Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3037 Films to Buy & Rent
McLibel (1998)
- Dir. Franny Armstrong
- The true story of England's most protracted court case that witnessed the all–powerful McDonalds hamburger empire file a libel suit against two…
Megacities (1998)
- Dir. Michael Glawogger
- The dir. of WORKINGMAN'S DEATH reveals a global underclass with portraits of poverty and neglect, from Bombay to Moscow to Mexico City.
Some may…
Modulations (1998)
- Dir. Iara Lee
- Sub–captioned "Cinema for the Ear", this is an enlightening exposition of electronic music – a marginalised yet broadly significant music…
Mouth Wide Open (1998)
- Dir. Jonathan Dennis
- A portrait of pioneering NZ camera person and inventor Ted Coubray, who was one of the first people in Australasia to use a sound camera. Offers a…
Party Monster - The Shockumentary (1998)
- Dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
- Compulsively sordid true story of one Michael Alig, whose success as a New York night club impresario devolved into drug abuse and the brutal murder…
Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond (1998)
- Dir. Guillaume Bonn, Jean-Claude Luyat
Feat. Charlotte Rampling
- Expansive documentary presenting the life and career of one of the world's greatest adventure photographers and painters.
Covers the major…
Planet Ustinov - Following the Equator with Peter Ustinov (1998)
- Mark Twain's 1898 account of his epic journey around the globe is traced by Peter Ustinov in this part travelogue, part history lesson, which takes…
Radiohead - Meeting People Is Easy (1998)
- Dir. Grant Gee
- The album OK COMPUTER took the Oxford quintet into the rock stratosphere, a place where, on this evidence, they'd often rather not be.…
Regret to Inform (1998)
- Dir. Barbara Sonneborn
- A moving and haunting doco which analyzes the Vietnam War from the point of view of the American and Vietnamese women who lost the men they loved to…
Richter, The Enigma (1998)
- Dir. Bruno Monsaingeon
- Lengthy biography of the supremely expressive Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who only emerged from behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1950s.…