Best year ever: Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman’s first collaboration is still prickly and wonderfully weird.

It’s nearly impossible to believe that Being John Malkovich is the first feature for director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman. It’s too assured and confident, folding in and out of reality and tackling themes of existence and identity without feeling like a philosophy lecture. 

Perhaps being newbies emboldened the duo, who push boundaries and fear…