1998 Poll 2.0

[karl]

Flowers of Shanghai (Hou)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (German)
Silence (Makhmalbaf)
Spring in My Hometown (Lee) (the only film ever made by this director)

The Apple (Makhmalbaf)
The Power of Kangwon Province (Hou)
Common People (Zhou)
Cabaret Balkan (Paskaljević)

Dr. Akagi (Imamura)
The Hole (Tsai)
My Name Is Joe (Loach)
Terminus Paradis (Pintilie)

Rushmore (Anderson)
The Pear Tree (Mehrjui)
The Outskirts (Lutsik) (another one-hit wonder)
Flight of the Bee (Min & Usmonov)

The Knot aka The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn (Sokurov)
Full Moon Day (Shakhnazarov)
Rostov-Luanda (Sissako) (too bad I didn't get around to Life on Earth!)
Siberian Lesson (Staroń)

[Lencho of the Apes]

El Evangelio De Las Maravillas - Ripstein
Flowers Of Shanghai
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Terminus paradis

The Bird People Of China/Chugoku no chojin
Day Of The Full Moon
A Hero Never Dies - To
New Rose Hotel

From The Forest Of Tigers And Spirits
Inquietude - de Oliveira
The Mutilation Man
The Sex Theif - Petzold

Bajo California: Los Limites Del Tiempo
Black Cat, white Cat
Blues Harp
Unlucky Monkey

Aleppo: Maqamat Of Pleasure And Delight
Fucking Amal
The Hole - Tsai Ming-Liang
Sitcom - Ozon

[Silga]

Final list:

The Big Lebowski (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem)
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (Joan Chen)

Belly (Hype Williams)
Croupier (Mike Hodges)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie)

Palmetto (Volker Schlöndorff)
Fallen (Gregory Hoblit)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
Enemy of the State (Tony Scott)
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)

The Dinner Game (Francis Veber)
U.S. Marshals (Stuart Baird)
A Civil Action (Steven Zaillian)
Wild Things (John McNaughton)
There's Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly)

[niminy-piminy]

https://kinometer.com/?list=514

The Man Listening Silence (Robert Cahen, 1998, 3m)
Haru, the Island of the Solitary (Kanerva Cederström, Riikka Tanner, 1998, 43m)
Places in Cities (Angela Schanelec, 1998, 117m)
‎Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan (Rudolf Thome, 1998, 118m)
Just Married (Rudolf Thome, 1998, 80m)
The Idiots (Lars von Trier, 1998, 117m)

The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley (Peter Nestler, 1998, 92m)
Verse Texture (Frans van de Staak, 1998, 20m)
Biostructures (Alice Růžičková, 1998, 7m)
Traps (Věra Chytilová, 1998, 124m)
Maurice Blanchot (Hugo Santiago, 1998, 57m)
Fun without Limits (Ulrich Seidl, 1998, 45m)