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Three Colors: White (Trzy kolory: Bialy) - R
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March 6, 2009
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N/A
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Yojimbo - Unrated
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May 16, 2008
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N/A
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Rob Roy - R
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Rob Roy is a Scottish legend that felt the wrath of English treason and cruelty. Artfully played by Liam Neeson. Kilts have never been sexier...
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March 23, 2008
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N/A
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The Ten Commandments - G
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Charton Heston at his best as the soul searching and ultimatlely redeemed Mr Moses who, like Buddha- turned his back on the good life to serve humanity. great story! How DID they part that sea without computer graphics?
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March 23, 2008
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N/A
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Midnight Cowboy - R
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I saw this again recently and was amzed at how well it ages. Of course it wouldn't get an 'X' rating these days. It tells the story of an 'innocent' southern gigolo (Jon Voigt) hungry for success, hustling and getting hustled in tough New York. Dustin Hoffman plays his seedy and sickly side-kick Renzo who's big dream in life is to retire to Miami as a playboy. The psycadelic party scenes are a little dated now but otherwise a great and charismatic movie with some interesting theatrical cameos. definitely an important movie that is worth watching again.
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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Bridget Jones's Diary - R
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Great and totally convincing brit accent from texan Renee Zellweger playing a 30 something intellectually challenged woman on the slippery road to 'abandonment' and finding her feet gravitating between bimbo, slut, career woman and romantic....Hugh Grant as the likeable bad guy...my favourite line:...'What's wanky Darcy (Colin Firth) doing here? Blimey! here he comes again? and not a cowboy hat insight.
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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Paris Je T'aime - R
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Worth it for the Coen Brothers portrayal of an innocent American tourist getting duffed up by a young french 'hoodlum'...France gets it's revenge on hollywood! Basically a collection of shorts representing love and the different 'arrondisments' of Paris. If foreign films send you to sleep with all that 'foreign' talking, then this could be a good introduction- most of it is in English. Its an original fim, if you discount 'Night on Earth' and goes from the sad- a young unemployed black man gets knifed and robbed, the kitch- a silent love story of a vampiress and her willing 'victim', the wacky- a mime artist finds his 'other half', the poignant- a lonely middle aged tourist reflects on her isolation in what is pssibly the worst french accent in history...a must-see for 'French nerds' like myself. Best line: 'What are you looking at? CxxT person' in French of course! pardonnez moi.
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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Love and Death - PG
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Woody Allen,psycologically deranged in wacky 'remake ' of Tolstoys classic 'War and Peace'...
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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Amadeus - R
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A trifle, how should one say? Too many notes...but what the hell, its worth it for the wigs alone...
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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Before Sunrise - R
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Julie Delpy at her sensual best in this one dialogue film of boy meets girl.
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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The Flight of the Phoenix - Unrated
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A light plane crashes in the arabian desert and water is running low...get me out of here!
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Blvd.) - Unrated
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SLINKY....check out Max von Stroheim as the loyal butler.
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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The Big Blue (Le Grand bleu) - R
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Rather slow but worthwhile story of a couple of diving geeks who specialise in prolonged underwater breath-holding compete for the championship. Lots of blue water, and deep.
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August 7, 2007
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N/A
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Love Actually - R
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A beautiful movie, very British and very romantic...the scene where a secret admirer is 'rumbled' (find it on you tube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jcgj2luC7A) gets me every time...best line: 'as chance and fateful cockup would have it...'
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August 5, 2007
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N/A
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Cyrano De Bergerac - PG
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If you've ever wondered why anyone would want to waste their time with poetry, then this film is for you...a moving and tragic story of how internal beauty overcomes physical ugliness. Handsome but clumsy boy meets poetry loving girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again with help of ugly but poetic 'uncle'...boy goes to war...oh just see it, its great.
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August 5, 2007
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N/A
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La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) - R
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If you can stand the steady stream of French subtitles without missing the story...one of the best period dramas ever...tells the true story of the largest massacre in French history, but it's NOT particularly violent (considering the subject matter)...lots of sensualité...favorite line: Tu as faim? Are you hungry? When a catholic and a protestant finally call a truce and become friends, warmongers take note!
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August 5, 2007
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N/A
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Sexy Beast - R
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Incredible portrayal of cockney psycho by Ben Kingsley travelling to Spain to track down a retired and reluctant safecraker Gal (Ray Winstone) for one last job. Things get kind of messy as the sub plot involving ex-girlfriends forces Gal to do the inevitable. Favourite line: 'Why are you swearing? I'm not swearing...'The actor who played peace loving Gandhi shows great versatility here, managing to exhude violence with his choice of clothes- a neatly pressed white short sleeved shirt, just a little too tight I'd say. and if your'e thinking of moving to Marbella...forget it, it's full of gangsters. I can't understand
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August 5, 2007
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N/A
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Pretty Woman - R
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August 5, 2007
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N/A
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Dances With Wolves - PG-13
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A big budget 'western' that tells the other side of the story, those 'pesky injuns' turn out to be the 'good guys' at last after decades of gross misreprentation, .ok it's a romantic view- but the sentiment to see the west before the remaning tribes get 'herded' onto the 'res' is real enough. Leonard Peltier is still in prison and many native people still live in dire circumsatnces, but this film shows the period of 'the white man is coming' when they were the kings of the plain... a beautiful moving film of friendship, values and injustice.
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August 5, 2007
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N/A
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The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) - Unrated
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If you haven't seen this film then youv'e missed one of the all time classics...Clint Eastwood with a strange accent...aparrently the basis for 'The Magnificent 7' and countless 'spaghetti westerns'.
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August 5, 2007
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N/A
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Canadian Bacon - PG
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July 25, 2007
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N/A
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Billy Elliot - R
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July 25, 2007
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N/A
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The Remains of the Day - PG
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July 25, 2007
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N/A
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Barry Lyndon - PG
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July 25, 2007
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N/A
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The Matrix - R
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best multi genre film ever...it's kung fu meets Sci-Fi meets Computer Animation meets Tom and Jerry on computersmack....yes, I DID just invent that word.
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June 26, 2007
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N/A
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