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List of contents
Introduction: All as It Had Been Part I: Pulp Fictions The Lang Twentieth Century White Dog Basic Instinct Blade Runner Kiss Me Deadly Natural Born Killers Pulp Fiction Meet "Beat" Takeshi Ashes of Time Mars Attacks! Starship Troopers San Sergio Leone Part II: Adventures in Dreamland The Long Day Closes Exotica Die Hard with a Vengeance I Shot Andy Warhol Aventurera Vertigo The Truman Show There's Something about Mary (and Mary) How Star Wars Supplanted Religion, Mutated the Species, and Changed the Movies Run Shag Run Eyes Wide Shut In the Mood for Love The Man Who Cried A.I.: The Dreamlife of Androids Part III: Once and Future Vanguards Naked Lunch and Tribulation Poison Avant Retro Archangel Sergei Paradjanov Lessons of Darkness Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie Dead Man Fragments * Jerusalem Mother and Son Pecker The Idiots The Wind Will Carry Us Making New Memories Mulholland Drive Part IV: The History of Film, the Film of History How the Western Was Lost Schindler's List Race Movies Jaws Quiz Show Nixon Get on the Bus Underground Point of Order Apocalypse Now and Then Back to Iraq Part V: Our Rock 'n' Roll President Clinton vs. Bush: A Lover or a Fighter? The Clinton Show Born Again Again The Remaking of the President Bob Dole, American Hero Independence Day 1996 Boom's End Entertainer-in-Chief Pleasantville: Somewhere Under the Rainbow Cine Clinton: the Contender et al. The Film Critic of Tomorrow, Today Appendix: Ten "10 Best" Lists, 1991-2000 Index
About the author
J. HOBERMAN is Film Critic at The Village Voice.
