Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Winner of the Golden Rooster for Best Film in 1998

The wife of the goalkeeper of the local water polo team, Tavernari, is found dead in her apartment. Walter Cherubini, who recently met them for work reasons, thinks that the husband is the culprit.

Documentary about the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson mostly consisting of long interviews with him in his home on a farm.

Business speaker Don Beveridge brings his consulting expertise to a corporate engagement for Burger King, Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin' Donuts, Togo's and more.

Designed primarily for non-Turkish viewers, Tolda Örnek's documentary has a portentous narration by Sir Donald Sinden, focusing mostly on Atatürk's qualities as a leader as well as an inspiration to others. His shortcomings (drinking and smoking too much, as well as an inability to relate to his wife) are not overlooked, but Örnek suggests that they were chiefly due to his obsession with work. He had a lot to do in a very short time and achieved it.

In the 1990s, opponents of gay and lesbian rights put forward anti-gay initiatives patterned after Oregon's Measure 9. In response, supporters of gay and lesbian civil rights founded advocacy group Hands Off Washington. This documentary tells the story of Hands Off Washington, and of the struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington State.

Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm did not subside and the mutual reckoning was not over. On the contrary, new fronts were opened in the country and blood began to flow like a gutter. Finally, on September 12, there was a knock on the door again. Those who came that day changed everything, everything. Nothing would ever be the same again, nothing would be the same as before.

Documentary revealing the true character of those working behind and in front of the camera on Blue Peter - Britain's longest continuously running children's programme.

An interstellar Sex Capade of Astro-Porno-O-Naughts strobing and sucking through the Outer Limits. NASA Nymphets float through the Galaxies insinuating rocket blow jobs and releasing their Planetary Pleasures, ending in the dispersion of a capsule/parachute. Originally a double-projection of 16mm color space footage and animated, hand-colored collage animation Super 8.

A sequel to Cyber Lady Suzuka

Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story is a documentary on the triumphal life story of the first Black player in the National Hockey League. Like Jackie Robinson in professional baseball, O'Ree faced many obstacles to achieving his dream; but unlike Robinson, his achievement would go unnoticed for forty years.

This film was the first acting experience for a woman in heels and a tight skirt, who ran, climbed over walls, opened manhole covers and walked endlessly through sewers in eighty-odd shots. It is also quite unusual to have a heroine who does not laugh at all, but she responds well to the demands, which must have been mentally and physically demanding. There is no spectacular action, but rather the endurance-style escapades convey the seriousness of life. The opening episode, in which Kay discovers that her lover is cheating on her, is a fairly well put-together romantic drama, although it is often forgotten because the second half of the film is entirely an escapade. Note that the director's name, the Yokogawa brothers, refers to one person, not several.

Teenager Jiang Zi is molested at a public toilet in a large city. He turns to his friends for support but to no avail, and his family is also incapable of understanding, leaving Jiang Zi very depressed. Feeling abandoned, he suffers alone in his shame. His only solace comes from watching the television program "Animal World."

Shampoo dealer

Film by Keiji Aiuchi.

This short film was recorderd during a japanese experimental film screening at the 102. Shot in Fuji Single 8. According to the filmmaker, the real purpose of JAPANESE 102 was to film his friends and play with possible meeting chances between sound and image.

Tells how Rodger Kamenetz, author of the best-selling 1994 book by the same title, found his way back to Judaism - the tradition of his birth.

Ormacheppu is a 1998 Indian Malayalam film directed by Lohithadas and starring Lal and Dileep in the lead roles.

This docu-drama deals with the lives of two soldiers from Puerto Rico enlisted to fight during the Vietnam conflict. Based on a real-life incident, the movie relates the young soldiers' ambiguity about the war and the tragic consequences their plight holds for them, as well as their families.

A 1998 Filipino comedy film directed by Jun Urbano.

Following his brother's death, a musician returns home to the farm. He intends to sell it, but over the course of his visit, develops an appreciation for the hands-on, old-style method of farming that goes on there. As he spends more time on the farm, he begins to suspect that his brother's death might not have occurred the way he'd first thought, and that foul play might have been involved. A heart-rending drama of love, loss, and the value of family, A Place to Grow will touch your heart. Starring stage and screen stalwart, Wilford Brimley (The Natural, In & Out).

A recently married woman plans to leave her hometown and start a new life in Tehran. A tragic event in the family interrupts her plans and means she has to stay put for longer than she had anticipated. A theft, a case of mistaken identity and a terrible accident all come together to produce a dark and gritty narrative in this gut wrenching drama.

This wacky farce follows Rosa, a bungling employee who is hired as CEO of a sanitary napkin Company. After it is discovered that stress, brought on by men, is decreasing women's menstruation cycles, Rosa, with the aid of an ever-so-cute scientist develops a plan to rid the world of stress, bring world peace and provide plenty of job opportunities (even the Pope's position is available). A wildly rebellious comedy about female empowerment, a world without men and sanitary napkin sales!

The biopic of 19th century Syrian scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi who battled against the injustice in Syria during the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. His efforts actually managed to overthrow the Ottoman viceroy. However, he was banished to Cairo, only to continue his fight there.

A re-edit of Petit’s Radio On (1980)

Wily ace thief Trinity steals the dragon ball from Shaolin Temple. The dragon ball gets misplaced. Trinity joins forces with gruff, determined Interpol agent Bambino, formidable karate master Meng Ray, and feisty tour guide Wen Ling to retrieve the dragon ball before it falls into the hands of the wicked Paschy.

"Banned In America" shows video clips of the darkest elements of human nature, society, and life; the very things that bring fear and disgust into our collective existences. Whether it be live executions, live suicides, or miscellaneous forms of evil, "America" shows us that a sinister world of death lies right outside our door, just waiting for our number to be called.

Yuna is a student in high school always fantasizing about sex.

This documentary examines sexuality as seen by women and men born into Catholic families and educated at Catholic schools. These people talk about the Church's refusal to face reality and how this short-sightedness leads to lies, feelings of guilt, a block on eroticism, unwanted pregnancies, deaths resulting from illegal abortions, and ignorance about AIDS that in fact helps the disease to spread.

A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait described them as follows: 'Round the Garden' - right round and round again, 'Garden Fliers' - flighty cartoon and a stunner of a piano piece and 'Grove' - grave and sonorous.

"The third and shortest section reintroduces camera-derived imagery and, minimal as it may be (sunlight shimmering on water, seagull wheeling in the sky), it's still a shock to see "something." Brakhage continues to play with surfaces, layering the image with scratch bursts and soft-focus superimpositions; sentiment arrives with representation." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

Inspired by British director Mike Leigh's 'Secrets and Lies', the film was shot using a script with "no dialogue, only scene breaks", believing that "just by seeing two people in a situation, you can understand the situation and the feelings of the characters, rather than trying to explain them in a bad way". The actors were given only the events and situations and asked to move freely in the rest of the film. The actors did not try to speak excessively but instead tried to convey the psychology of the moment by performing everyday actions such as eating, washing the bowl, cleaning and sleeping in a restrained tone, and they succeeded well. The fixed-point cameras in several locations inside the house also play a major role in carefully following the small changes that occur in real life.

a film by Edgardo Vinarao.

When Joseph meets Tim at a diving competition, Tim invites him to see the roof, and when he kisses him, Joseph begins to see more than that.

Short film.

More footage considered to be too disturbing to be shown on television.

Pokhi (Assamese: পখী) is an Assamese language drama film directed by Jahnu Barua. It was released in 1998 as is the second instalment of his trilogy — the other two being Xagoroloi Bohu Door (1995) and Konikar Ramdhenu (2003). Pokhi won a National Award for Best Feature Film in the Assamese Category in 2000.

Princess Antonia rules harshly, squeezing her subjects, but the royal treasury benefits. The success of her reign fills Antonia with unchristian pride, she is domineering, greedy, unkind to her royal mother and to the baker Matthias, who genuinely loves her. How else, comes the just punishment. Princess Antonia finds herself and her entire castle in the power of the infernalists, and she has plenty of time to reckon with her conscience.

Natsumi lost her husband, who ran an oden stall. All she was left with was the stall and debt. Trying to pay off the debt by running the stall alone, no customers came, and she ended up paying the debt collectors' interest with her body. Taking a bold step, she remodeled the stall and reopened it as a cosplay sex service stall...

Pierre Huyghe’s video installation consists of an extended panoramic screen bearing three projections shown in sequence from left to right. The left and right ends of the screen are clips from Wim Wenders’s 1977 film, The American Friend. The center screen displays an episode using the film’s original actor, Bruno Ganz, but created by Huyghe years later. This insertion is an ellipsis, a "fill" in a cinematic time gap, that connects the two original scenes to form one continuous real-time sequence. Huyghe’s intervention forms a juncture where art and life, fiction and reality, and past and present intersect.

Prince Dirk is a deformed guy with no arms or legs and a big nose who looks like a pecker and balls. He’s forced to suck a king’s dick, is glued to the groin of a eunuch who fucks harem girls, is captured by a lesbian pirate, is flushed down a toilet, and also happens to start a sexual revolution. In a world of far-out cartoons, it may be the most far-outtest.

A girl has heart disease and looks for a heart transplant.

Hayden K. Lorry is a British military operative who gets embroiled in a caper to track down an ancient Grecian Urn, called the Icarus Urn, or more appropriately named, the "Urn of Death." Lisabeth O'Shaughnessy is the elusive femme fatale who seduces Lorry into thinking he can save both himself and O'Shaughnessy by locating the urn.

Philippe (Many Pe) and Filippo (Many Pa) make windows. A letter and a package are dropped off. The one man is a glazier and the other works with steel and neon. Scissors/stone/paper - who wins?

Dramatization of the American invasion in Puerto Rico during 1898.

Even more footage considered to be too disturbing to be shown on television.

From Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends You will see the camaraderie of your favorite southern gospel legends like: Jake Hess, Guy Penrod, Ben Speer, Doug Oldham, Russ Taff, Jessy Dison, Kirk Talley, Wesley Pritchard, Michael Kelly Blanchard, Lillie Knauls, Candy Helphill Christmas, Joy Gardner, Terry Blackwood, Dean Hopper, Stephen Hill, Gene McDonald, Tanya Goodman Sykes, Karen Peck, the Barrett Sisters, Bob Cain, Jack Toney, Ivan Parker, the Nelons, Murrell Ewing and Danny Gaither. Includes testimonies by LuLu Roman and J.D. Sumner.

A local TV murder reconstruction is fused with a corporate video for a stress management centre.

A documentary cycle involving the Rarámuri or Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico. This film addresses rites of winter as well as peyote and bakaka rites. Its commentary, read by Raymonde Carasco and Jean Rouch, is drawn from texts by Antonin Artaud.

A documentary biography of Russia's greatest filmmaker.

Straight from 1998, own the videos that started a revolution! Witness America's strongest rock climbers, Chris Sharma , Joe Brooks, Dave"Strife" Struthers, Chris "Lick" Lindner, Tyson Atwell, and more crank to new heights. Climb with the crew and hold your stomach as 'crazy man' Mario Bouchwald attempts to drink one gallon of milk in one hour. There is only one rule, 'keep milk in stomach'. Inertia features a soundtrack like no other climbing video ever made... a good one.

Depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all its ripe decadence. A Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidal towers, carved elephants, commodified sex and licensed gluttony. An opera in three acts, live from the Salzburger Festspiele, 1998. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies. Stage Director: Peter Zadek.