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" I feel like Scott Ryan could have written this directly to me and others in our generation who have basically ' given up' on movies. It is at once tribute and eulogy, so bittersweet." - Screenwriter Helen Childress (Reality Bites)" The nineties are lucky to have Scott Ryan." - Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy, Lost Highway)Ah, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We' re talking about a decade that began with GoodFellas and ended with Magnolia, with such films as Malcolm X, Before Sunrise, and Clueless arriving somewhere in between. Stories, characters, and writing were king; IP, franchise movies, and supersaturated superhero flicks were still years away. Or so says Scott Ryan, the iconoclastic author of The Last Days of Letterman and Moonlighting: An Oral History, who here turns his attention to The Last Decade of Cinema-- the prolific 1990s. Ryan, who watched just about every film released during the decade when he was a video store clerk in a small town in Ohio, identifies twenty-five unique and varied films from the decade, including Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Menace II Society, and The Shawshank Redemption, focusing with his trademark humor and insight on what made them classics and why they could never be produced in today' s film culture. The book also includes interviews with writers, directors, and actors from the era. Go back to the time of VCR' s, DVD rentals, and movies that mattered. Turn off your streaming services, put down your phones, delete your Twitter account, and take a look back at the nineties with your Eyes Wide Shut, a White Russian in your hand, and yell " Hasta la vista, baby" to today' s meaningless entertainment. Revel in the risk-taking brilliance of Quentin Tarantino, Amy Heckerling, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, and others in Scott Ryan' s magnum opus, The Last Decade of Cinema.… (plus d'informations)
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The Last Decade of Cinema by Scott Ryan is both an interesting look at some of the important films of the 1990s and an irritating look at how some people cling desperately to their generational labels even though they mean little to nothing. Be prepared for broad, off-base generalizations that add very little to the discussions of the films. Tune that out and the book is pretty good.
He didn't follow his own complaint about more recent movies of "show don't tell" when writing his book. He made his argument in the beginning of the book for why he believes the 90s to be "the last decade of cinema." Instead of sticking to the rational points he makes, such as how the decline of movie rentals took an important revenue stream away from the film companies, which in turn made them less likely to support small or risky projects, he leaned heavily into his fictionalized and skewed view of generations as definitive and distinct groups. Largely, judging by his obvious weaknesses, to pump up his self-image. I guess if I was like him, I might find a crutch as well, but I'm neither that stupid nor that desperate.
The films he selected are a nice mix and include several of my all-time favorites (Pulp Fiction, Short Cuts). He excluded horror but makes a case for why he did so. I'm fine with that since he made his criteria clear at the start. It is his list and is subjective, so he can set his own criteria. Maybe not the same parameters you or I would have chosen, but we're free to make our own lists and/or argue about what is actually on this list. And half the fun of any book that is basically a list of one person's favorites is debating the points made or the items included.
If you enjoy reading and revisiting films from your past, you will likely enjoy this book. If you also believe people born December 31 of one year are significantly different and either more or less intelligent than someone born January 1 of the following year, you will love this book since that sums up his (il)logic. If you have watched a lot of movies and think that makes you an expert, then you have found your twin and definitely should get this book, we mere mortals bow to you both (to hide our laughter).
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. ( )
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" I feel like Scott Ryan could have written this directly to me and others in our generation who have basically ' given up' on movies. It is at once tribute and eulogy, so bittersweet." - Screenwriter Helen Childress (Reality Bites)" The nineties are lucky to have Scott Ryan." - Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy, Lost Highway)Ah, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We' re talking about a decade that began with GoodFellas and ended with Magnolia, with such films as Malcolm X, Before Sunrise, and Clueless arriving somewhere in between. Stories, characters, and writing were king; IP, franchise movies, and supersaturated superhero flicks were still years away. Or so says Scott Ryan, the iconoclastic author of The Last Days of Letterman and Moonlighting: An Oral History, who here turns his attention to The Last Decade of Cinema-- the prolific 1990s. Ryan, who watched just about every film released during the decade when he was a video store clerk in a small town in Ohio, identifies twenty-five unique and varied films from the decade, including Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Menace II Society, and The Shawshank Redemption, focusing with his trademark humor and insight on what made them classics and why they could never be produced in today' s film culture. The book also includes interviews with writers, directors, and actors from the era. Go back to the time of VCR' s, DVD rentals, and movies that mattered. Turn off your streaming services, put down your phones, delete your Twitter account, and take a look back at the nineties with your Eyes Wide Shut, a White Russian in your hand, and yell " Hasta la vista, baby" to today' s meaningless entertainment. Revel in the risk-taking brilliance of Quentin Tarantino, Amy Heckerling, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, and others in Scott Ryan' s magnum opus, The Last Decade of Cinema.
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He didn't follow his own complaint about more recent movies of "show don't tell" when writing his book. He made his argument in the beginning of the book for why he believes the 90s to be "the last decade of cinema." Instead of sticking to the rational points he makes, such as how the decline of movie rentals took an important revenue stream away from the film companies, which in turn made them less likely to support small or risky projects, he leaned heavily into his fictionalized and skewed view of generations as definitive and distinct groups. Largely, judging by his obvious weaknesses, to pump up his self-image. I guess if I was like him, I might find a crutch as well, but I'm neither that stupid nor that desperate.
The films he selected are a nice mix and include several of my all-time favorites (Pulp Fiction, Short Cuts). He excluded horror but makes a case for why he did so. I'm fine with that since he made his criteria clear at the start. It is his list and is subjective, so he can set his own criteria. Maybe not the same parameters you or I would have chosen, but we're free to make our own lists and/or argue about what is actually on this list. And half the fun of any book that is basically a list of one person's favorites is debating the points made or the items included.
If you enjoy reading and revisiting films from your past, you will likely enjoy this book. If you also believe people born December 31 of one year are significantly different and either more or less intelligent than someone born January 1 of the following year, you will love this book since that sums up his (il)logic. If you have watched a lot of movies and think that makes you an expert, then you have found your twin and definitely should get this book, we mere mortals bow to you both (to hide our laughter).
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (