In the early 90s, we didn’t have Starbucks and
Pearl Jam was still known as Mookie Blaylock. Huh? We didn’t use the Internet for everything (yet), and AOL was king. Google wasn’t even invented until 1998 (though didn’t officially become a verb until 2006); instead, we had Ask Jeeves, Alta Vista, Netscape, Lycos, Earthlink, MindSpring, or Yahoo (among others) to search the mysterious, new World Wide Web.
We also saw the birth of email, or Email, or e-mail, or E-mail; yes, it took a while until we settled on a universally accepted spelling for the abbreviation for electronic mail. AOL Instant Messenger was the first chat-like service to exist in the mainstream and it was life-changing. We could chat friends and make plans to go to happy hour after work right from our work computers without ever picking up the phone. We loved it.
Bangkok Screening Room celebrates Fargo s 25th anniversary
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published : 27 Jan 2021 at 04:00 A scene from Fargo. (Photo courtesy of Bangkok Screening Room)
Silom s niche indie cinema Bangkok Screening Room is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Fargo, the Oscar-winning American true crime classic from the award-winning Coen brothers, with special screenings from today and until Feb 7, in English with Thai subtitles.
Long before becoming one of America s most influential filmmakers with their later films such as No Country For Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), True Grit (2010) and The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (2018), the filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen gave us the crime gem Fargo in 1996. The movie was later remade into a popular television series. Today, Fargo remains a much-loved cult film, and a great example of what perfect dark comedy should be.