 | | | A completely charming movie. Following the lead of George Cukor's THE WOMEN (1939) DIRECTOR Francois Ozon shows us a wholly feminine world where men are referred to but not seen. 8 Femmes is a murder mystery and a musical of sorts starring ... (See full description) |
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 | | | 1991 was a banner year in cinema, similar to 1939, 1950 and 1974. No movie is supposed to win more than one major award at the Cannes festival. Despite strong competition jet black comedy BARTON FINK caused a mini-scandal when it won both t... (See full description) |
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 | | | Wonderful overlooked movie directed by Don Siegel (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, DIRTY HARRY) Bizarre gothic war/western set in the Deep South during the Civil War. Clint Eastwood plays John McBurney, a severely wounded Union soldier di... (See full description) |
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 | | | Stephane Audran and Jean-Louis Trintignant star in this classic landmark film. Socialite Frederique encounters young Why in Paris, she seduces her and whisks her off to St.Tropez. When Paul meets Why, he too charms her and comes between the... (See full description) |
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 | | | BOYS DON'T CRY is smart, funny, fast-paced, sexy and a beautiful love story. Hillary Swank delivered the Oscar winning performance of a lifetime as a skinny likeable Jimmy Stewart type fella named Brandon Teena, who is actually a woman name... (See full description) |
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 | | | This three DVD ultimate collectors edition contains EVERYTHING. (Disc Three includes the 94-minute cut for BRAZIL including the changes that Gilliam refused to make.) Influential and controversial film that is 100 times MORE shocking toda... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Mel Chionglo. If you like your social drama gritty this ought to fit the bill. Concerns a male prositute and his girlfriend, a prostitute. and his mother; a prostitute of course. "BURLESK KING is set amid the gay underbelly of ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Truly unique. I consider this a great film, but I don't have much company. I have never seen a film critically savaged like DOGVILLE. For some reason this movie was UNIVERSALLY condemned as "anti-American." WTF? A work of art may be "anti-A... (See full description) |
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 | | | This was one of the more controversial major films of the last decade. Set during the Paris student riots of 1968, the story (adapted by film critic Gilbert Adair from his novel) is a Henry James-esque literary stand-by... bright young man ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Remarkable movie that practically invented the modern naturalistic yet surreal small-town drug/crime genre. Both Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch's best work. "Bob (Dillon) is a high-functioning junkie who masterminds small-town pharmacy robberi... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Shekhar Kapur. This movie is in the drop-dead wonderful section primarily for Cate Blanchett's performance and ELIZABETH is the movie that made her reputation. The movie feels authentic, despite an unfortunate tendency to recast... (See full description) |
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 | | | Harrowing Farrah Fawcett rape-revenge flick. Farrah Fawcett repeats her hit stage role in this gripping drama about a woman who captures a would-be rapist, then must decide with her roommates whether to turn him over to the police and tru... (See full description) |
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 | | | A tale of two movies: FAIL SAFE and DR. STRANGELOVE, both released in 1964, are about an un-ordered American bomber strike on the USSR. The two films are so similar, even in small plot details, that both projects could have started from the... (See full description) |
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 | | | Stark intriguing experience from French chronicler of young female angst and erotic turmoil, Catherine Breillat (Romance, A Real Young Girl). An ungainly and somewhat disturbed girl on holiday with her attractive older sister and indifferen... (See full description) |
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| | Artists losing their vitality often punctuate a long descent with a surprising last brilliant gasp, like Paul Simon's GRACELAND. Hitchcock felt burned (with good reason) by the negative reaction to 1964's exciting and challanging MARNIE and... (See full description) |
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 | | | Director Terry Zwigoff follows up his 1994 breakout success, CRUMB, by somehow capturing 90% of everything that made Daniel Clowes' Ghost World comics so haunting. Clowes (Eightball, etc.) is on the short-list of people we are sold on 100% ... (See full description) |
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 | | | The male cast is first-rate, including Javier Bardem, Maribel Verdu and Maria de Medeiros. Though Bardem is terrific as the signature Bigas Luna macho anti-hero it is Benicio Del Toro's small role as a randy gardener that probably accounts ... (See full description) |
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 | | | A four star comedy of manners in the form of a 1930s murder mystery. No car chases or explosions-it's mostly servants serving meals and rich people eating them-but it's "on" every minute. (Reminds me of ALL ABOUT EVE in that way.) I'm glad ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Todd Solondz (STORYTELLING, WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE) is a brilliant unsentimental artist, and his tragi-comic gaze takes in almost the entirety of modern life here in this sweeping study of desire and loneliness. In perfectly post-modern f... (See full description) |
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 | | | As the body of a dead bride lies undiscovered in a seedy New York City hotel, her room becomes inhabited by a diverse group of characters. Through a series of vignettes, the stories of a lonely magician and the eerily familiar prostitute he... (See full description) |
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