***Best Year in Film Draft Thread***
12-13-2014
, 05:58 PM
12-13-2014
, 05:59 PM
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I wasn't being sarcastic in my use of classic or anything. Dunno if some of the lesser known films you mentioned count as classic or not. They are old. I'm sure I'd enjoy lots of them. May check your lists against netflix streaming. I think I've only seen like 5 of all the films mentioned and I guess The Hunchback of Notre Dame would be my favorite of them all. I haven't even seen Gone With the Wind.
12-13-2014
, 06:57 PM
12-13-2014
, 07:02 PM
12-13-2014
, 07:07 PM
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Round 1
This is an incredibly stacked year, especially for American cinema. Going through the Wikipedia entry for movies in 1999 there's just a huge number of decent/good to great movies, even among the lesser-known and more lightweight movies, so this will be long, apologies in advance.
But I'm going to start with a few foreign language standouts, though, because the best movie of 1999 imo is a French one.
That movie is Claire Denis' masterpiece Beau Travail.
Claire Denis is a great director and this is her best of the ones I've seen. It's pretty much perfect in my opinion. Fantastic performance from Denis Lavant and the ending scene to this movie is probably the best ever.
My second favorite of the year would be The Thin Red Line, which imo should count as '99 even though imdb has it as '98.
Moving on with more foreign-language movies, Bruno Dumont's strange and great L'humanité is another favorite. This one too has a very memorable and bizarre ending.
The Dardenne brothers won the Palme d'Or for their harrowing Rosetta. Not my favorite that i've watched by them, but it's very good. And of course Almodovar won the Oscar for All About My Mother which i haven't watched since it came out, but remember as being good. The great Danish screenwriter and director Anders Thomas Jensen wrote the script for Dogme film Mifunes sidste sang (which also launched Iben Hjejle's career) and this classic:
And I almost forgot, Lukas Moodysson's debut Show Me Love was released internationally in 1999 (this one should count, only country it was available in in '98 was Sweden).
Other notables that i have not yet seen are movies by among others Abbas Kiarostami, Takashi Miike, Raoul Ruiz, Leos Carax, Chen Kaige, Takeshi Kitano and Pen-ek Ratanaruang. Also, Wong Kar-wai cinematographer Chris Doyle apparently made his directing debut in 1999 called Away With Words.
For American and English-language movies, month for month:
January
Paul Schrader's Affliction and the aforementioned The Thin Red Line. Also Tim Roth's directing debut with The War Zone, which is a good but very disturbing movie.
February
Fun Mel Gibson flick Payback, and another couple of favorites of the year in Wes anderson's Rushmore and Mike Judge's Office Space.
March
Guilty pleasure i guess but i remember liking Cruel Intentions. Same for Analyze This. Ritchie is not my favorite but Lock, stock and two smoking barrels was released. And of course, The Matrix.
Movies I've not seen that might be good: Ron Howard's EdTV and Eastwood's True Crime.
April
Doug Liman followed up Swingers with Go. And Stan romancing a young Jessica Alba in enjoyable horror-comedy Idle Hands.
May
Election, Ghost Dog, Phantom Menace, The Straight Story, Notting Hill.
June
Slower month. But Austin Powers and south park movie were good. Animated Tarzan came out as well, which i haven't seen.
July
Some big movies this month. Most notable of course is Eyes Wide Shut, but unfortunately i was probably too young in 1999 to appreciate this one. Need to rewatch soon. The Weitz' brothers had a hit with American Pie which I enjoyed greatly at the time. Mark Pellington's Arlington Road, with jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins, also made an impression. I recently rewatched it and it wasn't as good as I remembered, but worth a watch. Guilty pleasure again but I didn't mind Deep Blue Sea, have not watched it since it came out tho. There also was the found-footage hit The Blair Witch Project which wasn't that good but very influential and super-hyped at the time. Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Garry Marshall, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere teamed up again for Runaway Bride, don't remember if it was good, probably not.
August
Brad Bird's debut with The Iron Giant (which I unfortunately haven't seen) and M. Night Shyamalan broke through with The Sixth Sense. Rene Russo was topless in The Thomas Crown Affair. LL Cool J was drunk on revenge in In Too Deep, while still gentleman enough to spit on the poolstick before insertion. And there was also Dick with Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams which I haven't seen but mean to.
September
Sam Mendes' feature film debut American Beauty which I don't think I've watched since it came out, not sure why because I loved it. I also enjoyed the Martin Lawrence movie Blue Streak
October
Another favorite of the year in David Fincher's Fight Club. And I recall really liking the Scorsese/Cage movie Bringing Out the Dead as well. Lynne Ramsay's first movie Ratcatcher. Haven't seen it (mean to rectify that soon) but it's supposed to be great. Three Kings was good. And Kimberly Peirce debuted, and Hilary Swank became a star, with Boys Don't Cry.
November
Michael Mann's great The Insider with terrific performances from Crowe and Pacino.The second installment of Toy Story. Kevin Smith's Dogma had a poop monster. Sleepy Hollow was worth a watch. Need to watch Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey.
December
What a month! The Cider House Rules, Sweet and Lowdown, The Green Mile, Ride With The Devil, Any Given Sunday, Man On The Moon, Galaxy Quest, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Angela's Ashes, The Hurricane and, of course:
Also, Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides was shown in Cannes and other festivals in 1999.
This is an incredibly stacked year, especially for American cinema. Going through the Wikipedia entry for movies in 1999 there's just a huge number of decent/good to great movies, even among the lesser-known and more lightweight movies, so this will be long, apologies in advance.
But I'm going to start with a few foreign language standouts, though, because the best movie of 1999 imo is a French one.
That movie is Claire Denis' masterpiece Beau Travail.
Claire Denis is a great director and this is her best of the ones I've seen. It's pretty much perfect in my opinion. Fantastic performance from Denis Lavant and the ending scene to this movie is probably the best ever.
My second favorite of the year would be The Thin Red Line, which imo should count as '99 even though imdb has it as '98.
Moving on with more foreign-language movies, Bruno Dumont's strange and great L'humanité is another favorite. This one too has a very memorable and bizarre ending.
The Dardenne brothers won the Palme d'Or for their harrowing Rosetta. Not my favorite that i've watched by them, but it's very good. And of course Almodovar won the Oscar for All About My Mother which i haven't watched since it came out, but remember as being good. The great Danish screenwriter and director Anders Thomas Jensen wrote the script for Dogme film Mifunes sidste sang (which also launched Iben Hjejle's career) and this classic:
And I almost forgot, Lukas Moodysson's debut Show Me Love was released internationally in 1999 (this one should count, only country it was available in in '98 was Sweden).
Other notables that i have not yet seen are movies by among others Abbas Kiarostami, Takashi Miike, Raoul Ruiz, Leos Carax, Chen Kaige, Takeshi Kitano and Pen-ek Ratanaruang. Also, Wong Kar-wai cinematographer Chris Doyle apparently made his directing debut in 1999 called Away With Words.
For American and English-language movies, month for month:
January
Paul Schrader's Affliction and the aforementioned The Thin Red Line. Also Tim Roth's directing debut with The War Zone, which is a good but very disturbing movie.
February
Fun Mel Gibson flick Payback, and another couple of favorites of the year in Wes anderson's Rushmore and Mike Judge's Office Space.
Spoiler:
March
Guilty pleasure i guess but i remember liking Cruel Intentions. Same for Analyze This. Ritchie is not my favorite but Lock, stock and two smoking barrels was released. And of course, The Matrix.
Movies I've not seen that might be good: Ron Howard's EdTV and Eastwood's True Crime.
April
Doug Liman followed up Swingers with Go. And Stan romancing a young Jessica Alba in enjoyable horror-comedy Idle Hands.
Spoiler:
May
Election, Ghost Dog, Phantom Menace, The Straight Story, Notting Hill.
June
Slower month. But Austin Powers and south park movie were good. Animated Tarzan came out as well, which i haven't seen.
July
Some big movies this month. Most notable of course is Eyes Wide Shut, but unfortunately i was probably too young in 1999 to appreciate this one. Need to rewatch soon. The Weitz' brothers had a hit with American Pie which I enjoyed greatly at the time. Mark Pellington's Arlington Road, with jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins, also made an impression. I recently rewatched it and it wasn't as good as I remembered, but worth a watch. Guilty pleasure again but I didn't mind Deep Blue Sea, have not watched it since it came out tho. There also was the found-footage hit The Blair Witch Project which wasn't that good but very influential and super-hyped at the time. Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Garry Marshall, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere teamed up again for Runaway Bride, don't remember if it was good, probably not.
August
Brad Bird's debut with The Iron Giant (which I unfortunately haven't seen) and M. Night Shyamalan broke through with The Sixth Sense. Rene Russo was topless in The Thomas Crown Affair. LL Cool J was drunk on revenge in In Too Deep, while still gentleman enough to spit on the poolstick before insertion. And there was also Dick with Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams which I haven't seen but mean to.
September
Sam Mendes' feature film debut American Beauty which I don't think I've watched since it came out, not sure why because I loved it. I also enjoyed the Martin Lawrence movie Blue Streak
October
Another favorite of the year in David Fincher's Fight Club. And I recall really liking the Scorsese/Cage movie Bringing Out the Dead as well. Lynne Ramsay's first movie Ratcatcher. Haven't seen it (mean to rectify that soon) but it's supposed to be great. Three Kings was good. And Kimberly Peirce debuted, and Hilary Swank became a star, with Boys Don't Cry.
Spoiler:
November
Michael Mann's great The Insider with terrific performances from Crowe and Pacino.The second installment of Toy Story. Kevin Smith's Dogma had a poop monster. Sleepy Hollow was worth a watch. Need to watch Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey.
December
What a month! The Cider House Rules, Sweet and Lowdown, The Green Mile, Ride With The Devil, Any Given Sunday, Man On The Moon, Galaxy Quest, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Angela's Ashes, The Hurricane and, of course:
Spoiler:
Also, Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides was shown in Cannes and other festivals in 1999.
12-13-2014
, 07:11 PM
Thanks for that. Funny how the memory works - I did not picture the grapefruit.I think it was improvised.
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, 09:11 PM
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, 10:45 PM
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12-14-2014
, 12:28 AM
There are a lot of truly great movies on that list though.
12-14-2014
, 12:38 AM
man i was born in 1980 lol.
buncha geezers.
no wonder everyone in the lounge hates on "talkies"
buncha geezers.
no wonder everyone in the lounge hates on "talkies"