Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1999

8 1/2 Women – Peter Greenaway

8mm – Joel Schumacher

10 Things I Hate About you – Gil Junger

The 13th Warrior – John McTiernan

6ixtyina9 – Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

200 Cigarettes – Risa Bramon Garcia

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland – Gary Halvorson

After Stonewall – John Scagliotti

After The Rain – Tokashi Koizumi

Aimee & Jaguar – Ma Farberbock

All About My Mother - Pedro Almodovar

American Pimp – Hughes Bros.

Angela’s Ashes – Alan Parker

Angel’s Dance – David L. Corley

Any Given Sunday – Oliver Stone

Anywhere But Here – Wayne Wang

Ashes to Ashes – Wayne Gerard Trotman

Asteriz et Obelix contre Cesar – Claud Zidi

The Astromaut’s Wife – Rand Ravich

At First Sight – Irwin Winkler

Attack the Gas Station – Kim Sang-Jin

Audition – Takashi Mike

Baby Geniuses – Bob Clark

The Bachelor – Gary Sinyor

Bangers – Andrew Upton

Bangkok Dangerous – Pang Bros.

Beautiful People – Jasmin Dizdar

Best Laid Plans – Mike Barker

The Best Man – Malcom D. Lee

Better Than Chocolate – Anne Wheeler

Between Your Legs – Manuel Gomez Pereira

Beyond the Mat – Barry W. Blaustein

Bicentennial Man – Chris Columbus

The Big Brass Ring –

Big Daddy – Dennis Dugan

The Big Kahuna – John Swanbeck

Black and White – James Toback

Blast from the Past – Huge Wilson

Blue Streak – Les Mayfield

The Bone Collector – Phillip Noyce

The Boondock Saints – Troy Duffy

Breakfast of Champions – Alan Rudolph

Brokendown Place – Jonathan Kaplan

Butterfly’s Tongue – Jose Luis Cuerda

Bye Bye Africa – Mahamat Saleh Maroun

Bye Bye Bluebird – Katrin Ottarsdottir

Charisma – Kiyoshi Jurosawa

Chill Factor – Hugh Johnson

Chutney Popcorn – Nisha Ganatra

The Clandestine Marriage – Christopher Miles

The Color of Lies – Claude Chabrol

Coming Soon – Colette Burson

Cotton Mary – Ismail Merchant / Madhur Jaffrey

The Corruptor – James Foley

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba – Arturo Ripstein

Cosy Dens (Pelisky) – Jan Hrebejk

Crane World – Pablo Trapero

Crazy in Alabama – Antonio Baneras

The Criminal – Julian Simpson

The Crimson Code – Jeremy Haft

The Crossing – Robert Harmon

Cruel Intentions – Roger Kumble

The Cup – Khyentse Norbu

Curtain Call – Peter Yates

Darkness Falls – Gerry Lively

Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha – Takashi Miike

The Debt Collector – Anthony Neilson

Deep Blue Sea – Renny Harlin

The Deep End of the Ocean – Ulu Grosbard

Detroit Rock City – Adam Rifkin

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo – Mike Mitchell

Deveeri – Kavitha Lanhesh

Dreaming of Joseph Lees – Eric Styles

Dill Scallion – Jordan Brady

A Dog Flanders – Kevin Brodie

Dogma – Kevin Smith

Don’t Look Back – Akihiko Shiota

Double Jeopardy – Bruce Beresford

Drop Dead Gorgeous – Michael Patrick Jann

Dudley Do-Right – Huge Wilson

The Duke – Philip Spink

East/West – Regis Wargnier

Edtv – Ron Howard

El Intruso – Guillermo Alvarez

The Emperor and the Assassin – Chen Kaige

The End of the Affair – Neil Jordon

End of Days – Peter Hyams

Entrapment – Jon Amiel

Entropy – Phil Joanou

The Emperor and the Assassin – Chen Kaige

The End of the Affair – Neil Jordan

Erskineville Kings – Huge Jackman

Eye of the Beholder – Stephan Elliott

Faeries – Gary Hurst

Fanny and Elvis – Kay Mellor

Fantasia 2000 –

Farewell, Home Sweet Home – Otar Losseliani

Felicia’s Journey – Atom Egoyan

The Five Senses – Jeremy Podeswa

The Florentine – Nick Stagliano

A Force More Powerful – Steve York

For Love of the Game – Sam Raimi

Forces of Nature – Bronwen Hughes

Free Enterprise – Robert Meyer Burnett

Friends & Lovers – George Haas

Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys – Shusuke Kaneko

Gargae Olimpo (Olympic Garage) – Marco Bechis

Gemini – Shinya Tsukamoto

The General’s Daughter – Simon West

The Girl on the Bridge – Patrice Leconte

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai – Jim Jarmush

Ghost in Love – Lee Kwang Hoon

Girl on the Bridge – Patrice Leconte

Gloria – Sidney Lumet

Glue Sniffer – Elia Schneider

God’s Wedding (As Bodas de Deus) – Joao Cesar Monteiro

Godzilla 2000 – Takao Okawara

Gojimal – Jang Sun-wa

Gregory’s Two Girls – Bill Forsyth

Grey Owl – Richard Attenborough

Guinevere – Audrey Wells

Guest House Paradiso – Adrian Edmondson

The Harmonium in My Memory – Lee Young-jae

The Haunting – Jan de Bont

Heaven or Vegas – Gregory C. Haynes

Held Up – Steve Rash

Herod’s Law – Luis Estrada

The Hi-Line – Ron Judkins

The House on Hunted Hill – William Malone

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Humanite – Bruno Dumont

The Hurricane – Norman Jewison

I Will Survive (Sobrevivire) – Albacete / Menkes

Idle Hands – Rodman Flender

In China They Eat Dogs – Lasse Spang Olsen

In Dreams – Neil Jordan

In Too Deep – Michael Rymer

Inspector Gadget – David Kellogg

Instinct – Jon Turteltaub

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge – Martha Coolidge

It All Starts Today – Bertrand Tavernier

It’s the Rage – James D. Stern

Jackie Chan: My Stunts – Jackie Chan

Jakob the Liar – Pater Kassovitz

Jawbreaker – Darren Stein

Jesus’ Son – Alison Maclean

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade – Hiroyuki Okiura

Joe The King – Frank Whaley

Journey to the Sun – Yesim Ustaoglu

Juha – Aki Kaurismaki

Just a Little Harmless Sex – Rick Rosenthal

Just the Ticket – Richard Wenk

K-911 – Charles T. Kanganis

Kadosh – Amos Gitai

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film – Kobayshi Masahiro

Karnaval – Thomas Vincent

Kikujiro – Takeshi Kitano

The King and I – Richard Rich

King of Comedy – Chow . Lik-Chi

Kiss the Sky – Roger Young

Kiss Toledo Goodbye – Lyndon Chubbuck

Lake Placid – Steve Miner

The Last September – Deborah Warner

Liberty Heights – Barry Levenson

Life – Ted Demme

Light It Up – Craig Bolotin

The Loss of Sexual Innocence – Mike Figgis

Lost and Found – Jeff Pollack

The Love Letter – Peter Chan

Love Stinks – Jeff Franklin

Luna Papa – Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov

Lycanthrope – Bob Cook

Mad Cows – Sara Sugarman

Man of the Century – Adam Abraham

Man on the Moon – Milos Foreman

Mansfield Park – Patricia Rozema

A Map of the World – Scott Eliot

Marshal Tito’s Spirit – Vinko Bresan

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human – Jeff Abugv

Mifune’s Last Song – Soren Kragh-Jacobsen

Milk – William Brookfield

The Minus Man – Hamton Fancher

Miss Julie – Mike Figgis

The Mod Squad – Scott Silver

Molly – John Duigan

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc – Luc Besson

Mickey Blue Eyes – Kelly Makin

Moonlight Whispers – Akihiko Shiota

Mumford – Lawrence Kasdan

The Mummy – Stephen Sommers

Music of the Heart – Wes Craven

My Favorite Martian –

My Life So Far – Huge Hudson

My Voyage to Italy – Martin Scorsese

Mystery, Alaska – Jay Roach

Nadia and the Hippos – Dominique Cabrera

The Nany – Marco Bellocchio

Never Been Kissed – Raja Gosnell

New Dawn – Emile Deleuze

New Waterfold Girl – Alen Moyle

Nightshapes – Andreas Dresen

No Trains No Planes – Joe Stelling

No One Writes to the Colonel – Auturo Ripstein

Not of this World (Fuoir Dal Mondo) – Giuseppe Piccioni

Not One Less – Zang Yimou

October Sky – Joe Johnston

The Old Man and the Sea – Aleksandr Petrov

One Man’s Hero – Lance Hool

One Day in September – Kevin Macdonald

Onegin – Michael Winner

Oriundi –

The Other Sister – Garry Marshall

Out Friend, Martin – Smiley / Trippetti

Our Happy Lives – Jacques Mailot

P.U.N.K.S. – Sean McNamara

Paperback Hero – Antony J. Bowman

Parting Shots – Michael Winner

The Passengers – Jean-Claude Guiguet

Payback – Brian Helgeland

Pitch People –

Play it to the Bone – Ron Shelton

Plunkett & Macleane – Jake Scott

Pola X – Leos Carax

Poppoya – Yasuo Furuhata

Postmen in the Mountains – Huo Jianqi

The Power of Kangwon Province

Propaganda – Sin Cetin

Pushing Tin – Mike Newell

The Rage: Carrie 2 – Katt Shea

Ratcatcher – Lynne Ramsay

Ravenous – Antonia Bird

Return of the Idiot – Sasa Gedeon

Rites of Passage – Victor Salva

The Road Home – Zhang Yimou

Rates, Ratones, Rateros – Sebastian Cordero

RKO 281 – Benjamin Ross

Ride with the Devil – Ang Lee

Rogue Trader – James Deardan

A Room for Romeo Brass – Shane Meadows

Romance – Catherine Brellat

Rosetta – Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Run for Money – Reha Erdem

Runaway Bride – Garry Marshall

The Runner – Ron Moler

Retro Puppet Master – David DeCoteau

Same Love, Same Rain (El mismo amor, la misma lluvia) – Juan Jose Campanella

Sararosh – John Matthew Mattan

Set Me Free – Lea Pool

Seventeen Years – Zhang Yuan

Sexo, pudor y lagrimas – Antonio Serrano

Shaheed-E-Mohabbat – Punj / Ara

She’s All That – Robert Iscove

Shiri – Kang Je-gyu

Shower – Zhang Yan

Sicilia! – Huillet / Straubg

Simon Magus – Ben Hopkins

Simpatico – Matthew Warchus

Simply Irresistible – Mark Tarlov

A Slipping-Down Life – Toni Kalem

Snow Falling on Cedars – Scott Hicks

Solas – Benito Zambrano

Speedway Junky – Nickolas Perry

The Spirit of My Mother – Ali Allie

Stigmata – Rupert Wainwright

Stir of Echoes – David Koepp

Stuart Little – Rob Minkoff

Summer of Sam – Spike Lee

Sunshine – Istvan Szabo

Sugar Town – Alison Anders / Kurt Voss

Superstar – Bruce McCulloch

Taboo – Nagisa Oshima

Tarzan – Kevin Lima

Tea with Mussolini – Franco Zeffirelli

Teaching Mrs. Tingle – Kevin Williamson

That Championship Season – Paul Sorvino

The Thirteenth Florr – Josef Rusnak

This Year’s Love – David Kane

Three Seasons – Tony Bui

Three to Tango – Damon Santostefano

Time Regaines – Raoul Ruiz

The Trench – William Boyd

Trick – Jim Fall

Trippin – David Raynr

Tube Tales – 9 Directors

Twin Falls Idaho – Michael Polish

Two Hands – Gregor Jordan

Two Women – Tahmineh Milani

Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna & Ultraman Gaia: Battle in Hyperspace – Kazuya Konaka

Undercover Angel – Bryan Michael Stoller

Uninvited Guest – Timothy Wayne Folsome

Varsity Blues – Brian Robbins

Vaastav: The Reality – Mahesh Manjrekar

Virus – John Bruno

Walking Across Egypts – Arthur Allan Siedenman

The War Zone – Tim Roth

What Happened to Harold Smith? – Peter Hewitt

Why Not Me? – Stephane Giusti

Wing Commander – Chris Roberts

Wonderland – Michael Winterbottom

The Wood – Rick Famuyiwa

Yellow Hair – Kim Yu-min