418. Meshes Of The Afternoon

 USA 1943

 DIR Maya Deren/Alexander Hammid

 417. Night And Fog

 France 1955

 DIR Alain Resnais

 416. 300

 USA 2006

 DIR Zack Snyder

 415. Bridge On The River Kwai

 UK/USA 1957

 DIR David Lean

 414. Avatar

 USA/UK 2009

 DIR James Cameron

 413. Written On The Wind

 USA 1956

 DIR Douglas Sirk

 412. Videodrome

 Canada 1983

 DIR David Cronenberg

 411. Zodiac

 USA 2007

 DIR David Fincher

 410. The Night

 Italy/France 1961

 DIR Michelangelo Antonioni

 409. Hotel Rwanda

 UK/USA/Italy/South Africa 2004

 DIR Terry George

 408. The Holy Mountain

 Mexico/USA 1973

 DIR Alejandro Jodorowsky

 407. The Last King Of Scotland

 UK 2006

 DIR Kevin Macdonald

 406. The Incredibles

 USA 2004

 DIR Brad Bird

 405. El Topo

 Mexico 1970

 DIR Alejandro Jodorowsky

 404. American Gangster

 USA 2007

 DIR Ridley Scott

 403. Celine And Julie Go Boating

 France 1974

 DIR Jacques Rivette

 402. Cool Hand Luke

 USA 1967

 DIR Stuart Rosenberg

 401. Eastern Promises

 UK/Canada/USA 2007

 DIR David Cronenberg

 

King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) leads 300 Spartans into battle against Persian King Xerxes and his army of more than one million soldiers.

'A blustery, bombastic, visually arresting account of the Battle of Thermopylae as channeled through the rabid imagination of graphic novelist Frank Miller.' Todd McCarthy

 

The film is set in 2154, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system.

'Avatar, essentially, is a film we’ve seen before, boldly made to look like nothing we’ve seen before. It is truly the Star Wars of our age.' Kevin Maher

 

 

Zodiac tells the story of the hunt for a notorious serial killer known as "Zodiac" who killed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

'Encouraging the audience to draw their own conclusions, this moody masterpiece is up there with David Fincher's best.' James Mottram

 

The film is based on real life events in 1994 Rwanda.

'The film works not because the screen is filled with meaningless special effects, formless action and vast digital armies, but because Cheadle, Nolte and the filmmakers are interested in how two men choose to function in an impossible situation.' Roger Ebert

 

The Last King of Scotland tells the story of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who becomes the personal physician to the dictator Idi Amin.

'There’s a nihilistic and unmistakeable whiff of Apocalypse Now about the last wild reel, and the carnage left over by the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport.' The Times

The story focuses on the Parr family, each of whom has superpowers but are prevented from using them.

'The people at Pixar have done it again. They've married state-of-the-art computer animation to great storytelling and have delivered a unique film full of heart, pathos and an unfailing faith in the triumph of good over evil.' Paul Clinton

 

The story of Frank Lucas, a gangster who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War.

'It takes nerve to call a film American Gangster -- But once you see this finely made and richly satisfying film, you understand it's the only title possible.' Kenneth Turan

 

 

The film tells of Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a London hospital, who finds a Russian-language diary on the body of Tatiana, a girl who dies in childbirth. This leads her into the world of the Russian mafia.

'A film that takes us beyond crime and London and the Russian mafia and into the mystifying realms of human nature.' Roger Ebert

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The film describes the aimlessness and anomie of a small town on the Hungarian plain that falls under the influence of a sinister travelling circus.

'This will be a tough watch for many: an uncompromisingly difficult and severe experience. But I found it unique, mesmeric and sublime.' Peter Bradshaw

 

 

 419. Werckmeister Harmonies

 Hungary/Italy/Germany/France 2000

 DIR Bela Tarr

 420. Last Tango In Paris

 Italy/France 1972

 DIR Bernardo Bertolucci