1998

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A television reporter searches for the truth behind the disappearance of a young girl in Luis Camara Silva's lyrical Ex Voto. In the process, different ways people perceive unexplainable events are examined.

Season:
1998
Director:
Luis Camara Silva

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Everyone hated this baseball legend. And he loved it'' the tag line for Cobb's release and most appropriate. Ty Cobb was certainly not a favorite and was, by many accounts, a mean-tempered, vicious, drunken, wife-beating, racist SOB who was impossible to spend any length of time with, and the movie Cobb faithfully represents those qualities, especially the last one. But don't let that scare you away. Ron Shelton's Cobb is one of the most original sports biopics. Why? Because it tells the truth, and you most likely will have trouble finding a better performance by Tommy Lee Jones.

Season:
1998
Director:
Ron Shelton
Cinematography:
Russell Boyd
Cast:
Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy
Producer:
David V. Lester
Executive Producer:
Arnon Milchan

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Diego Musiak's second feature film is a delightful mix of travelogue, romance, and comedy, and when you watch it, you'll learn something. An Argentinean production filmed in Cuba, Clandestine Stories in Havana is a series of inter-related stories, beginning with Laura's. She's just arrived in Havana from Argentina, newly separated from her husband, and unsure about her future in both work and love. Also unsure about his love life is Frank, the taxi driver Laura meets. His wife has left him, he lives with his mother, and he's in no mood for love.

Season:
1998
Director:
Diego Musiak
Cinematography:
Carlos Ferro
Cast:
Susu Pecoraro, Jorge Perugoria, Ulises Dumont, Veronica Lynn, Luis Alberto Garcia, Humberto Paez
Producer:
Jorge Cecowsky
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles

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Solveig has a dream. She wants her tiny church choir to one day perform Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Not only is Solveig the one true singer in the choir,but also she is the one true light of her husband's and son's lives. Tragically, her light is snuffed too soon, leaving her dream unfulfilled and her husband and son to search for the light elsewhere. Eventually Solveig's husband, Aron, falls in love with a woman he has met only through the mail. The longing for the light he once knew with Solveig slowly tears him away from reality.

Season:
1998
Director:
Kjell-Ake Andersson
Cinematography:
Harald Paalgard
Cast:
Peter Haber, Johan Widerberg, Henrik Linnros, Lena Endre
Producer:
Katinka Farago, Anita Hallgren
Language:
Swedish with English subtitles

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On a lovely day in the middle of nowhere, ten people sit at a red light...for a long time. Noel Honig's Stop It is a modern-day fable about the difficulty of forward progress.

Season:
1998
Director:
Noel Honig

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Ruben Romo has crafted a moving portrait of family relations in El Artista. Antonio takes care of his aging father who can no longer craft his famous hand-carved chairs. Antonio is soon forced to address his anger and to understand his father's passion.

Season:
1998
Director:
Ruben Romo

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Matthew Stone's The Proof tells the story of a young boy who kills the family canary to prove God's existence.

Season:
1998
Director:
Matthew Stone

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Lisa Robinson's Heads, Tires and Other Stories is a meandering comedy about indecision, meditation and tire rotation.

Season:
1998
Director:
Lisa Robinson

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New York's 42nd Street is the urban center of the institution of sin. Oren Moverman's Sex Shops examines a different kind of pornography that is transforming the neighborhood: family entertainment.

Season:
1998
Director:
Oren Moverman

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The cinematography is breath-taking in Kristin Hawley's Metro as the elegant emptiness of a metro station reveals itself in its simplicity.

Season:
1998
Director:
Kristin Hawley
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