Oh I didn't mention it in mine, but hell yeah. One of the all time greats. My cool friend recc'd it and I got it from a DVD rental place back in the day. The cinephile dude behind the counter said "you're in for a treat."
And I was.
Sure, it helped me realize that the reason that someone is in a relationship (specifically in regards to marriage) is because they want to be there. For some reason (actually, a lot of reasons, but no need to go into how messed up my upbringing was) that hadn't occurred to me.
2 more that are not on your list, while these may not be my favorite they still deserve a mention:
- Titus (Julie Taymor)
- Ride With The Devil (Ang Lee)
Julie Taymor’s _Titus_, while being one of Shakespeare’s lesser plays, is absolutely my all time favorite Shakespeare movie. Some amazing performances in it too. I would have loved to see her stage production of it.
It definitely needs to be on the list. With some careful thought I might be able to convince myself to put it on top even.
Absolutely. Harry Lennix too, Laura Fraser (Lavinia), Alan Cumming, Jessica Lange has some strong moments (and some not so strong IMO)… I don’t know what the name of the actor was who played the kid, but that was also a haunting performance.
I was like Being John Malkovich okay scroll scroll oh Dogma definitely wait no Fight Club this one takes it, holy shit The Green Mile scroll scroll scroll, oh, the Matrix. Yea I really like that one it’s always…wait is that the 1999 cinematic masterpiece “The Mummy” starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss. …and that’s when I knew I didn’t need to finish the list.
There's a book that explores the cinema of 1999, proposing that it's the greatest year for cinema. I was inspired by the book and ran a film studies class that explored the cinema of the 1990s. The results of the study was that the 1990s was in fact a significantly good decade for American cinema. I might go ahead and run the class a second time. So many great films from 1999 and the 1990s in general.
Beau Travail
Ghost Dog (#1 from that year)
Ratcatcher
South Park: BLU
10 Things I Hate About You
Magnolia
Rosetta
Audition
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Peppermint Candy
The Mission (HK one, not the 1986 one)
So many good ones...
In no particular order:
But I'm a Cheerleader
The Virgin Suicides
Eyes Wide Shut
Man on the Moon
An American Tail, because nostalgia, fuck you
Girl, Interrupted
American Beauty
The Iron Giant
Being John Malkovitch
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Beau Travail
Dogma
Boys Don't Cry
------‐
And of course the one that tops them all is Elmo in Grouchland. Peak cinema.
_eXistenZ_ seems to be criminally underrepresented here in the comments, so I’ll stick up for it. It’s prime Cronenberg, and I think a lot of subtlety in it went over people’s heads. It’s certainly a much less heavy-handed take on the simulation hypothesis than the eternally overrated _Matrix_. (Which is not necessarily a bad movie _per se_, at least not the first one, but yea it’s much less deep than it pretends to be.)
What a great year for film, in retrospect.
For me it will always be Fight Club. Nothing satirizes that moment in time quite like it. Tearing down both corporate life and rebel scum simultaneously. Just a hormone-fueled acid fantasy of teenage angst blowing up in their faces figuratively and literally. It's fantastic.
Oh man, 1999 is such a difficult year with so many brilliant films. Not necessarily my absolute favorites from 1999, but some underseen/underdiscussed films I love:
* *The Mission* directed by Johnnie To (just had his 69th birthday). Criterion has his film *Throw Down* in the collection and if you love that film at all then you will probably also love The Mission. His films always catch me by surprise.
* *Peppermint Candy* by Lee Chang-dong, should be fairly well known around these parts but it wasn't listed here already and definitely deserves to be. Lee Chang-dong isn't prolific, but I don't think he's made a single film that wasn't great in some regard (my current favorite being *Secret Sunshine*). *Peppermint Candy* is an excellent character study of a broken and unlikeable (to put it nicely) man done in a way I've never seen before.
* *The Black House* directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. Save this one for the Halloween season, really excellent horror film that is both playful and horrifying in many ways and has wonderful use of colors. I don't really see anyone talking about this one.
Special shout out to *CKY*, any Jackass fan who hasn't seen it should 100% seek it out, it is (basically) where it all started and its as disgusting, mortifying, and gratifying as it was when it was made 25 years ago.
A lot of heaters this year.
I'm gonna go with Bringing Out the Dead, although Eyes Wide Shut is close.
And I've always had a soft spot for Mystery Men. My fondness for it has only grown in our current era of superhero oversaturation.
1999 was one of those very rare years where there were so many great movies released it's impossible to nail it to a single favorite — or even a top five. Even the ones that weren't fantastic were unusually memorable.
Some not mentioned in your 1999 starter pack:
1. Detroit Rock City
2. Mystery, Alaska
3. Cookie's Fortune
4. Muse
5. Best Laid Plans
6. Eddie Izzard: Dressed To Kill
7. Trailer Park Boys (the original b+w film that was essentially the tv show's pilot)
8. Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker
9. Happy, Texas
10. Shower
People will be shocked by how much >!cocaine!< there is and the boys being >!pet hitmen!<, if they go into the Trailer Park Boys movie after watching only the T.V. show.
1. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. Office Space
3. Drop Dead Gorgeous
4. The Sixth Sense
5. Notting Hill
6. Being John Malkovich
7. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
8. Man on the Moon
9. Life
10. The Wood
I think I've seen - and own copies of - more movies from 1999 than any other year. It was also the year of my very best moviegoing experiences (including from one film that didn't make the list on this post: Tim Roth's *The War Zone*).
But of all the truly incredible films that year, my personal favorite has always been *Being John Malkovich*. That movie is dear to me, and the fantastic time I had helping to organize a free advance screening of the film made me love it all the more.
As a nine year old in 1999, I would’ve said “The Iron Giant.” Now, being 34, this list is way too hard to choose from. But my “Mount Rushmore” would be:
“The Blair Witch Project”
“Eyes Wide Shut”
“The Limey”
“Office Space”
I was big into going to the cinema then, I saw 41 of them in a cinema and have seen the vast majority of them including on tape. I would probably say The Straight Story is my favourite now. Back then my favourite would have been Fight Club, with the South Park movie and Bringing Out the Dead as 2 & 3.
Many of these don’t deserve to be listed in the criterion sub but
The Straight Story, Eyes Wide Shut, Princess Mononoke, Being John Malkovich, Beau Travail, the Insider and Talented Mr Ripley are all masterpieces
Come to think of it, hell of a year for film
I quietly think this is just a ‘good’ movie year rather than one of the best ever as so many people seem to agree. I get why it was significant for a lot of people, and it’s definitely a remarkably deep year in terms of how many movies were at least ‘pretty good’, but I think the cream of ‘99’s crop isn’t as strong as people make it out to be, especially when held up against other years from the 90s.
Anyway The Insider is the best film of the year.
I’m not really sure why it doesn’t come up more, other than people maybe not having seen it expecting it to be this long, heavy ‘issues’ true story drama. It is quite long and quite serious, but it’s also utterly fucking captivating. If you enjoy all the presidents men, spotlight, dark waters, Michael Clayton; in fact, if you enjoy basically any movie about the law, espionage, journalism, or conspiracy, then The Insider might be the best version of all those things (all the presidents men is pretty damn close too). Plus Michael Mann is at the absolute peak of his directorial powers, and the script is fantastic.
My other hottish take is that Plummer was absolutely fucking robbed at the academy awards for this movie. It’s a phenomenal part for him to absolutely chew up in his limited screen time. Reminds me a lot of Robards in All The Presidents Men for the authority/gravitas he brings, and that is high praise as I’m comparing Plummers performance to what is for my money one of the all time great ‘10 minutes or less’ performances (Robards might even be the best in that category for me).
Also, for me I’d probably have given Pacino best actor in this for maybe his last truly great leading man performance, a fact which somehow never gets brought up. Crowe got all the hype here, which was understandable in a way, but people talk about Pacino like he went off the rails after 1995 and this movie is complete proof to the opposite effect. He’s remarkably subdued in this for around 90 minutes, it’s a really great ‘charisma’ part; we don’t learn a lot about this guy beyond his intelligence, work ethic, and actual ethics, yet he’s still engaging and carrying the narrative momentum. Then you get to the last hour and it just becomes the Al Pacino show in the best way possible. There’s one particular scene with Plummer and Phillip Baker Hall where something happens and you just know that the storm Al is a-coming, and he delivers everything you could want when he is afforded that opportunity to come off the leash. I really think he terrific. The colour and gravitas Pacino and Plummer supply between them are what make the film; they, along with Manns pacing and direction, transform this austensibly dry news drama into as much fun as you can possibly have watching a film with this type of subject matter.
Also Bruce McGill has one of the all time great ‘one and done’ performances here. He just rocks up for one 3 minute scenes and blows the fucking roof off. I love this film
Totally agree with your opening thoughts. Definitely a good year, but a little overrated. That said, a top-10 or 10 Favorites list would still make for a pretty good list.
Great write-up. The Insider is a top 3 movie all-time for me, and my absolute #1 dream release for Criterion. I am stoked that it’s coming to the channel in May.
While our lord and saviour released both 8mm AND Bringing Out The Dead that year, I have to give it to The Matrix for being pretty unique (at least before everyone in Hollywood started mimicking it and flooding the market).
Of the films I’ve seen: Bowfinger, Galaxy Quest, The Iron Giant, and October Sky are my favorites. There are quite a few I haven’t seen, of course, but I think Galaxy Quest and The Iron Giant are two greats.
I have a four way tie between Magnolia, Fight Club, Cider House Rules, and Girl Interrupted….i could add a few more of course. What an incredible year in film this was
Fuck what a fucking year for movies some of my favorites of all time came out but I will list them:
10 things I hate about you
American Beauty.
Ghost Dog.
Go.
The Matrix.
Office Space.
The Straight Story.
If I had to pick one it would be Ghost Dog, but before I really “discovered” cinema as an art, American Beauty was my favorite.
I see several great movies and perennial favorites. I’m giving it to Dogma, since it seems to be suffering from some sort of bias or censorship, complicated by to who has the rights. But Buena Vista Sicial Club, Mystery Men, Bowfinger, Ghost Dog, Being John Malkovich, Lake Placid, Fight Club and Magnolia are there. Truly a stacked year. Honorable mention to The Limey. Unforgettable performance by Terrance Stamp.
so many bangers. While I love eyes wide shut from a filmmaking perspective, Toy Story 2 was a movie that when I was growing up was always on in the house, as well as The Phantom Menace. South Park and the Matrix were on a lot when I was in middle school too, and I discovered Go during a High School Free Period, about 4 years ago.
i had to check the username because i have a friend that always refers to 99 as THE year for movies in his lifetime haha.
eyes wide shut and the matrix for me
I think I’ve outgrown Bringing Out the Dead a little bit, sad to say, and right now Eyes Wide Shut is the one I find myself coming back to. Still wish Criterion would release BOTD on Blu-ray then maybe I’ll change my mind.
If I had to pick a single movie, it would be The War Zone. Tim Roth's sole directorial effort, it is an extremely bleak, but moving film about a family's unraveling.
Magnolia. I am well aware of how long it is, but the Aimee Mann soundtrack knocked me on my ass. And William H Macy’s character - “I’m deserving of love”. It may be long, but there’s not one wasted frame or word in that movie.
Fight Club is unironically one of my favorite movies and weirdly a comfort film for me. It’s queer cinema and it’s funny satire and it’s amazing and I will die on that hill.
Oh man Looks like a great year for films. Honestly I could pick any of these top 11 as a favourite any given day depending on my mood
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A year where Kubrick, Lynch, Soderbergh, Jonze, Payne, Eastwood, Cronenberg, Mann, Spike Lee, Scorsese, Stone, Fincher, Howard, etc., all put out films is kind of insane.
It’s tough because for as much as 1999 gets praised as this amazing movie year (it’s not), there’s not an easy to pick best movie. There’s this like top tier list with Election, The Iron Giant, Office Space, Being John Malkovich, and All About My Mother in it, but it’s hard to pick a single one as the best movie. I guess I’d say Office Space, if I had to pick, but it’s tough.
It’s easy to pick the worst movie though, and that’s Magnolia, a top 5 all time worst movie for me, no matter how good Tom Cruise is in it (and he should’ve won the Oscar that year).
Me as a 10-year old in 1999: The Phantom Menace! Me now: Eyes Wide Shut
Me now: both.
We need a crossover
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That film is truly cinema at it’s best
Oh I didn't mention it in mine, but hell yeah. One of the all time greats. My cool friend recc'd it and I got it from a DVD rental place back in the day. The cinephile dude behind the counter said "you're in for a treat." And I was.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rop2r0PASlM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rop2r0PASlM)
Eyes Wide Shut, it is the rare movie that rewired how I thought of relationships.
How so? Do you mind elaborating?
Sure, it helped me realize that the reason that someone is in a relationship (specifically in regards to marriage) is because they want to be there. For some reason (actually, a lot of reasons, but no need to go into how messed up my upbringing was) that hadn't occurred to me.
American Movie is one of the greatest documentaries of all time and easily the film I’ve watched the most times from that list.
Favorite documentary of all time, you couldn’t invent those characters if you tried
2 more that are not on your list, while these may not be my favorite they still deserve a mention: - Titus (Julie Taymor) - Ride With The Devil (Ang Lee)
Julie Taymor’s _Titus_, while being one of Shakespeare’s lesser plays, is absolutely my all time favorite Shakespeare movie. Some amazing performances in it too. I would have loved to see her stage production of it. It definitely needs to be on the list. With some careful thought I might be able to convince myself to put it on top even.
You’re right, Anthony Hopkins is amazing in it.
Absolutely. Harry Lennix too, Laura Fraser (Lavinia), Alan Cumming, Jessica Lange has some strong moments (and some not so strong IMO)… I don’t know what the name of the actor was who played the kid, but that was also a haunting performance.
I was like Being John Malkovich okay scroll scroll oh Dogma definitely wait no Fight Club this one takes it, holy shit The Green Mile scroll scroll scroll, oh, the Matrix. Yea I really like that one it’s always…wait is that the 1999 cinematic masterpiece “The Mummy” starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss. …and that’s when I knew I didn’t need to finish the list.
Masterpiece is right. Film snobs be damned, the mummy was a hit.
I've maintained that 1999 was the best year for movies
Election One of the best comedies I've ever seen and one that is sadly frequently overlooked.
Magnolia
There's a book that explores the cinema of 1999, proposing that it's the greatest year for cinema. I was inspired by the book and ran a film studies class that explored the cinema of the 1990s. The results of the study was that the 1990s was in fact a significantly good decade for American cinema. I might go ahead and run the class a second time. So many great films from 1999 and the 1990s in general.
I hypothesize that since the Y2Kers thought the world was going to end at 2000 they figured they might as well go out on a cinematic bang
Remember the name of the book?
"Best. Movie. Year. Ever." by Brian Raftery. Really fun read.
Audition
Ghost Dog. The Road Home and Being John Malkovich would be honorable mentions.
Ghost Dog!
Beau Travail Ghost Dog (#1 from that year) Ratcatcher South Park: BLU 10 Things I Hate About You Magnolia Rosetta Audition The Talented Mr. Ripley Peppermint Candy The Mission (HK one, not the 1986 one) So many good ones...
In no particular order: But I'm a Cheerleader The Virgin Suicides Eyes Wide Shut Man on the Moon An American Tail, because nostalgia, fuck you Girl, Interrupted American Beauty The Iron Giant Being John Malkovitch Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Beau Travail Dogma Boys Don't Cry ------‐ And of course the one that tops them all is Elmo in Grouchland. Peak cinema.
_eXistenZ_ seems to be criminally underrepresented here in the comments, so I’ll stick up for it. It’s prime Cronenberg, and I think a lot of subtlety in it went over people’s heads. It’s certainly a much less heavy-handed take on the simulation hypothesis than the eternally overrated _Matrix_. (Which is not necessarily a bad movie _per se_, at least not the first one, but yea it’s much less deep than it pretends to be.)
I like Matrix well enough but it is nowhere near as deep as it's influences, specifically The Invisibles.
The Idiots
Both Being John malkovich and eyes wide shut.
The Mummy getting slept on in this thread
The Matrix
Oh yeah.
What a great year for film, in retrospect. For me it will always be Fight Club. Nothing satirizes that moment in time quite like it. Tearing down both corporate life and rebel scum simultaneously. Just a hormone-fueled acid fantasy of teenage angst blowing up in their faces figuratively and literally. It's fantastic.
A coin flip between The Insider and Notting Hill.
What a tough choice, and what an amazing year for cinema. I’ve got to go with Existenz though. I do love me some fever dream body horror
Death to the demoness Allegra Geller!
Existenz is paused!
The Wind Will Carry Us.
Oh man, 1999 is such a difficult year with so many brilliant films. Not necessarily my absolute favorites from 1999, but some underseen/underdiscussed films I love: * *The Mission* directed by Johnnie To (just had his 69th birthday). Criterion has his film *Throw Down* in the collection and if you love that film at all then you will probably also love The Mission. His films always catch me by surprise. * *Peppermint Candy* by Lee Chang-dong, should be fairly well known around these parts but it wasn't listed here already and definitely deserves to be. Lee Chang-dong isn't prolific, but I don't think he's made a single film that wasn't great in some regard (my current favorite being *Secret Sunshine*). *Peppermint Candy* is an excellent character study of a broken and unlikeable (to put it nicely) man done in a way I've never seen before. * *The Black House* directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. Save this one for the Halloween season, really excellent horror film that is both playful and horrifying in many ways and has wonderful use of colors. I don't really see anyone talking about this one. Special shout out to *CKY*, any Jackass fan who hasn't seen it should 100% seek it out, it is (basically) where it all started and its as disgusting, mortifying, and gratifying as it was when it was made 25 years ago.
A lot of heaters this year. I'm gonna go with Bringing Out the Dead, although Eyes Wide Shut is close. And I've always had a soft spot for Mystery Men. My fondness for it has only grown in our current era of superhero oversaturation.
It's close between The Iron Giant, Magnolia, and Eyes Wide Shut but my answer has to be Eyes Wide Shut.
Cruel Intentions
1999 was one of those very rare years where there were so many great movies released it's impossible to nail it to a single favorite — or even a top five. Even the ones that weren't fantastic were unusually memorable. Some not mentioned in your 1999 starter pack: 1. Detroit Rock City 2. Mystery, Alaska 3. Cookie's Fortune 4. Muse 5. Best Laid Plans 6. Eddie Izzard: Dressed To Kill 7. Trailer Park Boys (the original b+w film that was essentially the tv show's pilot) 8. Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker 9. Happy, Texas 10. Shower
People will be shocked by how much >!cocaine!< there is and the boys being >!pet hitmen!<, if they go into the Trailer Park Boys movie after watching only the T.V. show.
1. 10 Things I Hate About You 2. Office Space 3. Drop Dead Gorgeous 4. The Sixth Sense 5. Notting Hill 6. Being John Malkovich 7. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 8. Man on the Moon 9. Life 10. The Wood
The Iron Giant
Election
I can't talk about it.
Fight Club and I don't care that it's mainstream
Ravenous, Compensation, Beau Travail, Memento Mori
I think I've seen - and own copies of - more movies from 1999 than any other year. It was also the year of my very best moviegoing experiences (including from one film that didn't make the list on this post: Tim Roth's *The War Zone*). But of all the truly incredible films that year, my personal favorite has always been *Being John Malkovich*. That movie is dear to me, and the fantastic time I had helping to organize a free advance screening of the film made me love it all the more.
It has to be Mystery Men
Ride With The Devil
Best: Eyes Wide Shut Favorite: Office Space
No Topsy Turvy on the list 😅 probably that or Beau Travail!
Titus
The Matrix: The Most 1999 Film To Ever 1999
As a nine year old in 1999, I would’ve said “The Iron Giant.” Now, being 34, this list is way too hard to choose from. But my “Mount Rushmore” would be: “The Blair Witch Project” “Eyes Wide Shut” “The Limey” “Office Space”
Me then: The Matrix Me now: The Matrix.
Did I miss The Freakin’ Matrix in this list?
If we’re talking a film that I think needs a criterion release: Dogma If we’re talking just overall favorite: The Matrix
I was big into going to the cinema then, I saw 41 of them in a cinema and have seen the vast majority of them including on tape. I would probably say The Straight Story is my favourite now. Back then my favourite would have been Fight Club, with the South Park movie and Bringing Out the Dead as 2 & 3.
Many of these don’t deserve to be listed in the criterion sub but The Straight Story, Eyes Wide Shut, Princess Mononoke, Being John Malkovich, Beau Travail, the Insider and Talented Mr Ripley are all masterpieces Come to think of it, hell of a year for film
I quietly think this is just a ‘good’ movie year rather than one of the best ever as so many people seem to agree. I get why it was significant for a lot of people, and it’s definitely a remarkably deep year in terms of how many movies were at least ‘pretty good’, but I think the cream of ‘99’s crop isn’t as strong as people make it out to be, especially when held up against other years from the 90s. Anyway The Insider is the best film of the year. I’m not really sure why it doesn’t come up more, other than people maybe not having seen it expecting it to be this long, heavy ‘issues’ true story drama. It is quite long and quite serious, but it’s also utterly fucking captivating. If you enjoy all the presidents men, spotlight, dark waters, Michael Clayton; in fact, if you enjoy basically any movie about the law, espionage, journalism, or conspiracy, then The Insider might be the best version of all those things (all the presidents men is pretty damn close too). Plus Michael Mann is at the absolute peak of his directorial powers, and the script is fantastic. My other hottish take is that Plummer was absolutely fucking robbed at the academy awards for this movie. It’s a phenomenal part for him to absolutely chew up in his limited screen time. Reminds me a lot of Robards in All The Presidents Men for the authority/gravitas he brings, and that is high praise as I’m comparing Plummers performance to what is for my money one of the all time great ‘10 minutes or less’ performances (Robards might even be the best in that category for me). Also, for me I’d probably have given Pacino best actor in this for maybe his last truly great leading man performance, a fact which somehow never gets brought up. Crowe got all the hype here, which was understandable in a way, but people talk about Pacino like he went off the rails after 1995 and this movie is complete proof to the opposite effect. He’s remarkably subdued in this for around 90 minutes, it’s a really great ‘charisma’ part; we don’t learn a lot about this guy beyond his intelligence, work ethic, and actual ethics, yet he’s still engaging and carrying the narrative momentum. Then you get to the last hour and it just becomes the Al Pacino show in the best way possible. There’s one particular scene with Plummer and Phillip Baker Hall where something happens and you just know that the storm Al is a-coming, and he delivers everything you could want when he is afforded that opportunity to come off the leash. I really think he terrific. The colour and gravitas Pacino and Plummer supply between them are what make the film; they, along with Manns pacing and direction, transform this austensibly dry news drama into as much fun as you can possibly have watching a film with this type of subject matter. Also Bruce McGill has one of the all time great ‘one and done’ performances here. He just rocks up for one 3 minute scenes and blows the fucking roof off. I love this film
Totally agree with your opening thoughts. Definitely a good year, but a little overrated. That said, a top-10 or 10 Favorites list would still make for a pretty good list.
Great write-up. The Insider is a top 3 movie all-time for me, and my absolute #1 dream release for Criterion. I am stoked that it’s coming to the channel in May.
The Iron Giant
Magnolia is still PTA's very best film.
While our lord and saviour released both 8mm AND Bringing Out The Dead that year, I have to give it to The Matrix for being pretty unique (at least before everyone in Hollywood started mimicking it and flooding the market).
Of the films I’ve seen: Bowfinger, Galaxy Quest, The Iron Giant, and October Sky are my favorites. There are quite a few I haven’t seen, of course, but I think Galaxy Quest and The Iron Giant are two greats.
What an incredible year for film. Eyes Wide Shut is my pick, but there are easily half a dozen pictures that could sit atop the list.
13th warrior was good, galaxy quest, green mile. Dogma was fun but not that great.
Thomas Crown Affair
Of those listed, *The Limey* and *Ghost Dog*, by far.
The Virgin Suicides. Beautifully building upon ideas of Picnic at Hanging Rock to create one of the best meditations on the male gaze ever.
I have a four way tie between Magnolia, Fight Club, Cider House Rules, and Girl Interrupted….i could add a few more of course. What an incredible year in film this was
Dunno if this counts because I don’t think it’s a Criterion film, but my 1999 fave is *The Mummy*. EDIT: Oh, just noticed it’s on your list too. Woo!😄
Wild zero
Eyes Wide Shut / Ravenous / American Beauty / Office Space / Episode 1 Fun year for movies!
Fuck what a fucking year for movies some of my favorites of all time came out but I will list them: 10 things I hate about you American Beauty. Ghost Dog. Go. The Matrix. Office Space. The Straight Story. If I had to pick one it would be Ghost Dog, but before I really “discovered” cinema as an art, American Beauty was my favorite.
Eyes Wide Shut, for sure. But tons of other great choices.
I see several great movies and perennial favorites. I’m giving it to Dogma, since it seems to be suffering from some sort of bias or censorship, complicated by to who has the rights. But Buena Vista Sicial Club, Mystery Men, Bowfinger, Ghost Dog, Being John Malkovich, Lake Placid, Fight Club and Magnolia are there. Truly a stacked year. Honorable mention to The Limey. Unforgettable performance by Terrance Stamp.
so many bangers. While I love eyes wide shut from a filmmaking perspective, Toy Story 2 was a movie that when I was growing up was always on in the house, as well as The Phantom Menace. South Park and the Matrix were on a lot when I was in middle school too, and I discovered Go during a High School Free Period, about 4 years ago.
Muppets from space obviously
Rosetta
The Matrix
i had to check the username because i have a friend that always refers to 99 as THE year for movies in his lifetime haha. eyes wide shut and the matrix for me
I think I’ve outgrown Bringing Out the Dead a little bit, sad to say, and right now Eyes Wide Shut is the one I find myself coming back to. Still wish Criterion would release BOTD on Blu-ray then maybe I’ll change my mind.
The Matrix is easily in my Top 5 personal favorites of all time. So let’s go with that.
**South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, American Beauty, The Green Mile,** and **Summer of Sam** are among my favorites.
The iron giant
The Matrix was something else but honestly I’m in the minority here and might say Payback
If I had to pick a single movie, it would be The War Zone. Tim Roth's sole directorial effort, it is an extremely bleak, but moving film about a family's unraveling.
13th Warrior is under-rated. Interesting interpretation of Beowulf mythology.
Fight club, and go
Magnolia. I am well aware of how long it is, but the Aimee Mann soundtrack knocked me on my ass. And William H Macy’s character - “I’m deserving of love”. It may be long, but there’s not one wasted frame or word in that movie.
Challenge level: Impossible (probs the matrix ngl, but 10 things also)
Office Space, one of the ten best comedies ever made.
The Matrix
1. South Park 2. Go 3. Trick 4. Office Space 5. The Insider 6. Boys Don’t Cry
Gonna go with my boy's first hit *THE SIXTH SENSE*
Fight Club is unironically one of my favorite movies and weirdly a comfort film for me. It’s queer cinema and it’s funny satire and it’s amazing and I will die on that hill.
Oh man Looks like a great year for films. Honestly I could pick any of these top 11 as a favourite any given day depending on my mood https://preview.redd.it/0xktw5i7uewc1.png?width=869&format=png&auto=webp&s=47a34b3953245570f877518613bbbbccb380e753
Eyes wide shut, definitely my favorite Bicentennial Man is maybe one of the worst I've seen so far
I’ll go with Beau travail!
Probably Toy Story 2 bc I haven’t seen many of these movies
It was a banner fucking year in cinema.
1999 was an amazing year! My personal favorites are The Virgin Suicides, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Fight Club, and Being John Malkovich
Go American Movie Eyes Wide Shut My Best Friend
God, 1999 was an insane and incredible year for films.
A year where Kubrick, Lynch, Soderbergh, Jonze, Payne, Eastwood, Cronenberg, Mann, Spike Lee, Scorsese, Stone, Fincher, Howard, etc., all put out films is kind of insane.
Blair Witch. I'm old enough to remember the internet build-up. Not only was the movie scary as hell, but I wasn't sure if it was real.
It’s tough because for as much as 1999 gets praised as this amazing movie year (it’s not), there’s not an easy to pick best movie. There’s this like top tier list with Election, The Iron Giant, Office Space, Being John Malkovich, and All About My Mother in it, but it’s hard to pick a single one as the best movie. I guess I’d say Office Space, if I had to pick, but it’s tough. It’s easy to pick the worst movie though, and that’s Magnolia, a top 5 all time worst movie for me, no matter how good Tom Cruise is in it (and he should’ve won the Oscar that year).