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99 from 99
by Michael Denniston and Ben Zuk
A movie podcast presenting 99 episodes on films from 1999.
Episodes
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Topsy Turvy and Cradle Will Rock
What in the world would a teenager in Kentucky find to like in Mike Leigh's TOPSY TURVY. Nothing. But wait until that young man becomes middle aged and living in the middle of a pandemic when he's desperate not only any exuberance but to also make his $20 Criterion sale purchase in some way not a...
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The Green Mile
As we near the end of this 99 FROM 99 project we think it's safe to say that we know EXACTLY what it's like to walk THE GREEN MILE. And we do that as we take on THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Jr. with Frank Darabont once again adapting a Stephen King work for the movies. This time he ditches Tim…
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The War Zone
Well... this was uncomfortable. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99 Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!
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The End of the Affair and The Cider House Rules
It's sexy times on 99 FROM 99... which is quickly ruined when we realize that Tobey Maguire is part of said times. We try not to dismiss THE CIDER HOUSE RULES too much, even if this Oscar contender from 1999 is paired with a mostly forgotten but better film starring Julianne Moore and Ralph...
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Sweet and Lowdown
Woody Allen and Sean Penn seem like a very unlikeable combination so imagine our surprise when this "slight" romantic comedy from the prolific director is mostly charming... and that's thanks mostly to the Academy Award nominated performance here by Samantha Morton. Does that save us from Film...
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A Map of the World and Holy Smoke!
The failed Oscar bait in the fall movie season are plentiful but they do not always star the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore like in A MAP OF THE WORLD. They do however usually star Kate Winslet and while this is thankfully not THE READER... it is instead HOLY SMOKE! where Harvey...
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Flawless
Like the diner scene from HEAT we get Robert De Niro facing off against Philip Seymour Hoffman's female impersonator in a film from a man often (actually only in these show notes) compared to Michael Mann in director Joel Schumacher's FLAWLESS. It's not bad. Not great. But not bad. Like this...
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Toy Story 2
We posit that TOY STORY 2 was the beginning of the end for Pixar. It's all doom and gloom for what has been decades of box-office success and critical praise for this company and we knew it over twenty years later! Mainly one host talks about his dislike of fish and children. It is a definitive...
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Ride with the Devil and End of Days
In this episode we take two trips to hell. One where Arnold Schwarzenegger fights the devil and the other is multiple attempts to watch Ang Lee's RIDE WITH THE DEVIL. All snark aside we weren't that enthused by END OF DAYS either... so basically these show notes are letting you know what a downer...
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Liberty Heights
Barry Levinson at his most virile! 99 FROM 99 at its most wistful! What an erotic combination for your listening pleasure! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99 Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd...
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The World is Not Enough
Back in 1999 James Bond faced a global crisis known as Y2K and maybe Judi Dench being mildly annoyed with him. Today... well, we don't have Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist and the world is just a little dimmer for it. This podcast is depressing. Support what we do with bonus content and...
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Sleepy Hollow
One host calls this the greatest film of 1999 and the other is right in his hatred of everything about it... except for that dude from STARSHIP TROOPERS getting attacked by the Headless Horseman. Ladies and gents... this is Tim Burton's SLEEPY HOLLOW. Support what we do with bonus content and…
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Felicia’s Journey
Well, it's finally here. We can probably wrap-up this look at the films of 1999 now that we have a thriller starring Bob Hoskins as a cooking enthusiast with mommy issues in FELICIA'S JOURNEY. It's not as fun as it sounds. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen...
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All About My Mother and Dogma
On this episode we search for the father in two very different films. And only ONE of them has a poop monster. Which means that there really is no choice between Pedro Almodovar's ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER and Kevin Smith's DOGMA. Next episode we promise no poop monster. Just Bob Hoskins. Support what…
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The Bone Collector
In a time when movie stars headlined TV procedural episodes and Angelina Jolie still had an air of mystery... that is honestly more intriguing than the plot of this film. So instead we throw out our own ideas on who SHOULD HAVE done it. This is as basic as a movie podcast gets. Except this one is...
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The Insider
One host directs his eye of Sauron gaze on fans of Michael Mann and the other is named Mike and is a supporter of other Mikes. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99 Follow your host @projectingfilm on...
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American Movie
We confront our own failures on this episode but when that gets too painful we switch to pointing and laughing at filmmaker Mark Borchard whose struggles to make a short horror film are documented in AMERICAN MOVIE. Producing this podcast made us laugh and cry. So did the movie. But we are more...
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House on Haunted Hill
It may not be the climax we were hoping for with The Year of Taye Diggs, terrorized by a mugging Geoffrey Rush in HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL... but it's still a Taye Diggs movie so that's not nothing. We try to keep this from being a repeat of our earlier discussion of fellow 1999 haunted house remake...
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Princess Mononoke
One host hates cartoons about man respecting nature (see our best episode of this series: TARZAN!) and the other is maybe a bit too enthused about Billy Bob Thornton playing a scoundrel monk in PRINCESS MONONOKE. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen...
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Being John Malkovich
malkovich malkovich...malkovich? malkovich malkovich...malkovich? malkovich malkovich: "malkovich, malkovich, malkovich malkovich" MALKOVICH!! malkovich, malkovich, malkovich. ... malkovich? -malkovich malkovich Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen...
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The Best Man
99 FROM 99: THE TAYE DIGGS PODCAST continues as we debate his title as THE BEST MAN for this wedding comedy that veers into cruelty and awkwardly timed revelations. Which means that one host found the proceedings totally normal and the other is a man who can function in society. Enjoy! Support…
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One Day in September
A tragedy infused with beer commercial rock anthems won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the year 1999. Joy. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99 Follow your host @projectingfilm on...
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Bringing Out the Dead
Three nights of berating or being berated by an agitated Nicolas Cage could very well be preferable to anything that is happening in the year 2020 but we still try to condense it down to a breezy half hour discussion on one of Martin Scorsese's rare overlooked works BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. Enjoy!...
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The Straight Story
As the summer season is upon us we offer our dear listeners the chance to take a road trip from the comfort of their ear buds with David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY. On the other hand neither of your favorite podcast hosts are as social as Richard Farnsworth in this film, so we keep it to a half...
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Fight Club
Is any time a good to release an episode on FIGHT CLUB? Or is every time appropriate for a look at depression, distrust and upheaval when it's dressed up as Brad Pitt, half-naked philosopher? We think so. Also no other movie podcast has ever discussed this David Fincher film. Not that we are…
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Random Hearts and The Story of Us
Harrison Ford with an earring but still grouchy. Bruce Willis with a ponytail but still bald. Both these guys got marital problems. One wife dies in the first act, but not before having an affair; the other had to put up with that stupid ponytail from her stupid husband. This is the greatest...
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The Limey
We are twenty years older and no more closer to being as cool as Terence Stamp in Steven Soderbergh's THE LIMEY. And neither are you. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99 Follow your host…
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Boys Don’t Cry
You either die a progressive liberal breaking down barriers in film or you live long enough to be chased off college campuses as a horribly out of touch messenger of hate and ignorance. Along the way an Oscar was won for Hilary Swank but all Kimberly Peirce gets is our appreciation on this pretty...
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Happy, Texas and Mystery, Alaska
If you've always had the sneaking suspicion that the people watching movies at Sundance every year are assholes... well that's probably because some things never change. And HAPPY, TEXAS may be the most infamous example of a festival hit being an unmitigated disaster that nearly killed the career...
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Three Kings
This podcast has done its half-assed best to give context to the idyllic theatrical experience of 1999 but we can't gloss over the fact that there were some troubled productions from that year. THREE KINGS may be known as the greatest performance Spike Jonze ever gave (don't @ us, JACKASS fans)…
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Mumford
The troubled times we find ourselves in now can be traced back to America's rejection of Hollywood's attempt to make Loren Dean a star in Lawrence Kasdan's MUMFORD. Thankfully at least one of your hosts adored this adorable movie about nice people and all the nice lies they tell each other....
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Double Jeopardy
Ashley Judd can't be tried twice for killing her husband in 1999's fall hit DOUBLE JEOPARDY but your favorite podcast trapped in the past will put this Bruce Beresford thriller back on trial and end up sounding just as tired as Tommy Lee Jones does by the end of it. Fun! Support what we do with...
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Breakfast of Champions
Have you been waiting for a podcast on Bruce Willis in a failed Kurt Vonnegut adaptation? You have our apologies as this is probably your only option as we see just how far the combined ranting powers of Albert Finney and Nick Nolte can carry this box office and critical disaster from 1999.…
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American Beauty
And so we have arrived at the Best Picture of 1999. Thus ends the podcast. Of course not! As one host raves about the merits of AMERICAN BEAUTY, the other is just wondering how misguided does a man have to be to no longer find Annette Bening amusing? Also notice how we are leading with one star…
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Stigmata and Stir of Echoes
Twenty years later we are still shocked at the opening weekend dominance of Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Byrne in STIGMATA, while Kevin Bacon bombed in STIR OF ECHOES as a Johnny-come-lately THE SIXTH SENSE on September 10, 1999. Since coming in with the very late takes is our podcast bread and...
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Teaching Mrs. Tingle and Music of the Heart
It's back to school for many a child listener of 99 FROM 99 and what better way to start the season than being anti-social and listening to their favorite hosts on their favorite podcast on everyone's favorite films of 1999: TEACHING MRS. TINGLE and MUSIC OF THE HEART. Apparently one of our hosts...
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Bowfinger and The Muse
Who knew that twenty years later the comedic stylings of Steve Martin and Albert Brooks would be so divisive to our much beloved hosts of your favorite podcast? One of them finds the con man ways of BOWFINGER not only failing to amuse but likely criminal whereas your other host is in complete...
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The Thomas Crown Affair
It's sexy times on this episode of 99 FROM 99 as we discuss the film that gave disappointed EYES WIDE SHUT audiences what they really wanted. Unfortunately all of that steamy action between Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo is nearly ruined by a terrible haircut on top of a terrible Denis Leary. All…
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The Iron Giant
Unfortunately for most people (including one of your beloved hosts) the greatest Superman movie ever made was missed upon initial release in 1999... so leave it to 99 FROM 99 to make THE IRON GIANT a sensation twenty years later. Look, if Steven Spielberg couldn't make it happen in READY PLAYER...
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The Sixth Sense
In August of 1999... everyone saw dead people. A cruel person, like maybe one (or both!) of your hosts, may make a joke here about Bruce Willis' performance in THE SIXTH SENSE but instead we rave about it like a couple of dorks. Look, even the Oscars got something right (historically this is only...
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Runaway Bride
Almost a decade after Julia Roberts became one of the all-time movie stars in her work with director Garry Marshall and co-star Richard Gere in PRETTY WOMAN the band got back together in the summer of 1999 to give us the SECOND BEST Julia Roberts romcom of that year! RUNAWAY BRIDE may not be as...
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Deep Blue Sea
Two decades later and we are still worried about spoiling the charms of Renny Harlin's DEEP BLUE SEA. This leads to a conversation about spoiler culture and the lack of risk-taking as seen by some of today's bigger stars (unfortunately not Thomas Jane as much as we like the guy). Other than that…
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Drop Dead Gorgeous and Dick
On July 23, 1999 the world FINALLY got their Spinal Tap version of local beauty pageants... and the world mostly took a pass until THE OFFICE made that fashionable. Like most of the Johnny-come-lately's we give our delayed thoughts on DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. And while it may be strange for two grown...
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The Haunting and The Blair Witch Project
On July 23, 1999 the star-filled remake of THE HAUNTING would open #1 at the box office but it would be the horror film that opened a week later whose legacy lives on. We debate the merits of the amateur camera crew but professional actors wandering the woods in THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT compared…
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The Wood
The unofficial subtitle of this podcast is The Year of Taye Diggs and that continues with his second appearance of 1999 in THE WOOD. We discuss this more mature version of AMERICAN PIE and wonder if a trip to the movies brings an expectation for a character such as Stifler while also feeling much...
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Lake Placid
Killer crocodiles on screen is very specific film passion but one that ever so often rears its ugly green head and attacks unsuspecting moviegoers. One of your hosts is a freak and enjoys that particular kink and the other is named Mike. This episode sees both hosts (freak and non-freak alike)...
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Eyes Wide Shut
We hope you have not just the password for the house to hear our biggest episode yet. All for a few no names like Cruise... Kidman... and Kubrick. The most anticipated film for cinephiles back in 1999 and EYES WIDE SHUT remains the most debated film of that year two decades later. Our discussion...
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The Dinner Game
In the summer of 1999 dumb Americans were finally treated to some comedy by way of France in THE DINNER GAME. And while it would take us a while to get our grubby remaking hands on it with 2010's DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS, it took even longer for your two beloved hosts to see the original. Classic…
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Arlington Road
Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins gave everyone the ideal neighbors relationship in ARLINGTON ROAD and all of us have been avoiding crazies like this ever since. Unfortunately for you dear listener, we have decided to dredge up uncomfortable cookouts and political discourse for everyone's amusement.…
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American Pie
On July 9, 1999 the wild world of sex with desserts was introduced to the mainstream with AMERICAN PIE. This Jason Biggs starring teen comedy presents some awkward reflection for your two co-hosts now trying to figure out if they can still enjoy the comedic offerings of Stifler or if we have aged...
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A movie podcast presenting 99 episodes on films from 1999.
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