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Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)

Lewis Carroll's Classic Fantasy Tale.

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.

23 Feb Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)

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Homeopathic Seduction In 1871, A deacon logician at Oxford published a sequel to his surprisingly popular children‘s story. In that original, he had dabbled in the mix of logic and mysticism that he thought respectable. Fortunately for him, it was characterized as the sort of nonsense...

Published February 23, 2024

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Phantoms (1998)

For centuries they told us the terror would come from above. We've been looking the wrong way.

Filmmaker(s): Joe Chappelle

Horror

Science Fiction

Thriller

In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.

09 Feb Phantoms (1998)

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Primeval Roles Whatever confluence of forces that were at work, when I saw ‘Lawrence of Arabia‘ I was dumbstruck. The sweep of the desert and its lonely complexities mapped thoroughly with the internal landscape this man revealed. Lonely, sexually obsessed but incompetent, determined to press through...

Published February 9, 2024

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Tango (1998)

Tango: do not ever leave me

Filmmaker(s): Carlos Saura

Drama

Romance

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made.

05 Dec Tango (1998)

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Making Film Dance I love this stuff. This film has weaknesses, but the ambition is so grand one can forgive, at least in deciding to watch. The general problem is mixing film and dance. Rarely, oh so rarely is it done well. The stock choices are two:...

Published December 5, 2023

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The Bird People in China (1998)

The children of the sky.

Filmmaker(s): Takashi Miike

Adventure

Drama

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.

11 Sep The Bird People in China (1998)

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Purity, Song, Jade Miike has a pretty solid pattern. He makes films for a distinctly Japanese audience, teasing out some issue or two that seems culturally rooted. This is his context. He shifts it into a magical, cinematic world and imagines scenes as episodes within this...

Published September 11, 2023

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Billy’s Balloon (1998)

Filmmaker(s): Don Hertzfeldt

Animation

Comedy

Thriller

A balloon wraps itself around a young child's hand, bringing him higher and higher, much to the child's delight, but a sinister truth begins to unravel.

27 Aug Billy’s Balloon (1998)

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Inflated This is a replacement comment. The original bothered a diligent reader, so I have made some expansion. Animation is like any film type: artists ally to certain philosophies, perhaps without realising it. In the case of animation, it bumps up against that great American invention, noir....

Published August 27, 2023

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Bettie Page: Bondage (1998)

Filmmaker(s): Irving Klaw

Documentary

Bettie Page - famous for her pin up modeling - and other glamour girls appear in bondage photos and short films. These unique classics are the first film sources of today's fetish and S&M scene and appear nowadays surreal, tender and joyful.

17 Jun Bettie Page: Bondage (1998)

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The Previous Edge In all things, there is an inside and an outside and that defines edges. Not edges between, but edges beyond which you can see the difference. There are, I suppose many domains of which this can be said of sex, and the various rituals...

Published June 17, 2023

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Basil (1998)

16 May Basil (1998)

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Class Yet another example that just plodding through a novel has little to do with making a tenable film. This one just thrashes through the story with nary a nod to cinematic necessities. But it does have Derek Jacobi, an actor with so much presence it...

Published May 16, 2023

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Black Cat, White Cat (1998)

Filmmaker(s): Emir Kusturica

Comedy

Romance

Crime

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.

13 Apr Black Cat, White Cat (1998)

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Sunflower Seductions This was recommended by a friend, as the best film she knows. This is an intelligent woman, so I endured some frustrating months trying to find it in the US, finally to see it on an overseas trip. It wasn’t a great experience for me,...

Published April 13, 2023

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Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998)

Filmmaker(s): Rick Rosenthal

Comedy

Romance

A young married couple faces a serious break-up when the husband is caught committing adultery with a prostitute.

07 Nov Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998)

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Prophylactic Intolerance We all want to be teenagers and some films are built to pander to that drive. The teenage condition is one in which all things are subservient to sex, but sex isn’t something you do. It isn’t something that is a component of a relationship...

Published November 7, 2022

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Zero Effect (1998)

The world's most private detective.

Filmmaker(s): Jake Kasdan

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.

19 Sep Zero Effect (1998)

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Son of What There are only a few ways into a story. One of these is to embrace the narrator and carry the viewer through their eyes and the engagement of the world that gives us love. Here, Kasdan does this while referencing Holmes, where this...

Published September 19, 2022

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