1998 Top Ten List

  • Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
  • Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
  • The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
  • The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
  • Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
  • The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
  • A Tale of Autumn (Eric Rohmer)
  • Praise (John Curran)
  • My Name Is Joe (Ken Loach)
  • Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)

    • Additional 1998 Films By Rating

  • Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
  • π (Darren Aronofsky)
  • John Carpenter's Vampires (John Carpenter)
  • Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
  • I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noé)
  • The Book of Life (Hal Hartley)
  • The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater)
  • Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas)
  • The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
  • The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
  • Ronin (John Frankenheimer)
  • The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
  • After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
  • Dr. Akagi (Shohei Imamura)
  • Rounders (John Dahl)
  • A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
  • The General (John Boorman)
  • Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark)
  • Birdcage Inn (Kim Ki-duk)
  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (Penelope Spheeris)
  • Beloved (Jonathan Demme)
  • Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan)
  • Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
  • Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  • Following (Christopher Nolan)
  • A Bug's Life (John Lasseter)
  • Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller)
  • Forty Two Up (Michael Apted)
  • The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca)
  • Enemy of the State (Tony Scott)
  • He Got Game (Spike Lee)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
  • Lost in Space (Stephen Hopkins)
  • Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
  • Happiness (Todd Solondz)
  • The Big Hit (Che-Kirk Wong)
  • Central Station (Walter Salles)
  • The X-Files (Rob Bowman)
  • Pleasantville (Gary Ross)
  • The Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  • The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)
  • Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes)
  • Dark City (Alex Proyas)
  • Wild Things (John McNaughton)
  • Rush Hour (Brett Ratner)
  • The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez)
  • Ringu (Hideo Nakata)
  • Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (John Maybury)
  • Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre)
  • Dirty Work (Bob Saget)
  • The Idiots (Lars von Trier)
  • Armageddon (Michael Bay)
  • Dangerous Beauty (Marshall Herskovitz)
  • Little Voice (Mark Herman)
  • New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
  • Andromedia (Takashi Miike)
  • Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (Katsuhito Ishii)
  • Mercury Rising (Harold Becker)
  • What Dreams May Come (Vincent Ward)