1999 Top Ten List
Audition (Takashi Miike)
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)
Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot)
Office Space (Mike Judge)
A Walk on the Moon (Tony Goldwyn)
Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
Limbo (John Sayles)
The Thomas Crown Affair (John McTiernan)
Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan)
Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
Criminal Lovers (François Ozon)
Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)
Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
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)
American Pie (Paul Weitz)
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)
Sunshine (István Szabó)
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)
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Mike Mitchell)
The Mod Squad (Scott Silver)

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.