#930 – A Beautiful Mind, 2001, Ron Howard
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
#931: The Way Home
#931 – The Way Home, (집으로…), 2002, Lee Jeong-hyang
The story begins on a fine summers morning, when San-woo and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the seven-year-old urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 78-year-old mute, but not deaf, grandmother while she looks for a new job after a business venture failed in Seoul.
#932: American Honey
#932 – American Honey, 2016, Andrea Arnold
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
#933: The Lobster
#933 – The Lobster, 2015, Yorgos Lanthimos
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
#934: Fists in the Pocket
#934 – Fists in the Pocket, (I pugni in tasca), 1965, Marco Bellocchio
Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
#935: Bandits of Orgosolo
#935 – Bandits of Orgosolo, (Banditi a Orgosolo), 1961, Vittorio De Seta
A Sardinian peasant is implicated in the murder of a policeman and, although innocent, he doesn’t give himself up, lacking faith in the judicial system and fearing that he may lose his sheep while awaiting trial. He leaves for the mountains with his brother but life is difficult and his flock dies. Returning to the town he discovers his family in abject poverty. He procures a gun and, forced by his social predicament, resorts to banditry.
#936: A Star Is Born
#936 – A Star Is Born, 1954, George Cukor
A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
#937: Hell or High Water
#937 – Hell or High Water, 2016, David Mackenzie
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas.
#938: The Youth Killer
#938 – The Youth Killer, (青春の殺人者), 1976, Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
#939: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
#939 – South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, 1999, Trey Parker
When the four boys see an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance and Philip, they are pronounced “corrupted”, and their parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada.
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