978. The Wicker Man

 UK 1973

 DIR Robin Hardy

 977. Ice Cold In Alex

 UK 1958

 DIR J. Lee Thompson

 976. The Lady From Shanghai

 USA 1947

 DIR Orson Welles

 975. Good Bye Lenin!

 Germany 2003

 DIR Wolfgang Becker

 974. Tess

 France/UK 1979

 DIR Roman Polanski

 973. Henry V

 UK 1944

 DIR Laurence Oliver

 972. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

 USA/UK 2007

 DIR Tim Burton

 971. Kramer vs. Kramer

 USA 1979

 DIR Robert Benton

 970. Zulu

 UK 1964

 DIR Cy Endfield

 969. Oliver Twist

 UK 1948

 DIR David Lean

 968. The Color Purple

 USA 1985

 DIR Steven Spielberg

 967. Cross Of Iron

 UK/West Germany 1977

 DIR Sam Peckinpah

 966. The Player

 USA 1992 

 DIR Robert Altman

 965. The Great Escape

 USA 1963

 DIR John Sturges

 964. Bambi

 USA 1942 

 DIR David Hand

 963. Goldfinger

 UK 1964

 DIR Guy Hamilton

 962. Doubt

 USA 2008

 DIR John Patrick Shanley

 961. Enter The Dragon

 Hong Kong/USA 1973

 DIR Robert Clouse

 

 

 

 

The film begins as stage production of the play, then gradually turns into a stylized cinematic rendition.

'That the film should get made at all was an extraordinary achievement, but Olivier, in his directing debut, also gave us the first large-scale radical movie re-interpretation of Shakespeare long before others.' Almar Haflidason

 

 

 

 

Steven Spielberg directs Whoopi Goldberg in her impressive screen debut as poor black girl living in the southern united states who suffers at the hands of abusive men and racism.

'It is a great, warm, hard, unforgiving, triumphant movie, and there is not a scene that does not shine with the love of the people who made it.' Roger Ebert

 

 

Having wasted enormous resources on recapturing Allied prisoners of war, the Germans move the most determined to a new, high-security camp.

'Worth seeing the last half hour, if nothing else, for one of the best stunt sequences in years: McQueen's motor-cycle bid for freedom.' Derek Adams

 

British spy James Bond is asked to watch Auric Goldfinger. Bond foils Goldfinger's cheating at gin rummy by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson. Bond then blackmails Goldfinger into losing.

'If it is not a great film, it is a great entertainment, and contains all the elements of the Bond formula that would work again and again.' Roger Ebert

 

Lee is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong who possesses great philosophical insight into martial arts as well as physical prowess.

'On an adventure level, the performances are quite good. The one by Mr. Lee, not only the picture's supermaster killer but a fine actor as well, is downright fascinating.' Howard Thompson

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Tobruk, a British base, is attacked by the German Afrika Korps in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

'It may not be a very good film, but as Raymond Durgnat demonstrates in A Mirror for England, it's an interesting account of 'Britain's sense of inferiority in the post war world'.' Time Out

Five very different kids are brought together for weekend high-school detention and start to realise they have more in common that first thought. One of the definitive teen movies of the 1980s.

'Shot in sequence during 1984, The Breakfast Club became a benchmark for all that followed in the genre.' Ben Falk

 979. Far From The Madding Crowd

 UK 1967

 DIR John Schlesinger

 980. The Breakfast Club

 USA 1985

 DIR John Hughes