118. Pan's Labyrinth

 Spain/Mexico/USA 2006

 DIR Guillermo del Toro

 117. The Shining

 UK/USA 1980

 DIR Stanley Kubrick

 116. Forrest Gump

 USA 1994

 DIR Robert Zemeckis

 115. Song Of The Little Road

 India 1955

 DIR Satyajit Ray

 114. Playtime

 USA 1967

 DIR Jacques Tati

 113. Solaris

 Soviet Union 1972

 DIR Andrei Tarkovsky

 112. Wings Of Desire

 West Germany/France 1987

 DIR Wim Wenders

 111. Annie Hall

 USA 1977

 DIR Woody Allen

 110. Chungking Express

 Hong Kong 1994

 DIR Kar Wai Wong

 109. The Conversation

 USA 1974

 DIR Francis Ford Coppola

 108. Saving Private Ryan

 USA 1998

 DIR Steven Spielberg

 107. The Leopard

 Italy/France 1963

 DIR Luchino Visconti

 106. Fargo

 USA 1996

 DIR Joel Coen/Ethan Coen

 105. The Word

 Denmark 1955

 DIR Carl Theodor Dreyer

 104. Trainspotting

 UK 1996

 DIR Danny Boyle

 103. The Godson

 France/Italy 1967

 DIR Jean-Pierre Melville

 102. Mulholland Dr.

 France/USA 2001

 DIR David Lynch

 101. Twelve Monkeys

 USA 1995

 DIR Terry Gilliam

Pan's Labyrinth takes place in Spain, in May and June, 1944, five years after the Spanish Civil War, during the early Franquist period.

'Dark, dreamlike and dangerous, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is a fairytale every bit as scary and moving as they were always meant to be.' Jonathan Trout

 

 

 

 

 

The film is set in New York City and Los Angeles. Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) is a neurotic comedian, attempting to maintain a relationship with the seemingly ditzy but exuberant Annie (Diane Keaton).

'Lovely performances, and more superb gags in one minute than most movies manage in 90.' Peter Bradshaw

 

 

 

 

It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides and William H. Macy as a car salesman who hires two criminals to kidnap his wife.

'The beauty of the film is in the subtle detail of the dialogue and performances which continue to enchant on repeat viewings.' George Perry

 

The movie follows Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewan Bremner) and other heroin addicts in the late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh. After quitting heroin, Renton struggles to adjust to the sober lifestyle he no longer remembers.

'a movie that dares to challenge the audience' Almar Haflidason

 

The film tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms, newly arrived in Los Angeles, California, who meets and befriends an amnesiac hiding in her aunt's apartment.

'Few will be able to resist its heady sense of intrigue and two riveting lead performances by Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring.' Kirk Honeycutt

 

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The film is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King about a writer accepting the job of the caretaker at an isolated hotel for the winter with his family moving in as well.

'The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.' Roger Ebert

 

 119. Living

 Japan 1952

 DIR Akira Kurosawa

 120. Badlands

 USA 1973

 DIR Terence Malick