Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1998

20 Dates – Myles Berkowitz

54 – Mark Christopher

1732 – Hotten – Karin Julsrud

A – Tatsuya Mori

El abuelo – Jose Luis Garci

The Adventure of Sebastian Cole – Tod Williams

An Affair – Lee Je-yong

After Life – Hirokaza Koreeda

Alice and Martin – Andre Techine

Almost Heros – Christopher Guest

American History X – Tony Kaye

Among Giants – Sam Miller

Amy – Nadia Tass

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn – Arthur Hiller (as Alan Smithee)

Another Day in Paradise – Larry Clark

Antz – Eric Darnell / Tim Johnson

The Apple – Samira Makhmalbaf

April Story – Shunji Iwai

Aprile – Nanni Moretti

Art Museum by the Zoo – Lee Jeog-hyang

August 32nd on Earth – Denis Villeneuve

The Avengers – Jeremiah S. Chechik

Babe: Pig in the City – George Miler

The Barber of Siberia – Nikita Mikhalkov

BASEketball – David Zucker

Basil – Radha Bharadwaj

Bedrooms and Hallways – Rose Troche

Belly – Hype Williams

Besieged – Bernardo Bertolucci

The Best Man – Diego Abatantuono / Ines Sastre

The Big Hit – Che-Kirk Wong

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss – Tommy O ‘Haver

Birdcage Inn – Ki-duk Kim

Blues Harp – Takashi Miike

B. Monkey – Michael Radford

Basil – Radha Bharadwaj

Bedrooms ad Hallways – Rose Troche

Bombay Boys – Kaizad Gustad

The Boys – Rowen Woods

Break Up –

Bride of Chucky – Ronny Yu

Broken Vessels – Scott Ziehi

Brownsn’s Requem – Jason Freeland

Black Cat, White Cat – Emir Kusturica

Buffalo ’66 – Vicant Gallo

A Bug's Life – Jon Lasseter / Andrew Stanton

Curse of the Puppet Master – David DeCoteau

Can’t Hardly Wait – Kaplan / Elfont

Caught Up – Darin Scott

The Celebration – Thomas Vinterberg

Christmas in August – Hur Jin-ho

City of Angles – Brad Siberling

Clay Pigeons – David Dobkin

The Commissioner – George Sluizer

Cousin Bette – Des McAnuff

The Curve – Dan Rosen

Dad Savage – Betsan Morris Evans

Dance Me to My Song – Rolf de Heer

Dance with Me – Randa Haines

Dances, Texas Pop. 81

Dangerous Beauty – Marshall Herskovitz

El Dia que Maurio el Silencio – Paolo Agazzi

Dead Man on Campus – Alan Cohn

Deep Rising – Stephen Sommers

Desert Blue – Morgan J. Freeman

Desperate Measures – Barbet Schroeder

Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target (Case Closed) – Kanetsugu Kodama

Digging to China – Timothy Hutton

Le Diner de Cons – Francis Veber

Dirty Work – Bob Saget

Disturbing Behavior – David Nutter

Divorcing Jack – David Caffrey

Dr. Akagi – Shohei Imamura

The Dreamlife of Angels – Erick Zonca

Dr. Dolittle – Betty Thomas

Earth – Deepa Mehta

Eternity and a Day – Theo Angelopoulos

El evangelio de las maravillas – Arturo Ripstein

Ever After – Andy Tennant

Fallen – Gregory Hoblit

The Farm: Angola, USA – Garbus / Rideau  /Stack

Finding Graceland – David Winkler

Firestorm – Dean Semier

Flowers of Shanghai – Hsiao-hsien Hou

Forever Love – Michael Switzer

For Sale – Laetitia Masson

Fucking Amal – Lukas Moodysson

Genghis Khan – Fu Sai / Mai Lisi

Ghulam (Slave) – Bhatt Bros.

The Girl of Your Dreams – Fernando Trueba

God Said Ha! – Julia Sweeney

Godzilla – Roland Emmerich

Girls’ Night Out – Im Sang-soo

Goodbye Lover – Roland Joffe

The Grandfather – Jose Luis Garci

Gunshy – Jeff Celentano

The Hairy Bird – Sarah Kernochan

Half Baked – Tamra Davis

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later – Steve Miner

Happy Birthday – Larisa Sadilova

Hard Rain – Mikael Salomon

Head On – Ana Kokkinos

He Got Game – Spike Lee

The Hi-Lo Country – Stephen Frears

Hideous Kinky – Gillies Mackinnon

Hold You Tight – Stanley Kwan

Holy Man – Stephen Herek

Home Fries – Dean Parisot

Homegrown – Stephen Gylienhall

Hope Floats – Forest Whitaker

How to Make the Cruelest Month – Kip Koenig

Hush – Jonathan Darby

I Stand Alone – Gaspar Noe

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer – Danny Cannon

I Want You – Michael Winterbottom

Identity Pieces – Mweze Ngangura

The Idiots – Lars von Trier

If the Sun Roses in the West – Lee Eun

I’ll be Home for Christmas – Arlene Sanford

The Imposters – Stanley Tucci

In God’s Hands –Zalman King

In The Flesh – Ben Taylor

The Inheritors (Die Siebtelbauern) – Stefan Ruzowitzky

The Interview – Craig Monahan

Jakc Frost – Troy Miller

Jane Austin’s Mafia! (Mafia!) – Jim Abrahams

Jinnah – Jamil Dehlavi

Judas Kiss – Sebastian Gutierrez

Khrustalyoc, My Car! – Alexsei German

Killer – Darezhan Omirbaev

Kirikou and the Sorceress – Michel Ocelot

Kissing a Fool – Doug Ellin

Knock Off – Tsui Hark

Krippendorf’s Tribe – Todd Holland

Kurt & Courtney – Nick Broomfield

The Land Girls – David Leland

The Last Days – James Moll

Last Night – Don McKellar

Leaf on a Pillow – Garin Nugroho

Left Luggage – Jeroen Krabbe

The Legend of 1900 – Giuseppe Tornatore

Les Miserables – Bille August

Leathal Wepon 4 – Richard Donner

Life is to Whistle – Frenando Perez

The Lighthouse – Eduardo Mignogna

Little Tony – Alex van Warmerdam

The Longest Night – Patrick Yau

Louis (Take 2) - Siegfried

Love & Pop – Hadeaki Anno

Love and Rage – Cathal Black

Love is the Devil – John Maybury

Love from Ground Zero -

Lovers of the Arctic Circle – Julio Medem

Lulu on the Bridge – Paul Auster

Madeline – Daisy von Scherler Mayer

Major League: Back to the Minors – John Warren

The Man oin the Iron Mask – Randall Wallace

The Man with Rain on His Shoes – Maria Ripoll

The Mask of Zorro – Martin Cambell

Meeting People is Easy – Grant Gee

Melting Pot (Race) – Tom Musca

Mercury Rising – Harold Becker

The Mighty – Peter Chelsom

Mighty Joe Young – Ron Underwood

Montana – Jennifer Leitzes

Monument Ave. – Ted Demme

Mr. Zhao – Lu Yue

Music from Another Room – Charlie Peters

The Mutants – Teresa Villaverde

My Giant – Michael Lehmann

My Name is Joe – Ken Loach

The Naked Eye – Vicente Aranda

The Naked Man – J. Todd Anderson

A Night at the Roxbury – John Fortenberry

No Looking Back – Edward Burns

October 22 – Richard Schenkman

The Odd Couple II – Howard Deutch

Of Freaks and Men – Alexei Balabanov

Okraina – Pyotr Lutski

One Evening After the War – Rithy Panh

Outside Ozona – J.S. Cardone

Overnight Delivery – Jason Bloom

Paljas – Katinka Heyns

Palmetto - Volker Schlondorff

Passion – Gyorgy Feher

Patch Adams – Tom Shadyac

Paulie – John Roberts

Pecker – John Waters

Peculiarities of the National Fishing – Rogozhkin / Gorolova

The Perfect Guy – Ducastel / Martineau

Phantasm IV: Oblivion – Don Coscarelli

Phantoms – Joe Chappelle

Phoenix – Danny Cannon

Place Vendome – Nicole Garcia

Playing by Heart – Willard Carroll

A Place Called Chiapas – Nettie Wild

Places in Cities – Angela Schanelec

Place Vendome – Nicole Garcia

Pokemon: The First Movie  - Kunihiko Yuyama

The Power of Kangwon Province – Hong Sang-soo

Practical Magic – Griffin Dunee

A Price Above Rubies – Boaz Yakin

The Prince of Egypt – Wells / Chapman / Hickner

Quest for Camelot – Frederik Du Chau

The Quiet Family – Kim Ji-woon

Reach the Rock – William Ryan

The Real Blond – Tom DiCillo

Rehearsals for War – Mario Martone

The Replacement Killer – Antoine Fuqua

Restaurant – Eric Bross

Return to Paradise – Joseph Ruben

Riddler’s Moon – Don McBrearty

Ringmaster – Neil Abramson

The Rose Setter (La vendedora de rosas) – Victor Gaviria

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie – William R. Kowalchuk

The Rugrates Movie – Kovalyov / Virgien

Rush Hour – Brett Ratner

Safe Man – John Hamburg

Savior – Predrag Antonijevic

The School of Flesh – Benoit Jacquot

The Sea Change – Michael Bray

Sekal Has to Die – Vladimir Michalek

Senseless – Penelope Spheeris

Shadrach – Susanna Styron

Show Me Love – Lukas Moodysson

The Siege – Edward Zwich

Simon Birch – Mark Steven Johnson

Since You’ve Been Gone – David Schwimmer

Slam – Marc Levin

Small Soldiers – Joe Dante

Snake Eyes – Brian De Palma

Soldier – Paul W.S. Anderson

Sour Grapes – Larry David

Species II – Peter Medak

Spring in My Hometown – Lee Kwango

Star Kid – Manny Coto

Star Trek: Insurrection – Jonathan Frakes

State of Dogs – Brosens / Turmunkh

Still Crazy – Brian Gibson

Susan’s Plan – John Landis

Tle of the Mummy – David Yates

Taxi – Gerard Pires

The Theory of Flight – Paul Greengrass

Thick as Thieves – Scott Sanders

The Thin Pink Line – Dieti / Irpino

Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train – Patrice Chereau

Tell Me I’m Dreaming – Claude Mourieras

Titanic Town – Roger Michell

Train of Life – Radu Mihaleanu

Trance – Michael Almereyda

U.S. Marshals – Stuart Baird

Up ‘n’ Under – John Godber

Urban Legend – Jamie Blanks

Very Bad Things – Peter Berg

The Very Thought of You – Nick Hamm

The Vivero Letter -

Waking Ned Devine – Kirk Jones

The Waterboy – Frank Coraci

The Way we Laughed – Gianni Amelio

Too Much (Little) Love – Jacques Doillon

Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God… Be Back by Five – Richard Schenkman

West Beirut – Ziad Doueiri

When the Dead Start Singing – Krsto Papic

Whispering Corridors – Park Ki-hyeong

Wide Awake – M. Night Shyamalan

Without Limits – Robert Towne

Who am I – Jackie Chan

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit – Stuart Gordon

Woubi Cheri – Bocahut / Brooks

Wrongfully Accused – Pat Proft

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl – Joan Chen

The Way We Laughed – Gianni Amelio

With Friends Like These… - Philip Frank Messina

Woundings – Roberta Hanley

Zero Effect – Jake Kasdan