1997
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1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 997th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1990s decade.
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Art and culture
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Film
- Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Funny Games by Michael Haneke
- The Postman by Kevin Costner
- Cube by Vincenzo Natali
- Conspirators of Pleasure by Jan Svankmajer
- Winter Sleepers by Tom Tykwer
- Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
- Open Your Eyes by Alejandro Amenábar
- Office Killer by Cindy Sherman
- Preaching to the Perverted by Stuart Urban
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Literature
- Anthology of Black Humor first translated into English
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
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Visual art
- Biomannerism by Stéphen Lévy-Kuentz and H. R. Giger
- The Bra Shop by John Currin
- The Return of the Return of the Durutti Column by Cerith Wyn Evans
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Music
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Singles
- Watch Them Come by Roy Davis Jr feat. Peven Everett
- Song 2 by Blur
- The Prayer by Jepthé Guillaume
- Nuyorican Soul by Nuyorican Soul
- Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass by I-F
- Around the World by Daft Punk
- Blaze - My Beat
- Needin' U- David Morales & The Face
- Mateo & Matos - Home
- Kerri Chandler - Ladbroke Grove
- Underwater Love (Smoke City song)
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Albums
- Super Rare Disco compilation series
- Dreams of Freedom: Ambient Translations of Bob Marley in Dub by Bill Laswell
- Sax for a Pack by Moondog
- Arkology by Lee Scratch Perry
- Nuyorican Soul
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Births
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Deaths
- William Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
- Roland Topor (1938 - 1997)
- Juzo Itami (1933 - 1997)
- Kathy Acker (1944 - 1997)
- Marco Ferreri (1928 - 1997)
- Fela Kuti (1938 - 1997)
- Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)
- Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)
- Samuel Fuller (1911 - 1997)
- Reuben Sturman (1924 - 1997)
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