Welcome to 1999 Movies Week, a celebration of one of the best years in film history. Throughout the week, The Ringer will highlight some of the year’s best, most interesting films; we’ll rank the 50 best movies of 1999 and make the case for some of our absolute favorites.
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March 29, 2019
Make the Case: Why ‘Three Kings’ Was the Best and Most Predictive Movie of 1999
This film foresaw everything: the cynicism of invading the Middle East. The horrors of a refugee crisis. The movie stardom of George Clooney. The madness of David O. Russell.
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March 29, 2019
The Frantic, Furious Making of the Late-’90s Cult Movie Classic ‘Go’
How one wild night in L.A. was captured by one wild production, headed up by an unpredictable auteur, a hungry screenwriter, and a cast of about-to-be superstars
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March 28, 2019
‘The Matrix’ Changed Everything, but the Little Details Made It Even Greater
Beyond blue pill or red pill and bullet time, here are the smaller elements of the 1999 sci-fi action movie that helped make it an enduring classic
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March 28, 2019
How ‘Blair Witch’ Became a Horror Sensation—and Invented Modern Movie Marketing
The 1999 found-film sensation changed the way that audiences watch—or engage with—movies. (And scared a lot of people, too.)
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March 28, 2019
‘Star Wars: Episode 1–The Phantom Menace’ Is the Most Important Movie of 1999. Seriously.
Derided in its time and savaged over the years, George Lucas’s first prequel was a strange, if inevitable innovation: the cinematic origin story for an advanced pop figure. And an inauguration of a glorious future. Maybe making Darth Vader cuddly wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
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March 27, 2019
How ‘Cruel Intentions’ Killed the ’90s Teen Movie—and Became an Instant Classic
The high school version of ‘Dangerous Liaisons’—starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillipe, and more than a little sex—pushed boundaries so far that it broke them. Twenty years later, its creators are still a little surprised it got made at all.
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March 27, 2019
Make the Case: ‘The Insider’ Is About the Cost of Doing What’s Right—and It’s the Best Film of 1999
Throughout the week, The Ringer will highlight some of the year’s best, most interesting films, and in this series, make the case for why a specific movie deserves to be called that year’s best. Next up is Michael Mann’s tense thriller ‘The Insider.’
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March 26, 2019
Do ‘Get Out’ and ‘Being John Malkovich’ Exist in the Same Universe?
Yes, and we have definitive proof
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March 26, 2019
The Top Five Movies of 1999
Now 20 years removed, we convene to discuss and share our top five movies from 1999—the year many believe was the greatest year of movies ever
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March 26, 2019
The 50 Best Movies of 1999, Part 2
From ‘Fight Club’ to ‘10 Things I Hate About You,’ from ‘Magnolia’ to ‘The Spy Who Shagged Me,’ the Ringer staff sorts out one of the best years in film history
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March 26, 2019
The First Rule of Making ‘Fight Club’: Talk About ‘Fight Club’
In an excerpt from the new book ‘Best. Movie. Year. Ever.," David Fincher, Edward Norton, and the minds behind ‘Fight Club’ talk about the bare-knuckled, bloody battle to bring Chuck Palahniuk’s book to the big screen
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March 26, 2019
Make the Case: ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Is Actually a Comedy, and the Best Film of 1999
Throughout the week, The Ringer will celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the best years in movie history and argue why some films deserve to be called the best of ’99. Here, two of our writers make the case for Stanley Kubrick’s psychosexual portrait of a marriage.
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March 25, 2019
‘Being John Malkovich’ Was a Head Trip Masterpiece—and the Best Film of 1999
Throughout the week, The Ringer will celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the best years in movie history and argue why some deserve to be called the best of ’99. First we open a tiny door to get inside Spike Jonze’s first feature.
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March 25, 2019
The 50 Best Movies of 1999, Part 1
From ‘American Beauty’ to ‘The Mummy,’ from ‘She’s All That’ to ‘Deep Blue Sea,’ the Ringer staff sorts out one of the best years in film history