What Was in the Water in 1999?

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Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich is one of the defining films of 1999 (all pictures sourced from The Movie Database)

It seemed so over.

After scorching instant classics like Pulp Fiction, Clerks, and Slacker into American consciousness, Sundance had burned itself out.

Independent film had shed its radical aesthetic. Instead, it draped itself in the trapp…