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)}Inwe were at the cusp of a new millennium, and no other medium prognosticated what was to come more than movies. The rise of digital and the phasing out of film began around this period, making the penultimate year of the 20th century not only a revolutionary year in cinema, but also the last great year of movies, collectively, in the past 15 years. What all these films have in common is the craftsmanship of fresh, talented directors who left traditional filmmaking behind to tinker with newfangled narratives and effects. In November ofEntertainment Weekly published an article by Jeff Gordinier stating, «Someday, will be etched on a microchip as the first real year of 21st-century filmmaking. The year when all the old, boring rules about cinema started to crumble. Tom Tykwer, the director of German film Run Lola Runsays in the piece, «You are seeing films that are so perfect you don’t even connect to them anymore. A film like Malkovich is an invitation to do something completely different. Even The Matrixbecause it still serves all of our traditional desires in cinema, but it plays with your mind in a very strange way. Ten years ago, I don’t think people would have even been ready for it. We are in many ways worse off now than we were 15 years ago as a culture. We seem to have run out of original ideas. On the list of top-grossing films in the U. The Matrixwhich created «bullet time» special effects, influenced films like Inceptionand rebooted existential sci-fi films, was made from a completely original script, not a comic book. The Sixth Sensethe second-highest grossing film ofwas an authentic concept that gave a new life to twist endings. Of all the filmmakers who made ripples in the Class of ’99, only Malkovich ‘s Spike Jonze still really makes avant — garde-ish films. Her won him a Best Screenplay Oscar this year for its spot-on depiction of how lonely our lives have .⓬
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Box-office earnings have often been a great predictor of the feature-length films that have been the most favorite, successful, and popular. However, they do not necessarily reflect the best or greatest films of the year or decade. They also provide a window into the era when the film was originally released. Although box-office records are often contradictory, spotty, unreliable and sometimes non-existent the further you go back in cinematic history , it has been possible to compile listings of the top domestic hits all the way back to — both by decade beginning with the silents and the s and by individual year, up to the present year. Rankings of the top US feature-length films by decade based on unadjusted domestic gross revenue are presented below. Also, rankings of the top films by year are included.
Back in the spring, author and journalist Brian Raftery amplified an increasingly popular opinion of contemporary film culture. As the title of his book teases, Best. It gave us the final work by a reigning master, and debuts by masters in the making. It delivered arguably the most anticipated franchise extension in movie history, and also one of the most profitable movies of all time, a low-budget horror sensation that rode word of mouth to big box office and maybe bigger backlash. It was a watershed moment for teen comedies, animated features, and special-effects blockbusters. And for all the talk of great American movies, plenty of terrific international cinema—from Japan, Iran, and elsewhere—made a splash. When it came time to rank our favorites of , The A. That meant excluding certain films that only premiered that year—including, unfortunately, some great work by female directors, who had to fight even more then than they do now to get movies made and seen. This is, after all, the Best.
Top 20 Movies of 1999 (Adjusted Grosses)
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)}All rights reserved. Conditions of Use moviea Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. Domestic Box Office For In-year releases Calendar grosses. Film Festival. Twentieth Century Fox. The Sixth Sense. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. New Line Cinema. Toy Story 2. The Matrix. Warner Bros. Big Daddy. Sony Pictures Releasing. The Mummy.⓬
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