Today’s Top 10 finds me looking back on the film year of 1999 along with my colleagues at the Awards Circuit. (BTW have you voted in our ACCA 1999 awards? Go do it!) Being on the most formative years of my existence, I was shocked to realize that despite the broad slate of films I’ve seen almost as many films this year so far (31) than I saw in all of 1999 (36)! But 1999 was such a good year for film, incredibly diverse and the films of that year are so representative of that time period. Enough of my blathering, here are the top 10 films of 1999!
It’s the first Terence’s Tuesday Top 10 (hooray alliteration) and man is it a doozy. I fear I’ll have nowhere to go but down but why not aim high? GQ recently did a post about the top 21 books of the 21st Century that every man should read and it inspired me to make this list. This was actually really difficult to do considering this is spanning from 2001 to now I can i can barely remember what book I read last week (Lover At Last by JR Ward if you’re wondering) let alone since 2001. I also took out books in a series (so no Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, or Robert Langdon books). You also won’t find plays, non-fiction, or internet fan fiction on the list, which is why the final list looks so geared towards the latter half of the time frame. So after reaching Claire Danes levels of ugly crying to cut this list down to 10, I managed to get it to my top books. Check it out!
This was a particularly interesting film year for me. Unlike like last year with Black Swan and The Social Network, there was no clear front runner that I felt I could make a numbered list from. But trudge on I did, through an excruciating process to rank these movies. Also I admittedly gravitate more towards