#180 – A Brighter Summer Day, (牯嶺街少年殺人事件), 1991, Edward Yang
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
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#181: West Side Story
#181 – West Side Story, 1961, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to “own” the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two kids, one from each rival gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.
#182: Grand Illusion
#182 – Grand Illusion, (La Grande Illusion), 1937, Jean Renoir
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
#183: The Wizard of Oz
#183 – The Wizard of Oz, 1939, Victor Fleming
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
#184: The Great Beauty
#184 – The Great Beauty, (La grande bellezza), 2013, Paolo Sorrentino
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
#185: The Killer
#185 – The Killer, (喋血雙雄), 1989, John Woo
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim’s sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.
#186: The Big Lebowski
#186 – The Big Lebowski, 1998, Joel Coen
Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
#187: Certified Copy
#187 – Certified Copy, (Copie conforme), 2010, Abbas Kiarostami
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
#188: The Sound of Music
#188 – The Sound of Music, 1965, Robert Wise
A tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
#189: Roma
#189 – Roma, 2018, Alfonso Cuarón
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
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