Trying to single out just one year as the best in cinema history can be difficult, to say the least, and opinions will naturally vary when it comes to picking one year as a favorite above all others. Still, it’s possible to select contenders; those years that feel up there with the best, feeling particularly strong and jam-packed with noteworthy releases. One of these years, without a doubt, would have to be 1999.
24 'Titus' Director: Julie Taymor 10 Things I Hate About You was far from the only 1999 film to take something by William Shakespeare and do exceedingly interesting things with it, as the year also saw the release of the incredibly underrated Titus. It’s a film take on Titus Andronicus, one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most brutal tragedies , and boasts a strong cast led by Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange.
22 'Audition' Director: Takashi Miike The films of Takashi Miike are generally not for the faint of heart, as this legendary Japanese director is no stranger to pushing boundaries and making uncompromising films. Audition is one of his best-known movies, and is up there with his greatest, too. Despite this, and despite it not being the most extreme of Miike’s films, it still feels like a stretch to call Audition anything close to approachable.
But in the service of crafting a story that’s said to be about three young people who vanished one day, the realistic approach worked wonders, and was scary in a way that felt fresh and undoubtedly nerve-wracking. Waves of found-footage imitators in the years since The Blair Witch Project may have dulled its power, but its influence cannot be understated, nor can the fact that it genuinely scared people back in the day.
18 'The Straight Story' Director: David Lynch David Lynch seems drawn to making strange, surreal, dreamlike, and sometimes nightmarish movies, which makes the appropriately titled The Straight Story stand out. This is a film that could well feel strange because it isn’t as traditionally strange as the sort of thing you’d tend to expect from David Lynch, with fantasy/horror/thriller elements being absent, and the film instead being a moving character drama.
16 'Beau Travail' Director: Claire Denis Close Beau Travail is a definitive modern arthouse cinema classic, proving perplexing and difficult to watch at times, but inevitably being powerful and hard to shake once seen. It’s one of those films that’s naturally hard to describe, because it wants to challenge and explore unexpected themes, here mostly revolving around masculinity and the way certain gender expectations make life more difficult for some than needed.
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