December 12, 1998

Top 10 Films of 1998

1. ''Of Freaks And Men'' (Aleksei Balabanov, Russia)

2. ''Wild Things'' (John McNaughton, USA)

3. "The Big Hit" (Kirk Wong, USA)

4. "The Longest Nite" (Patrick Yau, Hong Kong)

5. ''Dangerous Beauty'' (Marshall Herskovitz, USA)

6. "The Hole" (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)

7. "The Truman Show" (Peter Weir, USA)

8. "Life Is Beautiful" (Roberto Benigni, Italy)

9. "Hurlyburly" (Anthony Drazan, USA)

10. "Out Of Sight" (Steven Soderbergh, USA)


Other great films:

Antz
The Apple (Iran)
Babe: Pig In The City (Australia)
The Humiliated (Denmark)
Mlode wilki ½ (Poland)
Zabic Sekala (Czech Republic)

Short Top 3:

1. "X2000" (Francois Ozon, France)

2. "Pot de colle" (Etienne Desrosiers, Nicole Lafriche, Canada)

3. "Noema" (Scott Stark, USA)


Other great shorts:

Jangri (Canada)
Les Mots magiques (Canada)
Sodomites (France)

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Ray Of Light" (Jonas Akerlund, Madonna)


2. "This Is Hardcore" (Doug Nichol, Pulp)


3. "Baby One More Time" (Nigel Dick, Britney Spears)


Top Commercial:

"Laundromat" (Doritos)


TV Top 3:

1. "Frasier: The Ski Lodge" (David Lee, NBC)

2. "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Becoming" (Joss Whedon, WB)

3. "Sex And The City: Season 1" (Darren Star, HBO)


Other great TV shows:


Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Macca Strewth" (Dylan Crooke, Australia)


2. "A Viagem" (Christian Boustani, Portugal)


3. "Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square" (Wang Shui-Bo, NFB, Canada)


Other great cartoons:

The Exciting Life Of A Tree
Frank The Wrabbit (Canada)
Jolly Roger (UK)
Mon enfant ma terre (Canada)
More
No Support (Mexico)
Satisfaction Real (Japan)
Snow Cat (Canada)
Taxi de nuit (France)
VHS/Carrhot (Canada)
When Life Departs (Estonia)

Weak film of 1998:

100% Arabica (France)
2 Secondes (Canada)
Un 32 aout sur terre (Canada)
54
99.9 (Spain)
Affliction
Africa's Elephant Kingdom
L'Age de braise (France)
Airbag (Spain)
Air Bud: Golden Receiver
Almost Heroes
American History X
American Perfekt
Amores (Brazil)
Angel Of The Night (Denmark)
Another Lonely Hitman (Japan)
Aprile (Italy)
Apt Pupil
L'Arche du desert (Algeria)
Arlette (France)
Armageddon
L'Arriere pays (France)
Assassin(s) (France)
Aujourd'hui ou jamais (Canada)
A vendre (France)
The Avengers
Bandyta (Romania)
Barney's Great Adventure
Baseketball
Beast Cops (Hong Kong)
Begging For Love (Japan)
Beneath The Surface
The Bible And Gun Club
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Black Angel 2
Black Dog
The Blacksheep Affair (Hong Kong)
Blade
Les Boyz II (Canada)
Bride Of Chucky
Buffalo 66
Bullet Ballet (Japan)
Un Bunuel mexicain
Buud Yam (Burkina Faso)
Can't Hardly Wait
Casos de violencia contra comunidades indigenas de Chiapas (Mexico)
Central Station (Brazil)
Le Cercle parfait (Bosnia)
Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (France)
Une Chance sur deux (France)
Children Of Hannibal (Italy)
Children Of Heaven (Iran)
Christmas In August (South Korea)
Le Ciel est a nous (France)
City Of Angels
A Civil Action
La Classe de neige (France)
Clay Pigeons
Cleopatra's Second Husband
Le Coeur au poing (Canada)
Color Of The Clouds (Spain)
Comme elle respire (France)
Confession (Russia)
Corps plonges
Cotton Candy (Japan)
C't'a ton tour Laura Cadieux (Canada)
Dahan (India)
Dame Algo (Spain)
Dance With Me
Dangan Runner (Japan)
Dark City
Daybreak
Day Of Full Moon (Russia)
Deadly Rescue (Germany)
Dead Man On Campus
Dear Antonioni (Italy)
Deceiver
Deep Impact
Deep Rising
Deja Vu
De l'autre cote du periph' (France)
Le Demenagement (France)
The Dentist 2
La Deroute (Canada)
Desperate Measures
Didn't Do It For Love
Dieu seul me voit (France)
Dirty Work
Dis-moi que je reve (France)
Disturbing Behavior
Divine Carcasse (Benin)
Doctor Dolittle
Don Juan
Douce France (France)
Downfall (South Korea)
L'Ecole de la chair (France)
The Education Of Little Tree
Elvjs And Merilijn (Bulgaria)
Enemy Of The State
En plein coeur (France)
Esther et Mariana, d'une rive a l'autre (Argentina)
Eternity And A Day (Greece)
Ever After
Everest
Evil Dead's Trap (Japan)
Expect The Unexpected (Hong Kong)
Extras (South Korea)
The Farm Angola USA
El Faro (Argentina)
Felice...Felice (Holland)
La Femme assassin (France)
Femmes et... femmes (Morocco)
Firestorm
Foreign Ghosts (Canada)
Fragments Jerusalem (Israel)
Fred (France)
Full Moon (Switzerland)
Gadjo dilo (France)
George Lucas: Flying Solo
The Gingko Bed (South Korea)
Going To School With Dad On My Back (China)
Le Gone du Chaaba (France)
Go Now (UK)
Habitual Sadness (South Korea)
Half Baked
Halloween H20
Hang The DJ
Hard Rain
Hasards ou coincidences (France)
Hathi (India)
Hav'Plenty
Heart Of The Sun (Canada)
Heaven
Heaven's Burning (Australia)
He Got Game
A Hero Never Dies (Hong Kong)
Hilary And Jackie
Hold You Tight (Hong Kong)
Hollywoodism
Home Fries
Homegrown
L'Homme est une femme comme les autres (France)
Hope Floats
The Horse Whisperer
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Hunger: Addicted To Love (Germany)
Hush
I'll Be Home For Christmas
The Impostors
In Barca A Vela Contromano (Italy)
L'Inconnu de Strasbourg (France)
The Interview (Australia)
Irma Vep (France)
Island Of Greed (Taiwan)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
I Think I Do
Jack Frost
Jerry Springer: The Ringmaster
Jin-Roh (Japan)
Kasaba (Turkey)
Kayla (Canada)
Kiler-ow 2-och (Poland)
Kissing A Fool
Kitchen Party (Canada)
Knock Off (Hong Kong)
Krippendorfs' Tribe
Kunoichi: The Lady Ninja (Japan)
The Land Girls (UK)
The Last Days
Last Night (Canada)
Late Bloomers
Lautrec (France)
Lethal Weapon 4
Let's Talk About Sex
The Letter (South Korea)
Life On Earth (Mali)
Live Flesh (Spain)
Living Out Loud
Lost In Space
Love From Ground Zero
Lulu On The Bridge
Madeline
Mafia!
The Magic Of Flight
La Magie Melies (France)
Major League 3
The Man With Rain In His Shoes (UK)
Marie Baie des Anges (France)
The Mask Of Zorro
Mauvais genre (France)
The May Lady (Iran)
Meet Joe Black
Meet The Deedles
Mercury Rising
Les Miserables
Moment Of Impact
Mondo (France)
My Brother's Gun (Spain)
My Giant
The Negotiator
The Newton Boys
Next Stop Wonderland
Niagara Niagara
Nic (Poland)
Night Train
Nightwatch
No Looking Back
The Object Of My Affection
The Odd Couple II
One Good Cop
One True Thing
Le Onzieme (Vietnam)
Painted Angels
Palmetto
Le Pari (France)
Paris (France)
Le Passager clandestin
Passion (Hungary)
Passion In The Desert
Patch Adams
Paulie
A Perfect Murder
Petits desordres amoureux (France)
Phantasm OblIVion
Phantoms
Pi
Place Vendome (France)
Pleasantville
The Polish Bride (Holland)
Polish Wedding
Popol Vuh
La Position de l'escargot (Canada)
Post Coitum animal triste (France)
Pour rire (France)
The Power Of Kangwon Province (South Korea)
Practical Magic
La Premiere nuit de ma vie (France)
A Price Above Rubies
The Prince Of Egypt
Progeny
The Proposition
Psycho
The Quarry (South Africa)
Quest For Camelot
The Quiet Family (South Korea)
Las Ratas (Spain)
Real Blonde
Red Suit (China)
Regeneration
The Replacement Killers
Return To Paradise
Ring (Japan)
River Of Gold (Portugal)
Roujin Z (Japan)
Rounders
The Rugrats Movie
Rush Hour
Saving Grace (New Zealand)
Secret Defense (France)
Seetha And Carole (Canada)
Seul dans mon putain d'univers (Canada)
Shattered Image
The Shoe (Latvia)
Shooting Fish (UK)
Show Me Love (Sweden)
The Siege
Si je t'aime, prends garde a toi (France)
Simon Birch
A Simple Plan
Sitcom (France)
Six Days, Seven Nights
Slam
Sliding Doors
The Slums Of Beverly Hills
Small Soldiers
Smoke Signals
Snake Eyes
Southie
Species II
Sphere
Spriggan (Japan)
Star Kid
Star Trek Insurrection
Stepmom
Stuart Bliss
Such A Long Journey (Canada)
Sucre amer (France)
El Sueno de los Heroes (Argentina)
Suicide Kings
Sunbird (China)
Talos The Mummy
Tamas And Juli (Hungary)
Tango (Argentina)
Tango Lessons
Tarzan And The Lost City
Taxi (France)
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie (South Korea)
Tokyo Eyes (Japan)
Torrente: The Dumb Arm Of The Law (Spain)
Towards A Promised Land (Canada)
Train de vie
Tranceformer: A Portrait Of Lars Von Trier (Denmark)
The Traveller From The South (Iran)
The Truce (Italy)
Twilight
Two Girls And A Guy
The Ugly (New Zealand)
Unlucky Monkey (Japan)
Unmarried Couples (Sweden)
Urban Legend
US Marshals
Vampires
Velvet Goldmine
Viens danser sur la lune (Canada)
La Vie revée des anges (France)
Les Visiteurs 2: Les Couloirs du temps (France)
Waking Ned Devine (Ireland)
The Waterboy
The Wedding Singer
Welcome To Sarajevo
What Dreams May Come
Whatever
Whispering Corridors (South Korea)
Who Am I ?
Wilde
With Friends Like These
Woo
Wrongfully Accused
The Wrong Guy (Canada)
The X-Files
XXL (France)
Your Friends And Neighbors
You've Got Mail

Weak shorts:

Adieu au TNS (France)

Weak cartoons:

The Art Of Survival
Bunny
Room And Board
Snake Theater
Tokitama Hustle (Japan)
Transfigured (Canada)
Zoom

Weak TV shows:

Top Musical of 1998

"Jeanne et un garçon formidable" (Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, France)


November 11, 1998

Wild Things (1998) *****