 | | | Highly recommended. Absolutely first rate French art / sleaze from Luis Bunuel capturing Deneuve at the height of her beauty. Neurotic young bride Severine loves her boy-scout perfect doctor husband, so much so that she recoils from his tou... (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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 | | | One of Alfred Hitchcock's most free-wheeling, fun movies. Anticipates the structure and tone of NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is f... (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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 | | | Kubrick's first major movie, and among his best. A lower budget derivative of John Houston's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (a fine film itself) that's actually somewhat better. Hardboiled author/genius Jim Thompson provided the riveting dialogue deliv... (See full description) |
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 | | | One of my favorite movies (like desert-island-disc favorite), and TOUCH OF EVIL's only competition as most subversive late-noir film. Beautifully photographed and composed. Aldrich viewed Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled detective hero Mike H... (See full description) |
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 | | | The definitive paranoid political movie and widely considered John Franenheimer's best film. The brainwashing scenes are among the most brilliant, inventive sequences in the history of of film. John Frankenhe... (See full description) |
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 | | | Kaufman is one of the great directors nobody talks about. His first film won the Cannes equivalent of "best new artist" in 1965, then he didn't get to direct anything worthwhile for twelve years. He made some gritty westerns and wrote THE O... (See full description) |
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 | | | (The film itself is the same here as in the more expensive two-disc edition, but without the second disc of featurettes, comentaries, etc.) Kaufman is one of the great directors nobody talks about. His first film won the Cannes equivalent o... (See full description) |
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 | | | Written and directed by Todd Haynes (VELVET GOLDMINE, FAR FROM HEAVEN) I respect SAFE as a work of art as much as any film I've ever seen; one of a handful of apolitical (and perhaps amoral) movies like THE RAPTURE or HAPPINESS that offer r... (See full description) |
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 | | | I'm a directors guy but I have to admit that screenwriting is under-rated. Almost all of Hitchcock's movies are wonderful in their way, but the stand-outs tend to have the sharpest screenplays. Playwright Thornton Wilder's words combined wi... (See full description) |
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 | | | There's more honesty in this stunning black comedy than in a dozen documentaries. Hilarious and brutally unsentimental look at an unattractive 7th grader as she struggles to cope with un-attentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older... (See full description) |
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 | | | rguably Peter Weir's best film, which is really saying something. Mel Gibson plays Guy, an Australian reporter assigned to Jakarta, Indonesia, during the summer of 1965, struggles to uncover the dangerous truth about the toppling governme... (See full description) |
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