Heat Michael Mann, 1995 The point at which Michael Mann reached his higher state. But Thompson's great 'mission film' concerning sabotage in second World War Greece fills the gap nicely. The Guns of Navarone J Lee Thompson, 1961 Where Eagles Dare and The Great Escape are currently off the service.

The big-house murder-mystery ambience ensured a wide audience and Oscar attention. Gosford Park Robert Altman, 2001 The ensemble cast plays to Altman's familiar strengths.

George Clooney voices Roald Dahl's suave antihero in an intricate stop-animation treat. Certainly more colourful than the new one.įantastic Mr Fox Wes Anderson, 2009 Anderson moves into family cinema without losing an ounce of his style or wit. Lynch's swipe at the Frank Herbert saga is among his least celebrated films, but it remains an oddity of some class. Still a provocative wonder.ĭune David Lynch, 1984 No, not that one. Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze dance themselves towards love in the early 1960s.ĭistrict 9 Neill Blomkamp, 2009 Blomkamp has struggled to replicate the success of his Oscar-nominated allegory concerning aliens segregated in an intolerant South Africa (get it?). It deserved its crossover status.ĭirty Dancing Emile Ardolino, 1987 The film was a hit on release, but nobody could have predicted its unstoppable afterlife. The Anglophone world embraced Lee's epic wuxia starring Chow Yun-fat and Michelle Yeoh. Alicia Silverstone is transcendent as Cher, the teenage Emma Wodehouse of Beverly Hills.Ĭrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ang Lee, 2000 The century began with a hopeful sign. Twenty years on, this riveting project investigates by holding auditions in the community.Ĭlueless Amy Heckerling, 1995 No, it is not (with apologies to Ang Lee) arch to suggest that this is the best Jane Austen adaptation on film. Tilikum died in 2017, just before SeaWorld announced the end of all orca shows.Ĭasting JonBenet Kitty Green, 2017 In 1996, the body of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found strangled in the basement of her family's home. Inspired a generation and began a shift in Hollywood's priorities.īlackfish Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013 The story of Tilikum, the killer whale that took the lives of several people while in captivity at SeaWorld Orlando, in Florida. The message about the futility of violence is familiar, but the manner of the telling is invigoratingly fresh.īoyz N the Hood John Singleton, 1991 Cuba Gooding Jr and Ice Cube star in one of the key African-American dramas of the 1990s.

Initially a flop.īlue Story Rapman, 2019 Singular British crime musical that makes surprising use of contemporary rap styles. Properly peculiar.īest Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened Lonny Price, 2016 Essential for Sondheim fans, Price's excellent documentary looks at the troubled history of his 1981 show Merrily We Roll Along. Multinationals and presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton, do not emerge well.Īrrival Denis Villeneuve, 2016 Villeneuve arguably hit his sweet spot with this cerebral science fiction drama starring Amy Adams as a linguist seeking communication with two visiting aliens. So move quickly.ġ3th Ava DuVernay, 2016 An urgent, scholarly dissection of the prison system in the US. Recent additions such as Passing, which the service acquired outright, and The Power of the Dog, which they produced, will be here forever. The appearance of studio-owned services such as Disney+ will limit supply to the largest streamer on the block, but Netflix is countering with its own content. Each week a bunch of films arrive and a bunch of films leave. As ever, the Netflix catalogue remains in flux.

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