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Flowers of Shanghai (海上花)
Flowers of Shanghai (海上花) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1998 Taiwanese drama adapted from Han Bangqing's Wu-dialect novel via Eileen Chang's translation, set in late Qing Shanghai's British Concession flower houses, shot in lamplit long takes, a Cannes competitor and Golden Horse Jury Grand Prize winner.
Frozen (极度寒冷) (1997 film)
Frozen (极度寒冷, Jidu hanleng) is Wang Xiaoshuai's 1997 Chinese independent drama about performance artist Qi Lei's four staged deaths ending in an "ice burial"; shot 1994, pseudonym Wu Ming, Rotterdam festival film.
Gabbeh (گبه)
Gabbeh (گبه) is a thick, colorful nomadic Persian carpet woven by Qashqai and Bakhtiari tribeswomen of southern Iran, and a 1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf film about a girl named Gabbeh whose forbidden love story is woven into one such rug.
Gakko II (学校II)
Gakko II (学校II, A Class to Remember II) is Yamada Yoji's 1996 Shochiku drama, second in the Gakko series, set at a Hokkaido special support high school where teacher Aoyama searches for two missing students; Mainichi Film Concours winner.
Get on the Bus
Get on the Bus is Spike Lee's 1996 drama, written by Reggie Rock Bythewood, following Black men busing from Los Angeles to the 1995 Million Man March; financed by 15 investors for $2.4 million and released October 16, 1996.
Gods and Monsters (film)
Gods and Monsters is a 1998 drama by Bill Condon, adapted from Christopher Bram's novel Father of Frankenstein, starring Ian McKellen as director James Whale, Brendan Fraser as a fictional gardener, and Lynn Redgrave; it won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Gohatto (御法度)
Gohatto (御法度, Taboo) is Nagisa Oshima's 1999 final feature, adapted from Ryotaro Shiba's Shinsengumi Keppuroku, about homoerotic turmoil in the Shinsengumi after beautiful recruit Kano Sozaburo (Ryuhei Matsuda's debut) joins; music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cannes 2000 competition entry.
Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, written by and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, about a working-class math genius from South Boston.
Guinevere (1999 film)
Guinevere is Audrey Wells's 1999 American drama-romance starring Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea, about a young San Francisco woman who becomes an alcoholic photographer's muse and protege; it won the 1999 Sundance Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
Happiness (1998 film)
Happiness (1998) is Todd Solondz's black comedy about three New Jersey sisters and a pedophile psychiatrist, starring Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman; it won Cannes' FIPRESCI Prize, was dropped by Universal's October Films, and earned an NC-17 rating.
Hideous Kinky
Hideous Kinky: 1998 Gillies MacKinnon drama starring Kate Winslet, adapted from Esther Freud's 1992 semi-autobiographical novel about a mother and her two daughters in 1970s Marrakech.
High Art
High Art (1998) is Lisa Cholodenko's debut feature, an independent queer drama starring Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, and Patricia Clarkson; it won Sundance's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and was restored in 4K by Criterion.
Hilary and Jackie
Hilary and Jackie (1998) is Anand Tucker's British biographical drama about cellist Jacqueline du Pré and sister Hilary, based on A Genius in the Family; Oscar-nominated for Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths, controversial for its affair storyline.
Hold You Tight (愈快乐愈堕落)
Hold You Tight (愈快樂愈墮落) is Stanley Kwan's 1998 Hong Kong drama, released 14 February 1998, starring Chingmy Yau in dual roles, Sunny Chan, Eric Tsang, and Lawrence Ko; it won Best Feature Film at the 48th Berlinale and is a key post-handover queer Hong Kong film. Not to be confused with the 1998 action film Cheap Killers (愈墮落愈英雄).
Humanity
Humanity (L'humanité) is Bruno Dumont's 1999 French drama about police lieutenant Pharaon De Winter investigating a child's rape-murder in northern France; it won the Cannes Grand Prix plus Best Actor and Best Actress prizes for non-professionals Emmanuel Schotté and Séverine Caneele.
I Am Your Child
I Am Your Child is a 1997 ABC television documentary special directed by Rob Reiner, hosted by Tom Hanks, blending celebrity skits with Hampton, Virginia family stories about early childhood development.
Julien Donkey-Boy
Julien Donkey-Boy, Harmony Korine's 1999 experimental drama and first American Dogme 95 film, stars Ewen Bremner as a schizophrenic living with Chloë Sevigny and Werner Herzog in a dysfunctional New York family.
Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏)
Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏, Kikujiro no Natsu) is a 1999 Japanese road movie by Takeshi Kitano, starring Beat Takeshi and Yusuke Sekiguchi, in which a drifter escorts a nine-year-old boy to find his mother; it competed at Cannes 1999 and features Joe Hisaishi's theme "Summer".
La Buena Estrella
La buena estrella (Lucky Star), 1997 Spanish drama by Ricardo Franco: castrated butcher Rafael shelters pregnant Marina; five Goyas including Best Film, Cannes Un Certain Regard, Franco's last completed film.
Leila (لیلا) (1997 film)
Leila (لیلا) is Dariush Mehrjui's 1997 Iranian drama starring Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, and Jamileh Sheikhi, about an infertile wife pressured into accepting a second wife for her husband; it won two honors at the 15th Fajr Film Festival.
Little Cheung
Little Cheung (細路祥, Xilu Xiang) is a 1999 Hong Kong drama by Fruit Chan, the final film of his 1997 handover trilogy, following a nine-year-old delivery boy in Mong Kok who befriends an illegal immigrant girl; it won the Locarno Silver Leopard and Golden Horse screenplay awards.
Love Is the Devil
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, 1998 John Maybury biographical drama with Derek Jacobi as Francis Bacon and Daniel Craig as George Dyer, BFI-produced, Cannes Un Certain Regard, no real Bacon paintings shown.
Maborosi (幻の光)
Maborosi (幻の光, Maboroshi no hikari) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1995 debut fiction feature, adapted from Teru Miyamoto's novel, about a widow rebuilding her life after her husband's unexplained suicide; it won the Venice Golden Osella for cinematography.
Magnolia (film)
Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 New Line Cinema drama (188 minutes), interweaves Los Angeles lives toward a rain of frogs, with Jason Robards, Tom Cruise, and Julianne Moore, and a soundtrack of Aimee Mann songs that inspired the screenplay.
Man on the Moon (film)
Man on the Moon is a 1999 American biographical comedy-drama directed by Miloš Forman, starring Jim Carrey as comedian Andy Kaufman, with Danny DeVito and Courtney Love.
Marble Ass
Marble Ass (Dupe od mramora) is Želimir Žilnik's 1995 Serbian feature about trans sex workers Merlin and Sanela in wartime Belgrade; it premiered at the Berlinale, won the Teddy Award for best feature, and starred the real Merlinka, Vjeran Miladinović.
Martín
Martín, released as Martín (Hache), is a 1997 Spain-Argentina drama by Adolfo Aristarain about an Argentine film director in Madrid and his son Hache, who comes to live with him after a drug overdose. It won Havana's top prizes and acting awards for Luppi, Roth, and Poncela.
My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe (1998) is a Ken Loach drama, written by Paul Laverty, starring Peter Mullan as a recovering alcoholic in Glasgow; Mullan won Cannes Best Actor and the film took three British Independent Film Awards.
Mystery, Alaska
Mystery, Alaska (1999) is a Jay Roach comedy-drama written by David E. Kelley and Sean O'Byrne, starring Russell Crowe, about a 633-person Alaskan town whose pond hockey team faces the New York Rangers in a televised exhibition game.
Not One Less (一个都不能少)
Not One Less (一个都不能少) is Zhang Yimou's 1999 neorealist drama about a teenage substitute teacher in rural Hebei who searches the city for a student who left school to work; it won the 1999 Venice Golden Lion.