498. The Science Of Sleep

 France/UK/Italy 2006

 DIR Michel Gondry

 497. Faust

 Germany 1926

 DIR F. W. Murnau

 496. I'm Not There

 USA/Germany 2007

 DIR Todd Haynes

 495. The Last Picture Show

 USA 1971

 DIR Peter Bogdanovich

 494. The Piano Teacher

 Austria/France/Germany 2001

 DIR Michael Haneke

 493. Ace In The Hole

 USA 1951

 DIR Billy Wilder

 492. Akira

 Japan 1988

 DIR Katsuhiro Otomo

 491. District 9

 USA/New Zealand 2009

 DIR Neill Blomkamp

 490. Apollo 13

 USA 1995

 DIR Ron Howard

 489. The Last Temptation Of Christ

 USA 1988

 DIR Martin Scorsese

 488. Funny Games

 Austria 1997

 DIR Michael Haneke

 487. Mad Max 2

 Australia 1981

 DIR George Miller

 486. Shoot The Piano Player

 France 1960

 DIR Francois Truffaut

 485. The Green Mile

 USA 1999

 DIR Frank Darabont

 484. Hero

 Hong Kong/China 2002

 DIR Yimou Zhang

 483. Happy Together

 Hong Kong 1997

 DIR Kar Wai Wong

 482. Casino Royale

 USA/UK/Germany/Czech Republic 2006

 DIR Martin Campbell

 481. Bottle Rocket

 USA 1996

 DIR Wes Anderson

The film follows Stéphane Miroux (Gael García Bernal) a man whose vivid dreams and imagination often interfere with his ability to interact with reality.

'Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.' A.O. Scott

Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona. A caption reads: "Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan."

'A powerfully reverent exercise in remystification, an attempt to waft some of the clouds of glory back around the great man, clouds that might have dispersed in recent years.' Peter Bradshaw

 

Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) is a piano professor at a Vienna music conservatory. She meets Walter Klemmer (Benoît Magimel), a charming 17-year-old engineering student from a bourgeois background and they begin to obsess one another.

A dark, intelligent, and thought-provoking examination of female repression. Sandi Chaitram

 

 

Wikus van de Merwe, an Afrikaner bureaucrat is  assigned to relocate a race of extraterrestrial creatures unexpectedly stranded on Earth, from District 9, a military-guarded slum in Johannesburg.

'Intriguing, inventive and energetic, Blomkamp's feature debut is a thoroughly tasty prawn cocktail.' Film 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set in ancient China during the Warring States period, the film stars Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, and is based on the story of Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin in 227 BC.

'Demonstrates how the martial arts genre transcends action and violence and moves into poetry, ballet and philosophy.' Roger Ebert

 

Casino Royale is set at the beginning of Bond's career as Agent 007, just as he is earning his licence to kill. Bond falls for Vesper Lynd, a treasury agent, while trying to foil a high stakes poker game.

'Casino Royale has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of.' Roger Ebert

 

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The film depicts Ari Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War where he witnessed the aftermath of a massacre.                               
'The animated documentary Waltz With Bashir is a memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film.' A.O. Scott

 499. The Lion In Winter

 UK 1968

 DIR Anthony Harvey

 500. Waltz With Bashir

 Israel/Germany/France/USA/Finland/Switzerland/ Belgium/Australia 2008

 DIR Ari Folman