Also, still somewhat new was the slightly-inside baseball conversation about careers of film directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. Keep in mind that the mid-1990s was the Golden Age of American Independent Cinema, just before high-def video and YouTube blew the lid off of everything. Only freaks who knew how to use Usenet had an outlet to ramble about what is such commonplace conversation on film sites.

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