Q&A with Author Scott Ryan: "The Last Decade of Cinema"

  

Ah, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We’re talking about a decade that began with GoodFellas and ended with Magnolia, with such films as Malcolm X, Before Sunrise, and Clueless arriving somewhere in between. Stories, characters, and writing were king. If you're a fan, a movie buff, or just a child of the 90s, please join us in conversation with author Scott Ryan as we discuss what made them classics and why they could never be produced in today’s film culture.

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About the book:

Scott Ryan, the iconoclastic author of The Last Days of Letterman and Moonlighting: An Oral History, turns his attention to The Last Decade of Cinema—the prolific 1990s. Ryan, who watched just about every film released during the decade when he was a video store clerk in a small town in Ohio, identifies twenty-five unique and varied films from the decade, including Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Menace II Society, The Prince of Tides, and The Shawshank Redemption, focusing with his trademark humor and insight on what made them classics and why they could never be produced in today’s film culture. 

The book also includes interviews with writers, directors, and actors from the era. Go back to the time of VCR’s, DVD rentals, and movies that mattered. Turn off your streaming services, put down your phones, delete your Twitter account, and take a look back at the nineties with your Eyes Wide Shut, a White Russian in your hand, and yell “Hasta la vista, baby” to today’s meaningless entertainment. Revel in the risk-taking brilliance of Quentin Tarantino, Amy Heckerling, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, and others in Scott Ryan’s magnum opus, The Last Decade of Cinema .

 

About the Author:

Scott Ryan is the author of The Last Days of Letterman, Moonlighting: An Oral History, Lost Highway: The Fist of Love and Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared. His latest book, The Last Decade of Cinema covers films from the 90s. He also co authored a self publishing book called But Couldn't I do That? and a book about the Massillon Tigers football team winning the 2023 state championship for the first time in 53 years called Massillon Against The World. He is the co president of Fayetteville Mafia Press and Tucker DS Press, the host of Our Time and Tiger Talk on YouTube and he never won Employee of the Month at Video Time because he stole too many VHS tapes and posters of movies he loved. He lives in Sarasota, Florida.. 

 
 

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