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Blow Up
(1966) [M]
Director Michelangelo Antonioni packs nonstop action into a controversial cinematic close-up of mid-sixties mod London where Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles star with David Hemmings in this expose of British counterculture. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city... More
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Last Year in Marienbad (L'Annee derniere a Marienbad)
(1961) [M]
In Alain Resnais's masterwork, L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, each fantasy laden, heavily dramatised, aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who is one of many elegant, aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort, Marienbad. Because... More
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Blood Simple
(1984) [R]
Deep in the heart of Texas, a jealous bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife and her lover. The sleazy hitman double-crosses the husband, killing him instead and pocketing the cash. The perfect crime, or so it seems, but disposing of the corpse is not so simple. Blood Simple uncoils its... More
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Sugar Town
(1999) [PG]
An unimpassioned look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen (Jade Gordon), on her quest to reach the top. Working as an assistant to a film production designer (Ally Sheedy), she tries to steal her boy friend, (Larry Klein), who is a music producer, by... More
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Stranger Than Fiction
(2006) [M]
Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), Harold discovers he's the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs... More
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The Door in the Floor
(2004) [MA]
Successful children's writer and illustrator Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) invites 16-year-old writing intern Eddie (Jon Foster) to summer in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, where he lives with his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger) and their young daughter Ruth. Ted and Marion are... More
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Mala Noche
(1985)
Made for $25,000, the debut film from Gus Van Sant, MALA NOCHE, tells the story of Walt, a convenience store worker at the bad end of town. Walt likes the Mexican boys, and meets Johnny, a sexy illegal migrant who speaks no English. Walt harbours not only sexual but romantic feelings for Johnny,... More
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CSNY-Deja Vu
(2008) [M]
Since their debut in the late 'sixties, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have functioned as the "town criers" of their generation. With songs like "Ohio" and "Find the Cost of Freedom", CSNY were in the forefront of Vietnam-era protest and anti-war sentiment. Though fondly remembered for their... More
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Milk
(2008) [M]
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Academy Award winner Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people. Milk is based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office. This compelling film follows... More
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Me and You and Everyone We Know
(2005) [R]
An original, offbeat and very funny comedy, Me And You And Everyone We Know is the directorial feature debut of celebrated performance artist, author, actress and writer-director Miranda July. Richard (John Hawes) is a shoe salesman with two boys and a failed marriage. Now single, he expects... More
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He Died With A Falafel In His Hand
(2001) [MA]
Danny (Noah Taylor) is a young man seemingly used to chaos, but he soon discovers that the fates are more than capable of dishing out more than he can handle in this offbeat Australian comedy. By his own count, thirty-ish Danny has found himself sharing living quarters with one or more friends... More
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Crimes And Misdemeanors
(1990) [M]
Poignant, penetrating and scathingly hilarious, Crimes and Misdemeanors is a deftly rendered tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosm that they represent. Showcasing Allen’s brilliant grasp of the link between the funny and the fatal, his nineteenth movie, Crimes and... More
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Love And Human Remains
(1993) [R]
A dark comedy symbolic of the 90s, Love and Human Remains is a disturbing exploration of the desperate search for relationships in an age of uncertainty. This is the first feature film in the english language by internationally acclaimed director Denys Arcand (Invasion of the Barbarians, Jesus of... More
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Bullets Over Broadway
(1994) [M]
Big city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting, all-star comedy from Woody Allen that had audiences and critics rolling in the aisles. David Shayne (John Cusack), an idealistic young writer, will do anything to get his first Broadway play of the ground - even... More
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Supervixens
(1975) [R]
Geared for the times, Russ Meyer's Supervixens wields the double-bladed axe of satire... cutting and hacking its way to the very bone of society... laying bare and exposing, with great candour, the frailties, weaknesses and strengths of its citizens.
A picture born to entertainment, shocking... More
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Intolerable Cruelty
(2003) [M]
From Joel and Ethan Coen comes this outrageously funny comedy about a man who wins in court and a woman who courts to win. Top divorce attorney Miles Massey (George Clooney) has got it all. Serial gold-digger Marilyn Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones) wants it all. When Miles falls for the... More
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Bad Santa
(2003) [MA]
In this cleverly twisted, merrily irreverent story of a Santa so bad he’s wickedly funny, Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wise-cracking department store Santa who is actually a safecracker who makes one big score every year—on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head home from the... More
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Palindromes
(2004) [R]
Todd Solondz's modern American fairy tale tackles poignant themes of abortion and identity. After having an abortion, Aviva is desperate to get pregnant again. She meets an oddball mix of people sharing a variety of views and forcing her into different paths of action. More intriguingly, Aviva is... More
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Running with Scissors
(2006) [MA]
Based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and directed by Ryan Murphy (Creator of TV's Nip/Tuck), Running With Scissors is a wickedly funny, brave and moving tale of surviving a most unusual childhood.
Augusten's mother (Annette Bening) is an unpublished and unstable poet whose... More
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Look Both Ways (2 Disc Set)
(2005) [M]
Meryl imagines disaster coming from every direction—train crashes, man-eating sharks, baby-eating killer whales...and then there's Nick. An innovative mix of animation and live action, set over a scorchingly hot weekend, when people dealing with unexpected events find their lives intersecting.... More
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Away from Her
(2006) [M]
Together for fifty years, the union between Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) appears unwavering, and their everyday life is full of tenderness and humour. This facade of serenity is broken only by the occasional reference to more troubled times in their past – lapses that are a... More
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The Painted Veil
(2006) [M]
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920’s about a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who marry for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where Kitty falls in... More
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Dancer In The Dark
(2000) [MA]
Selma has emigrated with her son from east Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life... More
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Drugstore Cowboy
(1989) [M]
Crime is a way of life for Bob (Matt Dillon) and his wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch). Their lives are fuelled by an addiction that drives them from state to state robbing pharmacies for pills and thrills. Bob is a legend in his own right, honoured by his fellow gang members for his cold, tough and... More
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The Hudsucker Proxy
(1994) [PG]
Norville Barnes (TIM ROBBINS) has arrived in New York fresh off the bus from Muncie, Indiana. A graduate of the 1958 class of the Muncie College of Business Administration, Norville is ready to start at the bottom and work his way up to the top of the corporate world. Waring Hudsucker (CHARLES... More
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Underground (1995)
(1995) [M]
The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they... More
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Welcome To The Dollhouse
(1995) [M]
Insightful look at an unattractive 7th grader as she struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister, and her own insecurities. More
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Lolita (1962)
(1962) [M]
From Stanley Kubrick, the director of A Clockwork Orange, comes this powerful, provocative and profoundly moving adaption of Vladimir Nabokov's twentieth century literary masterpiece. It tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, who travels to... More
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