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The Best Films of the Year and of the Century.

Fresh Air film critic John Powers gives us his ten best list for the year 1999, and then picks the films from the century he'd take with him If he was stranded on a desert Island.

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Other segments from the episode on December 31, 1999

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, December 31, 1999: Interview with John Powers; Interview with Ken Tucker.

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