CINEMATIC Review

1999 is generally considered one of the greatest years for film, or at the least, one of the greatest in the last couple of decades. Whether I agree or not is up for consideration, but I do acknowledge the wonderful wealth of diverse, memorable, and influential cinema that was brought to the world in this last year of the millenium. Among the best, for me, were Paul Thomas Anderson's biblically tragic, epic character drama, Spike Jonze's deliriously surreal and utterly bizarre headtrip, Lynne Ramsay's grim but beautiful Scottish miniature, and David Lynch's atypically normal but deeply moving man-on-a-tractor road movie. There's more, still! Look on down below to see what else resonated for me in 1999.