Introduction: pizza knights, F-64 and the mild bunch -- 'It's all downhill from here' : how Steven Soderbergh paves the way for the next generation -- Talk is cheap : Sundance after sex, lies, and videotape -- Reservoir dogs and the class of '92 -- The changing face of Sundance : Public access and Spanking the monkey -- 'Trespassing on hallowed ground' : Kafka and King of the hill -- Pulp fact : the rise of Miramax as Hollywood embraces Tarantino-mania -- Austin power : how Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater bucked the system -- Genre I : crime does pay -- The underneath, The usual suspects and Se7en -- The second wave : the conflicts of Citizen Ruth, Hard eight and Bottle rocket -- Spreading propaganda : the rise of David Fincher and Spike Jonze.
Beyond the fringe : Schizopolis and Gray's anatomy -- Adult entertainment : Hollywood grows up with Boogie nights -- Genre II : school days -- Election, Rushmore and Apt pupil -- Adaptation : Tarantino and Soderbergh meet Elmore Leonard -- The Sundance sisters : Sofia Coppola and Kimberly Peirce -- Annus Mirabilis : how 1999 became the year of the Sundance kids -- King of the hills : Soderbergh comes back from the brink -- The X-man : Bryan Singer takes on the blockbuster -- Being Charlie Kaufman : how one man tried to debunk the three-act structure -- Family ties : The royal Tenenbaums, About Schmidt and Punch-drunk love -- The failure of F-64 : Soderbergh and Fincher face the firing line -- Top of the Bill : Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson find their muse -- Middle-age malaise : Kill Bill and Ocean's twelve -- Lit up by the searchlight : I [love] Huckabees and Sideways -- Epilogue : bursting the bubble.
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