Thursday 4 September 2014

Top Ten: 1998


Ranking the Decades
A Year in Film List + Image Gallery


Lovers of the Arctic Circle [Julio Medem, 1998]:


The Truman Show [Peter Weir, 1998]:


The Idiots [Lars von Trier, 1998]:


Buffalo '66 [Vincent Gallo, 1998]:


Festen (The Celebration) [Thomas Vinterberg, 1998]:


Secret Defense [Jacques Rivette, 1998]:


Bullet Ballet [Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1998]:


The Apple [Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998]:


Sombre [Philippe Grandrieux, 1998]:


Ring [Hideo Nakata, 1998]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou [Kasi Lemmons, 1997]: A tremendous feature debut from actor turned writer and director Kasi Lemmons. The mood here is slow a...