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Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)

Destiny cannot be denied.

Filmmaker(s): Julio Medem

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.

13 May Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)

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Geometric Cosmologies is so beautiful, it hurts. Tender. It is a lacy filigree in what it is, essentially a story about longing, urges and space. But that filigree extends to the nature of the space that surrounds the story on screen. And the motion of weaving...

Published May 13, 2022

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Snake Eyes (1998)

Believe everything except your eyes.

Filmmaker(s): Brian De Palma

All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.

13 May Snake Eyes (1998)

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The Eye That Lies is a wonderful experience. Never mind that the acting is poor and the story weak — that was never the point. This film was made because DePalma knows how to make his camera dance and wanted to make a film based...

Published May 13, 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 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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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 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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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 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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Basil (1998)

16 May Basil (1998)

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Class 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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Tagged: 1990s, f1998, p2010