918. Sleuth

 UK 1972

 DIR Joseph L. Mankiewicz

 917. For All Mankind

 USA 1989

 DIR Al Reinert

 916. Frost/Nixon

 USA/UK/France 2008

 DIR Ron Howard

 915. My Brilliant Career

 Australia 1979

 DIR Gillian Armstrong

 914. The Thief Of Bagdad

 UK 1940

 DIR Ludwig Berger/Michael Powell

 913. Lessons Of Darkness

 France/UK/Germany 1992

 DIR Werner Herzog

 912. Overlord

 UK 1975

 DIR Stuart Cooper

 911. The Ballad Of Narayama

 Japan 1983

 DIR Shohei Imamura

 910. Memories Of Murder

 South Korea 2003

 DIR Joon-ho Bong

 909. Ten Days That Shook The World

 Soviet Union 1928

 DIR Grigori Aleksandrov/Sergei M. Eisenstein

 908. Dead Man's Shoes

 UK 2004

 DIR Shane Meadows

 907. The Class

 France 2008

 DIR Laurent Cantet

 906. The Ten Commandments

 USA 1956 

 DIR Cecil B. DeMille

 905. The Verdict

 USA 1982

 DIR Sidney Lumet

 904. Smiles Of A Summer Night

 Sweden 1955 

 DIR Ingmar Bergman

 903. Lady Vengeance

 South Korea 2005

 DIR Chan-wook Park

 902. The Thin Blue Line

 USA 1988

 DIR Errol Morris

 901. The Aviator

 USA/Germany 2004

 DIR Martin Scorsese

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cruelties of life in a small Japanese 19th century village. Once anyone reaches 70 years old they must leave the village and go to a mountain top to die.

'Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama is excellently crafted, strongly acted and directed, and well shot.' Variety

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Newman stars as an alcoholic lawyer who's once glittering career appears to be ruined until he gets the chance to redeem himself by representing a woman who had complications in childbirth.

'Paul Newman goes into court a drunken bum and comes out a better man in this superb legal drama about a man finding redemption.' Film4

 

 

An investigation of the 1976 murder of a Dallas cop.

'The result is a movie that is documentary and drama, investigation and reverie, a meditation on the fact that Adams was plucked from the center of his life and locked up forever for a crime that no reasonable person could seriously believe he committed.'  Roger Ebert

 

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A documentary on the Apollo space program.

'There is no commentary as such. Instead, Reinert allows the stunning slo-mo images and the many conversations between the astronauts and mission control to speak for themselves. It works a treat, as does the accompanying sound track by atmospheric soundsmiths Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.' Time Out

A Danish film based on a short story by Karen Blixen about two middle-aged sisters who take in a refugee as their housekeeper.

'It's a tale of self-sacrifice, thwarted ambitions, and lost love, but sheer sensuous joy suffuses the screen when Babette performs her own special miracle for one last supper.' Time Out

 919. Star Trek

 USA/Germany 2009

 DIR J.J. Abrams

 920. Babette's Feast

 Denmark 1987

 DIR Gabriel Axel