"The 1970s are long gone, and with them the relevant modes of '70s cinema."
"I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as Brokeback Mountain-and even more radical."
"Pootie Tang is one of the greatest movies ever made."
Fans of Nathan Lee's film reviews in The New York Times and The Village Voice have long enjoyed his incisive riffs on works from the 1980s to 2008, movies representative of a "post-cinema" generation. In this survey of 101 films of the Video Era, Lee is concerned with each work's importance to a generation raised with a proliferation of media technologies and a new set of values. He defends "disreputable" modes (the movie as remix, the sequel, and remake), while considering both the "new classics" (Donnie Darko, My Own Private Idaho) and the unexpected (Blade 2, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle). Also included is a biographical introduction ("Born at the Death of Cinema") and an appendix of the Top Ten Post-'80s Film Poll culled from leading critics/filmmakers in their late twenties and early thirties.
Nathan Lee is a film critic for The Village Voice and a contributing editor for Film Comment. The former chief film critic of The New York Sun, he was a regular reviewer for The New York Times, and has written for Esquire, Slate, and Salon, among other publications. Lee is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).
