1999 poll

[pabs]

David Thomson, "Have You Seen...?" (2010)

[jww342]

1. The Mission (Johnnie To)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich & Ash Brannon)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
Audition (Takashi Miike)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
Election (Alexander Payne)
Running Out Of Time (Johnnie To)
10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger)
Judgement (Park Chan-wook)
The Old Man and the Sea (Aleksandr Petrov)

[kolbeke]

1. Ratcatcher

Magnolia
American Movie
The Straight Story
Boys Don't Cry
Beau Travail
The Wind Will Carry Us
All About My Mother
The Insider
The Blair Witch Project
Election
Eyes Wide Shut
Ghost Dog

[rischka]

1. Ratcatcher

Magnolia
American Movie
The Straight Story
Boys Don't Cry
Beau Travail
The Wind Will Carry Us
All About My Mother
The Insider
The Blair Witch Project
Election
Eyes Wide Shut
Ghost Dog

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

just a heads up

[rischka]

i'm really enjoying tempting heart and i'd totally forgotten my long ago crush on takeshi kaneshiro



thx nrh!

[ofrene]

my favorite discovery of 1999 thus far is Willow and Wind, simple but so desperate and hugely devastating...

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[nrh]

i'm really enjoying tempting heart

required by law to post this any time someone watches a gigi leung movie

https://youtu.be/5ibS13ZKK5o

[Angel]

Solas (Alone)

Ame agaru (After the Rain)
Au coeur du mensonge (The Color of Lies)
C'est quoi la vie? (What's Life?)
Cheung foh (The Mission)
Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from Another World)
Fuori dal mondo (Not of This World)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (Gloomy Sunday)
Günese Yolculuk (Journey to the Sun)
La ley de Herodes (Herod's Law)
Les enfants du marais (Children of the Marshland)
October Sky
Post Mortem
Sleepy Hollow
Swiri (Shiri)
Three Seasons
True Crime
Une liaison pornographique (An Affair of Love)
Wo de fu qin mu qin (The Road Home)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
American Beauty
Bad ma ra khahad bord
Beau travail
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club
Magnolia
Outer Space
Rosetta
Sicilia!
The Green Mile
The Iron Giant
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense
The Straight Story
Todo sobre mi madre

To see before the deadline
Besat
Fukuro no shiro
Silvia Prieto
Tin seung yan gaan

Wanted
Ard al-Khof
La vie ne me fait pas peur

[...]

Out of curiosity, what does deliberately excluded really mean? Movies that were popular or acclaimed, in some fashion, that you personally don't care for or that you also like but are choosing to ignore in favor of less noted films or a mix of both or maybe neither? If it's a mix, I'd be interested to see which you liked and which you didn't even if they don't get your vote. But it's of course fine if you aren't interested in that.

[Angel]

Out of curiosity, what does deliberately excluded really mean? Movies that were popular or acclaimed, in some fashion, that you personally don't care for or that you also like but are choosing to ignore in favor of less noted films or a mix of both or maybe neither? If it's a mix, I'd be interested to see which you liked and which you didn't even if they don't get your vote. But it's of course fine if you aren't interested in that.

Of course it's a mix. Those are objectively the most popular and the most acclaimed movies. I might like some of them, but I find no pleasure in voting for them (and it helps narrow my list of favorites down). As a general rule, I like most of those movies in the pre-1960 era, not many in the post-1960 era... and very few nowadays.

[rischka]

i'm really enjoying tempting heart

required by law to post this any time someone watches a gigi leung movie

https://youtu.be/5ibS13ZKK5o

she's right: zoo is sad, people are cruel. nothing but winners so far, kurosawa's charisma was strange and delightful



i've decided it's an environmental horror film or perhaps paranormal detective. almost works as a sequel to cure!

[greennui]

See You in Hell, My Darling (Nikos Nikolaidis) - Loved this one. I'm not sure sure if there's any way to describe it with other than that it's very much a Nikolaidis film, like a different riff on Singapore Sling. All his films seems to take place in some kind of purgatory.

[roujin]

1. No Love Juice: Rustling in Bed (Yuji Tajiri)
2. Moonlight Whispers (Akihiko Shota)
3. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
4. Where a Good Man Goes (Johnnie To)

[dominicano1970]

Rosetta (The Dardennes)

An Affair of Love (Fontayne)
All About My Mother (Almodovar)
American Beauty (Mendes)
Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
The Cider House Rules (Hallström)
The Color of Lies (Chabrol)
Fight Club (Fincher)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jarmusch)
It All Starts Today (Tavernier)
The Little Thief (Zonca)
The Matrix (The Wachowskis)
Mifune (Kragh-Jacobsen)
The Road Home (Zhang)
Sachs' Disease (Deville)
The Sixth Sense (Shyamalan)
Sleepy Hollow (Burton)
Solas (Zambrano)
The Straight Story (Lynch)
True Crime (Eastwood)

[Silga]

Final 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)
Snow Falling on Cedars (Scott Hicks)
Arlington Road (Mark Pellington)
The 4th Floor (Josh Klausner)

[rischka]

Adieu, plancher des vaches! (iosseliani)
the wind will carry us (kiarostami)
belfast maine (wiseman)
sicilia! (straub/huillet)
as bodas de deus (monteiro)
beau travail (denis)
my neighbors the yamadas (takahata)
charisma (kurosawa)
the little girl who sold the sun (mambety)
tempting heart (chang)
running out of time (to)
where a good man goes (to)
the misson (to)
topsy-turvy (leigh)
fight club (fincher)
el valley centro (benning)
m/other (suwa)
outer space (tscherkassky)
all about my mother (almodovar)
summer of sam (lee)

been busy so i add a few old favorites

Moonlight Whispers (Akihiko Shota)

i have this so may watch it yet. don't think i'm ready for nikolaidis lol

[greennui]

Final.

1. Nightfall (Fred Kelemen)

See You in Hell, My Darling (Nikos Nikolaidis)
Taboo (Nagisa Ōshima)
Jesus’ Son (Alison Maclean)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
As Bodas de Deus (João César Monteiro)
Rumi (Narcisa Hirsch)
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)

[wba]

Final list:

01. Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Jin-Roh
Dead or Alive (Miike)
Arlington Road
Balkan baroque
Being John Malkovich
Eyes Wide Shut
Girl on the Bridge
Human Ressources
Jesus' Son
Magnolia
Postmen in the Mountains
Ride with the Devil
Sea Song (Reeves)
Taboo (Oshima)
The Arrival (Tscherkassky)
The Wind Will Carry Us
Pripyat
After the Rain
Criminal Lovers

[oscarwerner]

Final list:
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1. All About My Mother- (Pedro Almodóvar) -my top hit
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other 19
2. The Green Mile- (Frank Darabont)
3. The Matrix- ( Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski )
4. American Beauty- (Sam Mendes)
5. The Sixth Sense- ( M. Night Shyamalan )
6. Eyes Wide Shut- (Stanley Kubrick)
7. The Talented Mr. Ripley- (Anthony Minghella)
8. Magnolia- (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. The Straight Story- (David Lynch)
10. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai- (Jim Jarmusch)
11. Rosetta- (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
12. The Girl on the Bridge- (Patrice Leconte)
13. Taboo- (Nagisa Ôshima)
14. Not One Less- (Yimou Zhang)
15. The Winslow Boy- (David Mamet)
16. Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
17. Fight Club (David Fincher)
18. Criminal Lovers (François Ozon)
19. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
20. The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström)

[...]

Final list I guess. Kinda iffy about some of it, as there were other options. It wasn't a bad year overall from what I saw, some of the better films felt a bit more blunt than usual perhaps, more playing with form than in layering of theme maybe, which doesn't always hold as well in hindsight when those themes feel heavy, but probably no worse for that than years where you have to dig for subtext in more conventional films.

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
The Wind Will Carry Us
Charisma
The Mission
Eyes Wide Shut
Kikujiro
Being John Malkovich
Topsy Turvy
Pola X
King of Comedy
With Fire and Sword
Romance
Holy Smoke
Tuvalu
Mansfield Park
Nang Nak
Onegin
Pan Tadeusz
Dying of Laughter
Attack the Gas Station

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

My final votes, ten favourites from Y2K-tinged '99:

1. Switching Goals (Mary-Kate & Ashley)
Like a Dream That Vanishes (Barbara Sternberg)
“…” Reel Five (Stan Brakhage)
Persian Series #1 (Stan Brakhage)
The Mummy (Stephen Sommers)
House on Haunted Hill (William Malone)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost (Hanna-Barbera)
Passport to Paris (Mary-Kate & Ashley)
Toy Story 2 (Pixar)

I believe this was the year of my first trip to the cinema, to see Toy Story 2. Hopefully my list is an agreeable collocation of respectable avant-garde films and idiosyncratic VHS girlhood gleanings. Yes, a Mary-Kate & Ashley movie is sincerely my favourite movie of 1999.

[ofrene]

might see one or two more before poll end(still so many movies on my watchlist) but until then...

Rosetta

Willow and Wind
The Wind Will Carry Us
Magnolia
The Insider
South
Beau Travail
Outer Space
The Straight Story
Sicilia!
Eyes Wide Shut
The Mission
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Farewell, Home Sweet Home
As Bodas de Deus
Bringing Out the Dead
The Iron Giant
Charisma

[thoxans]

a Mary-Kate & Ashley movie

it takes two remains my olsen holy grail

[DT.]

Only managed to watch one film, but I was pleasantly surprised by how well crafted it was given its reputation.

1. Humanité (Bruno Dumont)

8½ Women (Peter Greenaway)
Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone)
Audition (Takashi Miike)*
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)

[sally]

i'm afraid i got so untemptingly disheartened by the Most Boring Film Ever™, that i haven't done much with 99 at all. there are still some films that intrique, but whatever, they're not from the 1920's.

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
think of england (martin parr)
throne of death
la lettre
amber city
The lord's lantern in budapest
Le vent de la nuit
Iran is my land - kimiavi
Time regained

[brian d]

watched a whole 1 movie for this month.

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

also watched:
charisma (kurosawa)

didn't get around to:
l'humanité (dumont)

[mesnalty]

Final list:

1. Beau Travail (Denis)

All About My Mother (Almodovar)
Magnolia (Anderson)
Pola X (Carax)
Tempting Heart (Chang)
Humanity (Dumont)
Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Kiarostami)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
Charisma (Kurosawa)
The Straight Story (Lynch)
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Mambety)
The Spousals of God (Monteiro)
Election (Payne)
Ratcatcher (Ramsay)
Moloch (Sokurov)
M/Other (Suwa)
Outer Space (Tscherkassky)
The Matrix (Wachowskis)
Belfast, Maine (Wiseman)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Le Temps Retrouve - Ruiz

Audition - Miike
The Wind Will Carry Us - Kiarostami
As Bodas De Deus - Monteiro
Bringing Out The Dead - Scorcese
The Einstein Of Sex - Rosa von Praunheim
En un claroscuro de la luna - Olhovich
Felicia's Journey - Egoyan
Gohatto/Taboo - Oshima
Invierno Mala Vida
Juha - Kaurismaki
Julian, Donkey-Boy - Korine
Kikujiro no katsu - Takeshi Kitano
La Ley De Herodes - Estrada
The Matrix - Wachowskis
Moloch - Sokurov
Sitiprinc - Edit Kõscegi
The Straight Story - Lynch
Summer Of Sam - Spike Lee
throne of death (nair)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Poll closes in about four hours.

[thoxans]

final ballot

MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Isao Takahata)

all about my mother (pedro almodovar)
beau travail (claire denis)
belfast, maine (frederick wiseman)
charisma (kiyoshi kurosawa)
existenz (david cronenberg)
eyes wide shut (stanley kubrick)
human resources (laurent cantet)
humanite (bruno dumont)
the insider (michael mann)
the little girl who sold the sun (djibril diop mambety)
the mission (johnnie to)
nang nak (nonzee nimibutr)
outer space (peter tscherkassky)
rosetta (jean-pierre dardenne / luc dardenne)
running out of time (johnnie to)
the straight story (david lynch)
taboo (nagisa oshima)
the third page (zeki demirkubuz)
the wind will carry us (abbas kiarostami)