#190 – 2046, 2004, Wong Kar-wai
Women enter and exit a science fiction author’s life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
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#191: Interstellar
#191 – Interstellar, 2014, Christopher Nolan
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
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#192: Hero
#192 – Hero, (英雄), 2002, Zhang Yimou
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.
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#193: The Usual Suspects
#193 – The Usual Suspects, 1995, Bryan Singer
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord’s almost supernatural prowess.
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#194: Dunkirk
#194 – Dunkirk, 2017, Christopher Nolan
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
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#195: A Prophet
#195 – A Prophet, (Un prophète), 2009, Jacques Audiard
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the ‘missions’ go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
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#196: Au Hasard Balthazar
#196 – Au Hasard Balthazar, 1966, Robert Bresson
A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson’s unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence.
#197: The Magnificent Ambersons
#197 – The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, Orson Welles
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
#198: Gone with the Wind
#198 – Gone with the Wind, 1939, Victor Fleming, George Cukor, & Sam Wood
The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman’s destructive “March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.
#199: A Woman Under the Influence
#199 – A Woman Under the Influence, 1974, John Cassavetes
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
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