Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 1998
• 75min

The Aran Islands lie off Western Ireland. All three are small wastes of rock, trees without soil. In winter storms they are almost smothered by the sea...which, because of the peculiar shelving of the coastline, piles up into one ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Austria
• 1998
• 90min

Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow, New York ; seductive yet repellent monsters. The film′s twelve chapters tells the tales of very different people : Shankar, the Bioscope Man ; Modesto, the chicken feet vendor ; Babu Khan, the paint re...

World Cinema

• Brazil,France
• 1998
• 64min

Midnight, December 31, 1999, with the year 2000 fast approaching, a young man and a young woman come together on the roof of a building overlooking Copacabana beach. The man must murder his best friend to escape a life in jail and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 1998
• 110min

An outstanding student much loved in his village, Miguel was sent off on a trip to the U.S. with pride and great expectations. But now he’s returned ­ not as Miguel but as Michelle, no longer a man but a woman. How the quiet villa...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 1998
• 120min

Quitting her striptease job in Manila, Milagros returns with her mother to the old town when her father dies. She takes on the obligations of her father, working as maid for the landlord′s all-male house-hold and becomes the landl...

Special Programs in Focus

• U.S
• 1998
• 75min

This expansive documentary tracks the evolution of electronic music, one of the artistic revolutions of this century. Modulations is truly encylopedic, but moreover, it is entertaining. Using high-end graphics, provocative interv...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 111min

This film is a harmonious fusion of Director Lee Myung-Se′s romantic humanism and cinematographer Yoo′s sober realism, which resulted in the birth of a new kind of Korean film. My Love, My Bride is the tale of Young-Min and Mi-You...

World Cinema

• U.K.
• 1998
• 105min

Joe is a recovering alcoholic who runs the worst football team in Glasgow. Sarah is a health visitor. They literally run into eachother when Sarah comes to Joe′s neighborhood to do a health check. The two bicker and banter over ev...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 96min

A single woman called "Mama Boss" opens a rice noodle shop in Taipei and reminisces about the good old days before she fled to Taiwan from China with customers who are mostly immigrants from her hometown. When her three favorite c...

World Cinema

• UK
• 1998
• 88min

Based on the a novel by Hanif Kureishi (of My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammie and Rosie Get Laid fame), My Son the Fanatic reverses the roles of the young and the old. Although he has not had the financial success of his fellow me...