The Blair Witch Project(Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez)
Toy Story 2(John Lasseter)
The Talented Mr. Ripley(Anthony Minghella)
Being John Malkovich(Spike Jonze)
The Winslow Boy(David Mamet)
Nowhere to Hide(Lee Myung-se)
Topsy-Turvy(Mike Leigh)
Eyes Wide Shut(Stanley Kubrick)
Jesus' Son(Alison Maclean)
Additional 1999 Films By Rating
Three Kings(David O. Russell)
Go(Doug Liman)
The Matrix(The Wachowski Brothers)
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut(Trey Parker)
My Neighbors the Yamadas(Isao Takahata)
The Straight Story(David Lynch)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai(Jim Jarmusch)
Not One Less(Zhang Yimou)
The Iron Giant(Brad Bird)
The End of the Affair(Neil Jordan)
Election(Alexander Payne)
Ride With the Devil(Ang Lee)
Clouds of May(Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Instrument(Jem Cohen & Fugazi)
Boys Don't Cry(Kimberly Peirce)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.(Errol Morris)
Arlington Road(Mark Pellington)
The Insider(Michael Mann)
Magnolia(Paul Thomas Anderson)
An Affair of Love(Frédéric Fonteyne)
The Limey(Steven Soderbergh)
Ratcatcher(Lynne Ramsay)
Titus(Julie Taymor)
My Best Fiend(Werner Herzog)
American Movie: The Making of Northwestern(Chris Smith)
Rosetta(Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
The Wind Will Carry Us(Abbas Kiarostami)
American Beauty(Sam Mendes)
Office Space(Mike Judge)
Galaxy Quest(Dean Parisot)
Bringing Out the Dead(Martin Scorsese)
Limbo(John Sayles)
The Thomas Crown Affair(John McTiernan)
Human Resources(Laurent Cantet)
Fight Club(David Fincher)
Criminal Lovers(François Ozon)
Deep Blue Sea(Renny Harlin)
The Virgin Suicides(Sofia Coppola)
Time Regained(Raoul Ruiz)
The War Zone(Tim Roth)
Northern Skirts(Barbara Albert)
Notting Hill(Roger Michell)
Summer of Sam(Spike Lee)
10 Things I Hate About You(Gil Junger)
Beau travail(Claire Denis)
Buena Vista Social Club(Wim Wenders)
Bolivia(Israel Adrián Caetano)
All About My Mother(Pedro Almodóvar)
The Cider House Rules(Lasse Hallström)
eXistenZ(David Cronenberg)
Pola X(Leos Carax)
Cremaster 2(Matthew Barney)
Girl on the Bridge(Patrice Leconte)
Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez(Travis Wilkerson)
Sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers)(Akihiko Shiota)
Wonderland(Michael Winterbottom)
Stir of Echoes(David Koepp)
But I'm a Cheerleader(Jamie Babbit)
Big Daddy(Dennis Dugan)
Breakfast of Champions(Alan Rudolph)
Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace(George Lucas)
L'humanité(Bruno Dumont)
The Road Home(Zhang Yimou)
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby(Matthew Bright)
The Mod Squad(Scott Silver)
The Letterboxd
version of this list has posters for every film and whatnot.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year
it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been
commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists
won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral.
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Adrenaline Drive (Yaguchi);
Aimée & Jaguar (Färberböck); American Pie
(Weitz); Analyze This (Ramis); Angela's Ashes (Parker);
Any Given Sunday (Stone); Attack the Gas Station! (Kim);
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Roach); Barren
Illusion (Kurosawa); Bats (Morneau); Beautiful People
(Dizdar); Black and White (Toback); Bowfinger (Oz); The
Carriers Are Waiting (Mariage); The Color of Paradise
(Majidi); Cookie's Fortune (Altman); The Corruptor (Foley);
Cradle Will Rock (T. Robbins); Crane World (Trapero);
The Cup (Norbu); The Day Silence Died (Agazzi); Dead or
Alive (Miike); Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Mitchell);
Dick (Fleming); Dogma (Smith); East-West (Wargnier);
EDtv (Howard); 8&189; Women (Greenaway); El Medina
(Nasrallah); End of the Century (Song); Farewell, Home Sweet
Home (Iosseliani); Felicia's Journey (Egoyan); The Five
Senses (Podeswa); Forever Mine (Schrader); Genghis
Blues (Belic); Getting to Know You (Skyler); The Green
Mile (Darabont); Guinevere (Wells); The Haunting (De
Bont); Herod's Law (Estrada); Holy Smoke (Campion); The
Hurricane (Jewison); An Ideal Husband (Parker); Idle
Hands (Flender); Idle Running (Burger); In Dreams
(Jordan); It All Starts Today (Tavernier); Journey to the
Sun (Ustaoğlu); Judy Berlin (Mendelsohn); Juha
(Kaurismäki); julien donkey-boy (Korine); Just the
Ticket (Wenk); Kikujiro (Kitano); killer.berlin.doc
(Ellerkamp & Heitman); Lake Placid (Miner); Le Bleu des
villes (Brizé); The Letter (De Oliveira); Liberty
Heights (Levinson); Lies (Jang); The Little Thief
(Zonca); The Loss of Sexual Innocence (Figgis); Man on the
Moon (Forman); Me Myself I (Karmel); Miss Julie
(Figgis); The Mission (To); Moloch (Sokurov);
Mumford (Kasdan); The Mummy (Sommers); The Muse
(Brooks); My Little Business (Jolivet); Mystery Men
(Usher); The New Eve (Corsini); New Waterford Girl (Moyle);
The Ninth Gate (Polanski); October Sky (Johnston); One
Day in September (Macdonald); Orfeu (Diegues); The
Other (Chahine); Outlaw! (Monteleone); The
Out-of-Towners (Weisman); Outside Providence (Corrente);
Peppermint Candy (Lee C.); Play It to the Bone (Shelton);
Possessed (Rønnow-Klarlund); Pripyat (Geyrhalter);
Pups (Ash); Pushing Tin (Newell); The Rage: Carrie 2
(Shea); Random Hearts (Pollack); Ravenous (Bird); Regret
to Inform (Sonneborn); Rien sur Robert (Bonitzer); Ring
2 (Nakata); Romance (Breillat); Running Free (Bodrov);
Safe Sex (Papathanassiou & Reppas); Set Me Free (Pool);
Shiri (Kang); Shower (Zhang); Sicilia! (Huillet &
Straub); The Sixth Sense (Shyamalan); Skin of Man, Heart of
Beast (Angel); Sleepy Hollow (Burton); Smiling Fish & Goat
On Fire (Jordan); Spring Forward (Gilroy); The Stand-In
(Monticello); The Story of Us (Reiner); Sunshine
(Szabó); Sweet and Lowdown (Allen); Taboo (Oshima);
Tarzan (Lima & Buck); Teaching Mrs. Tingle (Williamson);
Tell Me Something (Chang); The 13th Warrior (McTiernan);
Top of the Food Chain (Paizs); True Crime (Eastwood);
Tumbleweeds (O'Connor); Tuvalu (Helmer); The 24 Hour
Woman (Savoca); Twin Falls Idaho (Polish); 200
Cigarettes (Bramon Garcia); Two Women (Milani); Varsity
Blues (B. Robbins); Virus (Bruno); Voyages (Finkiel);
Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (Paley); A Walk on the
Moon (Goldwyn); Wild Zero (Takeuchi); Wing Commander
(Roberts; The Woman Chaser (Devor)