1999 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1999 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1999 lists will be Friday, Nov 1st at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

[greennui]

1. Nightfall (Fred Kelemen)

Taboo (Nagisa Ōshima)
Jesus’ Son (Alison Maclean)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
As Bodas de Deus (João César Monteiro)
Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano)
Time Regained (Raúl Ruiz)
Diva Dolorosa (Peter Delpeut)
The Straight Story (David Lynch)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
The Insider (Michael Mann)
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
Juha (Aki Kaurismäki)
El Valley Centro (James Benning)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker)
Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making Of Happy Together (Kwan Pung-Leung)

[Silga]

Provisional list:

1. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
The Insider (Michael Mann)
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone)
Life (Ted Demme)
American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
Man on the Moon (Milos Forman)
The Green Mile (Frank Darabont)
True Crime (Clint Eastwood)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
Payback (Brian Helgeland)
Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)

[flip]

Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)

Ley Lines (Takashi Miike)
Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers)
Luna Papa (Bakhtiar Khoudoynazarov)
Tuvalu (Veit Helmer)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
Audition (Takashi Miike)
The Dark Tower (Stan Brakhage)
L'Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi)
Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan)
When The Day Breaks (Amanda Forbis/Wendy Tilby)
Julien Donkey Boy (Harmony Korine)
The Straight Story (David Lynch)
The Winslow Boy (David Mamet)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Mine own paltry rec.s, from The year that molded the tastes of a whole generation of filmbros

Ave Maria - Rossoff
Del olvido al no me acuerdo - Rulfo
En un claroscuro de la luna - Olhovich
La Ley De Herodes - Estrada
M/Other - Suwa

I guess Evelyn and Magpies will be sitting this one out... Sorry about that.

I've posted my watchlist on a different page this time, because that will allow me to add more detailed information to the list.

[ofrene]

thus far...

Beau Travail
Eyes Wide Shut
Magnolia
Rosetta
South (Chantal Akerman)
The Insider
The Mission (Johnnie To)

All About My Mother
As Bodas de Deus
Being John Malkovich
Bringing Out the Dead
Farewell, Home Sweet Home
The Iron Giant
Toy Story 2

[nrh]

tempting heart (sylvia chang)
where a good man goes (johnnie to)
sethu (bala)
hazy life (nobuhiro yamashita)
les passagers (jean-claude guiguet)
barren illusions (kiyoshi kurosawa)
ley lines (takashi miike)
the mission (johnnie to)
running out of time (johnnie to)
vanaprastham (shaji n. karun)
the color of lies (claude chabrol)
kikujiro (takeshi kitano)
beau travail (claire denis)
mudhalvan (s. shankar)
as bodas de deus (joao cesar monteiro)
shool (eeshwar nivas)
kaun? (ram gopal varma)
sicilia! (straub & huillet)
the 13th warrior (john mctiernan)
the king of comedy (stephen chow)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

I guess Evelyn and Magpies will be sitting this one out... Sorry about that.

No worries! - it comes as a relief, tbh, as I need to spend October on school. Still have a short watchlist of '99 flickers that I'll try to dip into, time permitting.

[sally]

I guess Evelyn and Magpies will be sitting this one out... Sorry about that.

Well mainly cuz I don't know where to start & if I did, its the getting hold of them that'll stop me. 1999 gets more policed on YouTube than the 30's

[Lencho of the Apes]

the getting hold of them

I've done a thing in a place that'll give you a solid workaround. Unless, that is, your scruples also present an obstacle.

[Umbugbene]

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. The Wind Will Carry Us
3. Tuvalu

[arkheia]

The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)

Tempting Heart (Sylvia Chang)
The Passengers (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
Sicilia! (Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub)
Absence of the Good (John Flynn)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
The Thomas Crown Affair (John McTiernan)
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence Apocalypse (Kunihiko Ikuhara)
My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata)
The Mission (Johnnie To)

[sally]

I've done a thing in a place that'll give you a solid workaround. Unless, that is, your scruples also present an obstacle.

Bless you lencho. I've actually just found an authentic wiseman DVD of Belfast Maine on a shelf that I've never got round to watching. And an Oliveira is always nice.

CAN ANYONE FIND MURALI NAIR'S THRONE OF DEATH? wanted to see that ever since I joined mubi
(also if anyone is getting tempting heart)

anyways here's what I have so far:

Sicilia!
As bodas de deus
The wind will carry us
Silvia prieto
Adieu, plancher des vaches!
Beau travail
the third page - zeki
Outer space
The little girl who sold the sun
The servant's shirt - kaul
Pripyat
The lord's lantern in budapest
Le vent de la nuit
Iran is my land - kimiavi
Time regained
Juha
Wisconsin death trip
Bleeder

[nrh]

CAN ANYONE FIND MURALI NAIR'S THRONE OF DEATH? wanted to see that ever since I joined mubi
(also if anyone is getting tempting heart)

i think i have the murali nair, someone just synched english subs for it earlier this year i think.

[Curtis, baby]

weak year. WEAK!

1. Absolute Giganten (Sebastian Schipper, 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
"Confederation Park" (Bill Brown, 1999)
"Cousin" (Adam Elliot, 1999)

[rischka]

Adieu, plancher des vaches!
belfast maine
running out of time
beau travail
topsy-turvey
fight club
el valley centro
m/other
outer space

need to check more obvs. watchlist!

the wind will carry us
as bodas de deus
the third page
l'humanite
little girl who sold the sun
charisma
sicilia!
the servant's shirt
postmen in the mountains
tempting heart -- weirdly i have this in my 'own' list but can't currently locate hmm

[sally]

cheers nrh, i remember getting enjoyably yelled at to watch it by a long-gone mubi hand

there's some pretty things this year, so feel free everyone to decorate this poll. you don't even have to post pics of mads mikkelsen





oops

[thoxans]

filmbros

Magpies

i think you meant karl

[brian d]

in some order:
beau travail (denis)
throne of death (nair)
sicilia! (straub/huillet)
as bodas de deus (monteiro)
the little girl who sold the sun (mambéty)
the lord's lantern in budapest (jancsó)
the servant's shirt (kaul)
tuvalu (helmer)
titus (taymor)
the insider (mann)
the end of the affair (jordan)
8 1/2 women (greenaway)
kaun? (varma)
glória (viegas)

to see:
charisma (kurosawa)
l'humanité (dumont)

[liquidnature]

Don't have much I'd recommend, but I can endorse:

El Valley Centro (Benning) ♥
The Iron Giant (Bird) ♥
Tarzan (Buck, Lima) ♥

Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
Fight Club (Fincher)
The Thomas Crown Affair (McTiernan)

[...]

Starting list:

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
The Wind Will Carry Us
Charisma

The Mission
Eyes Wide Shut
Being John Malkovich
Topsy Turvy
Outer Space
Pola X
Nang Nak
Mansfield Park
Tuvalu
Kikujiro
With Fire and Sword
Gohatto
eXistenZ

Limbo
Color of Paradise
Romance
Holy Smoke
Audition
Onegin
The Limey
King of Comedy
Running Out of Time
My Best Fiend
Pan Tadeusz

All About My Mother
Cradle Will Rock
RKO 281
Boys Don't Cry
Peppermint Candy
Dying of Laughter
The Virgin Suicides
Attack the Gas Station
Lake Placid

The Matrix
Magnolia
Dick
Bringing Out the Dead
Summer of Sam
The Third Miracle
Wonderland
Office Space
The Blair Witch Project
Felicia's Journey
8 1/2 Women
Harem Suare
Shiri
Titus
Ghost Dog

[sally]

oh i didn't realise because i hadn't logged it for some reason, but guys, there's a zeki

JERRY!

[karl]

Not a detestable year for film. I'll try to see a few more but at the end of this week I'm going on vacation for a few weeks of blissful interweblessness at the seashore with the better half: hammock and a stack of books and no bloody screens. Will try to post a final list before I go:

Adieu, plancher des vaches!

The Wind Will Carry Us
Willow and Wind (Mohammad-Ali Talebi)* - 2000 on LB, for those've seen it
Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann (Volker Koepp)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong) - also 2000 on LB
The Nanny (Marco Bellocchio)
Throne of Death (Murali Nair)
Color of Paradise (I know Magpies hates this, but I enjoy all of Mr. Majidi's films)
Sunshine (István Szabó)
Hanele (Karel Kachyňa)
La Lettre (Oliveira)
Ordinary Heroes (Ann Hui)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Not One Less
Poppoya (Furuhata Yasuo)*
The Sound of a Violin in Mỹ Lai (Trần Văn Thủy)*
Limbo
The Uprising (Park Kwang-su)
Happy End (Jung Ji-woo)
My Best Fiend


Would watch if I had time:

Darkness and Light (Chang Tso-chi)
My Heart (Bae Chang-ho)
Genesis (Cheick Oumar Sissoko)
Vanaprastham
So Close to Paradise
Iran Is My Land*
Hemlock (Behruz Afkhami)*
Topsy Turvy
Luna Papa
Postmen in the Mountains*
Ikitai (Shindo Kaneto)
To Be or Not to Be (Kianoush Ayari)*
Aksuat (Serik Aprimov)*
The Sawyers (Duc Vuong)*
Life, Autumn (Loznitsa)*
Mistress of the House of Kanooru (Girish Karnad)* (this has no IMDb, surprisingly, but is listed as 1999 by its Wikipedia article)

* = on Youtube

[pabs]

1. Beau Travail (Denis)
Belfast, Maine (Wiseman)
The Third Page (Demirkubuz)
The Limey (Soderbergh)
Rosetta (Dardenne)
Wisconsin Death Trip (Marsh)
Miss Julie (Figgis)
eXistenZ (Cronenberg)
My Best Fiend (Herzog)
All About My Mother (Almodovar)
The End of the Affair (Jordan)
La fille sur le pont (Leconte)


Seen for this poll:

Belfast, Maine √
The Third Page √
Boys Don't Cry √
The End of the Affair √
Wisconsin Death Trip √
Au cœur du mensonge √


Didn't get to see:

Topsy-turvy
Adieu, plancher des vaches!
Throne of Death
Tempting Heart
The Wind Will Carry Us
Titus
Sunshine

[DT.]

1. Humanité (Bruno Dumont)

8½ Women (Peter Greenaway)
Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
Gigantic (Sebastian Schipper)
The Insider (Michael Mann)
M/Other (Nobuhiro Suwa)
Moloch (Alexander Sokurov)
My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata)
Time Regained (Raúl Ruiz)

Want to watch:

Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano)
Audition (Takashi Miike)
Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
Not One Less (Zhang Yimou)
Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom)
The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski)
Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan)
The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan)
Cradle Will Rock (Tim Robbins)
Love Will Tear Us Apart (Nelson Yu Lik-wai)

[kanafani]

A most excellent year.

Favorites
Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman, 1999)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 1999)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
The Color of Lies (Claude Chabrol, 1999)
Willow and Wind (Mohammad-Ali Talebi, 1999)
Tempting Heart (Sylvia Chang, 1999)
El Valley Centro (James Benning, 1999)
Sicily! (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 1999)
The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999)

Also great
As Bodas de Deus (João César Monteiro, 1999)
Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano, 1999)
Ode (Kelly Reichardt, 1999)
The Passengers (Jean-Claude Guiguet, 1999)
Humanité (Bruno Dumont, 1999)
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)
Models (Ulrich Seidl, 1999)
Silvia Prieto (Martín Rejtman, 1999)
Land of Fear (Daoud Abdel Sayed, 1999)
Kadosh (Amos Gitai, 1999)
The Third Page (Zeki Demirkubuz, 1999)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)
Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders, 1999)

Worth a Look
Taboo (Nagisa Ōshima, 1999)
6ixtynin9 (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 1999)
The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
Human Resources (Laurent Cantet, 1999)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)
Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999)
The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski, 1999)
Crane World (Pablo Trapero, 1999)
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
Pola X (Leos Carax, 1999)
True Crime (Clint Eastwood, 1999)
Throne of Death (Murali Nair, 1999)
Cookie's Fortune (Robert Altman, 1999)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
M/Other (Nobuhiro Suwa, 1999)

[Roscoe]

More interesting year than I'd thought.

TOPSY TURVY (Leigh)
TIME REGAINED (Ruiz)
TITUS (Taymor)
EYES WIDE SHUT (Kubrick)
TABOO (Oshima)

So far. I should revisit BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, and maybe MAGNOLIA, but I doubt my feelings have changed much about the Anderson. Wild horses couldn't get me to sit through that stupid thing about Malkovich again.

[rischka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblt2EtFfC4

[Pretentious Hipster]

https://youtu.be/6-v1b9waHWY

[thoxans]

edit: final ballot posted on page three