Go go home. Bad wolf. Bad wolf. When you think of the 90s, you do think of actors in the directors chair. You think of kevin costner, jodie foster, mel gibson, and you think of Clint Eastwood who finally gets his due in the 90s. Undriven is a miraculous case. It landed on this moment of frailty. You kill folks . My agent called me and said Clint Eastwood has made an offer. Clint Eastwood Eastwood . Yes. Youll be his partner in this western. Well, shucks. Tell him ill think about it. I remember there was three men you shot, will, not too. I aint like that no more, ned. I aint no killing fool. Clint eastwood and Morgan Freeman who have been professional killers and are sick of violence, they dont want to do it anymore, but they get dragged back into it. Ive killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks and crawled at one tomb time or another. And im here to kill you little bill. Clint is maybe the best director ive ever worked with. I love the way he does it. Hes quick. Hes decisive. Beautiful. There are directors in this period like michael mann who are the rebels within the staud yo system, the guys who are just doing it differently. What am i doing . Im talking to an empty telephone. I dont understand. Because there was a dead man on the other end of this [ bleep ]. He provides us an opportunity to finally see Robert De Niro and al pacino on screen together doing a scene together. What do you say i buy you a cup of coffee. The scene in the diner, all three of us knew it was the nexxus of the whole film. I chase down some crews. Guys just looking [ bleep ], get busted back, and you, you must have worked some dip shit crews. I worked all kinds. Its one of my favorite scenes between these two guys. They finally come together. I think we did a good job with it. I do what i do best. I take scores. You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me. They are not taking their eyes off each other. Its almost reflexive. I will not hesitate, not for a second. People want to see great actors. Tell me the truth. Guys like michael mann would always punch you in the gut. They would make a movie that would be counter to what everybody else is doing but have truth in it. You want your own wife wid napped . Yeah. I think fargo is a perfect movie in every way. The screenplay is perfect. The execution of it it is perfect. The performances are absolutely perfect. It was written for me. I got very excited. They said, joel, you know, came home from work and said were working on something, theres a part for you. We got a shooting. These folks drive by. Theres a high speed pursuit, ends here, and then this execution type deal. Scripts are publishable works of literature. For example, the scene in fargo where marge is interrogated the two strippers. Hey, they said they were going to the twin cities. Yeah . Yeah. Yeah. Is that useful to you . Oh, you bet ya, yeah. Yeah. It was punctuated and written in the rhythm that we played it. And its its beautiful. And the oscar goes to ethan and joel coen for fargo. The oscar goes to francis mcdormant in fargo. Everyone loves this movie. What do they do . They do something completely different. Sometimes theres a man well, hes the man for his lime and place. The big lebowski. One of my favorite stories is how long it took jeff bridges to agree to do it. It was so good. It was written for him, sent to him, he said its great, not sure i can do this. I just remember them thinking how could he not . Obviously he came to that conclusion himself. I am not mr. Lebowski. Youre mr. Lebowski. Im the dude. So, thats what you call me, you know . That or his dudeness or duder or el duderinno if youre not into the drefty thing. Its the only time in my life i havent been able to look an actor in the eye because he was so funny. Jeffrey. Love me. Thats my robe. Big lebowski is the most quotable movie of my generation. That rug really tied the room together, did it not . [ bleep ] hey. The coen brothers are subversive filmmakers. Theyre revolutionary bomb thrillers but youre kind of pleased the bomb landed on your front porch. Theyve kept control of their films from the beginning in a buena allowed them to really explore any genre that they wanted to go into. And i think by exploring the genre, then they subeverted it. Jack warner, dont make it. Really . Yeah. Adult films, exotic pictures. Where i grew up was the porno capital of the world. So, i would know what a regular film shoot would look like and then i would know what the difference was when it was like a van. Thats where boogie nights came from, a world i knew really, really well, funny enough. Whos dirk diggler . Thats a new, good looking kid, eddie at the club. Good name. When i got pauls script for boogie nights, i called my agent and said are you punking me . It was x rated. He said its going to be r. I said no, theres copulating in it. He said, no, thats the contract. I said, well, im in. I used to argue with paul that amber should die. She cant die she would. She probably would. I dont know that she would have survived all of that. Ill ask you if youre my mom, okay . And you say yes, okay . Are you my mom . Yes. Yes. She kind of assumes the mantle of parenting in this world. Shes not actually taking care of them. Shes play acting. What were talking about then is coming to an agreement on the custody of andrew. Yes. The thing that i really love about the scene as shes fighting for custody, the judge turns to her and says maggie, have you ever been arrested. What was the last time you were arrested and what was the charge. Cut to outside and amber sobbing. Thats just it. Shes somebody not responsible enough to parent. You dont have to be interested in pornography to be interested in broken people that have been rejected by their family, that have a family. The moral center of the movie is about all these broken humans trying to make themselves whole by finding a stitched together family when they dont have an actual family of their own. Paul Thomas Anderson has never made the same movie twice. Whenever you see a paul Thomas Anderson movie you know its a paul Thomas Anderson movie. Im not sure theres a higher complement you can pay to a director. His imprint are on the films. What am i doing . Yeah. Im quietly judging you. Try new clean freak it has three times the cleaning power of the leading spray to dissolve kitchen grease on contact. And its great for bathrooms just keep pumping the power nozzle to release a continuous burst of mist and make quick work of big jobs. It even works on stainless steel. It cuts through 100 of dirt, grease and grime. Available with easytoswap refills. To get three times the cleaning power, try new clean freak from mr. Clean. And i dont add trup the years. S. But what i do count on. 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Animation was disneys brand, but in the early 80s they were really adrift and Little Mermaid was the hit that showed what these movies could do. Part of your world and that kicked off a total revolution in the animation world. And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents your dinner. When audiences see these movies, they havent seen animation like this in decades. The Disney Studio reexamines the templates of snow white, pinocchio, dumbo, bambi, and in the process of doing that returns the disney animation to its fundamentals. 10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck and because theyre done with cleverness and with great use of music which disney specialized in, they capture the same magic. The circle of life the lion king is interesting because its a very old tale thats been retold in different ways. But it emerged as Something Special and became i think bigger than the sum of its parts. It means no worries for the rest of your days it just clicked with the right anime tors, the right directors, the right music. Oh, i just cant wait to be king people were ready for that kind of story, that kind of epic scale. And then you can see the beginnings of cg in the background for certain things like the stampede. Its one of those things where the stars align and it hits the culture in a way thats impactful. Pixar changed the game. I remember going to see toy story and i went and saw it twice. There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere. Hello. Ah the comedy wasnt talking down to kids. It was more everybody. Look, were all very impressed with andys new toy. Toy . Toy. Excuse me, i think youre searching for the word ranger. When i saw toy story i was just blown away. Um pressive wingspan. Very good. The technology was nice and interesting but thats not what blew me. What blew me away were here were new characters to infinity and beyond. The film was contemporary. It was not a musical. And it was done with all the sincerity of the walter rah. You actually think youre the buzz light year . All this time i thought it was an act. Hey, guys, look its the real buzz lightyear youre mocking me, arent you . Anybody wanting to study screen writing should watch pixar movies. I think theyre beautifully, beautifully written. Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow theres something so beautiful about bringing an inanimate object to life. Drawing animation is the same kind of thing. Theres something about stop motion thats pure and strong. Whats this whats this theres white things in the air i must be dreaming, whats this tim burton has managed to take the most macabre things and make them so fun and so heartbreaking and beautiful. No one has that aesthetic. You dont have to wonder for ten seconds if its a tim burton film. I have a present for you. Edward scissorhands is kind of frankensteins story and spencer price creates a boy but dies before he can put his hands on it. Edward scissorhands was a character tim had brought to life through a concept drawing. Ive seen tim draw a character through two strokes of a brush and you knew who they were. Look make it a fiverun inning and blow this game to pieces. Ill be darned. With tim and his characters, theres always a real connection with him and johnny depp. Theres kind of a way of speaking without speaking and communicating which is why he was edward scissorhands. It goes back to silent movies where people communicate with your eyes. I feel some connection to him or winona ryder. So, are we going to be working together . Really . Worse film you ever saw . Well, my next one will be better. Hello . Edward is such a sweet movie and yet its not at all clawing. Its just completely cool and crazy. Hes a monster. Can you imagine what that guy would look like in a movie. Johnny depp plays a real life character, ed wood, who is famously known as the worst film director of all time. His character is so perfect. You just love him for his enthusiasm. All right friends, prepare for scene 32. Mr. Wood, wheres the cockpit, sir . Youre standing in it. Places ed wood thought he was making star wars. We all feel that. Every time you embark on a movie, its going to be the greatest, most amazing thing. Edward was not made as a joke. It was lovingly made in appreciation of what that guy had done. These actors are they really love their craft and that kind of weird sense of family you get in film. This felt very close to me. It just felt like my own life. A bunch of weirdos trying to make a movie. Thats easily relateable to me. This is the one. This is the one ill be remembered for. With pressure rising, and racing. This is also mias pulse. That her doctor keeps in check, so she can find balance. This is mias pulse, and now its more stable than ever. 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Just put your little hand in mine groundhog day was a very characterdriven comedy. The bill murray character just keeps waking up hey phil and having to relive the same day. Dont tell you you dont remember me because i sure as heck fire remember you. Not a chance. Mad usually when theres some kind of strange convention, its explained. Phil conners, i thought that was you. Youre in a time machine. Or somebody cast a spell. But this just happened, and nobody minded. Phil conners. Ned . The movies perfect. Its also so obviously for bill. Phil, like the groundhog phil. Yeah, like the groundhog phil. Look out for your shadow there. Morons, your bus is leaving. Its hard to be a likeable dick and then win the audience over by the end. Bill is really good at that. Oh, thank you young man its nothing maam. I had the tire and the jack. Just be comfortable, all right . To me, bill murray is one of the great comedy actors that has ever been. How long will you be staying with us . Indefinitely. Im being sued for divorce. Hes picky which is perfect because then he finds his way into somebody really extraordinary. Whats the secret, max . The secret . Yeah, you seem to have it pretty figured out. Secret, i dont know one. I think youve just got to find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. Wes anderson, his films are like opening a jewelry box. And you can take out all the little trinkets and look at this them and theyre joyful. Whats going on in here . Its so rare when someone comes along and creates their own aesthetic which is truly unique. I really related to rushmore in terms of having bad grades and not being good in school but having a passion for something. Frank, you enter with a bag of cocaine. I wrote a fan letter to wes. It was the perfect film, laugh out loud humor with actual pathos. I like your nurses uniform, guy. These are o. R. Scrubs. Oh, are they . Comedy in the 90s will be dynamic. Shall we shag now or later . Its over the top. Thats your home. Are you too good for your home . Answer me and youre going to get andy sandler knocking out one movie after the next. Cindy and scott are newlyweds. Whoopty do if you look at the movies like waynes world theyre the big scenes. Their heads bopping back and forth. Theyre not afraid to do something to get a laugh. And then all of a sudden one day this guy who is as big as the screen shows up and its jim carey. And you turn into a top Hollywood Star because he is unafraid to be big. Even as hes doing these over the top things where, you know, hes talking through his behind and youre like im not going to watch this. Excuse me, i would like to ass you a few questions. But then youre watching. Just like me, they long to be i dont have to be too inlek eventual about it. I just laugh my ass off. And part of it was like i cant believe theyre doing that. Whats that bubble there . What do you think . Its a how the hell did you get the bees. The farly brothers pushed the rules so far that you can do that . Ill have a decalf coffee . Ill have a half double decalf with a twist of lemon. You had lots and lots of really funny bankable people doing wonderful movies. Yes my first day as a woman, im getting hot flashes. Hello peter. Whats happening . Im gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. So, if you can be here around 9 00, that would be great. Okay . Office space is not as acclaimed as it should be. It was not a big hit. But theres so much modern comedy in that movie. It was wonderful. Im thinking i might take that new chick from logistics. Things go well i might be showing her my o face. Oh, oh, oh, you know what im talking about . Oh. Jennifer aniston was in it. She worked at a place like tgifs. We need to uk at that about your flair. Really . Being somebody that waitressed and having a manager like put that flair on and show you what thats like, like heres my flair. All right. Theres my flair. And this is me expressing myself, okay . Teachers pet Christopher Guest is considered the master of the mock meant ri. He comes up with characters that are profoundly silly. When we were on snl together, chris did a movie called synchronized swimming. Ive been directing regional theater, shakespeare in the park. If i do that again, im going to kill myself. Thats where the character was sort of born. Me, you know, right out of the noi sr navy, fresh off a destroyer with a dance belt and a tube of chap stick basically. Chris surrounds himself with great funny people. Eugene, fred willard, catherine ohara. If theres an empty space, just say a line. Thats what i like to do. Even if its from another show. Chris works in miniature. Hes very much in fine taste. And when it hits right, its amazing. Thats the way it is . Then i just hate you and i hate your ass face vo the hamsters, run hopelessly in their cage. Content on their endless quest, to nowhere. 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Try tidy cats free clean. The piano was ravishing and also uncompromising. Its a really visceral movie. You feel the weight of the fabric, the dampness of the air, and the moss. Mama and its so inherently jane. Jane campion is a filmmaker from new zealand who shot this very intimate movie in her home country starring harvey hunter, and a very young anna paquin. It was the kind of intimacies that jane pulled us into as an audience. She has a voice not to be denied. Its my mothers piano. Its an extraordinary performance in a film. And also holly is a very accomplished pianist. Its one of those perfect rolls for the perfect actor. This movie established jane campion. She won the pondor and became the second woman to be nominated for an oscar for acting. The 90s was the best time for women directors. They infused a kind of sensibility that made it really enjoyable. You were hanging out with other filmmakers saying wow, how many movies can i make . How many women can i work with . You still havent figured out what riding waves is all about, have you . Its a state of mind. They dont want to be acknowledged as a female director. I fought my whole career to be acknowledged as a filmmaker, not a black filmmaker. Im sure a lot of those women are saying dont call me a female director. Im a director. Im a bad therapist. Do you hear me . I am a bad therapist. What am i going to bring to your wedding . I am making these people worst. Walking and talking was inspired around the time my friend was getting married. They were a perfect match. I love them both. But i felt very lonely. Its not fake. Frank gave it to me. And i thought that was funny. Were engaged. Yeah. Were going to get married. Well. I think of her comedies as comedies of embarrassment. Her characters want to be better people, but theyre just not. Are you crazy . I had sex with you two weeks ago and now youre asking me why i havent rented lately . I didnt i didnt know what to say. I just dont know anyone who is better at setting up that kind of situation that makes us all squirm because theyre so human. I dont know dionnes going out with a high school boy. Theyre like dogs. You have to clean them and feed them and theyre just like these nervous creatures that jump and slobber all other you. Ew get off of me as if when i was writing clue less i hung around Beverly Hills high school a lot. There was a teacher that let me hang out. You heard the vernacular. It does not say rsvp on the statue of liberty. Thank you very much. Amy hecker ling is giving these girls their own vocabulary. Hello. It was his 50th birthday whatever. Oh, my god. Im totally bugging. Theyre changing the lexicon of teen girls all over the world. Do you have any idea what youre talking about . Why, do i sound like i do . Even though cher is this heightened perfect aspirational creation, i think amy is able to see her as a real girl. She doesnt turn her into a punch line. In a league of their own Penny Marshall looks at the changing roll of women in world war ii girls cant play ball men were fighting on the battlefields, but there was still a hunger for professional baseball. A league of their own is about women baseball players. Its iconic and the lines are iconic and the performances are iconic. We told them it was their patriotic duty to get out of the kitchen and go to work. When the men come back, well send them back to the kitchen. What should we do . Send the boys returning from war back to the kitchen . A league of their own was a movie about female empowerment, how powerful women are when they unite, and how many stories we still have to tell. Shes under it. Oh, elmores socks what did she do . When you have diabetes, dietary choices are crucial to help manage blood sugar, but it can be difficult to find a balanced solution. Try greattasting boost glucose control. 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When James Cameron got to t2, he was interested in expanding his palate, particularly to include these new digital tools. It was wildly groundbreaking. Cameron was working with industrial light and magic. And they were really kind of inventing this process of cgi as they went. When you first heard that Steven Spielberg would be making a movie about a place where dinosaurs were brought back to life, your First Response would be i cant wait to see that. Wheres the goat . Amazing just how long it takes before the t rex comes out. He makes you wait for it. And wait for it. And wait for it. I dont know what a dinosaur really looks like in real life. I think it looks like Jurassic Park. Boy, i hate being right all the time. What Steven Spielberg innately understands is that dinosaurs are awesome. It was the same feeling i had as a 10yearold watching jaws for the first time when you see the bront saurs leap up and eat the leaves off the tree. Were going to make a fortune off this place. Thats what spielberg does as a filmmaker. He makes you go a lot of the enthusiasm for cgi comes from filmmakers seeing in Jurassic Park what that technology could do for their story telling. Titanic is a throw back in so many ways to the big blockbusters of the 50s and 60s not just in its scope and scale, but also that it was talked about in the way that we talk about cleopatra. Were putting everything we have into this giant boat, and is it going to sink . Its budget at this point hit a thin unheard of 200 million. Leo dicaprio had done whats eating Gilbert Grape and his romeo and juliet had not come out yet. There was some question about whether he could do this thing. The studio thought they were in terrible, terrible trouble. It was going to be an enormous disaster and it turned out to be the biggest movie of all time. Im the king of the world woo, woo titanic really had everything. It was an epic oldfashioned movie. Iceberg right ahead an action movie. It also had a love story at the heart of it. Jack dawson. Rose duwitt. Ill have to get you to write that one down. It was irresistible. It was absolutely sexy. Leo was gorgeous. Kate winslet captured that independent woman who would not be pinned down. And they were just this vivian lee clark gable type pairing. Im flying. Jack. Titanic is this moment where James Cameron is straddling these two worlds, the human scale and the computer scale. And from this moment on, 97, the world goes computer. You have to let it all go, neil, fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind. Woah. The matrix changes everything. You have the embrace of eastern cinema into western cannon. And youve got them making their actors do the stunts themselves. Keanu reeves had already done point break. He had already done speed, but this is a different level of action star hes transforming into. This was six months of training every actor had to go through. 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Im scared to open them. It was very clear that something was in the water that year. Here i come to save the day it felt like the final exam for the 20th century. Its like the bells about to ring and everybodys trying to get their good thing in before the century ends. You have this realnteresting combination of young filmmakers swinging for the fences and showing people what they could do, as well as more established figures like michael mann with the insider just finding a different gear. I have to put my familys welfare on the line here. What are you putting up . Youre putting up words. Words. While youve been dicking around at some [ bleep ] company golf tournaments, ive been out in the world and backing it up with action. Id stack 99 up in american film making as a real cohort of great film makers dropping significant work. Hey, mr. Mcallister. Youre not wasting any time, are you, tracy . Well, you know what they say about the early bird. Yeah, i do. Election is the second movie of alexander pane. Its about this High School StudentCouncil Election in omaha. Reese witherspoon is tracy flick. Shes almost someone you want to root for because of her passion and drive, but also she has a little too much ambition. They know this country was built by people just like me who work very hard and dont have everything handed to them on a silver spoon. Whats brilliant about election is that youre getting voiceover from, like, three or four different perspectives. Who knew how high she would climb in life, how many people would suffer because of her. I had to stop her. Alexander payne made a very american movie, and the performances in election of matthew broaddrick and Reese Witherspoon are terrific. Looks like you could use a cupcake. Its a remarkable film. Who are you . Boys dont cry is based on a true story about a young man who was a trans man living in a small community. Left me lonely he fell in love with a woman. They had a relationship. And other people discovered that this was a trans man and not a cis man and sexually assaulted and murdered him. Boys dont cry, just a phenomenal movie. Like, no studio would have made that movie. It was a gamechanger in terms of American Cinema between what was made before and what was made afterwards. 1999 was just such a great year in independent cinema. You look at that lineup of films from virgin suicides to three kings to being John Malkovich. Theres a tiny door in my office, maxine. Its a portal and it takes you inside John Malkovich. And they kind of remind people that movies can be so much more. What happens when a man goes through his own portal . Well see. Its a metafictional dive into literally the brain of John Malkovich who is in the movie playing himself. Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich, malkovich its one of those movies thats impossible to describe and it just sounds like youre piling one absurdity upon another, but it all somehow coheres into this crazy and beautiful film. I want you to do me a favor. Yeah, sure. I want you to hit me as hard as you can. What . I want you to hit me as hard as you can. Sometimes a piece of material finds a filmmaker who is uniquely possessed of the chops to do it right. Fight club was done in a way, i think its hard to imagine anybody who had a better dna than him for that film. The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. We were doing the kind of film wed all hoped to do. Trust me. Everythings going to be fine. I thought fight club could be one of those things that becomes a marker for the way we felt at a certain time. It connected right where we wanted it to connect and its still growing, and thats exciting, thats kind of for me, thats the highest aspiration. In the 90s, you get these trends and these moments that are going to carry on for the next few decades. You have this moment of really promising black filmmakers who are coming up. You have womens voices coming more to the forefront, in that theyre writing films and in cases directing films. Theyre also getting some big blockbusters, as hollywood will always have. It sort of lays the groundwork for what were going to see for the next 20 years. You want answers . I think im entitled. You want answers . I want the truth you cant handle the truth