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
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