Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Eyes Wide Shut (1999)Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 16 Jul 1999Stanley Kubrick makes a married couple's ordinary confidence increasingly unstable through controlled movement, repetition and nocturnal space. Tom Cruise's uncertainty is a useful centre for the ritualised encounters. Its explicit sexual material serves a troubling inquiry into what intimacy can…0
  2. 2Beau Travail (2000)Beau Travail (2000) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 3 May 2000Claire Denis makes military routine and landscape express forms of feeling the characters cannot name. Agnès Godard's images and the use of movement give the film an extraordinary physical intelligence. Its 1999 festival life precedes the catalogue's 2000 French cinema date.0
  3. 3The Matrix (1999)The Matrix (1999) 8.7/10 on IMDbReleased 31 Mar 1999The Wachowskis make a philosophical premise work through exceptionally clear action and visual design. The changing relationship between bodies, rules and space gives the spectacle meaning. Its influence follows from how completely the first film joins explanation to exhilaration.0
  4. 4The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Sept 1999Abbas Kiarostami makes waiting and partial access to other people's lives a way of examining the visitor's assumptions. The sounds and unseen spaces are as important as the visible landscape. Patience is rewarded by a changing sense of what deserves attention.0
  5. 5All About My Mother (1999)All About My Mother (1999) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 16 Apr 1999Pedro Almodovar makes theatrical performance and everyday care illuminate each other. The ensemble gives melodrama an emotional precision, allowing humour, loss and solidarity to coexist without settling into one comfortable register.0
  6. 6Rosetta (1999)Rosetta (1999) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 29 Sept 1999The Dardenne brothers give practical survival the urgency of a physical chase. Emilie Dequenne's concentrated performance keeps every small opportunity consequential. The close camera makes social pressure immediate while refusing to simplify the character into a moral example.0
  7. 7Audition (2000)Audition (2000) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 3 Mar 2000Takashi Miike makes an apparently restrained social encounter become a deeply disturbing experience of uncertainty. The shift in tone is central to its force, with extreme bodily violence making this an especially difficult horror choice. Its first public screening was in 1999, before Japan's 2000…0
  8. 8Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 6 Oct 1999Jim Jarmusch gives professional ritual a peculiar mixture of grace, absurdity and melancholy. Forest Whitaker's reserve holds the disparate cultural references together, while the music and patient city observation make the film feel like an inhabited world.0
  9. 9The Straight Story (1999)The Straight Story (1999) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Oct 1999David Lynch makes a slow journey an opportunity to listen and look closely rather than a delay before the important event. Richard Farnsworth gives limited movement substantial emotional weight. The film's directness gains force from the practical detail surrounding each encounter.0
  10. 10Fight Club (1999)Fight Club (1999) 8.8/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Oct 1999David Fincher gives a story of alienation an aggressively seductive visual and verbal form. The film's power and difficulty lie in how entertaining it makes destructive certainty, with its satire requiring attention beyond the narrator's own explanation.0