#366 – Amadeus, 1984, Miloš Forman
The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival, Antonio Salieri—now confined to an insane asylum.
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#367: WALL-E
#367 – WALL-E, 2008, Andrew Stanton
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he’s finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.
#369: Up
#369 – Up, 2009, Pete Docter
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.
#370: The Florida Project
#370 – The Florida Project, 2017, Sean Baker
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
#371: Donnie Darko
#371 – Donnie Darko, 2001, Richard Kelly
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
#373: A Streetcar Named Desire
#373 – A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951, Elia Kazan
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
#374: Laura
#374 – Laura, 1944, Otto Preminger
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
#378: M*A*S*H
#378 – M*A*S*H, 1970, Robert Altman
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
#380: Do the Right Thing
#380 – Do the Right Thing, 1989, Spike Lee
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
#381: Gravity
#381 – Gravity, 2013, Alfonso Cuarón
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
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