My Favorite Films of 1999

"What do I tell the my source for the next tough story, huh? 'Hang in with us, you'll be ok maybe'? No. What got broken here doesn't go back together."

Directed by Michael Mann
Written by Michael Mann and Eric Roth
Music by Pieter Bourke and Lisa Gerrard
Cinematography by Dante Spinotti
Editing by William Goldenberg, David Rosenbloom and Paul Rubell

"She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is... "Every day." What did you ask?"
"Do... Do I make her proud?"

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Written by M. Night Shyamalan
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Tak Fujimoto
Editing by Andrew Mondshein

"Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, ma'am. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being."

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Music by Alberto Iglesias
Cinematography by Affonso Beato
Editing by José Salcedo

"Only pain and suffering will make you realize who you are."

Directed by Takashi Miike
Written by Daisuke Tengan
Music by Kôji Endô
Cinematography by Hideo Yamamoto
Editing by Yasushi Shimamura

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Directed by Lilly and Lana Wachowski
Written by Lilly and Lana Wachowski
Music by Don Davis
Cinematography by Bill Pope
Editing by Zach Staenberg

"I think it's kinda sexy that John Malkovich has a portal, y'know, sort of like, it's like, like he has a vagina. It's sort of vaginal, y'know, like he has a, he has a penis AND a vagina. I mean, it's sort of like... Malkovich's... feminine side. I like that."

Directed by Spike Jonze
Written by Charlie Kaufman
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography by Lance Acord
Editing by Eric Zumbrunnen

"What am I doing? I'm quietly judging you."

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Music by Jon Brion
Cinematography by Robert Elswit
Editing by Dylan Tichenor

"What about foreplay?"
"No! Foreplay is for sissies! Real men go in, unload and pull out!"

Directed by Jamie Babbit
Written by Jamie Babbit and Brian Peterson
Music by Pat Irwin
Cinematography by Jules Labarthe
Editing by Cecily Rhett

"It's not your fault. No one asked you to suffer. That was your idea."

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Paul Schrader
Music by Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it? In your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person."

Directed by Anthony Minghella
Written by Anthony Minghella
Music by Gabriel Yared
Cinematography by John Seale
Editing by Walter Murch

"Listen, Bill. Nobody killed anybody. Someone died. It happens all the time. Life goes on. It always does, until it doesn't. But you know that, don't you?"

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael
Music by Jocelyn Pook
Cinematography by Larry Smith
Editing by Nigel Galt

"Oh God, kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card. I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes."

Directed by Chris Smith
Written by
Music by Mike Schank
Cinematography by Chris Smith
Editing by Jun Diaz and Barry Poltermann

"It's not like I'm a lesbian or anything. I'm attracted to the person. It's just that all the people I've been attracted to happen to be girls."

Directed by Alexander Payne
Written by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Music by Rolfe Kent
Cinematography by James Glennon
Editing by Kevin Tent

"It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this."

Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Written by Jim Jarmusch
Music by RZA
Cinematography by Robby Müller
Editing by Jay Rabinowitz

"It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun. You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose."

Directed by Brad Bird
Written by Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies
Music by Michael Kamen
Cinematography by Steven Wilzbach
Editing by Darren T. Holmes

"It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!"

Directed by Frank Oz
Written by Steve Martin
Music by David Newman
Cinematography by Ueli Steiger
Editing by Richard Pearson

"You think you're free? I'm free! You don't know what freedom is! I'm free! I can breathe! And you... you're gonna choke on your average fucking mediocre life!"

Directed by James Mangold
Written by James Mangold, Lisa Loomer and Anna Hamilton Phelan
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography by Jack N. Green
Editing by Kevin Tent

"The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."

Directed by Mike Judge
Written by Mike Judge
Music by John Frizzell
Cinematography by Tim Suhrstedt
Editing by David Rennie

"Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue."

Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Kevin Yagher and Andrew Kevin Walker
Music by Danny Elfman
Cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki
Editing by Chris Lebenzon and Joel Negron

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

Directed by David Fincher
Written by Jim Uhls
Music by Jeff Cronenweth
Cinematography by James Haygood
Editing by Laray Mayfield

"He's the smelly kid in class!, I let him become the smelly kid in class!, What the hell's the matter with me?"

Directed by Dennis Dugan
Written by Steve Franks, Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler
Music by Teddy Castellucci
Cinematography by Theo van de Sande
Editing by Jeff Gourson

"I just can't see God putting a gift like that in the hands of a man who would kill a child."

Directed by Frank Darabont
Written by Frank Darabont
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography by David Tattersall
Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce

"We accidentally replaced your heart with a baked potato. You have about three seconds to live."

Directed by Trey Parker
Written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady
Music by Marc Shaiman
Cinematography by
Editing by John Venzon

"So, what do you have against The Family Circus?"
"Okay. You sit down and read your paper, and you're enjoying your entire two-page comics spread. Right? And then there's the Family fucking Circus, bottom right-hand corner, just waiting to suck."

Directed by Doug Liman
Written by John August
Music by BT and Moby
Cinematography by Doug Liman
Editing by Stephen Mirrione

"Hey, tell me the truth... are we still in the game?"

Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by David Cronenberg
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Peter Suschitzky
Editing by Ronald Sanders