Look at This Gif

I assume that some of you might be young enough to have not experienced in real time the sex-quake that resulted from this shot of Brad Pitt in Fight Club in 1999 --  the walls of every movie theater across the land shook with the revelation of this ab-splosion! It was a glorious moment in male exploitation, lemme tell ya. Anyway David Fincher has slowly been remastering his movies in 4K as of late and now it's Fight Club's turn and I don't know about you but I definitely feel the need to re-experience this moment in cinematic history in glorious 4K -- you can pre-order the disc here. It's out on May 12th. I actually haven't re-watched Fight Club in years but it's been on a mind a whole lot what with anarchic thoughts of fucking the system up becoming an every-minute-occurance in 2026, so I look forward to this revisit. It won't just be about the abs this time. But the abs help. They're a great delivery system. 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Fight Club (1999)

Tyler Durden: Warning -- If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.

Happy 25 to another movie like American Psycho where all the wrong people that the movie is making fun of saw a movie that read to them the opposite of that. I don't think it's quite as clear in Fincher's hands as it was in Mary Harron's, but he's gone on with movies like The Killer last year to underline his points often enough about the show-offy fragility of masculinity that we know his heart's always been in the right place anyway. To be honest I haven't actually sat down and watched Fight Club start to finish in quite some time -- it'd be great if we got a 4K of this first but watching the way Fincher's been tinkering with the 4K release of Seven for a few years now, delaying its release over and over, I won't hold my breath. Dude is too tinkery! Stop tinkering and go make the next season of Mindhunter goddammit!

Good Morning, World

Let's just be clear - I am old enough and cloister myself off from pop culture enough that I wouldn't know a Bad Bunny song if it smacked its big dick in my face. I hope you don't come here for hip! Because we're closer to "hip replacement" at this point than we are the other sort. That said I have now seen Mr. Bunny in two movies -- in Bullet Train, where he didn't make much of an impression (nothing in that movie did except Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Brian Tyree Henry), and in the Sundance-screened gay luchador drama Cassandro, where he shares all kinds of sexual chemistry with (and kisses) Gael Garcia Bernal, and he definitely left an impression in that second one. (That's a really good movie, by the way -- keep an eye out for it.) So I will wish the big bad Bunny man a happy birthday today! Why not? I mean he was born the year before I graduated from high school but I will try to not hold that against him.

Quote of the Day II

"I even got a chance to run away from Chucky!.. I never thought I would get to play British. I never imagined I would spend a month slapping the shit out of Brad Pitt on a train.”

There's a terrific little chat with actor Brian Tyree Henry at Variety today where he gushes about his recent success and his energy is totally infectious -- we love a man who loves Chucky! And the story he tells about how he found out he was nominated for an Oscar for Causeway a few weeks ago is hysterical and adorable. And speaking of adorable, these photos y'all. Hit the jump for a bonus shot...

Petite Wings of Thelma's Desire

Criterion Announcement Day always sneaks up on me -- I briefly considered putting it in my calendar as a repeating "15th of the month" occurrence but decided that was a nerd bridge too far, which is uhh saying a lot coming from the person who has it written in there that it's the fifth anniversary of Game Night next week. Anyway yes tis Criterion Announcement Day, huzzah et cetera -- these movies will be released by the fanciest-pants boutique brand in the month of May in the year 2023, and we're kicking it off with a little movie called Thelma & Louise from director Ridley Scott. I've long maintained that this is the last truly great movie that Ridley Scott directed and I stand by that, although I have come to like Prometheus a lot (even though it's hella dumb in parts) and The Counselor as well, for sheer WTF-ery. But Thelma & Louise is perfect, a perfect movie, and not just because it introduced Brad Pitt's Abs to the world. 

But not not just because of that either. I mean I love the cover-art they used but I think Brad Pitt's Abs might have also sold some copies, just saying. Anyway Criterion is dropping the film on 4K and per usual it's loaded with extras, all of which are flaunted on their site -- that one hits on May 30th, at the start of the summer so just in time for us all to be considering a road-trip where we'll also go on the run and mount some sexy grifter's abs at a skeevy rundown roadside motel ourselves. But T& L isn't even the May release from Criterion that I am most excited about! No that title goes to...

... Peter Bogdonovich's 1968 masterpiece Targets! Targets is one of my all-timer faves and it's been begging for a good release for ages -- BFI was putting one out last year and then they abruptly canceled the release much to my chagrin; I wonder if this is what happened? Anyway very excited to finally get a good version -- Targets, if you're unaware, was Bognonovich's first film and stars TV actor Tim O’Kelly in really his only notable role as a dapper middle-class Vietnam vet turned maniac who drives around shooting people in Los Angeles; his path eventually crosses at a drive-in movie-theater with Boris Karloff who's basically playing a version of himself. Besides this and The Last Picture Show I kind of hate Peter Bogdonovich, who always came off as a preening egotist to me, but damn do I love those two movies. Criterion is dropping this one on May 16th. 

But wait there's another another great movie hitting ye Collection d'Criterion come May -- Céline Sciammas glorious little 2021 ode to childhood imagination Petite Maman will hit blu-ray on May 23rd! Here is my review of this deeply moving yet wildly brief (it's only 73 minutes long!) little flick about a girl who magically travels through time to bond with her own mother when she was a little girl. This movie makes me cry and cry and cry and then have to call my mom -- j'adore. And I think this will be its first physical media release here in the US? Scoop it up, yo. The other two titles that Criterion has on tap for May are 4K upgrades of two titles they've previously released -- Wim Wenders' 1987 masterpiece Wings of Desire and Seijun Suzuki's 1967 Japanese New Wave flick Branded To Kill. I've still (shamefully) never seen the latter but I've seen Wings a few times now and it lives up to the word "masterpiece" and then some. And I am sure there are better examples of Hollywood fucking up a remake than what City of Angels did this one but I don't know if I am as offended by any others as I am by that. Ugh!

Holly Jolly Heave Ho Ho

Well that is that -- I'm off for the holidays, as forecasted in last evening's mention. MNPP proper will most likely be stock-still quiet til January 3rd... I always say I might post and I am always a big fat dumb liar. I'll surely be active on the social medias all linked in the right-hand column though, and I will have a couple of reviews hitting Pajiba over the next week (you can keep track of me there in particular at this link)...

... like my take on Babylon goes up tomorrow, you won't want to miss that. I asked my editor's permission to swear a lot! And two old reviews for movies I saw at film festivals will be re-upped as the films get released, including Living (with a career best Bill Nighy) right here and Noah Baumbach's White Noise, which hits Netflix next week and which I talked about here. Both of those are terrific and 100% worth seeking out.

Other than that I just wish you all a happy holiday and a happy New Years and let's see if we can make 2023 a year to remember for good reasons. If anybody wants to make a donation to MNPP's coffers out of appreciation for my annual nonsense efforts, you can do so right here -- every penny's and nice comment is appreciated. Hell even the nasty comments are appreciated -- just pay attention to me dammit! In all seriousness I love my readers, y'all rule, thanks for coming back all these many years. I would still do this without you because my brain is chaos but y'all make it easier! Thank you!

Good Morning, World

No I still haven't managed to see Bullet Train -- but I have managed to see this video of Aaron Taylor-Johnson hanging out topless in that movie's make-up trailer with Bullet Train's "groomer" Merc Arceneaux (via) and really, what is Bullet Train gonna offer me that's more better than this? Yes I said "more better" and I meant it dammit. Language is the first thing to go in the face of such hotness!

And I've got a few more gifs for you after the jump...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Killing Them Softly (2012)

Barack Obama (on TV) : [on TV delivering his election victory speech] ... to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many, we are one.

Driver: You hear that line? Line's for you.

Jackie: Don't make me laugh. We're one people.

It's a myth created by Thomas Jefferson.

Driver: Oh now you're gonna have a go at Jefferson, huh?

Jackie: My friend, Jefferson's an American saint because he wrote the words, "All men are created equal." Words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me.

There are a few reasons I chose to highlight this passage from Andrew Dominik's wildly underestimated 2012 masterpiece Killing Them Softly today. The original reason was that today is actor Richard Jenkins' birthday today, and we love Richard Jenkins! Happy birthday to that man! Richard Jenkins came first, then I read this passage of dialogue from the film and, well, given the state of the world right now this whole business struck me as pretty apt. I'm feeling pretty cynical right now with regards to our political situation! And this passage of dialogue sums up some feelings. 

There will be no repercussions. This country is run by criminals and fools and we're all fucked https://t.co/izPGe1y8gA

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) May 4, 2022

That said another good pair of reasons to share this is that this movie turns 10 this year, meaning it's been a full fucking decade since director Andrew Dominik has put out a narrative feature film, and that's as criminal as anything. Okay maybe not as criminal as what I quoted in the above tweet, I exaggerate, but it still sucks baloney. Which is why I'm pretty excited about Blonde, Dominik's Marylin Monroe biopic movie thing with Ana de Armas that will be out in December. Rated NC-17 and everything! And I'm really hoping it finally gets the filmmaker behind The Assassination of Jesse James and the above film some overdue awards attention.

Quote of the Day

"Listen, we tried to get Warner Bros. to allow us to release a longer version of it. They’re not interested in doing it, and I think somebody tried to petition Criterion to do it. Criterion were not interested in Jesse James. There is a better version of Jesse James – in my opinion – that’s about 15 minutes longer. And that’s the one that Roger [Deakins] was talking about. He’s never seen one that’s longer than that. There was a three-hour version, right? 15 minutes longer than what it is, three hours. There was never a four-hour version that was any good, believe me.”

That is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford director Andrew Doninik (who's never made a not-great movie and is about to start doing press for his forthcoming Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde starring Ana de Armas, which is out ?) talking to Collider about the possibility of us ever getting a "Director's Cut" os that 2007 masterpiece, which sadly sounds unlikely, at least in this moment. And somebody stop me from tweeting a "Whatchu talkin bout Willis" gif at Criterion, please. For serious though! That movie's one of the greatest movies of this century and deserves way more credit, love, and lavish, slavish devotion. 

Pics of the Day

The first photos from AMC's upcoming Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire series (and good for Anne -- RIP queen -- for getting that above-the-title treatment) have arrived, showcasing actors Sam Reid (mmmm we love him) as Lestat and Games of Thrones' Jacob Anderson as Louis, aka the Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt roles from Neil Jordan's 1994 film adaptation we all still remember well enough, I assume. There are a couple more photos at People, where these ones came from -- the series is out sometime this year. What do we think at first blush?

Channing Tatum Six Times

There's a big cover story interview with Channing Tatum in the new issue of Variety, you can read it here -- he talks about wigs and getting butt-ass-naked in The Lost City (he also admits he hates that they changed the title from The Lost City of D, which has also bugged me) with Sandra Bullock (I shared the trailer for that here), he talks about losing his pet dog and how that became his movie Dog out later this month, and most importantly he talks about making the third Magic Mike movie with Steven Soderbergh, which was just announced in November. Choice quote:

"This one’s going to be a full dance-icle. We’re going to swing for the fence. I’m going to dance as hard as I’ve danced in any movie other than ‘Hail, Caesar!’” he says, referring to the 2016 Coen brothers film in which he learned how to tap dance. “I want this movie to be filled with joy and fun. Everybody is like, ‘Less character, more dancing.’ So I’ve listened."

I'm one of those people -- "those people" -- who's actually liked both of the Magic Mike movies as they've been; I know a lot of people have reiterated what he's saying, that they both were more drama less tea-bagging than people were clamoring for, but I thought they worked. Still I'll come for the tea-bagging too! Of course I will. Anyway Chan's looking mighty fine right? He looks ten, fifteen, years younger? They've definitely put the Hollywood buffing machine to work on him. Hit the jump for the whole shoot...

Brad Pitt Flashback

Okay so this is wildly random but not random by me -- random by somebody else for a change! I am just flowing with somebody else's go. Vanity Fair spoke with Succession actor Brian Cox this week (via) and he brought up Wolfgang Peterson's 2004 film Troy as the only time he's ever chased a role (he played "Agamemnon" in it) which led him to this perfectly-relatable digression:

“I remember at one point being agog at Brad... He’d never been in costumes like that… Brad walked on set and my jaw was down because he was so stunningly beautiful. I’m straight but I thought, ‘Wow, my God! This guy is stunning.’ What chance does one have on the screen against this beautiful, beautiful man?”

Brad Pitt in 2004 was indeed a visual force to be reckoned with. Anyway I was just going to tweet about this while linking back to the Steven Klein photoshoot that Brad did at the time for L'uomo Vogue, only... I couldn't find the shoot posted here on the site? It's got to be buried somewhere -- I refuse to believe I've actually never posted it -- but this presents the opportunity to just post it today, and that's a challenge I will ever accept. Hit the jump for the entire thing...

Good Morning, World

The 1992 Brad Pitt flick Johnny Suede was one of Teenage Jason's go-to movies back in the 1990s when I needed, you know, inspiration -- pretty sure I had it on VHS at one point? I never "liked" the movie but I sure did watch it a bunch. Anyway I hadn't seen it in many a year until this weekend when Criterion dropped it as part of their 1992 Sundance series -- it's actually a little better than I remembered? I think what it has going for it now that it didn't have in the 1990s is it's a terrific document of that very specific time period...

... shot in Williamsburg Brooklyn of all places before gentrification had mutilated it beyond recognition it's a time-machine flick for sure. It also co-stars Catherine Keener and Nick Cave (in a white pompadour wielding day-old chicken) and has small roles played by Tina Louise and Samuel L. Jackson? It's kind of begging for some reevaluation. I also think it might have been a little ahead of its time in how thoroughly it demystifies (or at least tries to) the "sensitive artist hipster" and goes out of its way to showcase how toxic his masculinity is... up to a point. But it tries. And Brad Pitt looks like this. Give it a watch! And hit the jump for more gifs...

They Lost the D

The trailer for The Lost City -- formerly titled The Lost City of D (IMDb even still has it listed that way) but I guess they work-shopped their dick joke right on out of there -- starring Sandy Bullock and Channy Tatum as a bickering romance novelist and her pretty-boy Fabio-type cover-boy respectively, is here, and it's exactly what you expected, if what you expected was a riff on Romancing the Stone with a lot of Channing's muscles on display. There's a shot of him shirtless in the trailer but he's covered with leeches and it grosses me out, so...

...  let's just stare at this perfectly lovely and leech-free gif of his arms instead. To paraphrase that famous pig, "Some arms!" The Lost City, which was directed by Adam and Aaron Nee (who are supposed to be making the He-Man movie next but we've heard about a He-Man movie for so many years we're taking that one with a grain of Eternian salt) is out on March 25th. Here's the trailer! 

Tell me what you think in the comments.

And okay yeah fine here's leechy shirtless Chan:

Pics of the Day

I think I've tweeted about "getting myself into the mood for Halloween" about fifty times over the past week -- it always takes some effort, once I'm through with NYFF and such, to shift my brain into Horror Movie gear, but I think I'm basically there at this point. I started working on this month's Halloween series last night (see previous examples here and here) -- I have this year's theme set, at least! --and I've begun unpacking my boxes stuffed with human skulls at home, so how could I not be in the mood by now? Anyway these photos of Brad Pitt looking hot as the deepest fire-pits of hell as he tests out fangs for Interview With the Vampire (via), which I had never seen before today, are also doing the trick. Hit the jump for a few more snaps...

I Am Link

I haven't done a link round-up like this for ages! They always end up taking way more energy than they ought to -- I mean the whole idea is to present news in bite-sized portions, but I can never keep myself from rambling. You know me. But also I don't know if, due to the pandemic, we've had a period quite so thick with movie news as  the last several days has been -- aww, nature is healing! (Wear a mask.) Let's get to it.

-- Two Big Ds -- The actor who calls himself Brad Pitt has just joined the cast of Lost City of D, which already has Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum attached. I thought I'd posted about this movie when it was first announced but the archives say no -- anyway it sounds like a broad re-do of Romancing the Stone; Bullock is playing a romance novelist, Tatum is playing the Fabio-type model for her book covers, and the two of them get dragged into a romance and also a kidnapping adventure in the jungle while on one of her book tours. DH says Pitt's role is a cameo, one he did in exchange for Sandy doing a cameo in his forthcoming action-thriller Bullet Train. 

--- Take A Bite Outta -- Even though the news is only a couple of weeks old I'd already forgotten that Evan Peters was going to play Jeffrey Dahmer in an upcoming Ryan-Murphy-produced miniseries, so it's good to have this interview with him in Variety remind me. (thx Mac) He briefly talks about prepping for the part, alongside mostly speaking about his Kate Winslet detective series Mare of Easttown, which is out this weekend. I don't know where that series came from, it really snuck up on me. I only heard about it for the first time like a week ago and now it's here!

--- Leftover Man -- If that Justin Theroux shirtless cover-shoot for Esquire magazine that I shared yesterday wasn't enough for your Theroux-thirst then you can head over to Interview Magazine, where he's also chatted up alongside some fine beard photography -- he's got that Mosquito Coast TV program hitting on Apple soon (already?) and that's what all of the press is for. That said this chat is a good reminder that he is a naturally very funny individual, hotness aside. 

--- Real Thick And Juicy -- I am sure you've all been happily following along with all the talk of Chris Meloni's ass ever since he (and it) popped back up on SVU a couple of weeks ago, but if you missed it Meloni has been milking his ass for all it's worth (god, phrasing) -- EW rounded up some of the fun, bouncy chatter. Jump on it and bounce, baby! (thx Mac)

--- Bad Fish -- I've become sort of a stealth fan of the Danish actor Pilou Asbæk in a few things over the past several years -- Lucy, Ghost in the Shell (in which he had a Lot of Look, seen to the left), Overlord, and of course his welcomed snarky turn on Game of Thrones last few seasons, which really needed the snark, so I'm happy to hear he's just been cast in the Aquaman sequel in an unspecified role. It will probably be a villain, since he's European. This is known as the Mads Mikkelsen rule.  

--- And Finally I was happy to read yesterday that the actor Fabien Frankel had landed a big role in the Dorne-centered Game of Thrones spin-off prequel called House of the Dragon; as seen below Frankel really grabbed my attention opposite Tahar Rahim in the Netflix series The Serpent, which I've mentioned here on the site oh once or twenty times.

Also -- hello Fabien Frankel, please be in lots of things after this, Fabien Frankel pic.twitter.com/GQ5UXiJjzb

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 4, 2021

Murder Me, Fassy

I can't believe none of you who've already seen this news today have called to check on me -- now I know who my real friends are! And they're nobody! Cuz nobody and no one called to tell me tell me to breathe upon reading the news that David Fincher's next movie is another serial killer movie and it will star no less than Michael Fassbender, king among men. "Serial Killer" might be pushing it, it's called The Killer and it's about an assassin. Motive is everything -- I learned that from David Fincher's TV program with Jon Groff! 

Anyway The Killer is based on a French graphic novel (anybody read it?) and the screenplay was written by his Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker -- Fincher's been trying to get this made for something like a decade; at one point Brad Pitt was attached. But no longer! Now it'll be our Fassy boy playing the assassin who "begins to psychologically crack as he develops a conscience, even as his clients continue to demand his skills." I mean can you blame them? You have the money to hire Michael Fassbender, you're gonna wanna keep paying, conscience be damned.

5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1999

Well the day has finally arrived! The day I have dreaded among all my "Siri Says" series days! Today when I asked my telephone to give me a number between 1 and 100 she responded with the number "99" meaning I've finally got to dive face-first into my favorites from The Movies of 1999, aka the greatest year of filmmaking probably any of us will see in our lifetimes. (Also can I just say that it's super weird to me to think this was 22 years ago now and there are people on this here internet who weren't actually even alive to see it? WTF)

Anyway we knew pretty fast that 1999 was an insane year, quality-wise -- the first big series I did here on MNPP was about how incredible 1999 was, in 2006. Or anyway I knew. I gots my finger on the pulse, yo! Ahem. Anyway 1999 has been talked to death by this point, I don't have a lot to say about it besides, "Wowza!" But before I get to my immense list -- I am naming my 20 favorites because the year demands it -- there's one other piece of business (because this post wasn't already enough work). Whenever I finish an entire decade for our Siri Series I link to all ten years therein. (See also the 1970s, aka the only other decade I have finished.) Well with today's post I've just finished the 1990s! Here's links:

Here are my favorite movies of 1990

Here are my favorite movies of 1991

Here are my favorite movies of 1992

Here are my favorite movies of 1993

Here are my favorite movies of 1994

Here are my favorite movies of 1995

Here are my favorite movies of 1996

Here are my favorite movies of 1997

Here are my favorite movies of 1998

And now without further blathering I give you...

My Favorite Movies of 1999

Go

(dir. Doug Liman)

-- released on April 9th 1999 -- 

Being John Malkovich

(dir. Spike Jonze)

-- released on December 3rd 1999 -- 

The Blair Witch Project

(dir. Myrick & Sánchez)

-- released on July 30th 1999 -- 

The Talented Mr. Ripley

(dir. Anthony Minghella)

-- released on December 25th 1999 -- 

Magnolia

(dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

-- released on December 17th 1999 -- 

Fight Club

(dir. David Fincher)

-- released on October 15th 1999 -- 

Election

(dir. Alexander Payne)

-- released on May 7th 1999 -- 

Run Lola Run

(dir. Tom Tykwer)

-- released on June 18th 1999 -- 

Galaxy Quest

(dir. Dean Parisot)

-- released on December 25th 1999 -- 

The Matrix

(dir. The Wachowskis)

-- released on March 31st 1999 -- 

The Virgin Suicides

(dir. Sofia Coppola)

-- released on May 19th 1999 -- 

Ravenous

(dir. Antonia Bird)

-- released on March 19th 1999 -- 

All About My Mother

(dir. Pedro Almodovar)

-- released on November 24th 1999 -- 

eXistenZ

(dir. David Cronenberg)

-- released on April 23rd 1999 -- 

Eyes Wide Shut

(dir. Stanley Kubrick)

-- released on July 16th 1999 -- 

Dick

(dir. Andrew Fleming)

-- released on August 4th 1999 -- 

The Straight Story

(dir. David Lynch)

-- released on October 15th 1999 -- 

The Limey

(dir. Steven Soderbergh)

-- released on October 8th 1999 -- 

Sleepy Hollow

(dir. Tim Burton)

-- released on November 19th 1999 -- 

Audition

(dir. Takashi Miike)

-- released on  October 2nd 1999 -- 

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Runners-up: The Sixth Sense (dir. M. Night Shyamalan), Toy Story 2 (dir. John Lasseter), Three Kings (dir. David O. Russell), October Sky (dir.), South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut (dir. Trey Parker), Girl Interrupted (dir. James Mangold), The End of the Affair (dir. Neil Jordan), In Dreams (dir.Neil Jordan), Splendor (dir. Gregg Araki), Cruel Intentions (dir. Roger Kumble)...

... Jawbreaker (dir. Darren Stein), Office Space (dir. Mike Judge), A Walk on the Moon (dir. Tony Goldwyn), Notting Hill (dir. Mike Newell), Summer of Sam (dir. Spike Lee), Lake Placid (dir. Steve Miner), Drop Dead Gorgeous (dir. Michael Patrick Jann), Trick (dir. Jim Fall), Deep Blue Sea (dir. Renny Harlin)...

... The Iron Giant (dir. Brad Bird), Stir of Echoes (dir. David Koepp), House on Haunted Hill (dir. William Malone), Topsy Turvy (dir. Mike Leigh), Ride With the Devil (dir. Ang Lee), Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (dir. Shusuke Kaneko), The Mummy (dir. Stephen Sommers), But I'm a Cheerleader (dir. Jamie Babbit)

Never Seen: Mansfield Park (dir. Patricia Rozema), For the Love of the Game (dir. Sam Raimi), Man on the Moon (dir. Milos Forman), She's All That (dir. Robert iscove), 10 Things I Hate About You (dir. Gil Junger), Tarzan (dir. Chris Buck), Tumbleweeds (dir. Gavin O'Connor), The Insider (dir. Michael Mann), Never Been Kissed (dir. Raja Gosnell), An Ideal Husband (dir. Oliver Parker)...

... Buena Vista Social Club (dir. Wim Wenders), Music of the Heart (dir. Wes Craven), Bowfinger (dir. Frank Oz), Flawless (dir. Joel Schumacher), Titus (dir. Julie Taymor), Jesus' Son (dir. Alison Maclean), Ratcatcher (dir. Lynne Ramsey), Analyze This (dir. Harold Ramis), Payback (dir. Brian Helgeland), American Movie (dir. Chris Smith)

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What are your favorite movies of 1999?