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ALLTIME BEST FILMS LIST
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- Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh, tv 1977, video 1984)
- Fantastic - originally a stage-play, then a BBC TV play, now
on video. Great piss-take of British mores and class stereotypes.
Has some real venom and truth...this is Leigh's best.
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- After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1984/5)
- Scorsese does comedy. Funny and disturbing.
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- Griffin Dunne
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- Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog 1972)
- Haunting depiction of a megalomaniacal conquistador in his
search for El Dorado.
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Amarcord (Federico Fellini 1974) |
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- Pupella Maggio / Widescreen / Subtitled in English
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- Pupella Maggio / Keep Case
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- Apocalypse Now! (Francis Coppola 1979)
- Wagner and napalm.
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- Marlon Brando / Widescreen
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Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick
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- Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven 1992)
- This film may be most remembered for the Sharon Stone crotch
scene, but it remains a very good psychological suspense thriller
in any event. Rik - 25 April 2000.
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- Basic
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- Michael Douglas
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- Michael Douglas / Snap Case
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- Michael Douglas / Widescreen
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Belle de Jour (Luis Bruñuel
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- The Belly of an Architect (Robert Greenaway 1987)
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Blade Runner (Ridley Scott 1982) |
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- Ford, Hauer / Widescreen
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- Harrison Ford
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- Harrison Ford / Widescreen
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- Blue Velvet (David Lynch 1986)
- Dennis Hopper at his best.
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- Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini
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The Boat (Das Boot) (Wolfgang
Petersen 1981) |
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| Brazil (Terry Gilliam 1985) |
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- Britannia Hospital (Lindsay Anderson 1982)
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- Malcolm McDowell
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz 1942) |
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- Bogart, Bergman / Clamshell
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- Bogart, Bergman
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- Humphrey Bogart
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- Citizen Cohen (Frank Pierson 1992)
- Stars the very underrated James Wood.
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- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles 1941)
- Regarded by many as the best film ever made.
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- Cotten, Moorehead
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- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick 1971)
- 70s classic starring Malcolm McDowell, when he was in good
films. He's now to be seen in the appalling Tank Girl.
Sad.
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- Malcolm McDowell
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The Company of Wolves (Neil
Jordan 1985) |
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- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway
1989)
- A Jacobean tragedy for the modern age.
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Deliverance (John Boorman 1972) |
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- Voight, Reynolds / Widescreen
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- The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher 1968)
- Classic Hammer.
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- Lee, Gray / Clamshell / Widescreen
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- The Devils (of Loudun) (Ken Russell 1971)
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- Oliver Reed
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- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel 1972)
- Surrealist treatment of mores and manners.
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- The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway 1982)
- One of Nyman's best soundtracks.
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- The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara 1979)
- Ferrara's debut film was famously banned as a video nasty but
is now a cult Art House piece recognised as sharing much with
the style of Andy Warhol. Tracing the mental degeneration of artist
turned serial-killer, this dark low-budget film is set against
the seedy background of New York vagrants and slutty rock chicks.
Rik - 5 April 2000.
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Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway
1988) |
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- Bernard Hill
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- Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper 1969)
- Cult 60s film with strong libertarian message and numbing conclusion.
Soundtrack features some of the greatest Rock classics of the
era.
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- Peter Fonda / Widescreen
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- Europa (Lars von Trier 1991)
- Ambiguous, Germany, 1945.
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- Excalibur (John Boorman 1981)
- Entertaining failure that mixes too many approaches.
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- Nicol Williamson
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- Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick 1999)
- Shades of The Devil Rides Out encompassed in the tale
of a 'Mid Winter Night's Dream'. Kubrik's swansong pays
great attention to detail. Goth fans will love the music
and theatricals. Rik - 25 April 2000
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- Eyes
Wide Shut ~ DVD ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
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- Falling Down (Joel Schumacher 1992)
- Beleaguered WASP cracks under pressure of modern life. Condemned
as a vigilante film with racial overtones and admired as a psychological
drama.
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- Michael Douglas
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- Faust (Jan Svankmajer 1994)
- The legend surrealistically animated.
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- A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone 1964)
- The original spaghetti Western.
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- Gallipoli (Peter Weir 1981)
- Promising sports career interrupted by eruption of international
mayhem - poignant.
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- Mel Gibson
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- Mel Gibson / Widescreen
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- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola 1972)
- The classic mafia film.
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Good Fellas (Martin Scorsese
1990) |
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Hedd Wynn (Paul Turner 1982) |
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- Huw Garmon / Widescreen / Subtitled in English
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- Highway 61 (Bruce McDonald 1991)
- A kilo of cocaine, a dead body and a loopy woman hitchhiking
to New Orleans...
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- If (Lindsay Anderson 1968)
- Paris '68 hits an English public school.
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- Jubilee (Derek Jarman 1978)
- King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese 1983)
- Genuinely unsettling look at the nausea beneath American showbiz.
Flopped - too close to the truth.
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Jubilee ~ VHS
- Derek Jarman
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- Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders 1975)
- Famous Euro road movie considered by some to be very boring
but an art classic...
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King of Comedy (1982) ~ VHS ~ Usually ships in
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- De Niro, Lewis
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- L A Confidential (Curtis Hanson 1997)
- From the novel penned by James Ellroy.
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Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean
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- O'Toole, Guinness / Widescreen
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Lawrence of Arabia - 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition
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- Jose Ferrer / Widescreen
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- O'Toole, Guinness / Widescreen
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- Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismäki 1989)
- The title says it all: a Russian rockabilly group with the
world's biggest quifs visits the 'free West'.
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- Leon (Luc Besson 1994)
- French hitman brings revenge and redemption to New York.
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Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh 1990)
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- Alison Steadman
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- Lift to the Scaffold (Louis Malle 1957)
- A Euro Noir classic with fab sound-track by Miles Davis.
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- Local Hero (Bill Forsyth 1983)
- Like most of Forsyth's films, it will be seen as touching or
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- Peter Riegert
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- The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie 1980)
- Bob Hoskins as East End gangster whose empire is mysteriously
taken out by anonymous rivals. Much better than his Telecom ads.
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- Bob Hoskins
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas
Roeg 1976) |
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- Man Who Would Be King, The (John Huston 1975)
- Splendid Kipling yarn.
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- Bowie, Torn / Widescreen
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- Bowie, Torn / Keep Case
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- Manhunter (Michael Mann 1986)
- Slick 80s rock-video direction of Thomas Harris's Red Dragon,
the prequel to Silence of the Lambs. Brian Cox's Lecter
is superb and chilling, and many consider it a better rendition
of the character than Anthony Hopkins's more Gothic approach.
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Manhunter (1986) ~ VHS ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- William L. Petersen
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- Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese 1973)
- The gritty underbelly of Italian New York.
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- Robert De Niro
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- Robert De Niro / Snap Case
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- Mephisto (Istvan Szabo 1981)
- Social-climbing actor sells his soul to the Nazis.
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Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1926) |
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- Fritz Lang
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- Mishima (Paul Schrader 1985)
- Life and death of acclaimed writer and would-be politician.
Excellent score by Philip Glass.
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- Ken Ogata
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- Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones 1979)
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Life of Brian ~ DVD
- Monty Python, John Cleese / Keep Case
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- Naked (Mike Leigh 1993)
- A gritty few days in the dark-side life of a Mancunian and
Manichean drifter-philosopher as he reflects on man as naked ape,
and impending apocalypse.
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- The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud 1986)
- Based on the medieval detective mystery by Umberto Eco.
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- Name of the Rose, Sean Connery
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- The Navigator (Vincent Ward 1988)
- Powerful visual imagery in a black-and-white/colour fable timewarped
between medieval England and modernday New Zealand.
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- Bruce Lyons
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- Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur 1957)
- Based on Casting the Runes by M R James.
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- Nikita (Luc Besson 1990)
- Babe with gun.
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- Anne Parillaud / Keep Case
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Oh What a Lovely War (Richard
Attenborough 1969) |
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Once Upon a Time in America
(Sergio Leone 1984) |
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- Robert De Niro
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- Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo 1964)
- Chilling Samurai horror.
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- Nobuko Otawa / Widescreen / Subtitled in English
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Pink Floyd The Wall (Alan Parker
1982) |
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Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway
1991) |
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- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino 1994)
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- John Travolta / Keep Case
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- Travolta, Jackson / Widescreen
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- John Travolta
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- Ran (Akiro Kurosawa 1985)
- A Samurai King Lear.
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- Tatsuya Nakadai / Keep Case
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Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino
1992) |
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- Keitel, Roth / Widescreen
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- Harvey Keitel / Keep Case
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- Harvey Keitel
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- Scarface (Brian de Palma 1983)
- The version written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino.
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- Al Pacino
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- Al Pacino / Widescreen
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- Pacino, Pfeiffer / Keep Case
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Search and Destroy (David Salle
1995) |
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- Griffin Dunne
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- Keep Case
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Seven Samurai (Akiro Kurosawa
1954) |
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- Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune / Subtitled in English
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- The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman 1957)
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- Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune / Keep Case
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- Gunnar Bjornstrand / Subtitled in English
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- Ingmar Bergman
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The Shining (Stanley Kubrick
1980) |
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- Siddharta (Conrad Rooks 1972)
- The eternal return.
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- Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier 1993)
- A graphic, grim, gritty and gruesome depiction of the 'Rattenkrieg'
Battle of Stalingrad which sucked the German Sixth Army into a
no-win battle and and became the turning-point of the Second World
War. The experience is viewed from a German perspective, but certainly
not from a Nazi one.
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- Dominique Horwitz / Widescreen / Subtitled in English
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- Stalingrad
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- Dominique Horwitz / Widescreen
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- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese 1976)
- Brilliant performance by Robert de Niro. One of the greats
of modern Noir.
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- Robert De Niro / Keep Case
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- Robert De Niro
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- Robert De Niro / Widescreen
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- The Live (John Carpenter 1988)
- Cheesey budget sci-fi movie depicts alien conspiracy exploiting
consumerism and mind control.
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- The Third Man (Carol Reed 1949)
- Orson Welles in great anti-hero role. His famous speech in
the big-wheel is as relevant as ever.
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- Throne of Blood (Akrio Kurosawa 1957)
- Samurai Macbeth.
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Throne of Blood (1957) ~ VHS
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- Tous les matins du monde (Alain Corneau 1991)
- Sad but elegant. A
detailed account is posted at the Early Music FAQ site.
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- True Romance (Tony Scott 1993)
- Tarantino screenplay.
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Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam 1995)
- Oft criticised for 'losing the plot', Gilliam's sci-fi
psychodrama remains an interesting examination of sanity
and reality with shades of Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari
(1920).
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- The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (George Sluizer 1988)
- Dark. European. Existential. Not to be confused with the remake
(1993) in which the meaning was removed for the American audience.
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The Vanishing (1988) ~ DVD
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- Les Visiteurs (Jean-Marie Poiré 1993)
- The medieval-modern French timewarp comedy which outgrossed
Jurassic Park.
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- The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy 1973)
- Now recognised as a cult classic, it stars Edward Woodward
and Christopher Lee (who rightly sees it as his best film). Also
interesting performance from Britt Ekland. Christians v. Pagans,
Pagans win - yippee!
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Wild at Heart (David Lynch 1990) |
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Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders
1987) Good but arty Berlin angst. |
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- Zardoz (John Boorman 1974)
- Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling. Kitsch in part but an
interesting concept.
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Zardoz (1974) ~ VHS
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