2. Love and Death on Long Island- Richard Kwietniowski
3. Jackie Brown- Quentin Tarantino
4. In the Company of Men- Neil LaBute
5. The River- Tsai Ming-liang
6. Boogie Nights- Paul Thomas Anderson
7. Starship Troopers- Paul Verhoeven
8. Mother and Son- Aleksandr Sokurov
9. Lost Highway- David Lynch
10. A Taste of Cherry- Abbas Kiarostami
11. Henry Fool- Hal Hartley
12. The Game- David Fincher
13. The Sweet Hereafter- Atom Egoyan
14. The Apostle- Robert Duvall
15. The Spanish Prisoner- David Mamet
16. L.A. Confidential- Curtis Hanson
17. Fireworks- Takeshi Kitano
18. Insomnia- Erik Skjoldbjærg
19. Deconstructing Harry- Woody Allen
Notable shorts: Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold)
Ripe for re-appraisal: 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee), Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai), Kundun (Martin Scorsese), My Best Friend’s Wedding (P.J. Hogan)
Need to see: The Blackout (Abel Ferrara), Career Girls (Mike Leigh), The Castle (Michael Haneke), Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage), Dry Cleaning (Anne Fontaine), Gummo (Harmony Korine), The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont), The Prince of Homburg (Marco Bellocchio), Same Old Song (Alain Resnais), Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Manoel de Oliveira), Waco: The Rules of Engagement (William Gazecki), Western (Manuel Poirier), Xiao Wu (Jia Zhang-ke)
Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Titanic (James Cameron)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)
César Awards, Best Film: Same Old Song (Alain Resnais)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) A Taste of Cherry and The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
Venice, Golden Lion: Fireworks / Hana-bi
Berlin, Golden Bear: The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Sunday (Jonathan Nossiter)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald)
Skandies, Best Film: The Sweet Hereafter
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