Episode 9

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10th Nov 2021

American Movie (1999 Sundance Award Winner)

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Chris Smith’s American Movie. Directed by Chris Smith and featuring Mark Borchardt, American Movie won the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/american-movie-2000), Glenn Lovell in Variety (https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/american-movie-1200456362/), and Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1999/11/12/american-movie-3/).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1999 installment, featuring the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Sam Mendes’ American Beauty.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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David Rosen is a music composer and podcast producer. He has scored feature films, commercials and more, as well as creating albums of instrumental music. He currently produced Piecing It Together which he hosts and Awesome Movie Year.