1998 in film

Ringu is a 1998 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata and adapted from Koji Suzuki’s novel of the same name. It follows a TV reporter, who attempts to solve a string of strange murders, whose cause is believed to be a cursed video tape. The movie opens with two teenagers talking about a videotape that kills anyone who watches it within seven days. It is also revealed that one of the girls, Tomoko, has seen it and she dies very soon after the conversation. Her aunt Reiko, a TV reporter…

In one of the most infamous horror film scenes from Silence of the Lambs (1991, dir. Jonathan Demme), FBI agent Clarice Starling played by actress Jodie Foster staggers shaking and gasping for air as she tries to escape serial killer Buffalo Bill’s (actor ted levine) basement in the pitch darkness. The audience sees and follows Clarice through Bill’s night vision goggles. Placing the viewer in Bill’s perspective gives the popular human fear of being watched in the dark a terrifying realness.…

The 1998 German film Run Lola Run calls to question the actions and choices of individuals and how these factors alter their fates through the unique display of three separate, but similar timelines. This theme is introduced to the viewer through the beginning and end of each of Lola’s three runs, the timing of getting to Manni being the ultimate difference. Lola’s three runs not only affected Manni and herself but all the people she confronted on the way. Many of the minor character’s futures…

Since the beginning of Film making movies have been remade however, when looking back at history some have not lived up to the standards the original put in place. The 1998 version of Psycho directed by Gus Van Sant and the 2005 War of the Worlds are two examples of bad remakes. Some however are equally or more successful. King Kong is one of the most recognisable remakes of all time. Written and produced by Merian C. Cooper in 1933, King Kong was a story that was worth making two movies about.…

Have you ever felt like a scruffy car that needed a good maintenance until someone came along and helped you fix your life, picked yourself up and dusted you off and get back up again? If so, then the movie “Finding Graceland” might be the right film for you. This movie is a remarkable masterpiece with a powerful meaning, where setting, acting and overall delivery of the message work together to deliver a great spiritual story. The Movie is introducing the character of Bern (Johnathon Schaech)…

HANGING ROCK AND THE LAST WAVE Australian cinema has started to gain succes at the beginning of the 1970s. As well as the films that are screened in succession demonstrate varities in Australia, Australian cinema awake the attention in Hollywood. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a film that directed by Peter Weir in 1975 and is acclaimed worldwide. Actually this mysterious film is the adaptation of an Australian historical novel by Joan Lindsay. The plot is about the disappearance of three…

Directed by Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven is one of the greatest films made by the film company Fox, which is based on the real story of the Crusaders. The film started with the unwilling entry to the Crusades of the protagonist Balian, a French blacksmith whose wife killed herself and who wanted to find outlet of his emotion and find salvation from his fault of killing his half brother in a moment of rage by fighting the holy war to protect the holy land of Jerusalem. When he reached Godfrey…

to define film noir as a genre has established the visual style as the coherent thread that ties these diverse films together. Some scholars have however also pointed out that film noir could be perceived as a movement rather than a genre, mainly because it is generating a world view that is not yet understood and is shaking the foundations of the established, and therefore normal perceptions of the social order (Place, 1998, p. 49). Many critics point to the fact that like other film movements,…

Godzilla is a monster from a series of films produced by the Japanese company Toho. The character first appear in the 1954 movie Godzilla, this is where Godzilla became known worldwide. Godzilla is now in 29 movies more to come, he is in graphic novels, videogames, and television shows. Godzilla is often known as a king of monsters. Godzilla was awoken and empowered by nuclear radiation, with the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Godzilla usually destroys Tokyo, but it does not…

Big Lebowski (1998)? All of these Hollywood films are fun and memorable in their own way, but there is a younger lad coming from the moores of England who has altered the understanding of comedy in cinema. In this paper, I am going to discuss the cinematographic and storytelling differences in the realm of comedy of Edgar Wright's movies Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World's End (2013), all of which form the famous "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy". Wright's films have to be…