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♪ as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. >> good fellas is like fasten your seatbelts. i'm going to kick the [ bleep ] out of you and you're going to love it. >> there have been so many mob movies. is it really popular in 1990, martin scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that will have something to say that has not been said a million times? you watch the movie and you're like, yeah! >> what are you doing? you're leaving your car? >> we tried to capture the exuberance of that world.

it's dangerous and threatening. but they're having a wonderful time. >> it was the nuts and bolts of the mob. it was the mob as a job. >> what are you doing? >> what? >> what do you do? >> i'm in construction. >> and the balance of these two families, your mob family and your real family, and the way the two start to bleed into each other. >> you were right. you all right? >> "good fellas" was based on a book called "wise guy" and i read it and said what if i play this guy jimmy the gent? >> what did i tell you? what did i tell you? you don't buy anything.

you hear me? don't buy anything. >> it's a true story and it is the nature of that lifestyle. >> just a little taste. >> you had to be clever enough, let alone have the audacity, the discretion, but also not being afraid of the violence. >> i don't believe what i just heard. >> this is for you. >> the dangerous enjoyment of it where you can be enjoying and suddenly somebody gets shot in the chest. >> what's the world coming to? { gunshots } >> then it's not funny. there is a price. for everything you do. >> all right. you all know the drill. >> in the '90s, there's a host of movies in which people operate outside the system.

we love the idea of the outlaw. it's one of the reasons we go to the movies. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you, officer. >> you go to the movies to see people violate the laws of society. >> i'll take one ever those big envelopes and put as many hundreds, 50s and 20s as you can pack into it. >> in the '90s we were rooting for the criminals to get away with it. we wanted the bad guys to be the good guys. it was really an era when the anti-hero was on the rise. >> you have something against ice cubes? >> i like rough edges. >> and "basic instinct" the character is a sociopath. they are as dangerous as that character is. when i played the part, i needed to understand the sociopathic mind and that is a very scary thing. >> "silence of the lambs" i remember waiting for it with baited breath to come out. nothing prepared me for how jonathan deme shot walking to meet hannibal lecter. >> this is a horror film that is also an actor's piece.

>> closer! >> this is told by the closeup master of all time. the tension kept rising and rising. >> most serial killers keep trophies from their victims. >> i didn't. >> no. you ate yours. >> "silence of the lambs" is about this erie dance between clerise and hannibal lecter. >> people will say we're in love. >> it manages to take the horror movie and even the iconography and put it into a real world thriller. >> you still wake up sometimes, don't you? wake up in the dark. and hear the screaming of the lamb. >> yes. >> "silence of the lambs" becomes one of three films ever to win best picture, best actress, best director, best

adapted screen play and then anthony hopkins wins best actor can maybe 16 minutes of screen time. >> how come he didn't let you go? >> because i didn't ask him. >> the one thing i love so much about "thelma and louise" is it's one of the best love stories of all times. >> these two friends decide to get away and it goes off the rails really, really quickly. >> shut up. shut up. >> please don't hurt me. >> i'll spatter your ugly face all over this nice car. >> i was driving home one night and the idea hit me. two women go on a crime spree. it wasn't just that idea. i kind of saw the whole movie in one flash. >> god damn, you're a bitch. >> i think he's going to apologize.

>> no, i don't think so. >> this is an odyssey of two women on the last journey. they would not know it was the last journey and therefore the journey had to be magnificent. >> a lot of women looked at this film and thought i could relate to those women, i know what they're going through, i understand the choices they made. >> let's keep going. >> what do you mean? >> go. >> they looked at each other and they both knew. >> you sure? >> it's kind of the culmination of both of our lives and we have no choice. let's go. i can't imagine the movie would have had any power at all had we not ended it that way.

>> i have no enemies here. >> no? wait a while. >> "shawshank redemption" is the perfect prison film. >> for a good prison movie, you need a warden who is corrupt. >> i wouldn't worry too much about this contract. >> you you want to make the audience feel like they're trapped. and then there has to be hope. >> a little parole rejection present. >> the audience has to hope for something better for these characters that they fall for. >> it's a great love story between two men spending 20, 30 years in prison getting to know each other. >> the funny thing is on the outside i was an honest man. straight as an arrow. i had to come to prison to be a crook. >> watching each others lives rotate through the system. >> "shawshank redemption" is

about seeking justice in an imperfect world and when the convicts win, you have a sense of relief. and that somehow justice has been done. ♪ trying to make it real >> in vegas everybody's got to watch everybody else. >> "casino" is the story of these two men, joe's character and bob's character. >> look at this place. it's made of money. you know what the best part is? nobody's going to know what we're doing. >> and poor sharon who is thrown in the middle of it. >> working for marty is a big thing. he was very open, supportive, encouraging, and so present with me. >> can i trust you? answer me. can i trust you? >> sharon stone is in the great tradition of crawford and the

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"apollo 13" was a real turning point for me and an eye opener.

i learned the power of a true story. >> this is houston. say again, please? >> houston, we have a problem. >> just believing in the story. my mantra was just show it. >> we're not going to have enough power left to get home. >> we know they're going to be safe, but the thing we care about is how are they going to be safe? what do these people have to do to save them? that is what's riveting. >> the '90s brought us a new look at some previously thought to be well known story. >> when you look at the film "jfk" it's about what we can trust and who we can trust. >> who benefitted and who has the power to cover it up. >> oliver stone is saying you can't trust anybody. >> go back to the time when the nation was captivated by this game show and it's the story about truth and the perversion of truth in entertainment. >> what about him?

>> i love him. >> people don't like him. kids don't like him. >> as i kid, i lived through the "quiz show" period. i wanted john to play herb stempel, the guy from the lower class area and he rose to fame and then certain people were getting tired of him because he wasn't that pleasant to look at but no one could beat the guy. he was so sharp. that's when they came up with

the guy why don't we find somebody that looks good and we'll give him the answers. >> general h.w. halek. >> you are our new champion. >> that cruelty was something i wanted to show. the power of money and personality. so to me that was a story that really had to be told. >> we didn't land on plymouth rock. plymouth rock landed on us. landed right on top of us. >> "malcolm x" is spike lee's epic. i think he felt a certain urgency in making it. >> spike had the good fortune of casting denzel washington at the pinnacle of his movie stardom. >> denzel washington is one of the all-time greats. what he does in his artistry painting a portrait of an individual, it's astounding. >> if the so-called negro in america was truly an american citizen, we wouldn't have a

racial problem. if the emancipation proclamation was authentic, we wouldn't have a racial problem. >> watching a guy like denzel as malcolm x, top of the game, intimidating in many ways. >> when we made "philadelphia", he was malcolm already. it was like starting a movie with marlon brando and just seeing "the godfather" the night before. >> what happened to your face? >> i have aids. >> "philadelphia" was an important film. >> how did they find you out have the aids? >> one of the partners noticed a lesion on my forehead. >> as his character spends more time with tom hanks, he starts to see him as more than his sexuality or his disease. >> let's get it out of the classroom, because this case is not just about aids, is it? so let's talk about what this case is really all about.

the general public's hatred, our loathing, our fear of homosexuals. >> he can bring the audience on that journey to say we don't need to fear people. we don't need to despise or stigmatize them. my name is forest, forest gump. >> it's a very rare thing for me to read a script and not be able to put it down. >> "forest gump" is a marvelous look on the how history happens. it's a play on the contingency and accident that shapes our world. >> we were the first american to visit the land of china in like a million years, something like that. somebody said world peace was in our hands. but all i did was play ping pong. >> that film embodies everything that makes tom great.

he's a fantastic dramatic actor and he's a magnificent comedy actor. i can't think of another actor living or dead who could have ever done that part. >> by the 1990s, the age of the people who served in world war ii was 70. they were growing old and disappearing. there was a powerful sense of nostalgia. we saw a lot of retrospective looks at world war ii. this is the time when people started talking about the greatest generation. >> "saving private ryan" was a film i was going to make some day in my life. my dad used to have his band of brothers from the air corp come over to the house every year and the first time i ever heard grown men cry was at the reunions. it was all about the trauma they had suffered in world war ii.

>> we'll see you on the beach. >> i felt it was necessary for me to tell the experience of veterans and what they had gone through when they were a little older than i was at the time. >> when movie goers saw the men disembark, the bullets were going through the water and hitting them in the water. there was a powerful realism to that. >> it's spielberg saying what does it feel like to have gone on that beach? your nose is pressed right into the savagery. >> the beginning was fantastic. i was ill for two weeks watching that. i couldn't believe he did that. >> sir, i don't have a good feeling about this one. >> when was the last time you felt good about anything?

>> this ability to entertain and reach audiences more than one way with the same movie, "saving private ryan" is a great example of that. it's exciting, it's thrilling, it's suspenseful, but it also is a reminder of the price of that kind of warfare, the cost to the soul, and who winds up living and dying and baring those scars in that kind of conflict. >> i dare get you one, but the man who made it is probably dead. i don't know. >> my family, when i was growing up, talked about the holocaust, though they never used that word. they used to call it the great murders.

i shot the whole film documentary style. it was the first film i had ever shot like that. it became less of a film and more of a life's journey, a living learning experience making that film. we all felt we were shooting in a graveyard. and so the amount of reverence of the crew and the cast, i last liam neeson at the last minute. i thought he was the best schindler i could possibly find and he was. >> oscar schindler was a deal maker and he didn't care for his workers, but there was an encroaching on the holocaust that unlocked his empathy. instead of being someone that

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♪ "groundhog day" was a very character driven comedy. the bill murray character just keeps waking up. >> hey, phil. >> and having to relive the same day. >> don't you tell me you don't remember me, because i sure as heck remember you. >> not a chance. >> usually when there's some kind of strange convention, it's explained. >> phil conners, i thought that was you.

>> you're in a time machine or somebody casts a spell. but this just happened and nobody minded. >> phil conners. >> ned? >> the movie is perfect. >> it's also so obviously for bill >> bill, like the groundhog bill? >> yeah, like the groundhog bill. >> watch on the for your shadow there, pal. >> morons, your bus is leave. >> it's hard to be a likeable dick and then win the audience over by the end. bill is really good at that. >> thank you, young man. >> it's nothing, ma'am. 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. i'm being sued for divorce. >> he's picky, which is perfect because then he finds his way into somebody really extraordinary. >> what's the secret, max? >> the secret? >> yeah.

you seem to have it pretty figured out. >> the secret? i don't have one. i think you've just got to find something you love to do and then do it for the west of your life. >> wes anderson, his films are like opening a jewelry box and you can take out all the little trinkets and they're sparkly and joyful. >> it's so rare when someone comes along and creates their own aesthetic. >> wes is truly unique. >> i really related to him in terms of having bad grades and not being good in school, but having like a passion for something. >> when he came out, i wrote a fan letter to wes. it was a perfect film, laugh out loud humor. >> i like your nurse's uniform.

>> these are o.r. scrubs. >> oh, are they? >> comedy in the '90s will be gigantic. >> shall we shall now or shall we shag later? >> it's going to be over the top and it's going to fill the frame. >> why don't you just go home. that's your home. are you too good for your home? answer me! >> and you're going to get adam sandler knocking out one movie after the next. >> cindy and scott are newlyweds. >> if you look at the scenes that are memorable from "wayne's world" they're big scenes. they're the heads bobbing back and forth. they are not afraid to do something big to get a laugh. >> and then all of a sudden one day this guy, who is as big as the screen, shows up. and it's jim carey. and he turns into a top hollywood star because he is

unafraid to be big. even as he is doing these over the top things where you think well, he's talking through his behind. i'm not going to watch this. >> excuse me, i'd like to ass you a few questions. >> and yet there you are watching and you're laughing. ♪ just like me they long to be >> i don't want to be too intellectual about it. i just laughed my ass off. and part of me was, like, i can't believe they're doing it. >> what's that bubble there? >> what do you think? >> how the hell did the get the beans above the frank? >> the farley brothers pushed the rules so far that -- you can do that? >> "something about mary" is this comedy that has a heart to it. >> maybe you should move down

here and mary me. >> i'll have a coffee. >> i'll have a cap chino. >> do you have any coffee ice cream? >> i'll have -- >> you had lots and lots of really funny bankable people doing wonderful movies. >> my first day as a woman and i'm getting hot flashes. >> hello, peter. >> what's happening? >> i'm going to 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 there's so much modern comedy in that movie. it was wonderful.

>> "office space" did such a great job in completely lampooning office life. technology had made these cubical lands and "office space" really captured that. >> i'm thinking i might take that from logistics. things go well i'll be showing them "o" things. you be what i'm talking about. >> jennifer aniston was in it. >> we need to talk about your flare. >> when you had that manager that says put that flare on and show us what you're really like. here's my flare. >> all right. there's my flare. okay? and this is me expressing myself. okay? ♪ teacher's pet >> christopher guest is considered the master of the

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i remember coming out and seeing "do the right thing" that day i went to my dorm and started writing "boyz in the hood". >> my mama said a bullet don't have no name on it. >> both of my brothers have been shot and they're still alive. >> some of what i was doing was by what i saw rob reiner do with "stand by me" but they didn't speak to where i was coming from. >> we got a call on a burglary here. >> that was about an hour ago. >> we didn't ask you that. >> i decided to have a black cop be more vehement than the white partner. >> something wrong? yes. it's just too bad you don't know what it is. >> the same black cop encounters trent years later when he's a

teenager and profiles him. >> i didn't do nothing. >> you think you're tough, huh? oh, you're scared now, huh? i like that. >> singleton was nominated for two academy awards, best original screen play and the youngest person ever nominated for best director. >> it was an era when a lot of people were paying attention to black film. there was a famous moment in "new york times" magazine does this cover story. you really had for the first time a large collection of black filmmakers documenting what was going on in the culture. >> you've got to be ready to go down, stand up and die for that shit like he did. >> blaze ard ain't sticking up to nothing now. >> that's because we wasn't there to back him up. >> if we was there, there would be five dead instead of one. >> we had a similar vision of

what we want to do as young men coming into this entertainment together. >> i've got the guy i'm going to do multiple movies with. >> people don't realize how theatrical the gangster rap thing was. iced tea, ice cube, they were all story tellers. when it came time to go to hollywood, all of them were convincing on screen. >> craig. craig! >> holdup. >> man, that's what it's supposed to do. >> it was one of those films that made me excited about being in the film industry. >> cube at the time transitions from music into film making, the way it got sold at sundance, it was sort of the quintessential independent cinema coming to the mainstream and then of course it went on to do so well. >> ladies, ladies, ladies, i

know you're going to be in attendance at the throwdown. >> did you hear anything about a party tonight? >> huh-uh, at least not a good one. >> "house party" is just a fun, silly teen comedy. >> ladies, beat is in the house. >> dragon breath. >> they were a musical duo looking to have a fun time, dad's away, let's throw a party. having a movie like that premier at sundance really showed the possibility that black film making could have. >> what? >> don't answer me what. turn the god damn tv off. >> i'm watching the knicks. >> i don't care what it is. >> we talk about spike lee films and john singleton films, but it was a period where black female filmmakers were making some interesting things.

you have "daughters of the dust" examining the gulla culture, black culture that harkens back several hundred years and that movie is beautiful. you also have a movie directed by leslie harris. >> you're too cute to be a gentleman, right? >> and a quote/unquote hood movie, but from the perspective of a young girl. people think of new black realism as the hood genre, but actually there is a range of socio economic experience being shown in black cinema of the '90s. ♪

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did we think it was going to be a huge success? not necessarily. >> hi, hello. do you remember me? >> no. i'm sorry. i was in here yesterday. you wouldn't wait on me? >> oh, you work on commission, right? ♪ >> big mistake, big, huge. i have to go shopping now. ♪ ♪ pretty woman >> pretty woman makes julia roberts a major star. that smile, that interaction with richard geere, with the jewelry box and the pearls in it. >> gary said just touch it, it's the most amazing you've ever seen. he said to richard just -- oh, [ laughter ] >> we fall for her, and we fall like a ton of bricks. >> oh, my god, it's the bride and the woman she'll never live up to. >> she rises through the decade but really ends it with three

mega rom coms. >> my best friend's wedding, runaway bride and "nodding hill." >> richard curtis says he wrote it with me in mind. i don't care if he says that, it's true. it's hard to find great original material that hold the performance and the comedy and the physical comedy and some thread of love that you're trying to accomplish. i'm also just a girl. standing in front of a boy. asking him to love her. >> romantic comedy is a genk nre that i love. i think that i was just really lucky that they were making a big resurgence at a time when i was at the ready. >> the romantic comedy gets its

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>> that film really spoke to me so deeply because it's a single mom with this precocious little kid. and bringing a guy into that picture. i love how much cameron believes in romance. >> i was so anxious to do one line. "you complete me." there were times i read that in the script and thought fantastic. there were other times, is this too cheesy? and i told tom that, and he said just give me a shot at it. if you don't want to use it, don't use it. >> i love you. you complete me. and i just -- >> shut up. just shut up. you had me at "hello."

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all the eggs. this has been going on for 20 minutes now. >> each egg has to be perfect. >> in the nineties, you could feel this excitement that there was something happening here. there started to become a genuine, independent film movement. and sundance film festival, sundance institute had everything to do with it. >> the idea of starting sundance was that i felt that i had grown up being a part of the major film industry because that's all there was. and i was very fortunate to be part of that. but as time went on, i became more aware of other stories that could be told. they'd be told by people that are less inclined to be commercially attractive. they were different. they were offbeat. but they were stories that i felt should be told. >> women are lonely in the nineties. it's our new phase. we'll live. >> they weren't looking at who made the movies. they were looking at the movies.

they have a commitment to showing films with very specific authentic voices. >> there was a sudden recognition because of the success of films that came out of that festival, and it drove such a profound change into mainline hollywood. >> so, man, you got a joint? >> uh, no, not on me, man. >> it'd be a lot cooler if you did. >> just like american graffiti, "dazed and confused" was this complete euphoric look at young people before they have to become adults. >> there's other high school movies, there's a million of them. but there's very few that really gives you an honest depiction of what time in your life. >> you all ready to bust some ass? >> and then you see all these

fantastic actors who started out in "dazed and confused." >> that's what i love about these high school girls, man. i get older, they stay the same age. [ laughter ] >> richard cast all these fabulous girls. >> seniors? >> those characters i adored. they just felt like real girls to me. >> let me tell you this. the older you do get, the more rules they're going to try to get you to follow. you just gotta keep living, man, l-i-v-i-n. >> it's the lightest touch. it's lightning in a bottle. >> all right, everybody cough up some green for the little lady. come on, throw in a buck. >> ah, ah, i don't believe in it. >> you don't believe in tipping? >> i was banging around and

trying to be a writer and a film maker. and i read "reservoir dogs." and i thought it was somebody who was 67 years old and had written his life story. >> harvey was the guy who pushed it through to us that allowed us to discover quentin tarantino. >> hey, look, if it's no big deal to be mr. pink, do you want to trade? >> hey, nobody's trading with anybody. this ain't a god [ bleep ] city council meeting, you know. >> it was clearly focused on violence which was really prevalent in our country. for me that was kind of a breakthrough moment. [ bleep ] that. >> as opposed to good? >> here, violence and brutal violence comes with a heavy, at times, dose of comedy. >> you know what they call a quarter ponder with cheese in france? >> no. >> tell them, vincent.

>> royale with cheese. >> you know why they call it that? >> um. because of the metric system? >> check out the big brain on brad. >> "pulp fiction" was this fever degree. screenplay. it was the screenplay itself that was this wild, hairy bug. it was like a tarantula on the doorstop. you just had to look at it. my god, look at the size of this thing. >> let's just forget it. >>. >> that's an imposibility. trying to forget anything as intriguing as this would be exercising futility. >> is that a fact? >> and look at what john travolta does. look at uma thurman, bruce willis. it was slick, was fast. it had no convention to it whatsoever. it just rewrote the rules of the way you can make film. >> die, you mother [ bleep ]! >> you constantly have to pay

attention to all these characters who are somehow connected, and you only start to figure that out as the movie goes on. >> i love you, pumpkin. >> i love you honeybunny. everybody, this is a robbery. >> you know a tarantino film the minute you see it. it's such a fanfare of a new kind of filmmaker. ♪ >> swingers came out of this kind of docktail '50s nostalgic culture that the people in l.a. movies were part of. >> so, what do you guys do? >> well, i'm a comedian. >> when i started writing "swingers," i didn't know that it was going to be a movie or a full script. i was just having fun writing stuff that i was getting a kick out of and then kept writing. >> i don't want you to be the guy in the pg13 movie. i want you to be like the guy in

the rated-r movie. you're not sure where he's coming from. you're a bad man, you're a bad man. bad man. >> it was sort of that indie comedy sensibility. and of course we were influenced by kevin smith and tarantino and scorsece. when the movie finally came out, it hit the culture in a big way. >>

animation was disney's 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 haven't seen animation like this in decades. ♪ >> the disney studio re-examines

the templates of snow white, pinocchio, dumbo, bambie. and they return the disney animation to its fundamentals. ♪ >> 10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck. >> and because they're done with cleverness and with great use of music, which disney specialized in, they captured the same magic. ♪ a circle of life >> "the lion king" is interesting because it's a very old tale that's been retold in different ways. but it emerged as something special. and i think became bigger than the sum of its parts. ♪ ♪ it means no worries for the rest of your days ♪ >> it just clicked with the

right animators, the right directors, the right music. ♪ oh, i just can't wait to be king ♪ >> people were ready for that kind of story or that kind of epic scale. now you can see the beginnings of c.g. in the background for certain things like the stampede. it's one of those things where if the stars align and it hits the culture in a way that's impactful. [ ominous music ] pixar changed the game i mean, 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? >> whoa! >> the comedy wasn't talking down to kids. it was for everybody. >> look, we're all very impressed with andy's new toy. >> toy? >> t-o-y, toy. >> excuse me.

i think the word you're searching for is space ranger. >> the word i'm searching for i can't say because there's preschool toys present. >> when i saw "toy story," i was just blown away. the technology for me was nice and interesting. but that wasn't what blew me away. what blew me away was that here were new characters. >> to infinity and beyond! >> the film was contemporary. it was not a musical. and it was done with all of the sincerity of the walt era. >> you actually think you're the buzz lightyear? oh, all this time i thought it was an act. hey, guys, look! it's the real buzz lightyear! >> you're mocking me, aren't you? >> anybody wanting to study screenwriting should watch pixar movies. i just think they're beautifully, beautifully written. >> well, if you knew him, you'd understand. >> let me guess, andy's a real special kid, and to him you're

his buddy, his best friend. when andy plays with you, it's like even though you're not moving, you feel like you're alive because that's how he sees you. >> you absolutely believe these characters had an internal life. they felt like being a toy was a job that they were proud of. that was just a brilliant premise. and it was executed perfectly. ♪ oh somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow ♪ >> there's something that's so beautiful about bringing inan mat object to life. but there's something about stop motion that is so pure and strong. >> ♪ what's this, what's this? ♪ there's white things in the air i can't believe my eyes i must be dreaming, jack, this isn't

fair ♪ >> tim burton has managed to take the most macob things and make them so fun and so heartbreaking and beautiful. no one has that aesthetic. you don't have to wonder for ten seconds if it's a tim burton film. ♪ >> i have a present for you. >> edward scissorhand is kind of a frankenstein story. vincent price who plays his father who creates a boy but dies before he can put his hands on. ♪ edward scissorhands was a character tim had brought to life through a concept drawing. i've seen tim draw a character with two strokes of a brush and you knew who they were. >> i'll be darned. >> with tim and his characters, there's always a real connection with him and johnny depp.

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go. go home. bad wolf, bad wolf. >> when you think of the nineties, you do think of actors in the directors chair. you think of kevin costner, you think of jodie foster, mel gibson and you think of clint eastwood who finally gets his do in the nineties. >> "unforgiven" is a miraculous

film. the westerns and the dirty harry films is landed on this moment of frailty. >> did pa used to kill folks? >> clint eastwood has made an offer. clint eastwood, eastwood? >> yes. you'll be his western. >> tell him i'll think about it. hahahaha. [ laughter ] >> i ain't like that no more, ned. i ain't no killing fool. >> clint eastwood and morgan freeman who have been professional killers and are sick of violence, they don't want to do it anymore, but they get dragged back into it. >> i've killed women and children, killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. and i'm here to kill you, little

bill for what you did to ned. >> clint is maybe the best director i've ever worked with. i love the way he does it. he's quick. he's decisive. just beautiful. ♪ [ gunshot] >> there are directors in this period like michael mahon who are the rebels within the studio system. the guys are just doing it differently. >> what am i doing? i'm talking to an empty telephone. >> i don't understand. >> because there was a dead man on the other end of this line. >> he provides us an opportunity to finally see robert de niro and al pacino on screen doing a scene together. >> what do you say i buy you a couple coffee? >> we knew it was the nexus of the whole film in the diner. >> i chased down some guys

looking to bust back at you. >> they must've worked some dip [ bleep ] crews. i worked all kinds. >> it's one of my favorite scenes between these two guys. they finally come together. and i think we did a good job with it. >> i do what i do best. i take scores. you do what you do best and try to stop guys like me. >> they are not taking their eyes off each other. it's almost reflexive. >> i will not hesitate, not for a second. >> people want to see great actors tell me the truth. >> guys like michael mahon would make a movie that would be counter to what everyone else would be doing, but it would have truth in it. >> you want your own wife kidnapped? >> yeah. >> i think "fargo" is a perfect movie in every way. the screenplay is perfect. the execution of it is perfect. the performances are absolutely perfect. [ phone ringing] >> oh, gees. >> it was written for me. i got very excited. they said, joel came home from

work and started working on something, there's a part for you. >> we got a shooting. nee these folks drive by and then there's an execution type deal. >> these scripts are publishable works of literature. for example, the scene in "fargo" where marge is interrogating the two strippers. >> hey, they said they were going to the twin cities. yeah? >> yeah, is that useful to you? >> yeah, you benk tcha, yeah. >> it was punctuated and written in the rhythm that we played it. and that's beautiful. >> and the oscar goes to ethan and joel cohen for "fargo." >> "fargo" was the cohen brothers' film that really gets embraced at the academy awards. everyone loves this movie. so what do they do?

they do something completely different. >> sometimes there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. >> "the big lebowski." one of my favorite things was how long it took jeff bridges to get him to do it. he said it's not great, not sure i can do this. i just remember thinking how could he not? and obviously he came to that conclusion himself. >> wait, let me explain something to you. i am not mr. lebowski. you're mr. lebowski. i'm the dude. so that's what you call me, you know? that or his dudeness or duder or, you know, el duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. >> it's the only time in my life where i haven't been able to look an actor in the eye because he was so funny. >> jeffrey. >> odd? >> love me.

>> that's my robe. >> "big lebowski" is the most quotable movie of my generation. >> that rug really tied the room together, did it not? >> hey, the cohen brothers are sub versive filmmakers. they're revolutionary bomb throwers. but you're kind of pleased that the bomb landed on your front porch. >> they kept control of their films from the beginning in a way that allowed them to really explore any genre that they wanted to go into. and i think by exploring the genre, then they subverted it. >> check corner. >> really? >> yeah. you'll make it. adult films, exotic pictures. >> where i grew up was the porn capital in the world in san fernando valley. so i would know what a shoot would look like and i would know where the difference was in a van. so that's where "boogie nights"

came from, a world that i knew really, really well, funny enough. >> who's dirt diggler? >> good name. >> when i got paul's script, i called my agent and said are you punking me? they said, no, it's going to be r. and i said, no, it's not. i said there's copulating in it. >> and they said no, that's the contract. >> and i said i'm in. >> i was like she would dirks she probably would. i don't know if she would have survived all of that. >> i'll ask you if you're my mom, and you say yes, okay? are you my mom? >> yes, honey. >> she kind of assumes the mantle of parenting in this world. she's not actually taking care of them. she's play-acting. >> what we're talking about then is coming to an agreement on the custody of andrew. >> yes. >> the thing that i really love about the scene as she's kind of

fighting for custody, the judge turns to her and says, magee, have you ever been arrested? >> when was the last time you were arrested and what was the charge? >> cut to outside and amber sobbing because that's just it. she is somebody who's not responsible enough to parent. >> you don't have to be interested in pornography to be interested in broken people. they have been rejected by their family, they don't have a family. the moral center of the movie is about all these broken humans by trying to make themselves whole by finding a stitched-together family when they don't 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 like "stanley cooper," you know there's a paul thomas movie. his imprint is on his films. >> oh, come on, frank. what are you doing?

>> what am i doing? >> yeah. i'm quietly judging you. >>

"the piano" was ravishing and also uncompromising. it's a really visceral movie. you feel the weight of the fabric, the dampness of the air and the moss. >> mama! >> and it's so inherently jane. >> jane campion is a filmmaker from new zealand who shot this very intimate movie in her home country. >> those kind of intimacies that jane pulled us into as an audience, she has a voice not to be denied. >> it's my mother's piano. >> it's an extraordinary performance in a film and also holly is a very accomplished pianist. it's one of those perfect roles for the perfect actor.

>> this movie established jane campion. she won the pomdor at cannes and became the second woman to be nominated for an oscar for directing. >> the nineties was the best time for women directors. they infused a kind of a 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 haven't figured out what riding waves is all about, have you? it's a state of mind. >> they don't want to be acknowledged as a female director. i fougtd my whole career to be acknowledged as a filmmaker, not a black filmmaker. i'm a director. >> i'm a bad therapist. do you hear me? i am a bad therapist. i am making these people worse. >> walking and talking was inspired by the time my best

friend was getting married. >> it's so fake looking. it looks like a barbie ring. >> they were a perfect match, i love them both, but i felt very lonely. i thought that was funny. >> we're engaged. >> yeah. >> we're going to get married. >> wow, ha! >> i think of her comedies as comedies of embarrassment. her characters want to be better people, but they're just not. >> are you crazy? i had sex with you two weeks ago and now you're asking me why i haven't rented lately? >> i don't know. i didn't know what to say. >> i just don't know anyone who is better at setting up that kind of situation that makes us all squirm because they're so human. >> i don't know why dionne is going out with a high school boy. they're like dogs. you have to clean them and feed them and they're just like these

nervous creatures that jump and slobber all over you. eyewitness, get off of me! uh, as if. >> when i was writing "clueless," i hung around beverly hills high school a lot. so you heard the vernacular. >> and in conclusion, may i please remind you that it does not say rsvp on the stat statue of liberty. >> hello, it was his 50th birthday. >> whatever. oh, my god, i am totally buggin. >> they are changing the lexicon of teen girls all over the world. >> do you have any idea of what you're talking about? >> why? do i sound like i do? >> even though she is this heightened, fantastic perfect gorgeous creation, she doesn't just turn her into just a punch

line. >> in "a league of their own," penny marshall looks at the changing role of women in world war ii. 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. >> it's iconic, and the lines are iconic and the performances are iconic. >> i told them it was their patriotic duty to come out of the kitchen and go to work. and now that the boys are returning we'll send them 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. >> she's under it. [ applause ] >> elmore socks, what did she

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i love the original "terminator," but the sequel blew it out of the water as far as i was concerned. that chase in the l.a. river with that truck, oh, my god. you watch that chase today, it's powerful cinema. >> come with me if you want to live. >> it's okay, mom. he's here to help. it's okay. >> it's got ideas about time travel and about space time continuum, all of which sounds like fancy syfy, but jim as a film maker is relentless. >> when james cameron got to t2, he was interested in expanding his palette, particularly to

include these new digital tools. it was wildly groundbreaking. cameron was working with industrial light and magic. >> hasta la vista, baby. >> 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 can't wait to see that. >> where's the goat? >> it's 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 don't 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. >> but it was the same feeling that i had watching "jaws" for the first time when you see those tyrannasaurus eat the leaves off the tree. i mean, that's what spielberg does as a filmmaker. he makes you go [ gasps ] a lot of the enthusiasm from cgi comes from filmmakers seeing in

jurassic park what that technology could do for their storytelling. >> "titanic" is a throwback in so many ways to the big blockbusters of the '50s and '60s. not just in its scope and in its scale but also that it was talked about in cleopatra. we are putting everything into this giant boat and is it going to stick. >> its budget at that point hit a thin, unheard of $200 million. >> leo dicaprio had done what's eating gilbert grape and his romeo and juliette had not come out. 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. >> i'm the king of the world! ♪

>> "titanic" really had everything. >> it was an epic old-fashioned movie. >> iceberg, right ahead. >> an action movie. >> it also had a love story at the heart of it. >> i'm jack dawson. >> i'm rose. >> i'll have to get you to write that one down. >> it was iresistible, jack and rose, and it was sexy. leo was absolutely gorgeous. kate winslet really captured that independent woman who would not be pinned down. and they were just this vivian lee clark gable kind of pairing. >> i'm flying, jack. ♪ >> "titanic" is this moment where james cameron is straddling these two worlds. the human scale and the computer scale putting them together. and from this moment on, '97, the world goes computer. >> you have to let it all go,

fear, doubt, and disbelief. free your mind. >> "the matrix" changes everything. you have the embrace of eastern cinema into western cannon. and you've got them making their actors do the stunts themselves. keanu reeves had already down "point break." he had already done "speed." but this is a different level. this was six months of training that every actor had to go through. and one of the things that you get when you're having the actors do their own stunts, you can film close-ups of the face while a punch is being taken while a punch is being thrown.

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i'm going to tell you my secret now. >> okay. >> i see dead people. >> i remember in '99, everyone i knew, everyone in our crowd was working on something that felt exciting and felt like it had a generational voice in it. >> i'm scared to close my eyes. scared to open them. >> it was very clear that something was in the water that year. sneech ♪ here i come to save the day >> it felt like the final exam for the 20th century. the bell's about to ring and everyone's trying to get their

thing in before the century ends. you have this interesting combination of young directors, swinging for the fences, and more established. >> i have to put my family's welfare on the line. and what are you putting up? words. >> while you've been [ bleep ]ing around, i've been out there giving my word and backing it up with action. >> i'd stack '99 up against any year in terms of dropping significant work. >> hey, mr. mcallister. >> not wasting anytime, are you, tracy? >> you know what they say about the early bird. >> yeah, i do. >> "election" is the second movie of alexander payne. reese witter spoon is tracy flick, someone you almost want to root for. and also she has a little bit too much and big.

>> they know this country was built by people just like me who work very hard and don't have everything handed to them on a silver spoon. >> what's brilliant about "election" is you are getting voice over from 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 performan performances in "election" of reese witherspoon are terrific. >> "boys don't cry" is based on a true story about a young man who was a trans man living in a small community. he fell in love with a woman. they had a relationship, and other people discovered that this was a trans man and not a sis man and sexually assaulted

and murdered him. "boys don't cry", a phenomenal movie. no studio would have made that movie. it was a game changer in terms of 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 being john malkovich. >> you see the world through john malkovich's eyes and after 15 minutes, you're spit out into a ditch on the side of the new jersey turnpike. >> it's a great combination. spi spike jones and charlie kaufman and they remind people movies can be so much more. >> what happens when a man goes through his own portal? >> we'll see. >> it's a meta fictional dive

into literally the brain of john malkovich who was in the movie playing himself. >> malkovich, malkovich. ♪ malkovich >> it's one of those movies that's impossible to describe. it just sounds like you're piling one absurdity upon another and it coe heres into this beautiful film. >> 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 film maker who is uniquely possessed of the chops to do it right. >> ow! >> "fight club" was 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. second rule of fight club is you

do not talk about fight club. >> we were doing the kind of film we'd all hoped to do. >> trust me. >> everything's going to be fine. >> i thought "fight club" could be one of those things that becomes a marker for the way that we felt at a certain time. it connected right where we wanted it to connect, and it's still growing, and that's exciting, for me, that's 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 number of really promising black film makers coming up. women's voices coming more to the forefront in they're writing films and directing films and big blockbusters. it lays the ground work for what we're going to see for the next

20 years. >> you want answers? >> i think i'm entitled. >> you want answers. >> i want the truth! >> you can't handle the truth! going into 2000, it was a cultural shift for television in terms of the way people reacted to it and the stories they could tell. >> you see the bar get raised and raised and raised. >> it's an abstract. >> not abstract enough. >> there's so many opportunities in television, so many platforms. >> i don't think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. >> i hate you all. >> go! >> in the end, what we regret most are the chances we never