT BRESSON? HOW TO encourage, insist even, that the reader rush out to experience -- see is somehow too puny a word... More >>

• Paris Spleen

  published May 13, 1999

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• High School High

  published April 29, 1999

  Photo by Bob AkesterTHE YOUNG ACTRESS REESE WITHERSPOON HAS the sort of name that sounds like a Preston Sturges whimsy, like Hackensacker,... More >>

• Speed, Baby, Speed

  published April 15, 1999

  Photo by Tracy BennettGO IS AN AMERICAN GRAFFITI FOR THE END OF THE millennium -- it's pure pop fizz. Entertaining and slight,... More >>

• The Matthew Show

  published April 1, 1999

  EDTV, THE DISARMING, DISPOSABLE COMEDY FROM director Ron Howard, is too moth-eaten to be called new -- it's a sitcom refurbished as... More >>

• Nothing but a Man

  published March 25, 1999

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