The 1998 Mini-List

[swo17]

I might mention that I have Schwizgebel's Fugue as a 1998 film, in case anyone was thinking of it as 1999

[TMDaines]

Can you add L’odore della notte (1998)? Sorry I forgot to check whether this one was there.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140428/

[swo17]

Added

[TMDaines]

Cheers, submitted!

[swo17]

The 1998 List



##. Film (Director) points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking

01. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) 373/19(10)/1(x3)
02. Fucking Åmål [Show Me Love] (Lukas Moodysson) 320/16(11)/1(x2)
03. Rushmore (Wes Anderson) 294/16(10)/1(x4)
04. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen) 267/15(6)/1
05. Festen [The Celebration] (Thomas Vinterberg) 220/13(4)/3(x2)
06. ワンダフルライフ [Wandafuru raifu] [After Life] (Hirokazu Kore-eda) 215/11(6)/1(x2)
07. Happiness (Todd Solondz) 200/12(5)/2
08. 洞 [Dong] [The Hole] (Tsai Ming-liang) 185/9(4)/1
09. 海上花 [Hai shang hua] [Flowers of Shanghai] (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 182/10(5)/1(x3)
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam) 144/10(1)/2
11. The Truman Show (Peter Weir) 142/12/6(x2)
12. Conte d'automne [A Tale of Autumn] (Éric Rohmer) 139/8(3)/1(x2)
13. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh) 133/9(3)/2
14. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman) 112/8(1)/1
15. Dark City (Alex Proyas) 107/7(2)/4(x2)
16. 강원도의 힘 [Gangwon-do ui him] [The Power of Kangwon Province] (Hong Sang-soo) 106/7(1)/1
17. Хрусталёв, машину! [Khrustalyov mashinu] [Khrustalyov, My Car!] (Aleksei German) 103/6(3)/1
18. Idioterne [The Idiots] (Lars von Trier) 101/5(2)/1
19. Lola rennt [Run Lola Run] (Tom Tykwer) 99/7(1)/2
20. A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi) 97/8/6
21. Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes) 95/7(2)/4
22. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo) 88/8(1)/4
23. Seul contre tous [ I Stand Alone] (Gaspar Noé) 80/4(2)/2
(tie) Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller) 80/5(1)/2
25. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley) 76/6(1)/2
26. American History X (Tony Kaye) 75/7(2)/3
27. Croupier (Mike Hodges) 74/7/7
28. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg) 71/6(2)/5(x2)
29. Mr. Jealousy (Noah Baumbach) 66/4(1)/4
30. Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma) 63/6(1)/2
(tie) π [Pi] (Darren Aronofsky) 63/6/6
32. Secret Défense (Jacques Rivette) 61/4(1)/5
33. سیب [Sib] [The Apple] (Samira Makhmalbāf) 57/4(1)/5
(tie) Los amantes del círculo polar [Lovers of the Arctic Circle] (Julio Medem) 57/5/7
35. Wild Things (John McNaughton) 55/4(1)/4
36. Црна мачка, бели мачор [Crna mačka, beli mačor] [Black Cat, White Cat] (Emir Kusturica) 54/3(2)/4
37. Bulworth (Warren Beatty) 52/5/9
38. カンゾー先生 [Kanzō-sensei] [Dr. Akagi] (Shōhei Imamura) 51/3(2)/1
(tie) Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα [Mia aioniotita kai mia mera] [Eternity and a Day] (Theo Angelopoulos) 51/3(1)/3
40. He Got Game (Spike Lee) 50/3(1)/4
(tie) سکوت [Сукут] [Sokout] [The Silence] (Mohsen Makhmalbāf) 50/3(1)/5
42. Billy's Balloon (Don Hertzfeldt) 49/4/8
43. Following (Christopher Nolan) 44/3(1)/4
44. Inquietude [Anxiety] (Manoel de Oliveira) 43/2(1)/3
45. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara) 42/3/7
46. The General (John Boorman) 41/3/7
47. Central Do Brasil [Central Station] (Walter Salles) 38/2(1)/5
(tie) Ronin (John Frankenheimer) 38/3/7
(tie) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie) 38/4/10
50. The Loss of Sexual Innocence (Mike Figgis) 37/2(1)/5

ALSO-RANS

The Hairy Bird [All I Wanna Do] (Sarah Kernochan) 36/2(1)/4
Dirty Work (Bob Saget) 35/2(1)/2
Claire Dolan (Lodge Kerrigan) 33/2/7
The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez) 33/3/8
Primary Colors (Mike Nichols) 33/3/13
Le Dîner de cons [The Dinner Game] (Francis Veber) 32/2/9
Psycho (Gus Van Sant) 32/2/10(x2)
Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) 32/3(1)/5
Fin août, début septembre [Late August, Early September] (Olivier Assayas) 32/3/9
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (John Maybury) 32/3/11
Small Soldiers (Joe Dante) 32/3/13

42 Up (Michael Apted) 31/2(1)/4
Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins) 31/2/7
Head On (Ana Kokkinos) 30/2/8
Luminous Motion (Bette Gordon) 30/3/11
The Book of Life (Hal Hartley) 30/3/10
The War Zone (Tim Roth) 29/2(1)/2
Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan) 29/2(1)/2
Sitcom (François Ozon) 29/2/7
Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon) 29/2/9

Повинность [Povinnost] [Confession] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 28/2(1)/5
La Vie rêvée des anges [The Dreamlife of Angels] (Erick Zonca) 24/2(1)/3
Fugue (Georges Schwizgebel) 24/2/7
The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell) 24/2/9
リング [Ringu] [Ring] (Hideo Nakata) 24/3/11
There's Something About Mary (Peter & Bobby Farrelly) 23/2(1)/5
Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute) 23/2/6
Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuarón) 23/2/12
Orphans (Peter Mullan) 23/3/11
Portishead: Only You (Chris Cunningham) 22/2/9
ニンゲン合格 [Ningen gōkaku] [License to Live] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 22/2/14

The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater) 21/2/9
R.E.M.: Lotus (Stéphane Sednaoui) 19/2/13
Pulp: This Is Hardcore (Doug Nichol) 17/2/12
L'assedio [Besieged] (Bernardo Bertolucci) 16/2/16
Kurt & Courtney (Nick Broomfield) 14/2/16
Pièces d'identités [Pieces of Identity] (Mwezé Ngangura) 10/2/17
Knock Off (Tsui Hark) 7/2/22
The Cruise (Bennett Miller) 5/2/22
Blade (Stephen Norrington) 5/2/23

ORPHANS

Film (Director) highest ranking

Ｄ坂の殺人事件 [D-zaka no satsujin jiken] [The D-Slope Murder Case] (Akio Jissōji) 18
Бешкемпир [Beshkempir] [The Adopted Son] (Aktan Arym Kubat) 17
Узел [Uzel] [The Knot] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 4
Neonröhren am Himmel [Neon Lights in the Sky] (Alexander Kluge) 16
Valgaften [Election Night] (Anders Thomas Jensen) 18
I Married a Strange Person! (Bill Plympton) 21
Elimination Dance (Bruce McDonald, Michael Ondaatje & Don McKellar) 16
Bajo California: El límite del tiempo (Carlos Bolado) 20
Tango (Carlos Saura) 14
Drylongso (Cauleen Smith) 16
Madonna: Frozen (Chris Cunningham) 22
Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre) 10
La Classe de neige [Class Trip] (Claude Miller) 13
L'odore della notte [The Scent of the Night] (Claudio Caligari) 9
Under solen [Under the Sun] (Colin Nutley) 8
Meschugge [The Giraffe] (Dani Levy) 19
Il fantasma dell'opera [The Phantom of the Opera] (Dario Argento) 2
Edge of Seventeen (David Moreton) 19
Baseketball (David Zucker) 7
The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos) 15
Antz (Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson) 25
Stairway to Heaven (Errol Morris) 17
The Negotiator (F. Gary Gray) 11
Los años bárbaros [The Stolen Years] (Fernando Colomo) 22
Буре барута [Bure baruta] [Cabaret Balkan] (Goran Paskaljević) 18
Practical Magic (Griffin Dunne) 10
Film ist (1-6) (Gustav Deutsch) 8
Szenvedély [Passion] (György Fehér) 6
Sonic Youth: Sunday (Harmony Korine) 1
8월의 크리스마스 [Palwolui keuriseumaseu] [Christmas in August] (Hur Jin-ho) 10
Belly (Hype Williams) 16
The Last Days (James Moll) 4
Human Remains (Jay Rosenblatt) 9
First Love, Last Rites (Jesse Peretz) 14
Vampires (John Carpenter) 7
Praise (John Curran) 18
Rounders (John Dahl) 22
A Bug's Life (John Lasseter) 10
Madonna: Ray of Light (Jonas Åkerlund) 23
Beloved (Jonathan Demme) 24
Storefront Hitchcock (Jonathan Demme) 1
Unkle: Rabbit in Your Headlights (Jonathan Glazer) 16
The Atrocity Exhibition (Jonathan Weiss) 10
El abuelo [The Grandfather] (José Luis Garci) 23
Total: Trippin' (Joseph Kahn) 24
Return to Paradise (Joseph Ruben) 23
De Poolse bruid [The Polish Bride] (Karim Traïdia) 14
My Name Is Joe (Ken Loach) 5
U2: Sweetest Thing (Kevin Godley) 24
بودن یا نبودن [Boodan yaa naboodan] [To Be or Not to Be] (Kianoush Ayari) 18
Divorce Iranian Style (Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini) 23
Waking Ned (Kirk Jones) 5
아름다운 시절 [Areumdaun sijeol] [Spring in My Hometown] (Lee Kwang-mo) 22
Don't Get High on Your Own Supply (Leo Regan) 24
High Art (Lisa Cholodenko) 22
Terminus paradis [Next Stop Paradise] (Lucian Pintilie) 9
Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold) 5
The Eternal (Michael Almereyda) 9
Armageddon (Michael Bay) 19
Air: All I Need (Mike Mills) 6
Pulp: Party Hard (Mike Mills) 25
The Amateurist (Miranda July) 23
Coreopsis (Pat O'Neill) 24
Squirtgun Stepprint (Pat O'Neill) 21
Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train [Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train] (Patrice Chéreau) 9
Flammes (Patrick Bokanowski) 21
暗花 [Aam fa] [The Longest Nite] (Patrick Yau) 8
非常突然 [Fai seung dat yin] [Expect the Unexpected] (Patrick Yau) 11
Lulu on the Bridge (Paul Auster) 8
Fiona Apple: Across the Universe (Paul Thomas Anderson) 20
Very Bad Things (Peter Berg) 20
Zugvögel ...einmal nach Inari [Train Birds] (Peter Lichtefeld) 2
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux) 17
Huset på Kampen [One Day a Man Bought a House] (Pjotr Sapegin) 11
Окраина [Okraina] [The Outskirts] (Pyotr Lutsik) 14
The Gingerbread Man (Robert Altman) 25
Twilight (Robert Benton) 8
The Boys (Rowan Woods) 24
Anthrakatis (Sara Sugarman) 12
Gemide [On Board] (Serdar Akar) 12
カウボーイビバップ [Kaubōi bibappu] [Cowboy Bebop] (1998-1999) (Shinichirō Watanabe) 6
Deep Rising (Stephen Sommers) 6
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (Steve Miner) 25
The Substitute 2: School's Out (Steven Pearl) 25
Whatever (Susan Skoog) 13
中国の鳥人 [Chūgoku no chōjin] [The Bird People in China] (Takashi Miike) 24
Half Baked (Tamra Davis) 8
A (Tatsuya Mori) 2
Время танцора [Vremya tantsora] [Time of a Dancer] (Vadim Abdrashitov) 23
Pasti, pasti, pastičky [Traps] (Věra Chytilová) 8
Celebrity (Woody Allen) 8
بيروت الغربية [Bayrut el gharbiyyeh] [West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants)] [West Beirut] (Ziad Doueiri) 3

25 lists submitted

[therewillbeblus]

Thanks swo! For my record keeping

1. Rushmore
2. Fucking Amal
3. Out of Sight
4. The Thin Red Line
5. Happiness
6. Cowboy Bebop
7. The Last Days of Disco
8. Mr. Jealousy
9. Late August, Early September
10. Lovers of the Arctic Circle

[domino harvey]

Thanks swo! Maybe more people will see Zero Effect if/when it gets a Blu-ray. You’d think it’d be among the first titles to license from WB, but me even believing that is probably why no one is letting me make decisions like that

[cdnchris]

No,.I'm with you. I'm not shocked Warner hasn't released it but I figured either Shout! or Arrow would for sure by now. I'm still surprised no one has. One of the first DVDs I bought and the rest in that batch have all received at least Blu-rays since.

[knives]

It definitely seems a no brained and one of the few films I made a point to watch this past month. I’ve always heard of it as one of those definitive Gen X films alongside whatever other Ben Stiller movie you can think of. The film itself is also just good. A bright light in a dull year.

[therewillbeblus]

I think it’s the only film I revisited for the project and inexplicably left it off my list. Great movie