Double Reading

Disclaimer: I really only manage the top six or so entries. Things at the bottom of my queue are usually there because I added them recently. I often take things from the bottom and middle, then move them way up to the top when I want to see them. Point of the story: the order doesn’t make much difference.

1. The Thirteenth Floor
   
   In director Josef Rusnak’s sci-fi noir drama, scientists Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and Hall (Craig Bierko) have created a stunning virtual-reality 1930s Los Angeles. After leaving an important message for Hall, Fuller transports himself to 1998. But he’s found murdered and his colleague is the prime suspect. The problem? The L.A. scene is virtual, but the murder — and the police investigating it — is real. Vincent D’Onofrio co-stars.
2. The Final Cut
   
   Robin Williams stars in this futuristic tale as Alan Hakman, a “cutter” who edits people’s digital memories into compositions fit for viewing at their funerals — but things change when he finds his own childhood memory in the databank of a client. This thriller also stars Mira Sorvino as Hakman’s girlfriend and Jim Caviezel as a former cutter who is in search of a corporate bigwig’s incriminating footage.
3. Raging Bull
   
   Robert De Niro won an Oscar for his portrayal of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s widely acclaimed biopic, which paints a raw portrait of a tormented soul unable to control his violent outbursts. Marked by De Niro’s powerful performance and Scorsese’s gritty, black-and-white realism, the film also launched the Hollywood careers of Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty, who each received an Oscar nomination.
4. Revolver
   
   Guy Ritchie delivers another fast-paced crime thriller starring Jason Statham (of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch), who this time plays Jake, a gangster and ace gambler recently released from prison. Determined to hustle the crime boss (Ray Liotta) who killed his sister-in-law, Jake deliberately humiliates the kingpin in a private game. But when the mobster calls for Jake’s head, a mysterious duo steps in to save his skin.
5. Benny’s Video
   
   Fourteen-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch) is a video freak whose life consists only of school, videotaping what he sees outside his window and spending hours watching violent action films. Benny becomes obsessed with amateur footage of a pig being slaughtered, and soon, his passion for videotaped death leads him to commit a heinous act of his own. Austrian director Michael Haneke helms this postmodern exploration of emotional disconnection.
6. The Color of Money
   
   The Hustler isn’t what he used to be in this continuation of the 1961 film: “Fast” Eddie Felson (Oscar-winner Paul Newman) has given up pool for life as a liquor salesman. But then he meets Vincent (Tom Cruise), a cocky natural who makes a cue ball crack like a lightning bolt. Eddie takes Vincent under his wing and on the road, but are teacher and student destined to become competitors? Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio co-stars.
7. Dark Blue Almost Black
   
   Filmmaker Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s directorial debut follows a pensive, put-upon young man named Jorge (Quim Gutiérrez) who’s forced to put his professional and personal life on hold to fulfill the obligations his family imposes on him. Although he dutifully complies with the familial expectations, he wrestles with the guilt he feels over his desire to strike out on his own and find himself.
8. Wassup Rockers
   
   Much like his controversial debut film, Kids, director Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers features young people from the street in the film’s starring roles, portraying a group of young Hispanics who go by nicknames such as Spermball, Porky and Kiko. While the rest of their peers conform to the pervasive hip-hop culture, these teens prefer skateboards, tight clothing and punk-rock music — and the rich girls they meet in Beverly Hills.
9. About Schmidt
   
   When insurance actuary Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) retires and his wife dies, he looks for life’s meaning on a road trip to his daughter’s (Hope Davis) upcoming wedding to a waterbed salesman (Dermot Mulroney). But Schmidt can’t seem to get anything right. En route to the wedding, he shares his life through letters with a Tanzanian boy he’s sponsoring for 73 cents a day — and soon, Schmidt discovers renewed purpose.
10. MTV’s Wuthering Heights
    
    Emily Bronte’s classic novel of thwarted love gets a teen-angst makeover in this adaptation from MTV, starring Mike Vogel as Heath, a moody, blossoming rock star who also rocks the world of Cate (Erika Christensen), to the intense jealousy of her brother (Johnny Whitworth). Passions flare and betrayals abound, all set to a killer soundtrack. Katherine Heigl, Aimee Osbourne and Christopher Masterson co-star.
11. Teddy Bears’ Picnic
    
    In Harry Shearer’s tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the “leaders” for what they really are.
12. Do the Right Thing
    
    What begins as an uproarious comedy evolves into a provocative, disquieting drama as director Spike Lee chronicles trivial events that bring festering racial tensions to the surface on a sweltering day in a largely black Brooklyn neighborhood. After a number of minor misunderstandings — and an effort to boycott the local pizza parlor — a young man (Bill Nunn) lies dead, the pizzeria lies in ashes, and the racial schism is wider than ever.
13. The Dead Zone
    
    Christopher Walken gives an eerie, memorable performance as Johnny Smith, a man who awakens from a five-year coma blessed with second sight: the ability to see a person’s past, present and future simply through physical contact. When he shakes hands with an up-and-coming political candidate (Martin Sheen), Smith foresees nuclear war. Horror veteran David Cronenberg directs this supernatural thriller, adapted from a novel by Stephen King.
14. The Pillow Book
    
    A bizarre mix of carnality and calligraphy, The Pillow Book is a lush foray into the aphrodisiacal pleasures of the flesh and mind. A woman (Vivian Wu) melds her love of life and literature in an unusual fashion — by seeking a lover who will write on her skin. She eventually leaves her husband for a British man (Ewan McGregor) who will satisfy her needs, but her father’s publisher stands in their way. Peter Greenaway directs.
15. Orlando
    
    Director Sally Potter adapts Virginia Woolf’s 1928 allegorical novel about a woman who lives for 400 years — the first half as a man — in this surrealist study of sex and gender roles throughout the ages. The transition from man to woman and from the 16th to the 20th century is realized by Tilda Swinton’s breakthrough performance and the film’s Oscar-nominated costumes and art direction. Quentin Crisp plays Queen Elizabeth I.
16. Single White Female
    
    Up-and-coming fashion designer Allison (Bridget Fonda) lives the urban dweller’s dream life in a gorgeous Manhattan apartment with boyfriend Sam (Steven Weber). When infidelity is revealed and Sam moves out, Allison places a classified ad to find a roommate. Quiet, mousy Hedy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) fits the bill until her enviousness toward Allison turns her into the roommate from hell in director Barbet Schroeder’s dark psychological thriller.
17. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
    
    A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders (Rebecca De Mornay) as their newborn’s nanny. Only much later does the infant’s mother, Claire Bartel (Annabella Sciorra), realize Peyton’s true intentions — to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge. Julianne Moore co-stars as Claire’s sassy real-estate-agent friend.
18. That Obscure Object of Desire
    
    Adapted from the novel La Femme et le Pantin by Pierre Louys, this Oscar-nominated erotic dark comedy was Luis Buñuel’s final film. The story follows, in flashback, middle-aged Mathieu (Fernando Rey) and his obsession for the much younger, moody Conchita (played by both Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina). The two play a continuous tug-of-war with each other’s desires, each trying to outlast the other at their own game.
19. The Seventh Seal
    
    Exhausted and disillusioned, a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) makes the journey home after years of combat in the Crusades. But when the black-robed figure of Death confronts him, the knight challenges him to a game of chess. A powerful meditation on the existence of God and the meaning of life, this drama is considered one of Ingmar Bergman’s best and took the Cannes Film Festival Prize in 1957.
20. The Kid
    
    Considered one of Charlie Chaplin’s best films, The Kid also made a star of little Jackie Coogan, who plays a boy cared for by The Tramp when he’s abandoned by his mother, Edna (Edna Purviance). Later, Edna has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son. When she finds him and wrests him from The Tramp, it makes for what turns out be one of the most heart-wrenching scenes ever included in a comedy. Chaplin also directs.
21. Soldier’s Girl
    
    This powerful drama tells the true story of a young soldier, Pfc. Barry Winchell (Troy Garity), who meets and falls for a beautiful transgendered nightclub performer (Lee Pace) while on a drunken outing with fellow soldiers. Winchell’s relationship is frowned upon by the other soldiers — and eventually leads to tragedy at the hands of his homophobic roommate. Garity and Pace both earned Independent Spirit nods for their performances.
22. The Quiet American
    
    Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this murder mystery centers on a love triangle set against the French Indochina War in 1952 Vietnam — a world suffused with opium, intrigue and betrayal. A British reporter, Fowler (Michael Caine, in an Oscar-nominated performance), falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman, Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), and is dismayed when an American (Brendan Fraser) also begins vying for her attention.
23. O Fantasma
    
    By day, brooding, lonely Sergio (Ricardo Meneses) works as a trash collector in the streets of Lisbon. By night, he embarks on an increasingly intense odyssey of random, anonymous sexual encounters. Before long, he becomes fixated on a hot, young stranger and begins to retreat further and further into his dark dream life, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, love and obsession. Joao Pedro Rodrigues directs.
24. Proof of Life
    
    Engineer Peter Bowman (David Morse) moves with his wife, Alice (Meg Ryan), to a small Central American country to help build infrastructure, but ends up getting kidnapped by a radical revolutionary group seeking ransom. That’s when Terry Thorn (Russell Crowe) steps in. An expert in hostage negotiation, Terry works tirelessly to free Peter, but finds himself increasingly attracted to Alice, who feels the same way. Taylor Hackford directs.
25. Elephant
    
    Indie writer-director Gus Van Sant helms this unnerving tale about high school violence that unfolds on an ordinary school day, inside a typical American high school filled with the usual goings-on — schoolwork, football, gossip and peer pressure. For each of the students we meet, high school is a different experience: alternately stimulating, friendly, traumatic, lonely or just plain hard. Timothy Bottoms co-stars.
26. Another Day in Paradise
    
    James Woods talks a mile a minute as a schizoid hood in Another Day in Paradise; Melanie Griffith co-stars as his junkie wife. Both serve as unlikely parental figures, taking two budding crooks under their wings. For a while, life is perfect — and then everything goes wrong. Another Day in Paradise builds an increasing sense of dread as Woods’ true colors are revealed.
27. Criminal
    
    Con man Richard Gaddis (John C. Reilly) teams up with newbie Rodrigo (Diego Luna) for a heist that’s a little bigger than his usual projects: They’ll filch an antique currency note from a customer when he blows into town at the casino where Gaddis trolls for victims. But it seems the pair will need help, which lessens Gaddis’s take. Plus, his sister (Maggie Gyllenhaal) seems dead-set on spoiling his criminal fun. (Remade from Nine Queens.)
28. Feed
    
    Hit the campaign trail with politicians Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan, Paul Tsongas and others as they try to win the hearts — and votes — of New Hampshire constituents in the state’s 1992 presidential primary. Packed with comic outtakes and illuminating vignettes, this satiric documentary offers a microscopic view of the candidates — along with a mother lode of mortifying moments — as they stump to win the White House.
29. Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux
    
    Francis Ford Coppola’s timeless epic adapts Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, where special operations Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) must travel deep into the Cambodian jungle to locate and kill the mysterious — and insane — Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). This double feature includes the 1979 Oscar-winning masterwork set in the Vietnam War, along with the re-edited and expanded 2001 director’s cut, Apocalypse Now Redux.
30. Everything Is Illuminated
    
    A young American Jewish man begins an exhausting quest — aided by a naïve Ukranian translator — to find the righteous gentile woman who saved his grandfather when his small Ukranian village (along with most of the populace) was obliterated during the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941. Stars Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz and Boris Leskin. Liev Schreiber directs. Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.
31. Rock Star
    
    Head-banging — 1980s style — makes a comeback with Mark Wahlberg as Chris, a lead singer wannabe who gets to live his wildest dream when he’s whisked from anonymity to being front man for Steel Dragon, the enormously popular metal band he worships. Accompanied on tour by his girlfriend, Emily (Jennifer Aniston), Chris soon discovers life in the fast lane is not what he envisioned, and the relationships he holds dear are strained as his star rises.
32. Paycheck
    
    Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a genius who’s hired — and paid handsomely — by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he’s incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he’s told he isn’t getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn’t paid … and how he’s gotten in hot water.
33. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    
    Director Tom Stoppard turns William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet” topsy-turvy in this witty, existential puzzle box, presenting the play from the view of trivial characters Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Roth). Beckoned to find the cause of the Danish prince’s malaise, the duo strolls into the midst of the royal intrigue. But with no memory of Hamlet (or anything else), they’re mystified by their mission.
34. Farewell My Concubine
    
    A seemingly unshakable friendship between two Chinese opera stars gets put to the test in the face of war, a communist takeover, the Cultural Revolution and the intrusion of a woman who tempts both of them. In a plot that captures 50 years of Chinese history, the once-inseparable Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) and Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) find themselves increasingly at odds after Xiaolou weds a lovely courtesan (Li Gong).
35. Ma Vie En Rose
    
    Convinced he’s a girl trapped in a boy’s body, 7-year-old Ludovic (Georges Du Fresne) expresses his true self by regularly donning girls’ clothing, putting a strain on his perplexed family — and, of course, sending shockwaves among his bigoted neighbors. But Ludovic innocently carries on, oblivious to the chaos he’s creating. This whimsical Belgian comedy was an international film festival smash and received a Best Foreign Film Golden Globe.
36. Happiness
    
    A bittersweet film that belies its title, Happiness is not for the squeamish, drawing a dark portrait of a supremely dysfunctional family in which each member battles personal demons amid plotlines involving pederasts and masturbation. Stories concern a prank telephone caller (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who’s afraid of women and a preternaturally cheerful woman (Jane Adams) who’s unable to make a physical connection.
37. Wild Things
    
    When guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon) rejects the advances of teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards), she accuses him of rape. In short order Sam’s suspended by the school, rejected by the country club, and fighting to get his life back. Bill Murray plays an unscrupulous lawyer; Theresa Russell plays Kelly’s mom; and Neve Campbell is perfect as a disturbed teen in a tale that leaves viewers guessing until the bitter end.
38. Dead Alive
    
    Although it’s easy to admire the maniacal glee of director Peter Jackson’s bloodfest, Dead Alive is nonetheless intense and profoundly disturbing. When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove’s mother, she’s transformed into a zombie. She begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control. Events culminate at a house party that turns into a blood-drenched zombie buffet.
39. Ed Wood
    
    In one of his best-ever performances, Johnny Depp plays Ed Wood, a grinning goof with a sunny disposition who was heralded as the “worst director of all time” — and certainly made the movies to prove it. (He also loved to direct his epically bad films while dressed in women’s clothing.) Martin Landau turns in an Oscar-winning performance as aging horror icon Bela Lugosi, while Sarah Jessica Parker and Bill Murray co-star. Tim Burton directs.
40. The Ninth Gate
    
    An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom brings an unscrupulous book dealer (Johnny Depp) deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship. Director Roman Polanski (Rosemary’s Baby) creates a richly textured gothic mystery where the hunter becomes the hunted and the devil must be paid his due.
41. Benny and Joon
    
    Benny (Aidan Quinn) is the overprotective caretaker of his mentally ill — but artistically talented — sister, Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson). When the eccentric Sam (Johnny Depp), who looks and acts like a silent-movie comedian, falls for Joon, the siblings’ frail bond is put to the test. Depp’s performance in this offbeat, beautifully acted love story scored a Golden Globe nomination. Julianne Moore and Oliver Platt co-star.
42. Like Water for Chocolate
    
    Passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torné) forbids her from marrying him. So when Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking — and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares. A feast for the senses, this magical romance from director Alfonso Arau was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Golden Globe.
43. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    
    San Francisco biologist Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) turns to health inspector Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) for help when her live-in beau begins acting odd — and distant. Matthew and Elizabeth notice that suddenly almost everyone around them has become impassive. When their friends discover a developing doppelgänger in their commercial mud baths, the foursome realizes an alien invasion is under way. Can they stop it?
44. Repo Man
    
    Lacking role models and a purpose, baby-faced delinquent Otto (Emilio Estevez) finds a code of honor and a higher calling when he hooks up with a band of contemporary “knights”: the repo men. A “seasoned” auto repossessor (Harry Dean Stanton) shows Otto the ropes, and when a big reward is offered for an elusive 1964 Malibu, Otto dodges G-men, cops, religious kooks — you name it — in a frenzied quest for the car. Does his fate lie in its trunk?
45. All the President’s Men
    
    The film that launched a thousand journalism school students, All the President’s Men chronicles how the work of reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) contributed to the public downfall of President Richard M. Nixon. The duo connected a Washington, D.C., hotel break-in with a Nixon “dirty tricks” team assigned to discredit Democratic rivals, launching a series of tense events that forced Nixon to resign.
46. The Secret of NIMH
    
    Based on the children’s book Mrs. Brisby and the Rats of NIMH, director Don Bluth’s animated adventure chronicles the trials of a widowed field mouse (voiced by Elizabeth Hartman) who must move her family — including an ailing son — to escape a farmer’s plow. Aided by a crow (Dom DeLuise) and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
47. The Last Unicorn
    
    Based on the Peter Beagle novel, this animated tale follows a unicorn (Mia Farrow) who believes she’s the last of her species and is searching high and low for someone just like her. All the while, she must avoid the evil Red Bull. He’s believed to be the one who killed off the rest of her kind. Along the way, she’s disregarded and harassed, but finally finds solace in a magician (Alan Arkin) and a knight named Prince Lir (Jeff Bridges).
48. Hotel Rwanda
    
    Amid the holocaust of internecine tribal fighting in Rwanda that sees the savage butchering of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, one ordinary hotel manager (Oscar nominee Don Cheadle) musters the courage to save more than 1,000 helpless refugees. Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte and Joaquin Phoenix co-star in this powerful film — often described as an African Schindler’s List — directed by Terry George.
49. Eating Raoul
    
    Paul and Mary Bland (Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov) dream of owning a restaurant but can’t pony up the $20,000 down payment that will make it a reality. But when an intruder is killed after he tries to assault Mary in the Blands’ home, the couple decides to lure sex-seekers to their home via a classified ad, kill them and take their money. Plus, the “tasty” cadavers enliven some of the sauces featured on the menu!
50. Tadpole
    
    Young 15-year-old Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently and can quote Voltaire; females gravitate toward him. In fact, Oscar could probably have any woman he wants — but he’s fallen in love with his stepmother. This offbeat coming-of-age comedy co-stars Sigourney Weaver as stepmother Eve, John Ritter as Oscar’s father and Bebe Neuwirth as a seductive masseuse.
51. Citizen Kane
    
    Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, which, in essence, was a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. Welles’s complex and technically stunning film chronicles Kane’s rise from poverty to become one of America’s most influential men — and it’s considered one of the best movies ever made.
52. Chinatown
    
    With a suspicious, porcelain-skinned femme fatale (Faye Dunaway) bankrolling his snooping, private eye J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) uncovers intricate dirty dealings in the Los Angeles waterworks and gets his nose slashed for his trouble. Meanwhile, his financier harbors a nasty family secret. Director Roman Polanski reimagines 1930s Los Angeles with an onionlike story that reveals itself one complex layer at a time in this classic neonoir.
53. Vera Drake
    
    Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton, who earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal) spends her days doting on her working-class family. But Vera also has a secret side: Her family and friends don’t know that she visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for their unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities get wind of her activities — then illegal in 1950s England — Vera’s world quickly falls apart, deeply affecting both her and her family.
54. Being Julia
    
    Estranged from her son, willfully ignorant of her husband’s philandering and aware that her youth and beauty are fading, aging actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening, who earned an Oscar nomination for her spirited performance) is in search of a way to regain the spark of passion. And that passion may lie in the smoldering attentions of a much-younger admirer (Shaun Evans) who might not be able to stay faithful to her.
55. Stage Beauty
    
    Edward “Ned” Kynaston (Billy Crudup), England’s most celebrated leading “lady,” becomes a nonentity practically overnight when Charles II allows women to tread the boards, decreeing that men may no longer play women’s parts. Ned built his career by making the greatest female roles his own. But to become a real man again, he’ll need assistance from a willing woman — his ex-dresser, Maria (Claire Danes).
56. Head in the Clouds
    
    John Duigan helmed this sexy film starring Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron as Gilda, a flighty-but-charming socialite who finds her true match in Guy (Stuart Townsend), an intellectual Irishman who wants to battle in the Spanish Civil War. Guy convinces Mia (Penélope Cruz), Gilda’s confidante, to join him in Spain. But Gilda has other plans that could endanger her life more than supporting the war.
57. Alfie
    
    Jude Law reprises a role made famous by Michael Caine (who got an Oscar nod for his portrayal in the 1966 film of the same name) in Charles Shyer’s stylish remake, which takes a decidedly different tone than the original. Self-aware British cad Alfie (Law) falls in lust too easily and can’t commit to one woman in all of Manhattan. But when one of his lovers gets pregnant, Alfie begins to question his existence.
58. Wilde
    
    Stephen Fry stars as playwright and larger-than-life personality Oscar Wilde in this lush historical drama based on the late Richard Ellmann’s definitive biography of one of London’s most prolific writers and orators. The story traces Wilde’s rise to fame — from his marriage to Constance (Jennifer Ehle) to his sweeping, torrid affair with a young Oxford graduate, Lord Alfred Douglas (Jude Law), that brought about his imprisonment and downfall.
59. Total Eclipse
    
    Leonardo DiCaprio plays the prodigious 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud in this captivating historical drama. Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis), an older and more traditional writer, finds himself infatuated with the young Rimbaud. That make him unable to keep the peace with his wife (Romane Bohringer). A love/hate relationship develops between the two men as they forge the rough waters of creative expression.
60. Bent
    
    A Berlin homosexual is caught up in the Nazi hysteria during World War II in this drama based on the play by Martin Sherman (who also wrote the screenplay). After being forced to kill his lover, he’s placed in a concentration camp and lies to get himself classified as Jewish rather than gay. But several rule-breaking incidents and his love for a fellow male prisoner bring him to admit his true nature. Mick Jagger appears briefly as a drag queen.
61. Nashville
    
    Countless characters, including Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Ned Beatty and Karen Black, get caught up in a political rally that takes over Nashville in director Robert Altman’s sprawling satirical masterpiece about politics and country music. The many fine performances in this mosaic include Lily Tomlin’s bored housewife and Henry Gibson’s pompous, patriotic country singer. The actors also wrote and performed their own songs.
62. Badlands
    
    Young garbageman Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen) and his girlfriend, Holly (Sissy Spacek), kill Holly’s father in South Dakota and hit the road on the run from the law. Writer-director Terrence Malick’s script (for his feature film debut), based on real murders committed by a couple in 1958, does not judge its characters as they make their way to the Badlands of Montana, leaving a trail of senseless and random murders in their wake.
63. Derrida
    
    The master of deconstruction — French philosopher Jacques Derrida — is himself deconstructed in this documentary directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman. Witty and knowing, Derrida is just as fascinating a film subject as he is an intellectual. The world never got to watch great minds such as Plato and Socrates in action, but thanks to modern technology, this film captures one of the brilliant thinkers of the 20th century.
64. The Triplets of Belleville
    
    In this innovative animated tale, Champion is a lonely boy adopted by his grandmother, Madame Souza. Seeing how happy Champion is on his bicycle, she trains him to compete. Years later, he enters the Tour de France but is kidnapped during the race. With Champion’s dog, Bruno, Madame Souza sets out to save him and meets an odd female singing trio called “The Triplets of Belleville.” Can her new friends and Bruno’s nose help her find Champion?
65. The Sea Inside
    
    Javier Bardem stars in this moving film based on a true story as Ramon Sampedro, a Spaniard who’s condemned to life as a quadriplegic. Determined to die with dignity, Sampedro leads a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life. His extraordinary example even inspires his lawyer, Julia (Belen Rueda), and a local woman (Lola Duenas) to reach for the heavens, with both women achieving far beyond their wildest dreams.
66. The Motorcycle Diaries
    
    This foreign-language drama tells the incredible true story of a 23-year-old medical student from Argentina — future revolutionary Che Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) — who motorcycled across South America with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) beginning in 1951. Walter Salles’s film is based on Guevara’s diaries of the trek, a deeply personal odyssey that ultimately crystallized the young man’s budding political beliefs.
67. Great Expectations
    
    In this Americanized version of Charles Dickens’s classic novel, set in 1990s New York instead of 1860s England, humble, young Finn (Ethan Hawke) develops a lifelong crush on Estella (Gwyneth Paltrow), the wealthy niece of the eccentric Ms. Dinsmoor (Anne Bancroft). The pair part, but then a mysterious benefactor makes it possible for Finn to attend art school in the city, where he runs into his now-engaged love.
68. The Scarlet Letter
    
    In this adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, Puritan settler Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) is accused of adultery in a Massachusetts settlement in the 1660s. Although she’s attracted to the town’s pastor (Gary Oldman), the two resist temptation. But only a whiff of scandal is enough for the town’s morality police to sentence Prynne to live as an outcast and wear a shameful scarlet A for adultery.
69. The Andromeda Strain
    
    A satellite crashes in New Mexico, prompting scientists to race against the clock to stop a deadly virus from spreading in this Oscar-nominated sci-fi classic based on Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name. The alien illness that sprang from the probe has already killed most of those living near the crash site, and now it’s up to a team of scientists to stop it. Note: Contains graphic scenes that may be unsuitable for young children.
70. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    
    A Confederate sympathizer condemned to die by hanging gets a lucky break — literally — when the executioner experiences technical difficulties. French director Robert Enrico helms this award-winning live-action short that claimed top honors at the Oscars and Cannes, a film based on a well-known Civil War story by Ambrose Bierce. The piece would later air on American television as a special episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
71. A Very Long Engagement
    
    Amelie’s Audrey Tautou stars as Mathilde, a young Frenchwoman who vows to find out what happened to her missing fiancé (Gaspard Ulliel) during World War I. He appears to have died after a court-martial, but she needs to know for sure. As she looks for the truth, she discovers unexpected things about herself and the people she meets along the way. Jean-Pierre Jeunet directs this foreign-language adaptation of Sebastien Japrisot’s novel.
72. Under One Roof
    
    Daniel Chang is a closeted Chinese-American boy living in San Francisco with his traditional mother. Eager for a grandchild, Mrs. Chang desperately wants to see Daniel married and devotes much of her time to finding a suitable Chinese girl for him. But when she recruits a new tenant, Robert, for the downstairs flat, Daniel finds himself falling for the hot Southern boy. Not the kind of match his mother was hoping for!
73. The Wedding Banquet
    
    This lyrical film by Ang Lee dares to expand the definition of love. Wei Tong (Winston Chao) is a successful Manhattan businessman enjoying a thriving relationship with his live-in lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). Life is perfect, except his parents don’t know he’s gay. So, when they decide to visit from Taiwan, he asks his tenant, Wei Wei (May Chin), for help. She agrees to pose as his fiancée — a plan that goes a little too far.
74. The Tomorrow People: Set 1: Disc 1
    
    This disc includes the episodes “Slaves of Jedikiah (Parts 1-5).”
75. The Tomorrow People: Set 1: Disc 2
    
    This disc includes the following episodes: “The Medusa Strain (Parts 1-4)” and “The Vanishing Earth (Parts 1-4).”
76. The Tomorrow People: Set 1: Disc 3
    
    This disc includes the episodes “The Blue and the Green (Parts 1-5).”
77. The Tomorrow People: Set 1: Disc 4
    
    This disc includes the following episodes: “A Rift in Time (Parts 1-4)” and “The Doomsday Men (Parts 1-4).”
78. Beautiful Boxer
    
    Kickboxer Parinaya Charoemphol (Asanee Suwan) harbors an unusual secret: He’s transgender. Inspired by a famous Thai pugilist who lived two drastically different lives, this award-winning drama recounts Parinaya’s painful attempts to exist in paradoxical worlds. To fund the sex-change operation he’s desperate to have, Parinaya earns money in the ring, participating day after day in the ultimate “masculine” sport.
79. Blue
    
    When a young Frenchwoman (Juliette Binoche) tries to uncover her famous composer husband’s secret life, her steps take her alternately closer to and further from the truth on a journey that ultimately leads to self-discovery. In this first installment of Polish cinematic genius Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “three colors” trilogy, Blue stands for “liberty” (as in the French national motto) and is the first color of the red, white and blue French flag.
80. Ikiru
    
    When a stoic government official (Takashi Shimura) in post-war Japan learns he has terminal cancer, he suddenly realizes he’s squandered his life on meaningless red tape and has no close family or friendships to lean on, in this drama from director Akira Kurosawa. Resolving to use his remaining time wisely, he sets out to steer a children’s playground project through the bureaucracy he knows so well.
81. Persona
    
    To achieve more effective treatment, a nurse (Bibi Andersson) and her patient (Liv Ullmann) — an actress who’s lost the power of speech — check into a private cottage by the sea, where the two isolated women become co-dependent and insanely jealous of each other. It’s a case of the cure being worse than the affliction in this black-and-white cinematic classic directed by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman.
82. Coffee and Cigarettes
    
    Jim Jarmusch’s ensemble comedy collects a series of strange encounters Jarmusch has been capturing in short films since the mid-1980s, presenting them as a series of vignettes that all revolve around discussions held over coffee and cigarettes. A diverse cast including Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett and Roberto Benigni address such topics as Nicola Tesla, alternative medicine, Paris, the movie industry and more.
83. Cry-Baby
    
    Helmed by director John Waters — the king of kitsch — this campy comedy set in 1950s Baltimore stars Johnny Depp as Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker, a leather-clad street tough who leads a gang dubbed the Drapes. When Wade falls for a goody-two-shoes (Amy Locane) and steals her from her mossback beau (Stephen Mailer), the romance sparks a battle between rival factions. Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton and Patty Hearst appear in cameo roles.
84. Strictly Ballroom
    
    Dumped by his partner just before a major dance competition, gifted hoofer Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) is forced to take a graceless neophyte (Tara Morice) as his new partner. But much to everyone’s surprise, Scott soon turns his unpromising protégé into a topnotch dancer. Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson, Gia Carides and Barry Otto also star in this quirky, engaging tale from Aussie director Baz Luhrmann.
85. Lords of Dogtown
    
    A group of outcasts from California’s Venice Beach change the face of skateboarding forever in this 1970s tale based on a true story, written by “Skateboard Godfather” Stacy Peralta, one of the competitive skaters portrayed in the film. Known as the Z-Boys, the radical riders invent a brazen style of skating and deal with heartache when the sport they live for turns into big business. Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch and Rebecca De Mornay co-star.
86. Red
    
    In this meditation on the need for passion and human connection — the final film in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “three colors” trilogy — an accident brings together two very different people: Valentine (Irene Jacob), a model, and Joseph (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a retired judge. Since love chooses to pair people’s heart at random, theirs becomes a fated and deeply improbable, but altogether true, romance.
87. SLC Punk
    
    Recent college grads Stevo (Matthew Lillard) and Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian) sport blue Mohawks, listen to hard-core punk and live according to their own rules. Not a problem in many places, but in Salt Lake City they’re total outcasts. Add to the mix Stevo’s father (Christopher McDonald), who wants his son to study law at Harvard (just as he did). Stevo must decide whether to stay true to his own ideals or start planning for his future.
88. Dangerous Liaisons
    
    Privileged and bored 18-century French aristocrats Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) and Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) entertain themselves by making a bet focusing on the virginal Cécile de Volanges (Uma Thurman) and the virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Michelle Pfeiffer). Directed by Stephen Frears, this Academy Award-winning adaptation of the acclaimed stage play and novel also stars Swoosie Kurtz.
89. Life as a House
    
    Faced with a sobering diagnosis of terminal cancer, George (Kevin Kline) decides to construct a beautiful new house on his land overlooking the Pacific Ocean, while at the same time trying to connect with his estranged son (Hayden Christensen). Kristin Scott Thomas and Mary Steenburgen co-star in this moving dramedy that speaks eloquent volumes about the fragility — and resilience — of the human condition.
90. Last Days
    
    A rock ‘n’ roll star seeks solace in the woods in Gus Van Sant’s drama centered on a Kurt Cobain-type character. Tired of career pressure and constant public exposure, Blake (Michael Pitt) retreats to his remote home and embarks on an introspective journey. As he sequesters himself from his fans, his manager, a private eye and others, Blake ultimately finds release from his troubled life. Asia Argento and Lukas Haas co-star.
91. Heaven
    
    Deeply disappointed by law enforcement’s lax investigation following her husband’s drug-related death, Philippa Paccard (Cate Blanchett) takes the law into her own hands and ends up imprisoned in this moody romantic drama from director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). Filippo (Giovanni Ribisi), a police officer involved with Philippa’s questioning, falls in love with her and helps her escape, as they flee together to the Tuscan countryside.
92. Gozu
    
    Minami (Hideki Sone) mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for. …
93. Mommie Dearest
    
    Based on Christina Crawford’s slanderous, tell-all biography, Mommie Dearest paints a portrait of a Joan Crawford the public never knew. The film portrays Crawford (Faye Dunaway, in an over-the-top performance) as a wicked, abusive mother who lives as though she’s perpetually onscreen. In the movie’s most memorable scene, Crawford berates her daughter, Christina (Mara Hobel), for improperly hanging her clothes, screaming, “No more wire hangers!”
94. Head-On
    
    Cahit Tomruk (Birol Unel) and Sibel Guner (Sibel Kekilli) are immigrant Germans who live and work in the port town of Hamburg. In a bid to help Sibel break free of her family (which strictly adheres to Turkish customs, religious and otherwise), the couple decides to marry. But straitlaced families are just part of the problem; Cahit and Sibel must also counterbalance ancestral roots with their new life in a western democracy. Fatih Akin directs.
95. End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
    
    Variously dubbed “A punk Last Waltz” and “One headbangin’ helluva good time,” this incisive documentary about the Ramones by Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields traces the seminal punk band’s trajectory from obscurity to fame to induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s an insider look at the rockers — blemishes and all — that will probably make your head spin. Includes interviews with Joe Strummer, Debbie Harry, Nicolas Cage and others.
96. Three Dancing Slaves
    
    After the untimely death of their mother, three brothers fight a stifling feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction as the small French provincial town in which they’re slowly growing to manhood becomes inescapable. A beautifully rendered slice-of-life film imbued with a universality that transcends borders and nationalities, Three Dancing Slaves stars Nicolas Cazalé, Stéphane Rideau, Thomas Dumerchaz, Salim Keichiouche and Bruno Lochet.
97. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    
    Documenting a controversial chapter in American history, this film investigates the American domestic terrorist group that gained fame for the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, and her subsequent assimilation into the group. Robert Stone directs this riveting account of the rise and fall of an organization with utopian ideals that went tragically wrong, which includes interviews with SLA founder Russ Little.
98. Showgirls
    
    A notorious bomb when first released, Showgirls eventually carved out a special niche in pop culture and now stands as a camp classic. Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) moves to Las Vegas with dreams of becoming a showgirl, but ends up working as a stripper. As she fights her way toward her goal, Nomi encounters sexism and dehumanizing conditions while sparring with a fellow dancer (Gina Gershon). Paul Verhoeven directs.
99. Flesh + Blood
    
    All’s fair in love and war in this swoony-but-gritty drama from filmmaker Paul Verhoeven. A band of mercenaries led by Martin (Rutger Hauer) abducts Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the daughter of the feudal lord who cheats them out of their money. In spite of the other mercenaries’ complaints, Martin grows to love Agnes, who’s waiting to be saved by her beloved. Co-stars Tom Burlinson and Jack Thompson.
100. Prozac Nation
     
     Based on Elizabeth Wurtzel’s best-selling memoir, Prozac Nation stars Christina Ricci as a woman on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate (Michelle Williams) and decides her boyfriend, Rafe (Jason Biggs), is her sole salvation. Her psychiatrist prescribes Prozac … but is that her only choice?
101. Dead Ringers
     
     Jeremy Irons gives a deftly brilliant performance as twin gynecologists — yes, that’s right — Elliot and Beverly Mantl, who can’t help spiraling into madness and addiction when they meet a pill-popping actress (Geneviève Bujold) who hopes to have children. David Cronenberg’s script and direction mix high-tech camera work with old-fashioned suspense to create a tangible sense of lunacy and compulsion in this psychological thriller.
102. Naked Lunch
     
     Director David Cronenberg brings William S. Burroughs’ hallucinatory, “unfilmable” novel to the screen. Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs.
103. Barton Fink
     
     Idealistic playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) believes writing should reveal the hopes, dreams and tragedies of the common man. When Hollywood taps him to write a movie, Fink develops severe writer’s block and soon falls victim to a strange sequence of events. Unable to combine his deep-seated ethics with Tinseltown’s frivolity, the disillusioned and desperate Fink winds up involved in a murder investigation in this Oscar-nominated dramedy.
104. Miller’s Crossing
     
     Trusted adviser to 1920s Irish crime boss Lee O’Bannon, Tom Reagan’s loyalty is tested when he takes up with O’Bannon’s gal pal, Verna Bernbaum. Meanwhile, rivals Johnny Caspar and Eddie Dane threaten O’Bannon’s racket. Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro, Albert Finney, Steve Buscemi, Jon Polito, J.E. Freeman and Marcia Gay Harden star in this marvelously crafted, unnerving crime-era epic helmed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
105. Junebug
     
     When Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a big-city art dealer from Chicago, makes a trip to North Carolina with her new husband, George (Alessandro Nivola), he finally allows her to meet his small-town Southern family, which breeds more problems than either of them planned for. Amy Adams earned an Oscar nod — and critical praise as a breakout star — for her supporting role as George’s sister-in-law, Ashley.
106. Me and You and Everyone We Know
     
     Miranda July writes, directs and stars in this poignant drama about both the unique and oftentimes humorous nature of people’s idiosyncrasies. At the center is eccentric Christine Jesperson (July), who seeks emotional connections in the modern world. Meanwhile, shoe salesman Richard (John Hawkes) copes with his recent separation while his teen son (Miles Thompson) experiences a sexual awakening. Carlie Westerman and Brad William Henke co-star.
107. Nobody Knows
     
     Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s touching film follows the empty lives of 12-year-old Akira (Yûya Yagira) and his three younger siblings (Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura and Momoko Shimizu) after their mother abandons them in a tiny Tokyo apartment. Pragmatic, determined and wise beyond his years, Akira manages the household as best he can — but eventually the money runs out, and the children must find new ways to survive. Based on a true story.
108. Funny Ha Ha
     
     Unsure what to do next but still partying like there’s no tomorrow, 23-year-old Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer) drags herself out of bed for her miserable temp job and can’t decide whether she’s wasting her time going after best buddy Alex (Christian Rudder), who doesn’t seem interested. Director Andrew Bujalksi co-stars as Mitchell, Marnie’s stammering co-worker, as Marnie tries her best to navigate life after college in this romantic comedy.
109. The Skeleton Key
     
     Sent to New Orleans to care for an aging stroke victim (John Hurt) who lies bedridden and speechless in a rambling antebellum mansion, 25-year-old hospice worker Caroline (Kate Hudson) discovers a key that unlocks ancient secrets. Alone in the house with no company aside from the man’s unfriendly wife (Gena Rowlands), Caroline eventually comes across a hidden room. But what she finds inside is a Pandora’s box of voodoo, danger and lies.
110. Homecoming
     
     After five years working as a nurse in Canada, Abigail (Alessandra De Rossi) travels home to the Philippines, where she’s looking forward to reconnecting with her family. Delighted at her return, the whole town welcomes her as they would a conquering hero. But Abigail’s joy is short-lived when it’s learned that she’s contracted the highly contagious SARS virus. Now, the community must wrestle with the consequences of this unexpected tragedy.
111. Kings and Queen
     
     Director Arnaud Desplechin deftly mixes comedy and tragedy in this tale that traces the intersecting lives of Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), a professionally successful single mom, and her ex-husband, Ismaël (Mathieu Amalric), a neurotic musician who’s mistakenly been committed to a mental hospital. Ismaël’s comic antics in the asylum are juxtaposed against Nora’s anguish upon learning that her father is dying and that her future’s uncertain.
112. Tropical Malady
     
     From experimental Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul comes this unconventional romance that incorporates mystical and folkloric elements. While on duty as a forest ranger, soldier Keng (Banlop Lomnoi) meets and falls for a country boy named Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee). When the young man suddenly disappears, Keng ventures deep into the jungle to find him … amid rumors that the missing Tong may in fact be a menacing, shape-shifting beast.
113. Goodbye Lover
     
     Obsessively cheerful Sandra Dunmore (Patricia Arquette) is married to hard-drinking ad executive Jake (Dermot Mulroney) and having a fling with his brother Ben (Don Johnson) in this stylish noir directed by Roland Joffe. Ben, meanwhile, is also bedding his secretary (Mary-Louise Parker). When all the sex and betrayal lead to a death and a hefty life-insurance payout, cynical detective Rita Pompano (Ellen DeGeneres) tries to unravel the case.
114. The Maltese Falcon
     
     Humphrey Bogart stars as private eye Sam Spade in this Oscar-nominated noir classic that finds the sultry Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor) seeking out protection from a man named Thursby. Spade’s partner (Jerome Cowan) takes the case — but he winds up dead, along with Thursby. Spade’s subsequent hunt for the killer leads him into a world of deception and double-crossing, as a trio of criminals searches for a priceless statue known as the Maltese Falcon.
115. Searching for Debra Winger
     
     Originally airing on Showtime, this documentary directed by actress Rosanna Arquette focuses on the life of somewhat hermetic star Debra Winger, as well as the struggles that actresses over the age of 40 have endured in Hollywood. Through interviews with contemporaries such as Diane Lane, Teri Garr, Holly Hunter, Whoopi Goldberg, Meg Ryan and Sharon Stone, Arquette conveys a problem facing many older actresses: the search for quality roles.
116. Nine Lives
     
     This series of revealing vignettes from writer-director Rodrigo Garcia (Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her) peers into the private lives of nine women who are each pointed toward a different destiny. The all-star ensemble cast includes Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Glenn Close, Dakota Fanning, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Holly Hunter, Mary Kay Place, Sissy Spacek and Robin Wright Penn — with Joe Mantegna and Aidan Quinn providing the testosterone.
117. William Eggleston in the Real World
     
     By following acclaimed photographer William Eggleston around his home base of Memphis, Tenn. — and on trips to Kentucky, Los Angeles and New York — filmmaker Michael Almereyda presents an intimate portrait of the man who made color cool again. This revealing documentary uncovers the deep connection between Eggleston’s enigmatic personality and his groundbreaking work, which expertly captures the beauty of ordinary objects.
118. Near Dark
     
     In the dusty heart of the American southwest, innocent country boy Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) is handily seduced by a beautiful girl (Jenny Wright) into joining a pack of vicious drifters, which turns out to be no ordinary band of outlaws. Soon, Caleb is trapped in a nightmarish world of soulless evil and hellish mayhem that thrives on blood and absolute horror. This original vampire tale, co-starring Lance Henriksen, shocks with a ferocious bite.
119. Wild Palms: Disc 1
     
     This disc includes episodes 1-3.
120. Wild Palms: Disc 2
     
     This disc includes episodes 4-5.
121. My Neighbor Totoro
     
     Legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki provides a stunningly realistic portrayal of life in the country. When their mother is hospitalized, two young sisters spend a summer in the Japanese countryside with their father. The strange new environment turns out to be a natural wonderland filled with exotic real-life creatures and a trio of furry woodland sprites who can only be seen by children.
122. The Believer
     
     Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling), a young Jewish man from New York City, is struggling with the conflict between his beliefs and his heritage and eventually joins a neo-Nazi organization, rising up the ranks to become a leader in the white supremacy movement. Director Henry Bean’s gripping drama, which won the 2001 Jury Prize at Sundance, is a psychological examination into the forces of intolerance, both on the individual and society as a whole.
123. Lord of War
     
     As the world’s leading arms dealer, Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) has embraced his glamorous profession so soundly that it’s hard to let it go. But if he wants to dodge the cunning Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke) on his trail, he’ll have to let go. Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan and Donald Sutherland co-star in this taut action-thriller about the business of international arms trafficking from writer-director Andrew Niccol.
124. Addicted: Special Edition
     
     Life is rosy for Eun-su (Mi-yeon Lee), her husband, Ho-jin (Eol Lee), and his younger brother, Dae-jin (Byung-hun Lee). But two separate car accidents radically change that dynamic. Ho-jin dies from his injuries, but in a queer event, Dae-jin awakes from his coma and demonstrates many of his sibling’s personal characteristics. Drawn to Dae-jin, Eun-su begins to ponder if her husband’s soul is, in fact, trapped in the body of her brother-in-law.
125. The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
     
     Pigtailed Pippi (Tami Erin) returns for another round of merriment and mischief. After washing overboard during a ferocious storm, the titian-haired troublemaker drifts ashore (along with her talking horse and monkey) to a seaside village, where she proceeds to turn the town upside down with her high jinks and magic powers. But Pippi’s pranks soon put her on a collision course with Miss Bannister (Eileen Brennan), the local social worker.
126. The Devil’s Backbone
     
     Twelve-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is the latest arrival at Santa Lucia School, an imposing stone building that shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians during the last days of the Spanish Civil War. Carlos gradually uncovers the dark ties that bind the inhabitants of the school: hidden riches, sexual intrigue and the restless ghost of a murdered student, who may be the only one to provide resolution.
127. The 400 Blows
     
     After young Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) runs away, life on the streets of Paris leads to nothing but trouble and guilt in this gritty feature film debut from legendary director François Truffaut. Though he turns to petty crime to survive, Antoine’s remorse often leads him to try to return things he’s stolen — with disastrous results. The film was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
128. Interview with the Vampire
     
     Director Neil Jordan’s Oscar-nominated tale of bloodsucking immortals moves from 18th century New Orleans to a Grand Guignol theater in Paris to present-day San Francisco as it explores betrayal, love, loneliness and hunger. The lives of a trio of vampires — cavalier Lestat (Tom Cruise), tormented Louis (Brad Pitt) and childlike Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) — are interconnected for centuries in this adaptation of Anne Rice’s romantic horror tale.
129. The Squid and the Whale
     
     Jeff Daniels makes for a haunting Brooklyn professor who’s well past his prime, and Laura Linney is his writer wife on the brink of stardom in Noah Baumbach’s honest look at the disintegration of a marriage. With their lives headed in distinctly opposite directions, the two can’t help but be acrimonious about their impending separation. But that leaves their two children (Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline) stuck in the middle of an emotional war.
130. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
     
     Tommy Lee Jones stars in and directs this dark drama set on the Texas-Mexico border. After accidentally killing a man, heartless border patrol officer Mike (Barry Pepper) quickly buries the body in an unmarked grave. But ranch foreman Pete Perkins (Jones) learns of his friend’s death, kidnaps Mike and drags him on a harrowing journey to Mexico to bury the man in his hometown. Julio Cesar Cedillo, January Jones and Dwight Yoakam co-star.
131. A Tale of Two Sisters
     
     Terrified sisters try to exorcise their home of two dark forces — their evil stepmother and a vengeful entity — in this ghostly tale. Hospitalized after their mother’s death, young Su-mi (Im Su-jeong) and Su-yeon (Mun Geun-yeong) return home to find a nasty new stepmother (Yeom Jeong-ah). The girls suffer terrifying events, but their father doesn’t care, even though evil lurks around every corner. Can the girls free their home from its demons?
132. Paragraph 175
     
     Actor Rupert Everett narrates this disquieting documentary from filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman that exposes the Third Reich’s vicious persecution of male homosexuals during World War II. The film’s title comes from an arcane, 1871 German statute making sodomy punishable by incarceration, with the ultimate goal of eradicating gays completely. Only a handful of survivors remain to recount their traumatic tales.