Aside: I really like this film! A lot of films released during this narrow time period—say 1997-2001—aren’t terrible visible these days, casualties as they are of the various format and streaming wars. These films slightly preceded the
Great DVD Era, when people in their millions would buy up copies of anything that reviewed fairly well—see, I dunno,
Sideways,
Little Miss Sunshine,
Garden State or any of the many others that instantly remind you of seeing dozens of copies in HMV’s ‘3 for a Tenner’ racks during the mid-aughts. And they aren’t usually the sort of thing that works well on Netflix given that their library is ever-shrinking in terms of number of titles and window of production—nostalgia is a big business, but my nostalgia is not the same as that of the median Netflix subscriber. (Give us
The Ice Storm, the ultimate ‘lost’ 1997 film, you cowards.)
My style guide hill to die on: Film titles should be set in italics not all caps.