1998 IN MEDALS

MEDALS FOR THE BEST FILMS OF 1998

Since the mid-nineties, the world at large had been in thrall to the excitement and anticipation of the end of the millennium. Rumors of the Y2K virus circled chat-rooms on the internet and made for very effective scare-mongering pieces to sell tabloids. Some felt that the change of the calendar would mark catastrophe, others expected the sudden dawn of a new era in the history humanity. This...