Subgenre Sampler
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West Wing, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Various, Michael Lehmann, Thomas Schlamme
Feat. Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Moira Kelly…
- One of the most popular (and lauded) US TV–series of recent years, set in a White House presided over by Martin Sheen and his staff. With…
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999)
- Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Temuera Morrison, Nancy Brunning
- Alan Duff–scripted sequel to his novel ONCE WERE WARRIORS is as good a sequel as one could reasonably expect.
Story continues some years on…
When Love Comes (1999)
- Dir. Garth Maxwell
Feat. Rena Owen, Simon Prast, Nancy Brunning…
- Earnest tableaux of straight, gay, lesbian and platonic relationships underscored by a music motif and sombre themes of compromise and loss.…
Wild Wild West (1999)
- Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh…
- The star and director of MEN IN BLACK and recoupled for this Sci–fi–Western–spoof, first aired as a popular,…
Winslow Boy, The (1999)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northam
- Writer–Director extraordinaire David Mamet changes pace, eschewing fiery dialogue for a subtly–modulated evocation of the Edwardian…
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
- Dir. James Marsh
- A deadpan, quietly unsettling documentary that charts 10 years of creeping misfortune at the end of the 19th century in the small Midwest town of…
Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, The (1999)
- Produced after Ken Burns’ JAZZ, yet managing to illuminate ‘Satchmo’s’ life and times on several new levels, this artful collage of…
World Is Not Enough, The (1999)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Robert Carlyle, Sophie Marceau…
- Pierce Brosnan is back for a third time in the most cartoonish entry in many a season, with in–jokes, sexual allusions and fire–power…
X-Files, The - Season 7 (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
- More adventures of the X–Files crew – this was also David Duchovny's final season.
Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (1999)
- Dir. Edward Yang
Feat. Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata
- Masterful cinema – a drama that loosely surveys a middle–class family in contemporary Taipei, encompassing a wealth of human observation…