Best. Movie. Year. Ever.
Title | Best. Movie. Year. Ever. PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Raftery |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1501175394 |
From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999—“a terrifically fun snapshot of American film culture on the brink of the Millennium….An absolute must for any movie-lover or pop-culture nut” (Gillian Flynn). In 1999, Hollywood as we know it exploded: Fight Club. The Matrix. Office Space. Election. The Blair Witch Project. The Sixth Sense. Being John Malkovich. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. American Beauty. The Virgin Suicides. Boys Don’t Cry. The Best Man. Three Kings. Magnolia. Those are just some of the landmark titles released in a dizzying movie year, one in which a group of daring filmmakers and performers pushed cinema to new limits—and took audiences along for the ride. Freed from the restraints of budget, technology, or even taste, they produced a slew of classics that took on every topic imaginable, from sex to violence to the end of the world. The result was a highly unruly, deeply influential set of films that would not only change filmmaking, but also give us our first glimpse of the coming twenty-first century. It was a watershed moment that also produced The Sopranos; Apple’s AirPort; Wi-Fi; and Netflix’s unlimited DVD rentals. “A spirited celebration of the year’s movies” (Kirkus Reviews), Best. Movie. Year. Ever. is the story of not just how these movies were made, but how they re-made our own vision of the world. It features more than 130 new and exclusive interviews with such directors and actors 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, the Office Space dudes, the guy who played Jar-Jar Binks, and dozens more. It’s “the complete portrait of what it was like to spend a year inside a movie theater at the best possible moment in time” (Chuck Klosterman).
Temple Cat
Title | Temple Cat PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Clements |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2001-03-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780618111398 |
A temple cat in ancient Egypt grows tired of being worshiped and cared for in a reverent fashion and travels to the seaside, where she finds genuine affection with a fisherman and his children.
100 Most Beautiful Movie Songs Songbook
Title | 100 Most Beautiful Movie Songs Songbook PDF eBook |
Author | Hal Leonard Corp. |
Publisher | Hal Leonard |
Pages | 904 |
Release | 2020-03-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 154009555X |
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 100 of the best songs from the silver screen arranged for piano, voice and guitar: Theme from Angela's Ashes * Beauty and the Beast * Chariots of Fire * Endless Love * Falling Slowly * Gabriel's Oboe * Hymn to the Fallen * The Music of the Night * Never Enough * Over the Rainbow * The Rose * Somewhere Out There * A Thousand Years * Unchained Melody * What a Wonderful World * and more.
The Robot King
Title | The Robot King PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Selznick |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1995-08-24 |
Genre | Brothers and sisters |
ISBN | 9780060244934 |
"Ezra, a mute since his mother's death, compulsively collects small things that older sister Lucy uses to craft mechanical toys. When she assembles a man-sized figure and inserts their mother's music box as a heart, it comes to life—and what a life! Readers will respond to this...haunting, enigmatic tale of two lonely children who create something wonderful."—K.
Cara Delevingne -The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Title | Cara Delevingne -The Most Beautiful Girl in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Abi Smith |
Publisher | Kings Road Publishing |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2014-04-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1784180300 |
Hailed as the new Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne has fast become one of the most influential supermodels on the planet. Known for her irreverent style and kooky sense of humour, it is her wild side that makes her a constant source of fascination the world over.In this, the first unauthorised biography of the British beauty, Abi Smith reveals Cara's life behind the lens, exploring her potential in the acting and music spheres, and just how she manages to be both weird and wonderful.
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Title | The Most Beautiful Woman in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Moir |
Publisher | Dorrance Publishing |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2015-03-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1480911747 |
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World is an intoxicating blend of high fashion, industrial sabotage, alluring romance and hard-hitting action. Traveling at warp-speed from the suites of New York City to the jungles of Cambodia to the pyramids of Egypt, this thrilling story of two women, identical twins—one, the world’s most beloved supermodel; the other, driven by her resentment and dark ambition into a devastating crime—drives to a stunning conclusion that is at once a judgment and a revelation. The action never stops when you are, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World!
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Title | The Most Beautiful Girl in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Banet-Weiser |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520922603 |
Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. Exploring the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant, Banet-Weiser depicts the beauty pageant stage as a place where concerns about national identity, cultural hopes and desires, and anxieties about race and gender are crystallized and condensed. The beauty pageant, she convincingly demonstrates, is a profoundly political arena deserving of serious study. Drawing on cultural criticism, ethnographic research, and interviews with pageant participants and officials, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World illustrates how contestants invent and reinvent themselves while articulating the female body as a national body. Banet-Weiser finds that most pageants are characterized by the ambivalence of contemporary "liberal" feminism, which encourages individual achievement, self-determination, and civic responsibility, while simultaneously promoting very conventional notions of beauty. The book explores the many different aspects of the Miss America pageant, including the swimsuit, the interview, and the talent competitions. It also takes a closer look at some extraordinary Miss Americas, such as Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America; and Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability.