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![Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels [1998]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004R76F.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Lock, Stock And
Two Smoking Barrels [1998]
~ Jason
Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher
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Cockney boys Tom, Soap, Eddie and Bacon are in a bind; they
owe seedy criminal and porn king "Hatchet" Harry a sizeable
amount of cash after Eddie loses half a million in a rigged
game of poker. Hot on their tails is a thug named Big Chris
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![Amelie (Two Disc Special Edition) [DTS]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000069JDB.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Amelie (Two Disc
Special Edition) [DTS]
~
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz
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With its use of special effects to express the main
character's internal emotions, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's
Amelie could have been mistaken for a French version of
Ally McBeal; however, unlike Ally--"woe is me for I
cannot find a man"--McBeal, Amelie is not distressed by the
lack of men in her life, in...
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![Vera Drake [2004]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0007OEMBW.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Vera Drake [2004]
~
Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis
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The brilliant writer-director Mike Leigh (Topsy-Turvy,
Secrets and Lies, Naked) has crafted an
utterly compelling movie about one of the most controversial
of topics. An irrepressibly hopeful housecleaner in 1950s
London named Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton, Antonia and
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![O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2 Disc Set) [2000]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005QX8O.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
O Brother, Where
Art Thou? (2 Disc Set) [2000]
~
George Clooney, Ed Gale
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Only Joel and Ethan Coen, masters of quirky and
ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plotline
of Homer's Odyssey for O Brother, Where Art Thou?,
their comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in
1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one
Ulysses Everett McGill,...
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The Adventures Of
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
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Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving
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DVD - MGM Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / June 13, 2005
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Stephan Elliott (EYE OF THE BEHOLDER) wrote and directed
this tale of two drag queens and a transsexual that embark
on a road trip to a remote resort town in the Australian
desert on a bus christened Priscilla. When Anthony
Tick'/Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) is invited to perform in Alice
Springs, he...
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Mulholland Drive
[2002]
~
Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts
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DVD - Vision Video Ltd. / September 9, 2002
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Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing
all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say in
Mulholland Drive David Lynch indulges a similar impulse.
Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel,
as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams",
Lynch establishes...
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![Life Is Beautiful [1999]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004D0DU.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Life Is Beautiful
[1999]
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Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
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Italy's rubber-faced funnyman Roberto Benigni accomplishes
the impossible in his World War II comedy Life Is
Beautiful: he shapes a simultaneously hilarious and
haunting comedy out of the tragedy of the Holocaust. An
international sensation and the most successful foreign
language film in US...
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![Edge Of Seventeen [1998]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0007NLS8S.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Edge Of Seventeen
[1998]
~ Chris
Stafford, Tina Holmes
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The tale of a high school student in the small town of
Sandusky, Ohio circa 1984 (a year when 80's pop-culture was
in it's prime) who comes to terms with his homosexuality
much to the astonishment of his long-time girlfriend. 'Edge
Of Seventeen' presents a sincere look at managing
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Dreamer [2005]
~ Kurt
Russell, Ken Howard
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The title is a mouthful, but Dreamer: Inspired by a True
Story hits the winner's circle as a warm and inspiring
family film. Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) is a Kentucky horse
trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks
its leg during a practice run. Ordinarily that means
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Audition [1999]
~ Ryo
Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
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A man is asked to sit in on a number of auditions. One of
the women presented so interests him that he takes her
telephone number. Later, he rings her and sets up a dinner
date. But she is not what she appears... Japanese dialogue.
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![Fargo Special Edition [1996]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00008AWT1.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Fargo Special
Edition [1996]
~
Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
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Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers to concoct a
fiendishly clever kidnap caper with Fargo that's
simultaneously a comedy of errors, a Midwestern satire, a
taut suspense thriller and a violent tale of criminal
misfortune. It all begins when a hapless car salesman
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Gandhi
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Gandhi is a great subject, but is Gandhi a great
film? Undoubtedly it is, not least because it is one of the
last old-school epics ever made, a glorious visual treat
featuring tens of thousands of extras (real people, not
digital effects) and sumptuous Panavision cinematography.
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Trainspotting
[1996]
~ Ewan
McGregor, Ewen Bremner
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The film that effectively launched the star careers of
Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller is a
hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the
bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the
heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by
Danny Boyle, Trainspotting...
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Battle Royale
[2001]
~ Kinji
Fukasaku, Fujiwara Tatsuya
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With the Japanese currently leading the way in
thought-provoking cinematic violence it’s only fitting that
Kenta Fukasaku’s Battle Royale is being touted as
A Clockwork Orange for the 21st century. Based on the
novel by Koshun Takami, the film opens with a series of
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Il Postino [1995]
~
Philippe Noiret, Mariano Rigillo
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Italian star and filmmaker Massimo Troisi was dying of heart
failure even before this film, his dream project, began
production, and he prevailed upon British director Michael
Radford (White Mischief) to see him and the film
through to the end. (The 40-year-old Troisi, a beloved comic
actor in...
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![The Seventh Seal [1957]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005B5YF.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
The Seventh Seal
[1957]
~ Max
Von Sydow, Bibi Andersson
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Ingmar Bergman's 1956 film, The Seventh Seal has been
parodied by everyone from Woody Allen to Bill and Ted's
Bogus Journey, but it remains one of the strangest and
richest classics of world cinema. Max Von Sydow plays a
knight returning from the Crusades to encounter an
apocalyptic scenario...
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Mirror [1974]
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DVD
Description
DVD Specialist Features:
Interviews with composer Eduard Artemyev, scriptwriter
Aleksandr Misharin, Grigory Yavlinsky
Documentaries "Memory" and on Anatloy Solinitsyn & Innokenty
Smoktunovsky
Stills Gallery
Trailers
Colour and B&W
Russian with English subtitles
Picture Format: 4:3
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Jean De Florette
[1986]
~ Yves
Montand, Gérard Depardieu
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A truly impressive French film destined to become a modern
masterpiece, Jean de Florette is an evocative
adaptation of the highly regarded French novel. Two 1920's
farmers engage in a bitter rivalry as one tries to tend to a
plot of land and the other deviously undermines his efforts
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Manon Des Sources
[1986]
~ Yves
Montand, Daniel Auteuil
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Less a sequel than a seamless continuation of its
predecessor, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources
brings with it a more epic scope as it depicts the growth to
womanhood of the daughter (Emmanuelle Béart) of the doomed
farmer of the first film. As she discovers the truth of what
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Bend It Like
Beckham [2002]
~
Parminder K. Nagra, Keira Knightley
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For all its light-hearted comic interludes, Bend it like
Beckham tackles contemporary issues of cultural clashes,
female independence and the importance of family. Director
Gurinder Chaddha tells the story of Jess Bhamra (Parminder K
Nagra), a young girl brought up within the traditional
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Three Colours Red
[1994]
~ Irene
Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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The final section of the late Krzysztof Kieslowski's
acclaimed Three Colours trilogy (preceded by Blue
and White) is the least likely of the three to stand
alone, and indeed benefits from a little familiarity with
the first two parts. Nevertheless, it's a strong, unique
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Central Station
[1999]
~
Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pera
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In the opening scenes of Central Station, colourful
crowds of Brazilians stream into and out of a Rio de Janeiro
train, pushing through doors and windows. You're immediately
pulled into the brutal vitality of a nation in motion,
setting the tone for a picturesque road movie that charts
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Three Colours Blue
[1993]
~
Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent
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The first instalment of the late Polish director Krzysztof
Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity,
the three colours of the French flag. Blue is the
most sombre of the three, a movie dominated by feelings of
grief. As the film begins, a car accident claims the life of
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Amelie [DTS]
[2001]
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Audrey Tautou
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DVD Special Features
English subtitles
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Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 6.1
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