Brian Raftery has written for such publications as Wired, GQ, New York, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly. His new book Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen is in stores now.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Repo Man
Alex Cox
1984
92 min
2
The Asphalt Jungle
UnavailableJohn Huston
1950
112 min
3tie
All That Jazz
UnavailableBob Fosse
1979
123 min
3tie
Head
UnavailableBob Rafelson
1968
86 min
4
The Third Man
UnavailableCarol Reed
1949
105 min
5
Smithereens
Susan Seidelman
1982
94 min
6
Do the Right Thing
UnavailableSpike Lee
1989
120 min
7
The American Friend
Wim Wenders
1977
125 min
8tie
Election
UnavailableAlexander Payne
1999
103 min
8tie
Being John Malkovich
UnavailableSpike Jonze
1999
113 min
9
Hoop Dreams
Steve James
1994
174 min
10
Mikey and Nicky
Elaine May
1976
106 min