Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1998

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1998.

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
*** = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.**
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1998

Out of Sight
The Thin Red Line
The Last Days of Disco
The Truman Show
The Celebration
Henry Fool
Dark City
Saving Private Ryan
The Big Lebowski
Rushmore
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Autumn Tale
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Shakespeare In Love
The General
The Prince of Egypt
Antz
Babe: Pig In The City
A Bug’s Life
Men With Guns
Insomnia
Happiness
The Butcher Boy
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
42 Up

Smoke Signals
Ever After
Central Station
Elizabeth
Ronin
The Book of Life
Pi
Mulan
Enemy of the State
Gods And Monsters
A Simple Plan
Hilary and Jackie

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2008

A Civil Action (Steve Zaillian) A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (James Ivory) Aberdeen (Kathy Fehl and Ian Teal) Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy American History X Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark) Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer) Autumn Tale Beloved (Jonathan Demme) Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci) Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica) Black Dog Bloody Angels Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo) Cabaret Balkan Christmas in August (Hur Jin-ho) Circle’s Short Circuit Claire Dolan Class Trip Confession (Alexandr Sokurov) Dance Me to My Song Dancing at Lughnasa Divine (Arturo Ripstein) Divorce Iranian Style Down in the Delta Dr. Akagi (Shohei Imamura) Eternity and a Day Eyes of the Spider (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Ferocious Saint Lord of Gobi Fiona (Amos Kollek) Following Frat House God Said, ‘Ha!’ Halloween H20: 20 Years Later He Got Game (Spike Lee) High Art Histoire(s) du cinéma Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard) Honeymoon (Dan Sallitt) Hurlyburly I Giardini dell’Eden I Piccoli maestri I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe) Inquietude (Manoel de Oliveira) Khrustalyov, My Car! (Otar Iosseliani) Kirikou and the Sorceress (Michel Ocelot) Knock Off (Tsui Hark) La Nube L’Albero delle pere L’Arrière Pays (Jacques Nolot) Last Night (Don McKellar) L’ennui (Cedric Kahn) License to Live (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Living Out Loud Love Is the Devil Lovers of the Arctic Circle Mr. Zhao (Lu Yue) My Name Is Joe New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara) Next Stop Wonderland (Brad Anderson) Nô Of Freaks and Men One True Thing Outskirts (Petr Lutsik) Paul Taylor: Dancemaker Pecker (John Waters) Place Vendôme Praise Radiation (Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley) Return to Paradise (Joseph Ruben) Ringu (Hideo Nakata) Samurai Fiction (Hiroyuki Nakano) Savior Serpent’s Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson) Slam Sliding Doors Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins) Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma) Sombre Still Crazy Such a Long Journey Surrender Dorothy Tango (Carlos Saura) Terminus paradis The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf) The Boys The Cremaster Cycle The Dinner Game The Emperor and the Assassin (Chen Kaige) The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison The Flight of the Bee (Jamshed Usmonov and Biong Hun Min) The Grandfather The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang) The Idiots (Lars Von Trier) The Impostors (Stanley Tucci) The Interview The Land Girls (David Leland) The Last Days The Longest Summer (Fruit Chan) The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater) The Polish Bride The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)Praise (John Curran) The Red Violin The School of Flesh (Benoit Jacquot) The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) The Way We Laughed Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chéreau) Three Businessmen (Alex Cox) Tráfico Under the Sun Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes) Voleur de vie Waking Ned Devine West Beirut Woman on a Tin Roof (Mario O’Hara)* Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

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