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NUMBER 25.
Brazil: Director’s Cut
Director: Terry Gilliam
Writers: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard
Featuring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Jim Broadbent
Summary: Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend [...]

NUMBER 50.
Thunderheart
Director: Michael Apted
Writer: John Fusco
Featuring: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward, Fred Dalton Thompson
Summary: There has been a series of mysterious homicides on a Sioux Indian reservation in the Badlands of South Dakota. The investigation of homicides on Native American territory is within Federal jurisdiction, but the FBI is finding it difficult [...]

NUMBER 75.
There Will Be Blood
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson, from a novel by Upton Sinclair
Featuring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano
Summary: The film follows the rise to power of Daniel Plainview—a charismatic and ruthless oil prospector, driven to succeed by his intense hatred of others and psychological need to see any and all competitors fail. [...]

NUMBER 100.
Sanjuro
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima
Featuring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Nakadai
Summary: A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior. This is the sequel to Yojimbo. Yojimbo [...]

NUMBER 125.
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Director: Mike Hodges
Writer: Trevor Preston
Featuring: Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malcolm McDowell
Summary: Will Graham is lives a peaceful life, seeking redemption from his past as a gangster. But when Will’s brother Davey committs suicide, Will returns to his homeland to investigate. Will hires an independent autopsy and the [...]

When I don’t have time to write, I write about movies. When I don’t have time to write about movies, I make large lists. I’ll be blogging 150 of my favorite flicks over the next few days, 25 or so at a time. These aren’t all my favorites—just a hundred fifty of them. Although they [...]

Well, we’ve about completed the first decade of the third millennium CE, and it hasn’t been a bad decade for movies, although there have been better. Anyway, I’ve made a little list of some of the great movies from this decade — 200 movies you might not have seen but ought to. I haven’t included [...]