1999: Overstreet's Favorite Films

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1999: Overstreet's Favorite Films 2012-05-29T18:20:28-06:00 Jeffrey Overstreet

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Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1999.

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

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1999

The Insider
Toy Story 2
The Iron Giant
Magnolia
Rosetta
The Wind Will Carry Us
Beau Travail*
The Virgin Suicides
Three Kings
Being John Malkovich
Eyes Wide Shut
Limbo
Mansfield Park
The Limey
The Straight Story
The Color of Paradise*
Topsy Turvy
eXistenZ
The Sixth Sense
Rushmore
Ride With The Devil
Galaxy Quest
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai*
Cradle Will Rock
Man on the Moon

Fight Club
The Big Kahuna
Snow Falling on Cedars
Star Wars, Episode One – The Phantom Menace
The Matrix
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Titus
Twin Falls, Idaho
Summer of Sam
Sweet and Lowdown
Girl on the Bridge*
The Winslow Boy
South Park: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
October Sky
Office Space
Buena Vista Social Club
Dogma
Cookie’s Fortune
Shower
Boys Don’t Cry
Sleepy Hollow
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Thomas Crown Affair
Bringing Out the Dead
American Beauty (review)
Holy Smoke!
Guinevere
Notting Hill

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1999

10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger) 6ixty9 (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang) A domani A Map of the World A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Run for Money (Reha Erdem) A Walk on the Moon Aimée & Jaguar All About My Mother American Movie An Affair of Love An Ideal Husband Angela’s Ashes Appassionate Attack the Gas Station (Sang-Jin Kim) Audition (Takashi Miike) Bad Company Beautiful People Bowfinger Breakfast of Champions (Alan Rudolph) Butterfly Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Clouds of May Crazy in Alabama Dick (Andrew Fleming) East Is East East-West Election Every Day Here (Frazer Bradshaw) Fantasia/2000 Farewell, Home Sweet Home (Otar Iosseliani) Felicia’s Journey Flowers From Another World (Iciar Bollain) Forever Mine (Paul Schrader) Genghis Blues Gloomy Sunday God’s Wedding (João César Monteiro) Gregory’s Two Girls (Bill Forsyth) Haut Les Coeurs! (Solveig Anspach) Herod’s Law Himalaya Human Resources (Laurent Cantet) Human Traffic Humanité Idle Running (Janez Burger) It All Starts Today Joe the King Journey to the Sun (Yesim Ustaoglu) Julien Donkey-Boy Kadosh Kahapon, may dalawang bata Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano) La maladie de Sachs (Michel Deville) La Puce (Emmanuelle Bercot) Le Vent de la nuit Leila (Dariush Mehrjui) Les Enfants du Marais L’Humanite (Bruno Dumont) Liberty Heights Lies M/other (Nobuhiro Suwa) Mal Mifune (Søren Kragh-Jacobsen) Moloch (Aleksandr Sokurov) Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. My Best Fiend My Voyage to Italy New Waterford Girl Night Wind (Philippe Garrel) Nordrand Not One Less On the Ropes One More Day (Babak Payami) Pas de scandale Petits Freres (Jacques Doillon) Pola X (Leos Carax) Ratcatcher (Lynn Ramsay) Return of the Idiot (Sasa Gedeon) Rien à faire Romance (Catherine Breillat) Selma, Lord, Selma (Charles Burnett) Set Me Free Seventeen Years Sicilia (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet) Silvia Prieto (Martin Rejtman) Sisa (Mario O’Hara)* Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (Helene Angel) Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire Solomon and Gaenor Spring Forward Stir of Echoes (David Koepp) Sunshine Taal Taboo (Nagisa Oshima) The 13th Warrior (John McTiernan) The City The Cup The Emperor and the Assassin (Chen Kaige) The Five Senses The Hurricane The Lady of the House (Rituparno Ghosh) The Letter (Manoel de Oliveira) The Loss of Sexual Innocence The Minus Man (Hampton Fancher) The Mission (Johnny To) The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski) The Third Page (Zeki Demirkubuz) The Venice Project The War Zone The World Is Not Enough Three Seasons Time Regained (Raul Ruiz) True Crime (Clint Eastwood) Tumbleweeds Tuvalu Tuvalu (Veit Helmer) Two Women Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny Wojaczek (Lech Majewski) Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom)

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