Vickie My 20 favorite movies of 1999 so far (modified 11-25-99): 1.The Matrix 2.The Sixth Sense 3.Toy Story 2 4.The Iron Giant 5.South Park:BLU 6.October Sky 7.Tumbleweeds 8.After Life 9.The Straight Story 10.Cookie's Fortune 11.Election 12.The Limey 13.Limbo 14.Dick 15.The Dreamlife of Angels 16.Children Of Heaven 17. My Name Is Joe 18.Autumn Tale 19.Run Lola Run 20.Election (some are 1998 releases, I saw them first-run in 1999) 21.Three Kings 22.Go 23.All The Little Animals 24.American Beauty 25.Being John Malcovich 26.Bringing Out the Dead 27.Fight Club 28.Dogma 29.Sleepy Hollow 30.Summer of Sam 31.The Blair Witch Project 32.The Phantom Menace 33.Xiu Xiu The Sent Down Girl 34.Liberty Heights 35.The Winslow Boy 36.Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 37.An Ideal Husband 38.Three Seasons 39.Hideous Kinky 40.Mystery Men 41.The 24 Hour Woman 42.Alone 43.Nothing 44.Under The Sun 45.Mansfield Park 46.Tuvalu 47.American Movie 48.A Reasonable Man 49.My Best Fiend 50.Office Space The Talented Mr Ripley Anna and the King Happy, Texas Heroes In Tyrol It All Starts Today Ratcatcher Boys Don't Cry Valerie Flake Desert Blue The Legend of 1900 La Maladie de Sachs The Personals Checkpoint Coming Apart The Cider House Rules The Love of Three Oranges Man of the Century Yesterday Children New Dawn Night Shapes My Little Business American Pie Pushing Tin The Dinner Game Post Mortem That's the Way I Like It The Carriers Are Waiting Moloch Treasure Island Notting Hill The Wisdom of Crocodiles Juha The Messenger Sara Amerika The Castle eXistenZ Tarzan 13th Warrior Bowfinger Blast From The Past Analyze This Austin Powers-TSWSM The End of The Affair Mumford The Muse At First Sight The Thomas Crown Affair Deep Blue Sea The Haunting End of Days The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion The Story of Ah Woman on a Tin Roof Hilary and Jackie (1998 release?) Affliction (opened in 1998) Shakespeare In Love (opened in 1998) Rushmore Haven't seen, but want to (in no particular order): The Minus Man God Said "Ha!" My Son The Fanatic The Ogre Praise Train Of Life Trick Guinevere Judy Berlin A Slipping-Down Life Edge of Seventeen Thick As Thieves The War Zone Broken Vessels My Life So Far Caberet Balkan Brokedown Palace The Adventures of Sebastian Cole Buena Vista Social Club 8MM In Dreams Ravenous A Walk On The Moon Life Never Been Kissed A Midsummer Night's Dream The 13th Floor Instinct The Red Violin Arlington Road Eyes Wide Shut --------- Alone American Movie The Carriers are Waiting Checkpoint The Cider House Rules Coming Apart The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion Heroes in Tyrol It All Starts Today Juha La Maladie de Sachs The Love of Three Oranges Man of the Century Mansfield Park Moloch My Best Fiend My Little Business New Dawn Night Shapes Nothing The Personals Post Mortem Ratcatcher A Reasonable Man Sara Amerika Seconds Set Me Free The Story of Ah That's The Way I Like It Treasure Island Tumbleweeds Tuvalu Under the Sun Valerie Flake The Wisdom of Crocodiles Woman on a Tin Roof Yesterday Children -------- 1999 Madeleine - Dir. Laurent Bouhnik, France A Afraid of Everything - Dir. David Barker, USA After the Truth - Dir. Roland Suso Richter, Germany Alone - Dir. Benito Zambrano, Spain American Hollow - Dir. Rory Kennedy, USA American Movie - Dir. Chris Smith, USA Asunder - Dir. Tim Reid, USA Ave Maria - Dir. Eduardo Rossoff, Mexico B Barracks - Dir. Valerij Ogorodnikov, Russia / Germany Belfast, Maine - Dir. Frederick Wiseman, USA The Big Tease - Dir. Kevin Allen, USA Big Wheels, Angels & Turtles: International Shorts - Dir. Various, Various Bingo! The Documentary - Dir. John Jeffcoat, USA Bounce - Dir. Adam Weinstein, USA Boys Don't Cry - Dir. Kimberly Peirce, USA Burlesk King - Dir. Mel Chionglo, Philippines C The Carriers are Waiting - Dir. Benoit Mariage, Belgium / France Checkpoint - Dir. Alexander Rogozhkin, Russia The Cider House Rules - Dir. Lasse Hallstrom, USA Coming Apart - Dir. Milton Moses Ginsberg, USA Conversations with Gregory Peck - Dir. Barbara Kopple, USA Creature - Dir. Parris Patton, USA The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion - Dir. Lav Diaz, Philippines D The Dilettante - Dir. Pascal Thomas, France The Dream Catcher - Dir. Ed Radtke, USA Dreaming of Joseph Lees - Dir. Eric Styles, United Kingdom E East Is East - Dir. Damien O'Donnell, UK F Fly Low - Dir. Kim Sion, South Korea From the Edge of the City - Dir. Constantinos Giannaris, Greece G Games and Patterns: Short Films about Youth - Dir. Various, Various Gangland - Dir. Peque Gallaga/Lore Reyes, Philippines Golden Voyage of Sinbad - Dir. Ray Harryhausen, USA The Grandfather - Dir. Jose Luis Garci, Spain H Harmonium in my Memory - Dir. Lee Young-jae, South Korea Heroes in Tyrol - Dir. Niki List, Austria / Switzerland Humanity - Dir. Bruno Dumont, France I An Invited Guest - Dir. Timonthy Wayne Folsome, USA It All Starts Today - Dir. Bertrand Tavernier, France J Jason and the Argonauts - Dir. Ray Harryhausen, USA Jose Rizal - Dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Philippines Juha - Dir. Aki Kaurismaki, Finland The Junk Food Generation - Dir. Shinobu Sakagami, Japan K Kazoku Cinema - Dir. Chulsoo Park, Korea L La Maladie de Sachs - Dir. Michel Deville, France Lea's Story - Dir. Chito S. Rono, Philippines The Letter - Dir. Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun / Le Franc - Dir. Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal The Longest Summer - Dir. Fruit Chan, Hong Kong Love and Action in Chicago - Dir. Dwayne Johnson-Cochran, USA The Love of Three Oranges - Dir. Hung Hung, Taiwan Love Will Tear Us Apart - Dir. Yu Lik-wai, Hong Kong Lovers - Dir. Jean-Marc Barr, France Loving Jezebel - Dir. Kwyn Bader, USA M Man of the Century - Dir. Adam Abraham, USA Mansfield Park - Dir. Patricia Rozema, UK / USA Minazuki - Dir. Mochizuki Rokuro, Japan Moloch - Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia / Germany Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckermann - Dir. Volker Koepp, Germany Mutinous Shorts - Dir. Various, Various My Best Fiend - Dir. Werner Herzog, Germany My Little Business - Dir. Pierre Jolivet, France N New Dawn - Dir. Emilie Deleuze, France Night Shapes - Dir. Andreas Dresen, Germany Not of this World - Dir. Giuseppe Piccioni, Italy Nothing - Dir. Dorota Kedzierzawska, Poland P Paths in the Night - Dir. Andreas Kleinert, Germany People Who Love Each Other - Dir. Jean Charles Tacchella, France Personals - Dir. Mike Sargent, USA The Personals - Dir. Chen Kuo-fu, Taiwan Post Mortem - Dir. Louis Belanger, Canada Public Enemy - Dir. Jens Meurer, France / Germany Punitive Damage - Dir. Annie Goldson, New Zealand Pups - Dir. Ash, USA R Raise the Heart! - Dir. Solveig Anspach, France Ratcatcher - Dir. Lynne Ramsay, United Kingdom A Reasonable Man - Dir. Gavin Hood, South Africa Rien Sur Robert - Dir. Pascal Bonitzer, France S Santitos - Dir. Alejandro Springall, Mexico Sara Amerika - Dir. Roland Suso Richter, Germany Seconds - Dir. John Frankenheimer, USA Set Me Free - Dir. Lea Pool, Canada / Switzerland Sex, Shame and Tears - Dir. Antonio Serrano, Mexico Snow Falling on Cedars - Dir. Scott Hicks, USA Soft Hearts - Dir. Joel Lamangan & Enrico Quizon, Philippines The Story of Ah - Dir. Joel C. Lamangan, Philippines T The Tavern - Dir. Walter Foote, USA Terror Firmer - Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, USA That's The Way I Like It - Dir. Glen Goei, Singapore Theme: Murder - Dir. Martha Swetzoff, USA The Third Page - Dir. Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey The Town - Dir. Yousry Nasrallah, Egypt / France Train of Life - Dir. Radu Mihaileanu, Belgium Treasure Island - Dir. Scott King, United States Tredici - Dir. John Hancock, USA Tribute to Ray Harryhausen - Dir. Tumbleweeds - Dir. Gavin O'Connor, USA Tuvalu - Dir. Veit Helmer, Germany Two Streams - Dir. Carlos Reichenbach, Brazil U Under the Sun - Dir. Colin Nutley, Sweden The Unspoken - Dir. Frederick Marx, USA V Valerie Flake - Dir. John Putch, USA W Wait and See - Dir. Shinji Somai, Japan The Week that Girl Died - Dir. Sean Travis, USA The White Suit - Dir. Lazar Ristovski, Yugoslavia Who Else if Not Us - Dir. Valery Priemykhov, Russia Wild Side - Dir. Donald Cammell, USA The Wisdom of Crocodiles - Dir. Po Chih Leong, UK Woman on a Tin Roof - Dir. Mario O'Hara, Philippines World of Animation - Dir. Various, Various X X 2000: French Films for a New Millenium - Dir. Various, France Y Yana's Friends - Dir. Arik Kaplun, Israel Yesterday Children - Dir. Carlos Siguion-Reyna, Philippines