This week on Episode 705 of the InSession Film Podcast, we continued our year-by-year retrospective series by taking a look at 1998! It was a really great year for cinema despite some reservations you’ll see because of how awards season played out. It featured some incredible foreign language films. It was a rockin’ year for summer movies and blockbuster entertainment. The year saw some ambitious movies from new up and comers. International cinema was, of course, excellent as always. And most notably, it was the year of the “dueling movie” with rivalries such as Antz vs A Bug’s Life, Armageddon vs Deep Impact, Saving Private Ryan vs The Thin Red Line and Elizabeth vs Shakespeare in Love. It may not reach the same heights as other years, but it had some pretty great depth. That said, what would be your Top 10?
NOTE: We spend most of our time only discussing our Top 10 movies of 1998, however, as you’ll see below, we have listed our full Top 20 lists from that year.
JD
1) The Thin Red Line
2) Out of Sight
3) Saving Private Ryan
4) Perfect Blue
5) The Big Lebowski
6) Funny Games
7) The Celebration
8) Dark City
9) Pleasantville
10) Central Station
11) The Truman Show
12) Mulan
13) Rushmore
14) Fallen Angels
15) Drifting Clouds
16) Taste of Cherry
17) Happiness
18) Life is Beautiful
19) Enemy of the State
20) Eternity and a Day
Brendan
1) The Thin Red Line
2) Out of Sight
3) Central Station
4) Babe: Pig in the City
5) The Mask of Zorro
6) Pleasantville
7) The Truman Show
8) Drifting Clouds
9) The Parent Trap
10) Buffalo ’66
11) Saving Private Ryan
12) Ronin
13) Taste of Cherry
14) Fallen Angels
15) Mulan
16) The Decline of Western Civlilization Part III
17) The Big Lebowski
18) The Celebration
19) Small Soldiers
20) Snake Eyes
Hopefully you guys enjoyed our lists. If you agree or disagree with us, let us know in the comment section below. Clearly there are a lot of other contenders from 1998 that battled for our lists, that just missed the cut. That being said, what would be your Top 10? Leave a comment in the comment section or email us at [email protected].
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