After the success of his 1994 low-budget hit Clerks and its more mainstream follow-ups Mallrats and Chasing Amy, slacker wonderkind Kevin Smith attempted this ambitious riff on Catholicism, which was deemed to be “polluted” by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property.
Clockwise from left: 'The Sixth Sense,' 'The Blair Witch Project,' 'The Matrix,' 'Fight Club,' 'Rushmore,' 'The Virgin Suicides.'
Photo Illustration by Matthew Cooley. Images in illustation: ©Artisan Entertainment/Everett Collection; Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection; Comedy Central/Everett Collection; 20th Cent Fox/Everett Collection; Warner Bros/Everett Collection; Walt Disney Pictures/Everett Collection Maybe the thought first occurred to you during the end of March, when a graceful, modern update of a Shakespearean comedy and a groundbreaking science-fiction movie opened on the same weekend. Or perhaps it was the wave of summer releases that hit screens, from the single most anticipated blockbuster ever to Stanley Kubrick’s swan song, that made you think something special was starting to happen.
So, in honor of the 25th anniversary, we’ve ranked the top 99 movies of 1999 — the best of the best, the box-office stand-outs, the big-name blockbusters, the brilliant indies and foreign-language landmarks, the bold documentaries, and a few of the batshit cult-movie outliers that helped define a truly outstanding year to be a movie lover.For better or worse, we’re going by both release dates tied to a movie’s theatrical run in America *and* film festival premiere dates.
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