• 500 days of Summer (love)
• Adaptation (author)
• Closer (love, betrayal)
• Garden State (summer holiday?)
• Girl Interrupted (Mental anxieties)
• Into the Wild (a guy who freezes to death while trying to find the meaning of life)
• Memento (revenge)
• Trainspotting (former drug addict chooses life)
• Mona Lisa Smile (conforming, being a female)
• Away We Go (dysfunctional families, different styles of parenting)
• Home for the Holidays (when life goes awry)

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• Submarine (young love)
• The Virgin Spring (strange, references to christianity)
• As It Is In Heaven (sweden and getting life back)
• Melancholia (depression)
• Issac och Sigrid (still images)
• An Education (i want to learn about lots and lots and lots)

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• <b>Pierot Lo Fou</b> (everything reminds of you)
• Before Sunrise (that one night)
• The Descendants (family & forgiveness)
• The Artists (b&w glory)
• Sylvia Plath
• Please Give (how my life will turn out)
• Before Sunset (regrets)
• <b>Le Mepris/contempt</b> (filmmaking, Capri, dying marriage)
• Erin Brokovich (girl power, people relations)
• Rabbit Hole (death, grief)
• Country Strong (3 things about love)
• Flipped (young'uns)
• Moonrise Kingdom (young lovers, 1960's cinematography, introverts, troubled child)
• A View of Love/ Un balcon sur la mer (old flame)
• Black Bread (Spanish civil war, Catalan countryside, moral consciousness, adult & lies, gritty)
• Bon Appetit (stereotypes are true)
• Kind of a funny story (mental hospitals again)
• North Country (Sexual harrassment at the workplace, femininism 1960s)

January

• Masculin Féminin (1966) (youth, children of marx and coca-cola, interviews)
• A Lesson in Love (En lektion i kärlek) 1954 (train ride, comical but realistic look at long-term love and marriage)
• Brief Encounter 1945 (Infidelity, guilt, humdrum vs intense)
• Le Peau Douce 1964 (infidelity, little man)
• Jules et Jim (Female polygamy, capricious heart)
• La Collectionneuse 1967
• Antoine et Colette (A short, concerts & record-making)
• 50/50 (young person who has cancer, how ppl around him deal w that)
• The Joy Luck Club (3 generations of women, Chinese families, history)
• Scenes from a marriage (where do i begin..)
• The Place Beyond the Pines (justice)

(Jul13-Dec14)

• Peemak (first Thai horror comedy)
• Hello Stranger (thai. how quickly you get to know a person during travel, unexpectedly falling in love and dealing with reality, circumstances outside of the trance of travel)
• Before Midnight (differences between men and women, esp when they argue, marriage after awhile)
• Kitchen Stories (gays in Norway, ethics in research - the conflict of real situations spiralling beyond the experimenter's control)
• Cinema Paradiso (1998) (wowee. faithfulness in a man can help you in one area but also drive you towards despair in another. adorable toddler toto.)
• Chungking Express 2001 (two stories, dont ustd the first, loved the second, camera framing was interesting)
• Tian Mi Mi 1996 (love, migration, HK, China, US)
• Royal Tenanbaums (2001) (deadpan)
• Catfish (2010) (documentary, refreshing change, humanism, online fragmented identities)
• Fight Club
• The Girl in the Pinafore (local film)
• J'te aime Paris
• Metro Manilla (urban migration, income inequality in cities, justice?)
• Gone Girl (scarier of the sexes, a pampered woman is not to be trifled with)
• Boyhood (documentary feat, elaborately concise)
• Theory of Everything (British love story, ends badly)
• Frogmen (love it that it showcases singaporean life)

2015-2016

• Birdman
• Son of Saul
• Taxi Tehran
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Spotlight
• Amore
• Room