198. The Sting

 USA 1973

 DIR George Roy Hill

 197. Intolerance

 USA 1916

 DIR D. W. Griffith

 196. Life Is Beautiful

 Italy 1997

 DIR Roberto Benigni

 195. Up

 USA 2009

 DIR Pete Docter

 194. My Darling Clementine

 USA 1946

 DIR John Ford

 193. A. I. Artificial Intelligence

 USA 2001

 DIR Steven Spielberg

 192. Blow Up

 UK/Italy/USA 1966

 DIR Michelangelo Antonioni

 191. The Elephant Man

 USA 1980

 DIR David Lynch

 190. Downfall

 Germany/Italy/Austria 2004

 DIR Oliver Hirschbiegel

 189. My Neighbour Totoro

 Japan 1988

 DIR Hayao Miyazaki

 188. The Graduate

 USA 1967

 DIR Mike Nichols

 187. Network

 USA 1976

 DIR Sidney Lumet

 186. Memento

 USA 2000

 DIR Christopher Nolan

 185. Chimes At Midnight

 France/Spain/Switzerland 1965

 DIR Orson Welles

 184. Unforgiven

 USA 1992

 DIR Clint Eastwood

 183. Picnic At Hanging Rock

 Australia 1975

 DIR Peter Weir

 182. Army Of Shadows

 France/Italy 1969

 DIR Jean-Pierre Melville

 181. Magnolia

 USA 1999

 DIR Paul Thomas Anderson

 

 

An elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen flies to South America in a house suspended by balloons.

'Rarely has any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic territory.' Kenneth Turan

 

Set sometime in the future, humanity's best efforts to maintain civilization have led to the creation of new robots known as mechas. A.I. tells the story of David, a child-like mecha programmed with the unique ability to love.

'Deeply thoughtful and thoroughly fascinating.' Todd McCarthy

 

 

The film depicts the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945. The film begins in East Prussia with a group of German women being escorted to Adolf Hitler's compound.

'Any film that reminds us what our darkest nature looks like has value for that reason alone.' Kenneth Turan

 

The film tells the story of Benjamin Braddock, a recent university graduate who is seduced by an older woman, but then falls in love with her daughter.

'Nichols provides a masterclass in using the widescreen frame to elucidate complex emotional situations with ease and understatement.' Almar Haflidason

 

The film stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia which renders his brain unable to store new memories.

'Provocatively structured and thrillingly executed film noir, an intricate, inventive use of cinema's possibilities that pushes what can be done on screen in an unusual direction.' Kenneth Turan

 

 

 

 

 

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The film depicts journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby's life after he suffers a massive stroke at the age of 42, which left him with locked-in syndrome.

'Here is the life force at its most insistent, lashing out against fate with stubborn resolve. And also with lust, hunger, humor and all of the other notes that this man once played so easily.' Roger Ebert

 

 

 199. The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

 France/USA 2007

 DIR Julian Schnabel

 200. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

 USA 1962

 DIR John Ford