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121. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Jun 24, 1971 • Rated R

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

122. Inside Llewyn Davis

Dec 6, 2013 • Rated R

Llewyn Davis is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter of 1961, he struggles to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles - some of them of his own making.

123. The Best Years of Our Lives

Dec 25, 1946 • Rated Approved

Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

124. Band of Outsiders

Mar 15, 1966 • Rated Not Rated

Two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home.

125. Stagecoach

Mar 3, 1939 • Rated Approved

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

126. Days of Being Wild (re-release)

Nov 19, 2004 • Rated Not Rated

In his first hypnotic backward glance at Hong Kong in 1960, Wong Kar Wai creates a post-modern La Ronde set in a fluorescent labyrinth of cool desperation and unfulfilled need. Against the echoing rhythms of period rumbas, Days of Being Wild (1991) tracks a half dozen characters through their individual searches for intimate connection. (Kino International)

127. There Will Be Blood

Dec 26, 2007 • Rated R

When Daniel Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads there with his son, H.W., to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the Holy Roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday, Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value—love, hope, community, belief, ambition, and even the bond between father and son—is imperiled by corruption, deception, and the flow of oil. [Paramount Vantage]

128. Tristana (re-release)

Feb 22, 2013 • Rated PG-13

When Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known, but Don Lope's one weakness is women. He falls for the innocent girl in his charge, seduces her, makes her his lover, though all the while explaining to her that she is as free as he. But when she acts on this freedom, Don Lope must deal with the consequences of his world-view.

129. The Last Picture Show

Oct 22, 1971 • Rated R

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

130. Hard to Be a God

Jan 30, 2015 • Rated Not Rated

A group of research scientists has been sent to the planet Arkanar, living under an oppressed regime in a period equivalent to earth’s Middle Ages. The local population is suffering a ban issued on anyone who knows how to read and write. The scientists must refrain from influencing political and historical events on Arkanar. They must work incognito, and they must remain neutral. Don Rumata, recognized by the locals as a sort of futuristic god, tries to save the local intelligentsia from their punishment. He cannot avoid taking the stance: “What would you do in God’s place?” [Kino Lorber]

131. Do the Right Thing

Jun 30, 1989 • Rated R

Set on the hottest day of the summer, the film examines various personal, social and economic issues through the eyes of an ensemble of neighborhood characters on a Bedford Stuyvesant block in Brooklyn.

132. Yojimbo

Sep 13, 1961 • Rated Not Rated

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

133. TÁR

Oct 7, 2022 • Rated R

Set in the international world of classical music, TÁR examines the changing nature of power and its impact and durability in our modern world through the life of iconic musician Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), the first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.

134. Badlands

Oct 15, 1973 • Rated PG

Loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, Terrence Malick's debut features follows outlaws Kit and Holly from Fort Dupre, South Dakota to the badlands of Montana.

135. Sankofa

Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano) is a Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Cape Coast, Ghana. Through Mr. Gerima’s imaginative storytelling, she undergoes a journey back in time to a plantation in North America. There she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman who labors in the master’s house and experiences the horrors of slavery firsthand. In becoming Shola, Mona recovers and confronts her ancestral identity and experience. While enduring monstrous trauma at the hands of white men who owned people for profit, Shola’s interactions with her fellow enslaved Africans are rich with humanity, respect and dignity for one another. Most notably, she connects with Shango (Mutabaruka), a rebellious African man who toils in the fields, and Nunu (Alexandra Duah), one of the few of the enslaved to remember her life in Africa before being stolen and terrorized by European traders. [Array]

136. Crumb

Apr 28, 1995 • Rated R

A documentary of artist Robert Crumb's life.

137. No Bears

Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.

138. 8½

Jun 24, 1963 • Rated Not Rated

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

139. Spotlight

Nov 6, 2015 • Rated R

Spotlight tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. [Open Road Films]

140. Solaris (1972)

Oct 6, 1976 • Rated PG

Based on Stanislaw Lem's novel, this 1972 allegory takes place on a space station near a mysterious planet.

141. Late Spring (1949)

Jul 21, 1972 • Rated Not Rated

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

142. Ikiru

Mar 25, 1956 • Rated Not Rated

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

143. Ride the High Country

May 9, 1962 • Rated Approved

An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

144. Memoria

Dec 26, 2021 • Rated PG

A Scottish woman (Tilda Swinton), after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

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