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Movie Database - G. Pareja |
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| "If film aspires to be part of culture, it should do the things great literature, music and art do: elevate the spirit, help us understand ourselves and the world around us and give people the feeling they are not alone." -Krzysztof Kieślowski |
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| These are movies (or TV series available on video) that are my all- time faves, that I have watched several times and see myself watching again with pleasure, and that I heartily recommend to all my friends (35 entries). Lwwa: Likelihood I'll want to watch again. |
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Title: 12 Angry Men
(Twelve Angry Men)
Year: 1957. Director: Sidney Lumet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0050083 | A young man is accused of 1st degree murder. 11 jurors are ready to convict, but Juror 8 determinedly forces them to examine the facts and their prejudices. Sidney Lumet's first masterpiece. (5 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Oct 2003. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Ebert. (97 mins) |
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Title: Amores perros
(Love's a bitch)
Year: 2000. Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0245712 | A hard-to-watch but unforgettable film about life, love, choices. Amazing that this is the director's opera prima! (5 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (153 mins) |
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Title: Bicycle Thieves
(Ladri di biciclette)
Year: 1948. Director: Vittorio de Sica Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0040522 | A great morality tale about poverty and desperation in post-WW2 Italy. Must see right through to its devastating ending. (5 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Brides of Christ (mini)
Year: 1991. Director: Ken Cameron Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0101053 | Excellent portrayal of turmoil in an Australian convent on the cusp of momentous changes (2nd Vatican Council). Best TV mini-series ever. Brenda Fricker, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, et al. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1992. Lwwa: 100%. (350 mins) |
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Title: The Bridges of Madison County
Year: 1995. Director: Clint Eastwood Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0112579 | Masterful adaptation of a story about infidelity and true love set in the 1960s Midwest. Top-notch performances by Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. My favourite Eastwood film; gets the details right, like Truffaut. (5 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. (135 mins) |
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Title: Catch me if you Can
Year: 2002. Director: Stephen Spielberg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0264464 | Fact-based story about one of the great bank forgers of all time. Great acting by DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, perfect pacing of the gags and the story in general. Colourful 1960s sets. (5 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. (132 mins) |
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Title: Dersu Uzala
Year: 1974. Director: Akira Kurosawa Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0071411 | Wonderful story of a most unlikely friendship and of cross-cultural understanding. The DVD has a new subtitle translation, giving a far better sense of Dersu's halting Russian. A masterpiece. (5 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1983. Lwwa: 100%. (142 mins) |
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Title: Doctor Zhivago
Year: 1965. Director: David Lean Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0059113 | Long saga about a Russian doctor, his life and loves around the time of the Bolshevik revolution. Great cinematography. Now relegated to late-night repeats, this story will live on. (5 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1967. Lwwa: 100%. (197 mins) |
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Title: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying
Year: 1964. Director: Stanley Kubrick Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0057012 | Mad general triggers nuclear holocaust. Intense, funny. A classic. (5 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1966. Lwwa: 100%. (93 mins) |
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Title: Educating Rita
Year: 1983. Director: Lewis Gilbert Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0085478 | Rita is a working-class woman seeking a formal education. Frank Bryant is her boozing, disillusioned English lit tutor. Beautiful story of their blossoming friendship, need for each other, yet.... (5 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 1984. Lwwa: 100%. (110 mins) |
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Title: Fawlty Towers (BBC TV)
Year: 1975. Director: John Howard Davies Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0072500 | A laugh a minute with John Cleese and his troupe. Rated the Greatest British Television Programme of the 20th Century by the British Film Institute (BFI). ¿Qué? (5 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: The Godfather
Year: 1972. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0068646 | The quintessential gangster movie, Coppola's masterpiece never fails to thrill. Top notch in every way. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: 1972. Lwwa: 100%. (175 mins) |
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Title: The Godfather, Part II
Year: 1974. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0071562 | Another superb addition to the gangster genre. Al Pacino is spine-chillingly mean in this 3-hour epic. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (200 mins) |
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Title: Green Card
Year: 1990. Director: Peter Weir Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099699 | Romantic charmer about French man and New York woman in a marriage of convenience. Opposites attract, and all that. Great turns by Gerard Depardieu and Andie McDowell. (5 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1993. Lwwa: 100%. (103 mins) |
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Title: High Noon
Year: 1952. Director: Fred Zinnemann Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0044706 | Great morality tale of man, deserted by all his friends, standing alone and outnumbered to face his worst fears. Gripping, even after 40+ years. (5 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1960. Lwwa: 100%. (85 mins) |
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Title: El Hijo de la Novia
(Son of the Bride)
Year: 2001. Director: Juan Jose Campanella Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0292542 | Heartwarming story about love conquering time, illness, false pride. (5 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. (123 mins) |
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Title: La Historia oficial
(Official Story, The)
Year: 1985. Director: Luis Puenzo Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0089276 | Amongst the atrocities of Argentina's dirty war of the 1970s were the baby thefts by high-ranking military officers. This award-winning film dramatizes one case. Intense and emotional. Top notch. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Howard Schumann. (112 mins) |
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Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Year: 1946. Director: Frank Capra Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0038650 | Uplifting story about ambitious young man, stuck in a rut in a little town, who attempts suicide but is given a chance to see what his world would be like if he had never lived at all. (5 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1987. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Berardinelli. (128 mins) |
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Title: Jean de Florette
Year: 1986. Director: Claude Berri Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0091288 | Superb story of deception, human greed. Don't miss the sequel: Manon des Sources . (5 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1988. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Berardinelli. (121 mins) |
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Title: Manon des Sources
(Manon of the Spring)
Year: 1987. Director: Claude Berri Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0091480 | The greedy, misguided perpetrators of grave injustice get their brutal comeuppance. Must see. Sequel to Jean de Florette . (5 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1988. Lwwa: 100%. (113 mins) |
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Title: Moscow does not believe in tears
(Moskva slezam ne verit)
Year: 1979. Director: Vladimir Menshov Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0079579 | Touching romantic story about the effect of choices made in youth. Follows three young Russian women from early 20s to middle age. Won the Oscar in spite of the freeze in USA/USSR relations. (5 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2000. Lwwa: 100%. (140 mins) |
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Title: My Brilliant Career
Year: 1979. Director: Gillian Armstrong Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0079596 | A young woman perseveres in her choice to be a writer, against the safe choice of marriage. Superb acting by Judy Davis and Sam Neill. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: 1981. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: My So-called Life
Year: 1994. Director: Winnie Holzman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0108872 | Superb but short-lived TV series about a disaffected teen girl and the people in her life. Very intense and true to life; touched a lot of buttons. Arguably the best American TV series ever. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1994. Lwwa: 100%. (48 mins) |
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Title: Nueve Reinas
(Nine Queens, The)
Year: 2000. Director: Fabian Bielinsky Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0247586 | Con man cons con man, or does he? Beautiful. A perfect scam on a Buenos Aires master scam artist. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. (114 mins) |
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Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Year: 1975. Director: Milos Forman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0073486 | Inimitable Jack Nicholson lands in insane asylum in the 1960s. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1976. Lwwa: 100%. (133 mins) |
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Title: Owning Mahowny
Year: 2003. Director: Richard Kwietniokowski Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0285861 | A compulsive gambler embezzles huge sums from his bank, precipitating a slide to capture and prison, but also to true love. Rich performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Minnie Driver. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (104 mins) |
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Title: A Passage to India
Year: 1984. Director: David Lean Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0087892 | Judy Davis as a young English woman who accuses Indian doctor of attempted rape. Caught in a racist justice system, the doctor's fate is sealed until Adela recants her testimony. Beautiful cinematography. (5 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1984. Lwwa: 100%. (143 mins) |
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Title: Les Quatre-cents Coups
(400 Blows, The)
Year: 1959. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0053198 | More suitably translated as 'Wild Oats', this is the first recognized classic of the French New Wave and also the first of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series. Antoine is a troubled young teen here. (5 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (94 mins) |
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Title: Rain Man
Year: 1988. Director: Barry Levinson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0095953 | Two long-estranged brothers reconnect on cross-country journey. One is severely autistic. Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise outdo themselves here. (5 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 100%. (133 mins) |
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Title: Running on Empty
Year: 1988. Director: Sidney Lumet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0096018 | Great, touching story of gifted teen born into a family of Viet Nam war resisters who went underground in the 1970s. Intense scenes of true love, regret, letting go of children. Must see. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1991. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Some Like it Hot
Year: 1959. Director: Billy Wilder Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0053291 | Theoretically it is possible not to love this brilliant farce, e.g., if you're an ant, a Martian or a gangster. For us humans, it's perfection on celluloid. (5 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 1962. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Charles Taylor. (122 mins) |
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Title: The Sopranos
Year: 1999. Director: David Chase Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0141842 | Exploration of what motivates a mafia boss, his need for control but also to love and be loved. Possibly the best exploration of gangsterism on screen. Amongst the best TV series ever. Seen up to season 5. (5 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2000. Lwwa: 100%. (55 mins) |
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Title: Vagabond
(Sans toit ni loi)
Year: 1985. Director: Agnes Varda Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0089960 | Sad story of a young woman found dead in a ditch in southern France. It examines how and what people remember of her as she drifted by and briefly touched their lives. Great performance by Sandrine Bonnaire. (5 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Jeremy Heilman. (105 mins) |
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Title: When Harry met Sally
Year: 1989. Director: Rob Reiner Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0098635 | Instant classic romantic story! Best fake O scene in film. Director's mom has one short and memorable line: I'll have what she's having.... (5 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1989. Lwwa: 100%. (96 mins) |
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Title: Y tu Mamá También
Year: 2001. Director: Alfonso Cuarón Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0245574 | A third-world twist on the road movie genre. Two young guys get lessons in love, sex and life from fascinating older woman. Mexico's deeply split society is held up to harsh scrutiny. Masterful. (5 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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| These are movies I liked a lot and that I recommend, and that are likely candidates for top recommendation but are waiting for a second viewing, at least one year after the first, before I decide to upgrade them (284 entries). Lwwa: Likelihood I'll want to watch again. |
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Title: 11'09''01 - September 11
Year: 2002. Director: Youssef Chahine Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0328802 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: 2 secondes
Year: 1998. Director: Manon Briand Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0158446 | Story of a former pro mountain-bike racer starting out as a courier on the streets of Montreal. Quite realistically delves into the life and subculture of devoted cyclists. (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: 21 grams
Year: 2003. Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0315733 | Scarily good filmmaking by Mexico's genius of interlocking puzzles on celluloid! May become a cult film in future. Would be mindblowing if all or parts were re-scored with Gustav Mahler's music. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (Cinema) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (125 mins) |
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Title: 24 (TV series)
Year: 2001. Director: Robert Cochran Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0285331 | (4 bikes) Last seen: May 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. (60 mins) |
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Title: 25th Hour
Year: 2002. Director: Spike Lee Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0307901 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (134 mins) |
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Title: The Accidental Tourist
Year: 1988. Director: Lawrence Kasdan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0094606 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (121 mins) |
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Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Year: 1930. Director: Lewis Milestone Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0020629 | Follows a troop of former students who sign up to fight for Germany in the First World War. Death, dismemberment and deprivation leads to disillusionment and dissociation with the home folks. Great antiwar film. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (131 mins) |
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Title: Almost Famous
Year: 2000. Director: Cameron Crowe Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0181875 | High schooler gets dream writing assignment for Rolling Stone magazine, following 1970s band Stillwater. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (123 mins) |
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Title: Amadeus
Year: 1984. Director: Milos Forman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0086879 | A controversial look at the life of the great maestro W.A. Mozart. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 100%. (180 mins) |
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Title: Amelie
(Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulin, Le)
Year: 2001. Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0211915 | Charming and romantic story of painfully shy Parisian girl intent on doing good deeds and spreading kindness to others. But can she find true love for herself? Great date movie. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. (120 mins) |
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Title: American Beauty
Year: 1999. Director: Sam Mendes Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0169547 | The last day in the life of a desk jockey is full of surprises. Excellent technically, and with great performances. It's just a bit ... weird. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: American Splendor
Year: 2003. Director: Shari Springer Berman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0305206 | Part documentary, part dramatization, a very entertaining story of cartoonist Harvey Pekar. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Aug 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (101 mins) |
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Title: Amistad
Year: 1997. Director: Steven Spielberg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0118607 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Amour en Fuite, L'
(Love on the Run)
Year: 1979. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0078771 | The last of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series. Antoine divorces his wife and has girl trouble again. Truffaut recaps the whole series with longish flashbacks. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (94 mins) |
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Title: L' Amour l'apres-midi
(Chloe in the Afternoon)
Year: 1972. Director: Eric Rohmer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0068205 | Rohmer's moral tale about a middle-aged man tempted by an old flame but tempered by his devotion to his young wife and children. (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (97 mins) |
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Title: An Affair to Remember
Year: 1957. Director: Leo McCarey Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0050105 | Socialites meet on trans-Atlantic cruise and life is never the same. Rehashed more than once. Romantic and well acted. This is a true classic, if you like this sort of thing. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (119 mins) |
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Title: An Angel at my Table
Year: 1990. Director: Jane Campion Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099040 | Excellent biographical film, originally a TV mini-series. Jane Campion's first long feature. Long at 2:38, but as one gets into the story of NZ writer Janet Frame, more's better. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Dec 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (158 mins) |
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Title: Angela's Ashes
Year: 1999. Director: Alan Parker Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0145653 | I liked this adaptation of the life story of a hard-luck Irish family in the 1930s. Get the DVD and listen to the author's own commentary. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (145 mins) |
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Title: Annie Hall
Year: 1977. Director: Woody Allen Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0075686 | Nobody does breakup comedies like Woody Allen. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1983. Lwwa: 100%. (93 mins) |
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Title: Antoine et Colette
Year: 1962. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0055747 | Sweetly romantic, this slice-of-life short film sees Antoine Doinel fall for a very non-committal Colette; she appears again in Baisers Volés and Amour en Fuite, L' . (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (30 mins) |
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Title: Aparajito
Year: 1957. Director: Satyajit Ray Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0048956 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Apu Sansar
(World of Apu)
Year: 1959. Director: Satyajit Ray Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0052572 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Ararat
Year: 2002. Director: Atom Egoyan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0273435 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Argent de poche, L'
(Small change)
Year: 1976. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0074152 | Truffaut's charmer about children's life in a small French town. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 1988. Lwwa: 100%. (105 mins) |
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Title: As Good as it Gets
Year: 1997. Director: James L. Brooks Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0119822 | Obsessive-compulsive man meets waitress who understands him, sort of. Superb acting in spite of contrived story. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1998 (Cinema) - First seen: 1998. Lwwa: 50%. (139 mins) |
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Title: Atanarjuat
(Fast Runner, The)
Year: 2001. Director: Zacharias Kunuk Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0285441 | Story of love, betrayal, injustice in High Arctic, presented as ancient Inuit saga. First long-metrage shot in Inuktitut. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Atlantic City
Year: 1980. Director: Louis Malle Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0080388 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (104 mins) |
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Title: Aurore
Year: 2005. Director: Luc Dionne Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0430895 | Brutal scenes of spiteful stepmother assaulting her stepdaughter, a dreamy child who misses her real mother terribly. Set in early 20th C. Quebec. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (115 mins) |
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Title: Autumn Sonata
(Hoestsonaten)
Year: 1978. Director: Ingmar Bergman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0077711 | Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann star as conflicted mother and daughter during a long-delayed attempt at reconciliation. Reminded me of why we 'count to ten' before saying something we'll regret. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. (99 mins) |
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Title: Bad Day at Black Rock
Year: 1955. Director: John Sturges Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0047849 | (4 bikes) Last seen: 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 1996. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Badlands
Year: 1973. Director: Terrence Malick Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0069762 | Might be just another road movie except for stellar performances by young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as lovers on the lam. Disturbing story. Fabulously photographed. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (95 mins) |
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Title: Baisers Volés
(Stolen Kisses)
Year: 1968. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0062695 | Second long-metrage of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, Antoine is set up as a bumbling, woman-obsessed young man who is basically no match for the savvy Parisiennes he is lucky to meet. But love wins out at the end. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Jul 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Band of Brothers
Year: 2001. Director: David Frankel Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0185906 | Thrilling dramatization of a US Army company training for and supporting the Allied D-Day invasions as the first-ever airborne infantry. Intense battle scenes. Far better than I expected. From HBO. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (600 mins) |
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Title: The Battle of Algiers
Year: 1965. Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0058946 | Intense re-enactments of major events leading to Algerian independence. Inner workings of terrorist cells made this an underground classic. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Before Sunrise
Year: 1995. Director: Richard Linklater Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0112471 | Sweet romance. Two young people meet on the train arriving at Vienna, can't get enough of each other's company, but must part by sunrise the next morning. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Berardinelli. (105 mins) |
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Title: Being Julia
Year: 2004. Director: Istvan Szabo Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0340012 | Tour de force performance by a radiant Annette Bening. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (103 mins) |
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Title: Bend it like Beckham
Year: 2002. Director: Gurinder Chadha Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0286499 | Young woman is torn between her love for her conservative Sikh parents and her love of soccer. Wonderful. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Dec 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (110 mins) |
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Title: Black Narcissus
Year: 1947. Director: Michael Powell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0039192 | Nuns in Himalayas. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Oct 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (100 mins) |
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Title: Blow
Year: 2001. Director: Ted Demme Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0221027 | Johnny Depp excels with his portrayal of the rather unsavory cocaine superdealer George Jung. Passionate performance by sexy Penelope Cruz. The extras on the DVD are fantastic, shown in context. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: El Bola
(Pellet)
Year: 2000. Director: Achero Mañas Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0243794 | Juan Jose Ballesta is great as Bola, a 12-year-old abused boy in Madrid. As a new boy joins his class, they become friends and he gets a glimpse of how a normal loving family lives. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (88 mins) |
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Title: Bonnie and Clyde
Year: 1967. Director: Arthur Penn Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0061418 | Fascinating and sympathetic story of the ultimately-doomed Bonnie and Clyde, infamous bank robbers in the depression-ravaged Texas and Oklahoma region. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1980. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Year: 2004. Director: Zana Briski Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0388789 | Heartwarming documentary about the struggle of a first-time filmmaker to help some dirt-poor children escape their violent and depressing environment. She does this by teaching them photography and giving them cameras. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (83 mins) |
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Title: Bowling for Columbine
Year: 2002. Director: Michael Moore Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0310793 | A great polemic about America's crazy gun culture. Funny, yes, infuriating, yes, and all true. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (120 mins) |
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Title: Boycott
Year: 2001. Director: Clark Johnson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0255851 | Dramatization of Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56, led by Martin Luther King Jr. Intimidation by the whites and prejudicial police tactics did not dissuade the leaders and the boycott succeeded. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (120 mins) |
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Title: Boyfriends and Girlfriends
(L'ami de mon amie)
Year: 1987. Director: Eric Rohmer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0092550 | Light and fluffy romantic comedy, but uniquely Rohmer's. Blanche and Lea's boyfriend troubles work themselves out in the end. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Berardinelli. (102 mins) |
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Title: Brideshead Revisited
Year: 1981. Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0083390 | Adaptation of Evelyn Waugh novel about young man who befriends and is bemused by a rich British Roman Catholic family. Superb mini-series. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (660 mins) |
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Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Year: 1957. Director: David Lean Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0050212 | Epic story of British prisoners forced to build a military bridge in Japanese prison camp. Still exciting after 40+ years. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1958. Lwwa: 100%. (161 mins) |
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Title: Brief Encounter
Year: 1945. Director: David Lean Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0037558 | Married woman is tempted to be unfaithful by dashing doctor after a chance meeting at a railway station. Unforgettable: Laura's expressive eyes and Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (86 mins) |
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Title: Bus 174
(Onibus 174)
Year: 2002. Director: Jose Padilha Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0340468 | Documentary about a bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro. Examines society's dismissive attitude towards homeless kids, treatment of prisoners and the rage simmering in the entire underclass. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Year: 1969. Director: George Roy Hill Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0064115 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Aug 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (110 mins) |
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Title: The Caine Mutiny
Year: 1954. Director: Edward Dmytryk Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0046816 | Navy captain is unable to cope with stress except by slavish adherence to rules. His subordinates relieve him of command under harrowing circumstances, and are brought up on mutiny charges. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (124 mins) |
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Title: Capturing the Friedmans
Year: 2003. Director: Andrew Jarecki Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0342172 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (107 mins) |
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Title: Carandiru
Year: 2003. Director: Hector Babenco Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0293007 | Brazilian dramatization of simmering frustrations of jail life. Escalation into riot and brutal repressive tactics by the riot squad in an infamous 1992 massacre. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (148 mins) |
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Title: Careful, he might hear you
Year: 1983. Director: Carl Schultz Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0085295 | Bitter custody battle between two sisters (one rich, one working-class) for an orphaned young boy. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Casablanca
Year: 1942. Director: Michael Curtiz Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0034583 | Of all the soap operas on all the video screens in all the world, the one with the most abiding viewership. Great acting, gorgeous Ingrid Bergman, unforgettable Bogie. But best movie ever? No. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1994. Lwwa: 100%. (102 mins) |
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Title: Central do Brasil
(Brazil Central Station)
Year: 1998. Director: Walter Salles Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0140888 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. (115 mins) |
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Title: Chariots of Fire
Year: 1981. Director: Hugh Hudson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0082158 | Three Brits compete for gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1981. Lwwa: 100%. (123 mins) |
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Title: Children of Heaven
Year: 1997. Director: Majid Majidi Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0118849 | Lovely story about brother who loses his sister's only pair of shoes, has to share his old runners with her, and finally tries to win her a pair by attempting a 3rd-place finish in a foot race. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 1999. Lwwa: 100%. (89 mins) |
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Title: Chinatown
Year: 1974. Director: Roman Polanski Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0071315 | Murder of water commissioner draws P.I. Gittes into a cesspool, a salt-water one. Great turn by Jack Nicholson but Faye Dunaway must have had a bug up her rear-end to do that role. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1980. Lwwa: 100%. (131 mins) |
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Title: Chocolat
Year: 2000. Director: Lasse Hallstrom Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0241303 | Free-spirited woman sets up a chocolate shop in very conservative little town. Whole lotta shakin happens. Good performances by Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (121 mins) |
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Title: Cidade de Deus
(City of God)
Year: 2002. Director: Fernando Meirelles Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0317248 | How life in a poor Rio favela is ruled by criminals and fear. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (129 mins) |
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Title: Clara et moi
Year: 2004. Director: Arnaud Viard Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0400868 | Bittersweet love story of two Parisians. As Clara finds out she is HIV-positive, Antoine drops her, but is finally drawn back to her. But can she trust him? (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (81 mins) |
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Title: Coming home
Year: 1978. Director: Hal Ashby Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0077362 | Broken bodies and spirits are the legacy of Viet Nam. Strong performances by Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Comme une Image
(Look at Me)
Year: 2004. Director: Agnes Jaoui Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0374583 | Excellent character study of overbearing father, a famous writer with lots of sycophantic hangers-on, who neglects his talented young-adult daughter, alienates his young trophy wife. Great turn by Marilou Berry. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Dec 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Como agua para chocolate
(Like water for chocolate)
Year: 1992. Director: Alfonso Arau Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0103994 | Young Mexican woman, denied the option to marry, must look after her mother. She expresses her sensuality and yearnings through her cooking. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Confesion a Laura
Year: 1991. Director: Jaime Osorio Gomez Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0101610 | Comedy about married man stranded across the street during a bloody riot in Bogota, Colombia in 1948. He develops a strong attraction to the prim single lady who is keeping him holed up. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1992 (VHS) - First seen: 1992. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Confidences trop intimes
(Intimate Strangers)
Year: 2004. Director: Patrice Leconte Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0363532 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (104 mins) |
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Title: The Conversation
Year: 1974. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0071360 | Professional eavesdropper feels remorseful about information he has uncovered, then paranoid as he feels himself under surveillance. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (113 mins) |
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Title: The Cranes are Flying
(Letjat zhuravli)
Year: 1957. Director: Mikheil Kalatozishvili Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0050634 | Story of young Russian woman's regret over not waiting for her intended to return from World War II. Touched a chord with tens of millions of Russians bereaved of their loved ones. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 1962. Lwwa: 10%. (97 mins) |
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Title: Crash
Year: 2004. Director: Paul Haggis Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0375679 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Crimes of the Heart
Year: 1986. Director: Bruce Beresford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0090886 | Youngest of three sisters shoots her husband. Strong performances by Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1995 (VHS) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. (105 mins) |
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Title: Criminal
Year: 2004. Director: Gregory Jacobs Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0362526 | An excellent adaptation to American audiences of the near-perfect Argentine scam film that is Nueve Reinas with Bielinsky's creative input. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jun 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (87 mins) |
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Title: Le Déclin de l'empire américain
(Decline of the American Empire)
Year: 1986. Director: Denys Arcand Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0090985 | (4 bikes) Last seen: 2000 (VHS) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. (101 mins) |
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Title: Dancer in the dark
Year: 2000. Director: Lars von Trier Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0168629 | Young woman with genetic disease affecting her vision tries to save for an operation for her son while her sight lasts. Heavily dramatic musical, quite original in concept. Excellent turn by Bjork. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (140 mins) |
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Title: Day for Night
(Nuit Americaine, La)
Year: 1973. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0070460 | Filmmaker films himself making a film. Truffaut's homage to his industry. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (115 mins) |
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Title: Dead Man Walking
Year: 1995. Director: Tim Robbins Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0112818 | Sean Penn shines as the brutal murderer who comes to repent for his horrible crime with the guidance of a nun, played by Susan Sarandon. Exposes the primitive brutality of capital punishment. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Dec 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Dec 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: The Defiant Ones
Year: 1958. Director: Stanley Kramer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0051525 | Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis as two escaped convicts, chained together, who overcome their distrust and racial prejudice to form a strong bond. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (97 mins) |
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Title: Dekalog
Year: 1987. Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0092337 | Ten stories based on the Ten Commandments. Widely considered as masterpieces, Some of the endings fall flat. Worth multiple viewings, however. Originally a Polish TV mini-series. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (560 mins) |
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Title: Le Dernier Metro
(Last Metro, The)
Year: 1980. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0080610 | Intrigue at Paris theatre whose Jewish owner is in hiding during the Nazi occupation. (4 bikes -) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Les Deux anglaises et le continent
(Two English Girls)
Year: 1971. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0066989 | Achingly romantic tale of two young sisters falling in love with young Parisian man. (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 75%. (130 mins) |
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Title: Diarios de motocicleta
(Motorcycle Diaries)
Year: 2004. Director: Walter Salles Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0318462 | Story of the young Ernesto Che Guevara in the early 1950s, well before becoming the fiery revolutionary and architect of Castro's leftist revolution. Mexican actor Garcia Bernal proves he can play an Argentine. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (126 mins) |
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Title: Dirty Pretty Things
Year: 2002. Director: Stephen Frears Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0301199 | Illegal immigrants in London do what they have to do to survive and find stability and love. Great performances by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, and Sergi Lopez. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (97 mins) |
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Title: The Dish
Year: 2000. Director: Rob Sitch Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0205873 | Staff at Parkes Observatory (NSW, Australia) was able to pull TV signals off the Apollo 11 lunar landing in spite of dramatic complications. The old lump in the throat was a worldwide phenom! (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (102 mins) |
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Title: Dog Day Afternoon
Year: 1975. Director: Sidney Lumet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0072890 | Bank robbery fails and turns into tense hostage taking. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1999. Lwwa: 100%. (124 mins) |
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Title: Dolores Claiborne
Year: 1995. Director: Taylor Hackford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0109642 | Murder or self-defence? Stephen King's story develops in a predictable arc, as we enjoy the great and seemingly effortless acting of Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (132 mins) |
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Title: Domicile conjugal
(Bed and board)
Year: 1970. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0065651 | No. 3 in Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series. Antoine is married to Christine, but becomes infatuated with a Japanese co-worker, and all is not bliss. Antoine has a hard time growing up into the adult world. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Aug 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: The Dreamers
Year: 2003. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0309987 | Bertolucci's personal paean to film buffs and to 1968 Paris, seen through the eyes of a young American who hooks up with an eccentric set of boy-girl twins who eschew any personal boundaries. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (120 mins) |
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Title: Driving Miss Daisy
Year: 1989. Director: Bruce Beresford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0097239 | Old Jewish woman and her black chauffeur in the old South. Superb performances by Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1999 (VHS) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 100%. (99 mins) |
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Title: Early Summer
(Bakushu)
Year: 1951. Director: Yasujiro Ozu Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0043313 | (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (110 mins) |
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Title: Easy Rider
Year: 1969. Director: Dennis Hopper Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0064276 | Counterculture biker adventure in 1960s. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1974. Lwwa: 75%. (94 mins) |
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Title: El Norte
Year: 1984. Director: Gregory Nava Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0085482 | Dramatizes the plight of poor peasants making the perilous journey from Central America through unfriendly Mexico and taking unimaginable risks to cross into the U.S. (4 bikes +) Last seen: 1999 (VHS) - First seen: 1984. Lwwa: 100%. (139 mins) |
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Title: The English Patient
Year: 1996. Director: Anthony Minghella Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0116209 | Long-winded story based on Michael Ondaatje's novel. A pilot with horrible burns is shot by the Germans in north Africa in the 1940s. His nurse elicits his story before he dies. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. (160 mins) |
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Title: Erin Brockovich
Year: 2000. Director: Steven Soderbergh Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0195685 | Untrained legal secretary breaks open a case of massive water contamination by a power company intent on hiding its misdeeds. Julia Roberts' best role. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (118 mins) |
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Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Year: 2004. Director: Michel Gondry Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0338013 | Brilliant love story, scrambled in the telling, very imaginative. Two lovers try to erase each other from their memories with help from a strange clinic. Great cast. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (108 mins) |
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Title: Etre et Avoir
(To be and to have)
Year: 2002. Director: Nicolas Philibert Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0318202 | Very touching feature-length documentary filmed in a remote one-room schoolhouse in France. Reminded me of caring teachers I have known and what a difference they can make. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (104 mins) |
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Title: Ever After
Year: 1998. Director: Andy Tennant Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120631 | Cinderella story. Great turn by Drew Barrymore. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Oct 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (121 mins) |
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Title: Exodus
Year: 1960. Director: Otto Preminger Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0053804 | Dramatization of the odyssey of a shipload of Jewish refugees who sail to Palestine in 1946 in spite of British objections. Recreates events such as the King David Hotel bombing and Acre prison riot. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (210 mins) |
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Title: Exotica
Year: 1993. Director: Atom Egoyan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0109759 | Father is distraught by loss of his young daughter. Acts out in despair, frequents nightclub. (4 bikes -) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Fahrenheit 9/11
Year: 2004. Director: Michael Moore Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0361596 | Michael Moore's diatribe about George W. Bush and his mishandling of issues, pandering to special interests, etc., is entertaining enough, but will it spur progressives in the U.S. election? (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (Cinema) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 20%. (116 mins) |
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Title: Fanny and Alexander
Year: 1982. Director: Ingmar Bergman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0083922 | All those masterpieces that Bergman and Nykvist gave the world over the years can be seen as having been merely practice for this one. Dark and disturbing at times, but a masterpiece nonetheless. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1984. Lwwa: 100%. (189 mins) |
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Title: Fargo
Year: 1996. Director: Joel Coen Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0116282 | Police thriller. Addle-brained car salesman plots to have his wife kidnapped. Everything goes wrong. Resolution comes from down-to-earth Marge Gunderson in a great performance by Frances McDormand. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Ebert. (98 mins) |
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Title: La Femme d'à Côté
(Woman Next Door, The)
Year: 1981. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0082370 | Tragic romantic story about a married man discovering that his new neighbour is an old flame. Jealousy turns to hatred. Unforgettable. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1997 (VHS) - First seen: 1997. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Five Easy Pieces
Year: 1970. Director: Bob Rafelson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0065724 | Terrific Jack Nicholson - before he got so full of himself - as a gifted pianist who does not want to follow in the family tradition, but drifts from job to job instead. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (96 mins) |
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Title: Flower & Garnet
Year: 2002. Director: Keith Behrman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0304023 | Eight-year-old boy and his teen sister grow up motherless with a dysfunctional dad. The kids' performances are superb. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (103 mins) |
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Title: Frances
Year: 1982. Director: Graeme Clifford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0083967 | Based on the real-life story of a Hollywood starlet whose angry outbursts get her mentally committed by her mother. Great performance by a radiant Jessica Lange, solid Sam Shephard. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (140 mins) |
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Title: The Full Monty
Year: 1997. Director: Peter Cattaneo Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0119164 | Unemployment will drive men to perform impudent acts. Funny and touching. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Gandhi
Year: 1982. Director: Richard Attenborough Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0083987 | Biography of icon of non-violent resistance. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1983. Lwwa: 100%. (188 mins) |
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Title: Ghost World
Year: 2000. Director: Terry Zwigoff Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0162346 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse
(Gleaners and I, The)
Year: 2000. Director: Agnes Varda Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0247380 | Documentary about people who live off pickings off farms and vineyards, also urban scavengers, their ethic, motivations. The filmmaker also sees herself as a gleaner of images and stories. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Aug 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (78 mins) |
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Title: Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse ... deux ans apres
(Gleaners and I, two years later)
Year: 2002. Director: Agnes Varda Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0345128 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Aug 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (59 mins) |
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Title: La Gloire de mon pere
(My Father's Glory)
Year: 1990. Director: Yves Robert Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099669 | A wonderful story about childhood in the sunny south of France. Follows a boy from birth to about 12, when he spends a magical summer in a cabin with his family. See Le Chateau de ma mere (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Howard Schumann. (105 mins) |
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Title: The Godfather, Part III
Year: 1990. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099674 | In spite of the miscast Sofia Coppola, this is still very much one of her dad's classics and an artsy and memorable series finale. Takes a back seat to Parts 1 and 2 but only one row back! (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (169 mins) |
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Title: The Gods must be Crazy
Year: 1980. Director: Jamie Uys Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0080801 | African bushman finds Coke bottle, thinks it's a sign from the gods. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1989. Lwwa: 100%. (107 mins) |
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Title: Good Bye Lenin!
Year: 2003. Director: Wolfgang Becker Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0301357 | Charming German fantasy about a mom who falls into a coma just before the Berlin Wall fell and reawakens after unification. Her children hide the history from her to save her heart. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (121 mins) |
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Title: Goodfellas
Year: 1990. Director: Martin Scorsese Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099685 | Up to 2003, I had only seen (on TV) the ending of Scorsese's addition to the Gangster genre, but after seeing the whole story, I am quite impressed. Blood and gore warnings apply. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1999. Lwwa: 100%. (145 mins) |
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Title: Gosford Park
Year: 2001. Director: Robert Altman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0280707 | The servant class gets to tell their side of the story in this tribute to Renoir's La Regle du jeu . (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (137 mins) |
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Title: La Grande Illusion
(Great Illusion, The)
Year: 1937. Director: Jean Renoir Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0028950 | Story of French military officers desperate to escape German POW camps in 1916. Charmingly and touchingly told. Excellent restoration on Criterion DVD. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (114 mins) |
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Title: Gregory's Girl
Year: 1982. Director: Bill Forsyth Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0082477 | Touching film about adolescence. In spite of some insensitive comments and dumb-as-rocks teen boys, there are plenty of likeable moments and a playful charm pervades the film. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1983. Lwwa: 75%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Year: 1967. Director: Stanley Kramer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0061735 | (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (108 mins) |
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Title: Hardwood
Year: 2004. Director: Hubert Davis Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0443531 | Story of man who brought up two sons, one in Chicago, the other in Vancouver, keeping each a secret from the other. Love conquers all. (4 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (30 mins) |
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Title: The Harp in the South
Year: 1987. Director: George Whaley Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0278861 | Heartwarming story of Irish immigrant family in a poor district of Sydney. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: 1998. Lwwa: 100%. (282 mins) |
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Title: Hasta Cierto Punto
(Up to a Certain Point)
Year: 1983. Director: Tomas Gutierrez Alea Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0087387 | Filmmaker falls in love with dockworker in 1980s Havana. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. (68 mins) |
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Title: La Hija del Canibal
(Lucia, Lucia)
Year: 2003. Director: Antonio Serrano Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0314170 | Lucia, Adrian and Felix are neighbours who meet and become fast friends as a consequence of Lucia's husband's disappearance. Romantic angle reminds me of Truffaut's Jules et Jim . (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Hiroshima mon amour
Year: 1959. Director: Alain Resnais Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0052893 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Holy Smoke
Year: 1999. Director: Jane Campion Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0144715 | Young woman falls into torrid but ill-fated love affair with older man hired to deprogram her out of a cult. Jane Campion's look at sexual attraction from the woman's p.o.v. is exquisite. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (115 mins) |
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Title: The Homecoming
Year: 1973. Director: Peter Hall Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0070188 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (113 mins) |
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Title: Hoosiers
Year: 1986. Director: David Anspaugh Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0091217 | High-school basketball coach energizes small-town team and leads them to their biggest game. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1987. Lwwa: 100%. (115 mins) |
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Title: The Hours
Year: 2002. Director: Stephen Daldry Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0274558 | A thought-provoking and not depressing film about ... depression and how it touches people close to the depressed person. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. Fave reviews: Steve Davis, Rick Groen. (114 mins) |
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Title: Howards End
Year: 1992. Director: James Ivory Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0104454 | Forster's novel on class, greed and social status in 1910 England is brought to life by Ivory and Merchant. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Oct 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (142 mins) |
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Title: The Hunt for Red October
Year: 1990. Director: John McTiernan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099810 | Quite exciting story of Cold War tension due to a Soviet submarine captain apparently attempting to defect. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Oct 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (135 mins) |
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Title: The Hustler
Year: 1961. Director: Robert Rossen Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0054997 | Alcoholic pool hustler's rollercoaster life and love. Great turn by Paul Newman. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (133 mins) |
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Title: I, Claudia
Year: 2004. Director: Chris Abraham Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0424169 | Unusual story about a pre-teen girl with divorced parents. All main characters wear masks throughout. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (75 mins) |
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Title: Ikiru
Year: 1952. Director: Akira Kurosawa Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0044741 | Story about a dying man and his relationship with his son and co-workers, also an exploration of society, the need to keep one's place in the pecking order. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Aug 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (143 mins) |
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Title: In America
Year: 2002. Director: Jim Sheridan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0298845 | Irish family starts over in New York City after death of baby. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (105 mins) |
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Title: In the Cut
Year: 2003. Director: Jane Campion Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0199626 | New York City writing instructor gets a sense that the hunky police detective on the trail of a serial killer may himself be the culprit. Meg Ryan is terrific in a heavily dramatic role. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (119 mins) |
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Title: In the Heat of the Night
Year: 1967. Director: Norman Jewison Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0061811 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: The Indian Runner
Year: 1991. Director: Sean Penn Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0102116 | Harrowing to watch, but superb acting (Viggo Mortensen) and directing (Penn) nearly redeems this story of a viciously angry young man who cannot settle himself to any kind of normal life. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 25%. (126 mins) |
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Title: Into the Arms of Strangers
(Stories of the Kindertransport)
Year: 2000. Director: Mark Jonathan Harris Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0248912 | Moving documentary follows several refugee children from Nazi Germany to adulthood in England. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 30%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Les Invasions barbares
(Barbarian Invasions)
Year: 2003. Director: Denys Arcand Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0338135 | (4 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (112 mins) |
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Title: Iris
Year: 2001. Director: Richard Eyre Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0280778 | Alzheimer's Disease and its effect on life-long love affair of novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband. Excellent performances by Judi Dench, Kate Winslow and Jim Broadbent. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Jules et Jim
(Jules and Jim)
Year: 1962. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0055032 | The classic menage-à-trois. We probably all have known people in similar situations. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
Year: 2001. Director: Karan Johar Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0248126 | Bollywood blockbuster. You have to see it to believe it. It's charming in its old-fashioned soap-opera story meets the modern world of wealthy Indian society types. Lovely people, sets and dancing. No tear left unshed. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (219 mins) |
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Title: Kitchen Stories
(Salmer fra kjokkenet)
Year: 2003. Director: Bent Hamer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0323872 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (95 mins) |
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Title: Klute
Year: 1971. Director: Alan J. Pakula Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0067309 | A somewhat slow-paced thriller; good acting by Jane Fonda, perhaps her best. But I have a hard time warming up to this one. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (112 mins) |
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Title: Kolya
Year: 1996. Director: Jan Sverák Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0116790 | Confirmed bachelor agrees to sham marriage for cash. But circumstances have him becoming a single dad to his wife's adorable 5-year-old boy. Funny and touching. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (105 mins) |
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Title: Kramer vs. Kramer
Year: 1979. Director: Robert Benton Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0079417 | Oh say can you say bitter divorce? Superb acting. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1995 (VHS) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 100%. (105 mins) |
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Title: Kukushka
(Cuckoo, The)
Year: 2002. Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0308476 | Fascinating look at cultural misunderstandings during wartime. Three people separated by language barriers but united by common cause for survival, understanding, love and acceptance. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (99 mins) |
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Title: L.A. Confidential
Year: 1997. Director: Curtis Hanson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0119488 | Fast-paced thriller about police corruption in 1950s Los Angeles. Great turns by Aussies Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce (with flawless American accents), Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, etc. (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (138 mins) |
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Title: Last Night
Year: 1998. Director: Don McKellar Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0156729 | Premise: the world will end at midnight. What do you do with the few hours you have left? (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: The Last Picture Show
Year: 1971. Director: Peter Bogdanovich Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0067328 | Life in a little Texas town of the 1950s is stultifying for kids graduating and making life choices. Brilliant slice of life film, in suitably stark black and white. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Greatest Films. (118 mins) |
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Title: Late Marriage
(Hatuna Meuheret)
Year: 2001. Director: Dover Koshashvili Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0287471 | Adherence to family tradition is stronger than man's powerful attraction to the most sensual woman he has ever known. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2002 (Cinema) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Laughter in Paradise
Year: 1951. Director: Mario Zampi Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0043727 | Brilliant comedy about a millionaire and practical joker's last will and testament. See an Alastair Sim quite unlike his famous Scrooge. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1992 (VHS) - First seen: 1992. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Life Is Beautiful
(Vita e Bella, La)
Year: 1997. Director: Roberto Benigni Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0118799 | Touching story of a man's attempt to save his son's childhood innocence and his future while fated to death in a Nazi concentration camp. (4 bikes) Last seen: 2002 (VHS) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Little Women
Year: 1994. Director: Gillian Armstrong Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0110367 | (4 bikes) Last seen: 1995 (Cinema) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. (115 mins) |
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Title: Little Women
Year: 1933. Director: George Cukor Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0024264 | (4 bikes) Last seen: 1995 (VHS) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. (117 mins) |
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Title: Local Hero
Year: 1983. Director: Bill Forsyth Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0085859 | Charming Scottish movie about big corporation dealmaker who falls in love with the hamlet his firm wants to buy up. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Lone Star
Year: 1996. Director: John Sayles Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0116905 | Investigation of long-ago murder uncovers deep secrets in a little Texas town. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Year: 2001. Director: Peter Jackson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120737 | Fantastic story, great special effects. A great escape (if you have a few hours to spare). (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2001 (Cinema) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. (178 mins) |
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Title: Lost in Translation
Year: 2003. Director: Sofia Coppola Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0335266 | Tale of two Yanks spending some idle time together in Tokyo. They develop a strong attraction, platonic but with unspoken possibilities. Sweet yet sad. Needlessly mocking of the Japanese. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (101 mins) |
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Title: Love Affair
Year: 1994. Director: Glenn Gordon Caron Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0110391 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: The Magdalene Sisters
Year: 2002. Director: Peter Mullan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0318411 | A dramatization of the ritual abuse, demonization and humiliation inflicted by Catholic Church nuns on unmarried and other so-called fallen women in 20th century Ireland. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (119 mins) |
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Title: The Man in the Moon
Year: 1991. Director: Robert Mulligan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0102388 | Story of first love with a surprisingly talented 14-year-old Reese Witherspoon. Fine supporting cast. Good family show. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (99 mins) |
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Title: The Man who loved women
(Homme qui aimait les femmes, L')
Year: 1977. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0076155 | This is a fascinating romp through a middle-aged man's love lives and the book he writes to explain himself to himself and others. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (115 mins) |
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Title: Manhattan
Year: 1979. Director: Woody Allen Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0079522 | Woody Allen as conflicted 40-something writer in love with a high-school girl. He lets her go and takes up with Diane Keaton, only to regret his choice. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 100%. (96 mins) |
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Title: Maria Full of Grace
(Maria, llena eres de gracia)
Year: 2004. Director: Joshua Marston Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0390221 | A young Colombian woman, desperate for cash, ingests a lethal quantity of drugs to ferry to New York. A tragic tale, but often repeated in real life. Shot in Ecuador because Colombia is too dangerous. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Berardinelli. |
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Title: Maya
Year: 2001. Director: Digvijay Singh Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0299027 | Profoundly disturbing story of Hindu holy men who ritually rape young girls to initiate them into the rest of the lives, with their parents' full acquiescence. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinites...
(Story of my Life)
Year: 2004. Director: Laurent Tirard Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0383025 | Hilarious romantic comedy, a la 1970s Woody Allen, but funnier. Ghostwriter finds true love and professional fulfillment, when he's not mucking up his chances through his own wilfulness. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Million Dollar Baby
Year: 2004. Director: Clint Eastwood Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0405159 | Boxer reaches top of her brutal profession and all for what? Great acting, depressing story. Still, one of Eastwood's best. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Aug 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (132 mins) |
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Title: Mississippi Burning
Year: 1988. Director: Alan Parker Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0095647 | Dramatization of FBI investigation of horrific incident in 1960s South, documenting brutally racist reign of terror. (4 bikes +) Last seen: 2000 (VHS) - First seen: 2000. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Mississippi Masala
Year: 1991. Director: Mira Nair Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0102456 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (125 mins) |
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Title: Mon Oncle Antoine
Year: 1971. Director: Claude Jutra Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0067439 | Story set in 1940s Quebec about a young man who realizes several of the adults in his life are dysfunctional, cheating, fallible beings. He has to confront his fears about death, love, commitment. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Feb 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 1972. Lwwa: 100%. (110 mins) |
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Title: Mona Lisa
Year: 1986. Director: Neil Jordan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0091538 | Small-time criminal falls for woman of the night and becomes her protector from forces much more sinister than he realizes. Fabulous performances by Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (102 mins) |
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Title: Monsoon Wedding
Year: 2001. Director: Mira Nair Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0265343 | Story of an arranged marriage between two thoroughly modern Indians. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Moonstruck
Year: 1987. Director: Norman Jewison Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0093565 | Charming and romantic tale about Brooklyn bookkeeper and her love for the outcast brother of her official fiance. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1987. Lwwa: 100%. (102 mins) |
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Title: The Mother
Year: 2003. Director: Roger Michell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0323298 | Sixty-something mother, suddenly widowed, finds herself attracted to her daughter's boyfriend. A bit slow, but quite sensitive. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (112 mins) |
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Title: Moulin Rouge!
Year: 2001. Director: Baz Luhrmann Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0203009 | Musical set in 1900 Paris, but with the 20th Century's famous songs to drive the plot. It's all about love. Fascinating special effects. (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (127 mins) |
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Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Year: 1939. Director: Frank Capra Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0031679 | Well-meaning small-state man is appointed Senator. Outraged at the endemic corruption, he tells them a thing or two, in inimitable James Stewart fashion. A classic. (4 bikes +) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (129 mins) |
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Title: Mrs. Miniver
Year: 1942. Director: William Wyler Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0035093 | Tells the story of England under Nazi bombing. The capricious and unforgiving outcome. Helped galvanize American support for Britain in the early years of WW2. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (134 mins) |
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Title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Year: 2002. Director: Joel Zwick Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0259446 | Light, fluffy comedy. Good on Nia Vardalos. Pass the Windex. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2002 (Cinema) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: My Life Without Me
Year: 2003. Director: Isabel Coixet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0314412 | Sarah Polley gives a powerfully emotional performance as a cancer patient who chooses to keep the diagnosis a secret from everyone. Great backup from Mark Ruffalo and Scott Speedman. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Mystic River
Year: 2003. Director: Clint Eastwood Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0327056 | Well-developed police story about a bunch of buddies from a working-class Boston neighbourhood whose history with each other leads them to make risky assumptions with tragic consequences. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (137 mins) |
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Title: La Niña santa
(Holy Girl, The)
Year: 2004. Director: Lucrecia Martel Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0300270 | Adolescent girl creates a stir when a rumour goes around a medical convention that she has been molested by a doctor, the same who is attracted to the girl's mother. Good cast and pacing. Excellent technical work. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (107 mins) |
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Title: Norma Rae
Year: 1979. Director: Martin Ritt Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0079638 | Single mom fights to unionize textile mill. Strong performances. Sally Field's best. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1999 (VHS) - First seen: 1982. Lwwa: 100%. (110 mins) |
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Title: Notting Hill
Year: 1999. Director: Roger Michell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0125439 | Charming romantic story of a friendly bookseller and a Hollywood superstar falling in love. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (123 mins) |
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Title: Nuit et brouillard
(Night and Fog)
Year: 1955. Director: Alain Resnais Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0048434 | Resnais' denunciation of the holocaust, stood as the most powerful document on the Nazi atrocities. Superseded by Schindler's List in terms of visual impact and drama, but Resnais' short was revolutionary in 1955. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (32 mins) |
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Title: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Year: 1989. Director: Giuseppe Tornatore Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0095765 | Filmmaker reflects on small-town projectionist who nurtured his love of film as a kid. The DVD also has a longer version which does not add enough to the story to make it worthwhile. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (155 mins) |
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Title: The Office (BBC TV)
Year: 2001. Director: Ricky Gervais Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0290978 | Brutally funny romp through the minefield of misunderstandings, politicking, harassment of various kinds, in a modern office run by dysfunctional manager who makes light of everything. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (30 mins) |
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Title: Office Space
Year: 1999. Director: Mike Judge Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0151804 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Ohayo
(Good Morning)
Year: 1959. Director: Yasujiro Ozu Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0053134 | Great commentary on modern life in Japan. Two darling kids go on talking strike to force their parents to buy a TV set. Social conventions are examined, skewered but ultimately validated as necessary social oil. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (94 mins) |
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Title: On Golden Pond
Year: 1981. Director: Mark Rydell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0082846 | Retired professor in twilight of his life. Henry Fonda, acting in his last feature film, became the oldest-ever Oscar winner. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1982. Lwwa: 100%. (109 mins) |
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Title: On the Waterfront
Year: 1954. Director: Elia Kazan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0047296 | Longshoreman stands up to his corrupt union. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. (108 mins) |
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Title: Once Upon a Time in America
Year: 1984. Director: Sergio Leone Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0087843 | A superb addition to the gangster repertoire. De Niro rocks. Insist on the director's cut. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (225 mins) |
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Title: Once Upon a Time in the West
(C'era una volta il West)
Year: 1968. Director: Sergio Leone Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0064116 | Sounds like a Western movie, but with Leone, it becomes a Western art film. Strong performances by Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Charles Bronson. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (165 mins) |
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Title: Orange County
Year: 2002. Director: Jake Kasdan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0273923 | Goofball comedy about high schooler determined to get into Stanford U. Unexpectedly likeable and mercifully short. Just right for a fun 82 minutes. (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (82 mins) |
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Title: Ordinary People
Year: 1980. Director: Robert Redford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0081283 | Intense melodrama about family recovering from major crisis. Extraordinary acting by Timothy Hutton. Awful 1980s hairdos.... (4 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 100%. (124 mins) |
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Title: Orfeu negro
(Black Orpheus)
Year: 1959. Director: Marcel Camus Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0053146 | A colourful and romantic tale of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set in Rio de Janeiro at Carnaval time. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: Out of Africa
Year: 1985. Director: Sydney Pollack Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0089755 | Life and loves of plantation owner in colonial east Africa. Very romantic, with the dream pairing of Redford and Streep, possibly the best actors of their generation. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 100%. (158 mins) |
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Title: Pane e Tulipani
(Bread and Tulips)
Year: 2000. Director: Silvio Soldini Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0237539 | Delightful romantic comedy about housewife who gets left behind at a rest stop on a bus tour and abandons her former life altogether, starting over in Venice. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: A. Lazere-Culturevulture. (116 mins) |
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Title: The Paper Wedding
(Noces de Papier, Les)
Year: 1989. Director: Michel Brault Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0097996 | Marriage of convenience to help Chilean refugee avoid deportation. One of the best made-for-TV movies. (4 bikes) Last seen: 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 1997. Lwwa: 100%. (95 mins) |
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Title: Pather Panchali
Year: 1955. Director: Satyajit Ray Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0048473 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Pelle the Conqueror
(Pelle erobreren)
Year: 1987. Director: Bille August Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0093713 | Young Swede suffers through a couple of years at hard labour on an isolated Danish farm in the 1800s, until he can make his break for a new life. Cinematography reminds me of Days of Heaven . (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1988. Lwwa: 100%. (157 mins) |
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Title: The Piano
Year: 1993. Director: Jane Campion Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0107822 | Tour de force performance by Holly Hunter in a non-speaking role, as a deaf pianist separated from her piano, her main source of self-expression, by uncaring husband. Love triangle develops. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Ebert. (121 mins) |
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Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Year: 200 . Director: Gore Verbinsky Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0325980 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (143 mins) |
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Title: The Portrait of a Lady
Year: 1996. Director: Jane Campion Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0117364 | Spunky Isabel Archer walks into a trap despite her fervent wish to keep her life and romantic options open. I liked this adaptation of the Henry James novel. Excellent acting. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Pride and Prejudice (mini)
Year: 1995. Director: Simon Langton Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0112130 | Beautiful adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. Casting Colin Firth as Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie was magic. Perfectly realized. England rarely looks this bright in other films. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Feb 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Feb 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (300 mins) |
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Title: Prime Suspect 2
Year: 1992. Director: John Strickland Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0103516 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2004 () - First seen: 2004. |
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Title: The Princess Bride
Year: 1987. Director: Rob Reiner Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0093779 | Fairy tale about princess, skewers all the pieties about fairy tales but remains a real charmer, suitable for kids of all ages. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jul 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (98 mins) |
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Title: Raging Bull
Year: 1980. Director: Martin Scorsese Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0081398 | Bio pic of boxer. Most outstanding here is de Niro's performance, the way he completely embodies his character, gaining 50+ pounds. Why the hell does anyone box, anyway? (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (120 mins) |
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Title: Raising Victor Vargas
Year: 2002. Director: Peter Sollett Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0316188 | Touching first-love story of poor immigrant youths in New York City. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Ray
Year: 2004. Director: Taylor Hackford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0350258 | Great bio-pic of the famous Ray Charles. Beautiful music, captivating tale. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (153 mins) |
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Title: Rear Window
Year: 1954. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0047396 | Photographer, convalescing at home on a wheelchair, observes odd events through a neighbour's window, gets a sense a man may have murdered his wife and sets out to prove it. Funny but suspenseful. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (112 mins) |
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Title: Red Beard
(Akahige)
Year: 1965. Director: Akira Kurosawa Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0058888 | A young doctor learns at the feet of a master physician in a poor community. Based on Dostoyevsky's novel The Insulted and the Injured. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (183 mins) |
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Title: The Remains of the Day
Year: 1993. Director: James Ivory Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0107943 | None are so blind as those who will not see. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson's in brilliant performances in a story about perfectionism and how it thwarts the human soul. Missed opportunities, willful ignorance. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (134 mins) |
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Title: The Republic of Love
Year: 2003. Director: Deepa Mehta Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0345855 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (95 mins) |
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Title: Requiem for a Dream
Year: 2000. Director: Darren Aronofsky Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0180093 | An intense exploration of the devastation of drug addiction, as it affects 2 generations of Brooklynites, with totally different obsessions. Not a 'light' film. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (102 mins) |
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Title: Reservoir Dogs
Year: 1992. Director: Quentin Tarantino Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0105236 | Story of a botched jewelry theft. Very good pacing and camera work. Excellent early effort by Tarantino, whose later work I like a lot less. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Dec 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (99 mins) |
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Title: The River
(Fleuve, Le)
Year: 1951. Director: Jean Renoir Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0043972 | Visually stunning (first color film shot in India), it encompasses filial and mature love and longing, loss, growing up, redemption, immortality through poetry. A symphony of colours and emotions. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (99 mins) |
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Title: Roger & Me
Year: 1989. Director: Michael Moore Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0098213 | Michael Moore skewers GM chairman R. Smith but in so doing documents the heartbreaking decay and despair of his once-proud hometown of Flint, Mich. There are 1000s of Flints throughout the USA. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Rok spokojnego slonca
(Year of the Quiet Sun, The)
Year: 1984. Director: Krzysztof Zanussi Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0088009 | Love story between US Army officer and Polish widow after end of WW2. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 75%. (107 mins) |
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Title: Le Role de sa vie
Year: 2004. Director: Francois Fravrat Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0348867 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (99 mins) |
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Title: Roman Holiday
Year: 1953. Director: William Wyler Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0046250 | Wonderful romantic fable of princess who wishes to escape her duties for a day, and falls in love with reporter. Radiant Audrey Hepburn. Perhaps the inspiration for Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation ? (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (118 mins) |
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Title: The Royal Tenenbaums
Year: 2001. Director: Wes Anderson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0265666 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Ruby in Paradise
Year: 1993. Director: Victor Nunez Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0108000 | Sweet story about young woman who flees her rural roots and starts over in Florida. Lovely performance by Ashley Judd. I didn't want it to end. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Ebert. (115 mins) |
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Title: Run Lola Run
(Lola Rennt)
Year: 1998. Director: Tom Twyker Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0130827 | Lola runs to save her boyfriend, in three alternative versions. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1999 (Cinema) - First seen: 1999. Lwwa: 50%. (81 mins) |
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Title: The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
Year: 1966. Director: Norman Jewison Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0060921 | Quirky but charming farce about a Soviet sub that runs aground off Cape Cod in 1960s. Superb cinematography, inspired acting. Just can't shake a very odd feeling of weirdness. Worth a look. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Ryan's Daughter
Year: 1970. Director: David Lean Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0066319 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Salesman
Year: 1969. Director: Albert/David Maysles Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0064921 | Documentary about door-to-door Bible salesmen in the 1960s in America. Reveals the duplicity and pressure tactics of seemingly devout Catholic men. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (85 mins) |
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Title: Saving Private Ryan
Year: 1998. Director: Stephen Spielberg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120815 | Strong performances. Graphic scenes of battle, stunning D-Day landing re-enactment. Vintage Spielberg. Worthy of the praise it received. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Schindler's List
Year: 1993. Director: Steven Spielberg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0108052 | (4 bikes +) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (179 mins) |
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Title: The Secret Lives of Dentists
Year: 2002. Director: Alan Rudolph Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0314630 | A dentist is worried about the possible breakup of his marriage, and starts to look for incriminating behaviour in his wife. Based on a Jane Smiley novella. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Sense and Sensibility
Year: 1995. Director: Ang Lee Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0114388 | Near-perfect performances by Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet as the two sisters in the Jane Austen classic. Very entertaining. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (136 mins) |
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Title: Serpico
Year: 1973. Director: Sidney Lumet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0070666 | Fact-based drama about corruption in NYC Police Department. Al Pacino's first great role, the year before Godfather II established him as a major star. Good, but not Sidney Lumet's best. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (129 mins) |
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Title: The Shipping News
Year: 2001. Director: Lasse Hallstrom Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120824 | Finally, an Oscar-worthy performance by Kevin Spacey. A story which moves from dark to light and back again. Solid but hard to warm up to. Great locations in Newfoundland. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: The Shop on Main Street
(Obchod na korze)
Year: 1965. Director: Kan Kadar Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0059527 | Slovak 'Aryan' overseer is forced by Nazi occupiers to liquidate Jewish widow's shop and send her to the concentration camps with all the other Jews in town, but struggles with his conscience. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (128 mins) |
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Title: Siddhartha
Year: 1972. Director: Conrad Rooks Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0070689 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (82 mins) |
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Title: Sideways
Year: 2004. Director: Alexander Payne Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0375063 | Two guys on a week's road trip in search of wine, women and song. Embarrassingly true to life. These guys can rationalize all their cheatin' and hurtin' ways and still get the girls? Shocking! (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (123 mins) |
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Title: The Silence of the Lambs
Year: 1991. Director: Jonathan Demme Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0102926 | Excellent thriller about a serial killer and the FBI's manhunt, aided by the brilliant Hannibal Lecter, a psychopath who befriends a young female FBI agent-trainee. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (118 mins) |
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Title: Silent Waters
(Khamosh Pani)
Year: 2003. Director: Sabiha Sumar Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0357283 | A young man becomes a fundamentalist Muslim and later finds out some uncomfortable truths about his mother's background. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (Cinema) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Six Feet Under (TV)
Year: 2001. Director: Alan Ball Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0248654 | The foibles of a family who runs a funeral parlor. Seen up to season 4, ep. 5. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (60 mins) |
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Title: Sleuth
Year: 1972. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0069281 | Mystery thriller like few others; made successful transfer from the stage to film thanks to spellbinding performances by the great Sir Laurence Olivier and a youngish Michael Caine. Must see. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (138 mins) |
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Title: Something's Gotta Give
Year: 2003. Director: Nancy Meyers Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0337741 | Entertaining little romp exploring romance across the generational divide. Some inspired acting by Keaton and Nicholson, but weighed down by overlong and trite scenes. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (128 mins) |
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Title: The Statement
Year: 2003. Director: Norman Jewison Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0340376 | Described as a political thriller. Michael Caine does a fabulous job portraying a thoroughly-unlikeable old French Nazi who has been running from justice for decades. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (120 mins) |
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Title: The Station Agent
Year: 2003. Director: Thomas McCarthy Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0340377 | Could be a ho-hum story about a man wanting peace and tranquility in a rural backwater, but transformed as viewed from the perspective of a man with dwarfism. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (88 mins) |
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Title: A Streetcar Named Desire
Year: 1951. Director: Elia Kazan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0044081 | Adapted from Tennessee Williams' play. Tour de force performance by Brando and Leigh. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (129 mins) |
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Title: Such a Long Journey
Year: 1998. Director: Sturla Gunnarsson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120848 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (113 mins) |
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Title: Summertime
Year: 1955. Director: David Lean Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0048673 | Classic romantic comedy set in beautiful, timeless Venice. Stunning cinematography more than makes up for the corniness. Katharine Hepburn is perfect as middle-aged spinster. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: Sunset Blvd.
Year: 1950. Director: Billy Wilder Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0043014 | Frustrated but rich old actress hires young scriptwriter to help her plot her way back to the screen. Excellent performance by Gloria Swanson. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (110 mins) |
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Title: The Sweet Hereafter
Year: 1997. Director: Atom Egoyan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120255 | A bus loaded with most of the children in a little town crashes into a lake. Sensitive portrayal of the ramifications. Best Egoyan yet. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (112 mins) |
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Title: Swimming
Year: 2000. Director: Robert J. Siegel Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0202711 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Year: 1999. Director: Anthony Mingella Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0134119 | Matt Damon steals the show with a phenom performance as the sneaky social climber Tom Ripley, who will stop at nothing to persist in his multifarious deceptions. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 100%. (139 mins) |
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Title: Tender Mercies
Year: 1983. Director: Bruce Beresford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0086423 | Alcoholic former c/w singer. Unforgettable performance by Robert Duvall. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1985 (Cinema) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 100%. (92 mins) |
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Title: Terms of Endearment
Year: 1983. Director: James L. Brooks Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0086425 | Life, family, love, fights, estrangement, infidelity. Hot stuff. Great acting (Debra Winger was my favorite here). Suffers from overload due to repeated TV showings. (4 bikes) Last seen: 2002 (VHS) - First seen: 1984. Lwwa: 100%. (132 mins) |
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Title: The Terrorist
(Being Malli)
Year: 1999. Director: Santosh Sivan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0169302 | A young Tamil woman, orphaned by war, is chosen for a suicide mission, but discovers a fresh way of looking at life on her voyage to the assassination site. Touching performance by Ayesha Dharkar. (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (97 mins) |
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Title: Tess
Year: 1979. Director: Roman Polanski Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0080009 | Based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a love story with plenty of tragedy. A poor country woman tries to get set up with a rich relative but gets taken instead. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1982. Lwwa: 100%. (172 mins) |
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Title: Thelma and Louise
Year: 1991. Director: Ridley Scott Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0103074 | This redefined the road movie in the 1990s. Two women on a fun weekend jaunt are assaulted, shoot their aggressor and go on the lam. After a rash of bad luck, they realize they can't go back. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 100%. (129 mins) |
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Title: Thirteen
Year: 2003. Director: Catherine Hardwicke Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0328538 | If you are a parent, this will scare you. Hug your child. Stay in touch. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (Cinema) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Salon (Zacharek). (100 mins) |
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Title: This Boy's Life
Year: 1993. Director: Michael Caton-Jones Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0108330 | Leo di Caprio as a young teen boy growing up under the thumb of dictatorial and abusive step-father, played to great effect by Robert de Niro. (4 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (114 mins) |
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Title: Through a Glass Darkly
(Sasom i en spegel)
Year: 1961. Director: Ingmar Bergman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0055499 | Bergman's portrait of devastating depression, combined with an ineffable religious yearning. Excellent performance by Harriet Andersson. (4 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (129 mins) |
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Title: To kill a mockingbird
Year: 1962. Director: Robert Mulligan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0056592 | Atticus Finch must defend a wrongly-accused black man in his own Southern town, steeped in white privilege and old assumptions. Unforgettable performance by Gregory Peck. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1997. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Tokyo Story
(Tokyo monogatari)
Year: 1953. Director: Yasujiro Ozu Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0046438 | (4 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Tootsie
Year: 1982. Director: Sydney Pollack Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0084805 | Unemployed actor disguises self as a woman. Romantic complications ensue. Hilarious. (4 bikes) Last seen: 1990 (VHS) - First seen: 1983. Lwwa: 100%. (119 mins) |
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Title: Traffic
Year: 2000. Director: Steven Soderbergh Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0181865 | The futility of America's misguided war on drugs is visited upon many. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. (147 mins) |
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Title: Traffik
Year: 1989. Director: Alastair Reid Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0096716 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (315 mins) |
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Title: Les Triplettes de Belleville
(Triplets of Belleville)
Year: 2003. Director: Syvain Chomet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0286244 | Animated feature about a boy who dreams of racing in the Tour de France, is kidnapped and rescued by the Triplettes and his mom. Charming. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (78 mins) |
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Title: Trois couleurs: Bleu
(Three colours: Blue)
Year: 1993. Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0108394 | This film in the trilogy explores personal freedom in the tragic story of a young widow grieving her husband (a famous composer) and her daughter. Beautiful and unusual photography. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: Trois couleurs: Rouge
(Three colours: Red)
Year: 1995. Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0111495 | Retired judge lives depressed existence. (4 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (110 mins) |
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Title: Le Trou
(Hole, The)
Year: 1960. Director: Jacques Becker Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0054407 | Suspenseful and unusual story of five prisoners digging an escape tunnel. It's all about the telling and the commitment of the group to keep the plot secret. Well done. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Michael Jacobson. (132 mins) |
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Title: Truly Madly Deeply
Year: 1992. Director: Anthony Minghella Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0103129 | A fantasy about love and loss. Great turn by Juliet Stevenson. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (107 mins) |
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Title: Trzy kolory: Bialy
(Three colours: White)
Year: 1994. Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0111507 | Polish man divorced by French wife rebuilds his life back home and plots revenge. (4 bikes) Last seen: May 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: Twelve O'Clock High
Year: 1949. Director: Henry King Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0041996 | Air Force general revitalizes a dispirited bomber squadron, but loses his nerve prior to a mission and panics. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (132 mins) |
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Title: Un long dimanche de fiançailles
(A very long engagement)
Year: 2004. Director: Jean Pierre Jeunet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0344510 | A romantic story interwoven with World War I atrocities, technically brilliant and well acted. (4 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (133 mins) |
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Title: Valentin
Year: 2002. Director: Alejandro Agresti Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0296915 | Wonderful story of an 8-year-old who wants his mother to come back to him, and wants to believe that the adults around him are telling him the truth. What could have been a downer turns into a heartwarming charmer. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (82 mins) |
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Title: Vertigo
Year: 1958. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0052357 | Hitchcock's best movie, i.m.h.o. Beautiful cinematography shows San Francisco at its best. Excellent acting, with Kim Novak in a dual role. Suspense, fear, love, loss. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (129 mins) |
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Title: Voyage of the Damned
Year: 1976. Director: Stuart Rosenberg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0075406 | Dramatization of ill-fated luxury liner voyage with 937 Jews attempting to escape Hitler's Germany in 1939. Tense moments when Cuban government (and others) refuses to accept them. (4 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (155 mins) |
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Title: Wait Until Dark
Year: 1967. Director: Terence Young Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0062467 | Blind woman tries to prove a crime has taken place. (4 bikes) Last seen: May 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (107 mins) |
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Title: A Walk to Remember
Year: 2002. Director: Adam Shankman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0281358 | High school bully shuns preacher's daughter until she makes him see the better side of himself. Strong, well-nuanced acting by Shane West and Mandy Moore. True young love, no raunch. Terrific film. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. Fave review: Roger Ebert. (101 mins) |
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Title: Whale Rider
Year: 2002. Director: Niki Caro Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0298228 | Maori legend brought to the screen. Wonderful performance by Keisha Castle-Hughes. The story itself wraps up too tidily. A little mystery would have been preferable. (4 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (101 mins) |
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Title: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Year: 1993. Director: Lasse Hallstrom Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0108550 | Masterful look at small-town life. Johnny Depp is Gilbert, older brother to a mentally-challenged boy, perfectly portrayed by a young Leo DiCaprio. Disturbing ending. See for yourself. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (118 mins) |
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Title: Winter Light
(Nattvardsgästerna)
Year: 1963. Director: Ingmar Bergman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0057358 | Lutheran pastor in remote village, still brooding over his wife's death, has a crisis of faith when a parishioner kills himself. Unforgettable close-ups, unusual for Bergman. (4 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (91 mins) |
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Title: The Wizard of Oz
Year: 1939. Director: Victor Fleming Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0032138 | Unforgettable classic about a very imaginative and curious girl from Kansas.... (4 bikes) Last seen: 1995 (VHS) - First seen: 1964. Lwwa: 100%. (101 mins) |
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Title: Woman in the Dunes
(Suna no onna)
Year: 1964. Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0058625 | City man is trapped in a dune-dweller's cave, and forced to work for the sand traders that control the area. Anger with his jailer, a lonely woman, transforms to eroticism. Their symbiotic relationship becomes his life. (4 bikes +) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (123 mins) |
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Title: Women in Love
Year: 1969. Director: Ken Russell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0066579 | (4 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (131 mins) |
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Title: Wuthering Heights
Year: 1939. Director: William Wyler Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0032145 | Tragic story of star-crossed lovers from opposite ends of the social spectrum in 19th C England. Strong performances by Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Geraldine Fitzgerald. (4 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1975. Lwwa: 100%. (103 mins) |
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Title: Yi yi
Year: 2000. Director: Edward Yang Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0244316 | Life as it is lived. While, on the surface it is about an extended family in modern Taipei, it is quite perceptive and universal. (4 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (173 mins) |
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Title: 13 Conversations About One Thing
(Thirteen Conversations About One Thing)
Year: 2001. Director: Jill Sprecher Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0268690 | Follows several unrelated people in New York and their views about happiness, choices, etc. Fascinating. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: 13 Going on 30
Year: 2004. Director: Gary Winick Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0337563 | A 13-year-old girl wakes up as her 30 y.o. self, realizing all her teenaged sucking up to the in-crowd had turned her into the kind of person she never wanted to be. Charming in its way. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (99 mins) |
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Title: The 39 Steps
Year: 1935. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0026029 | Canadian goes on the lam in Scotland while trying to figure out a devious spy scheme. Quintessentially Hitchcock, funny and suspenseful. Video badly needs restoration. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (86 mins) |
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Title: 8 Femmes
(8 Women)
Year: 2002. Director: François Ozon Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0283832 | Whodunnit with musical interludes. Fascinating and clever. Worth your time. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (103 mins) |
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Title: 84 Charing Cross Road
Year: 1986. Director: David Hugh Jones Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0090570 | Story of long friendship by correspondence between a book lover and her favourite bookseller. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1995 (VHS) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: A Fish called Wanda
Year: 1988. Director: Charles Crichton Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0095159 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 75%. (108 mins) |
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Title: A la folie... pas du tout
(He loves me... he loves me not)
Year: 2002. Director: Laetitia Colombani Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0291579 | Weird tale of obsession, as told from the woman's (Audrey Tautou) and the man's (Samuel Le Bihan) sides. Too weird for a repeat viewing though some people will like to review all the clues. Not me. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (95 mins) |
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Title: About Schmidt
Year: 2002. Director: Alexander Payne Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0257360 | Boring guy retires from boring career, is suddenly widowed, goes on road trip. Ho hum. Excellent acting does not make me want to see it again. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (125 mins) |
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Title: L' Adversaire
Year: 2002. Director: Nicole Garcia Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0273069 | Dark tale of a man living a lie as a research scientist, with wife and children, whose life spirals to a crisis and multiple homicide. Daniel Auteil is fantastic, but the story is depressing. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (129 mins) |
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Title: After Life
(Wandafuru raifu)
Year: 1998. Director: Hirokazu Koreeda Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0165078 | Japanese film crew interviews several people, asking them to decide on one important life memory, which the crew will produce as a film. Fascinating. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (118 mins) |
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Title: Alila
Year: 2003. Director: Amos Gitai Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0349079 | Slice of life film set in modern Tel-Aviv. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Dec 2005. Lwwa: 10%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Amor Bandido
Year: 1979. Director: Bruno Barreto Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0078768 | Detective on the trail of a serial killer finds a terrifying connection to his estranged daughter. Filmed in Rio de Janeiro. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (95 mins) |
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Title: Anatomy of a Murder
Year: 1959. Director: Otto Preminger Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0052561 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (160 mins) |
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Title: Antonia
Year: 1995. Director: Marleen Gorris Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0112379 | Crazy feminist/post-modern fairy tale from the Netherlands about do-gooder community matriarch. I'm not sure the world is ready for this vision of a future. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Anywhere but Here
Year: 1999. Director: Wayne Wang Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0149691 | Mom and daughter pull up stakes in the Midwest to try their luck in California. Good performances. (3 bikes) Last seen: 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. (114 mins) |
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Title: The Apartment
Year: 1960. Director: Billy Wilder Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0053604 | Lowly insurance clerk loans out his apartment for bosses' trysts in hopes of being promoted. He is, but is also beholden to his bosses for everything. Meantime, true love interferes. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Apocalypse Now
Year: 1979. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0078788 | The madness of war, Viet Nam in this example. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (153 mins) |
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Title: Artemisia
Year: 1997. Director: Agnes Merlet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0123385 | Dramatized bio-pic of the first female recognized master painter. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Avventura, L'
Year: 1960. Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0053619 | The sudden disappearance of a rich young woman leads to her boyfriend and girlfriend's affair. But these are rather disaffected rich folks, bored and rudderless. Visually stunning but not a satisfying story. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 25%. (145 mins) |
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Title: Awakenings
Year: 1990. Director: Penny Marshall Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099077 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Bande à part
(Band of Outsiders)
Year: 1964. Director: Jean-Luc Godard Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0057869 | Bizarre story about inept crooks planning a slam-dunk theft that goes utterly awry. Paris itself, in its wintry greyness, gets a major part as the inimitable backdrop. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. Fave review: Salon (Taylor). (97 mins) |
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Title: Bastard out of Carolina
Year: 1996. Director: Anjelica Huston Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0115633 | Harrowing story about abused pre-adolescent girl. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (97 mins) |
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Title: The Battle over Citizen Kane
Year: 1995. Director: Michael Epstein Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0115634 | PBS Documentary about the controversy with Citizen Kane and how it nearly destroyed both Hearst and Welles. I enjoyed this more than the movie itself. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (108 mins) |
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Title: A Beautiful Mind
Year: 2001. Director: Ron Howard Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0268978 | Brilliant mathematician is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Frankly, it did not strike me as worthy of all the adulation. Could have been half as long, for my money. (3 bikes) Last seen: 2002 (VHS) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 50%. (135 mins) |
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Title: Beijing Bicycle
(Shiqi sui de dan che)
Year: 2001. Director: Xiaoshuai Wang Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0276501 | Boy gets fancy bike, bike gets stolen. He searches for bike. Lots of misadventures and a romantic angle or two. Actually quite entertaining. A real slice-of-life Beijing story. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (113 mins) |
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Title: Bella Martha
(Mostly Martha)
Year: 2001. Director: Sandra Nettelbeck Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0246772 | Sweet story about perfectionist chef who finds her life turned upside down by 8-year-old niece. Basically perfect if you lop off the final 8 minutes. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (106 mins) |
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Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Year: 1946. Director: William Wyler Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0036868 | Story of G.I.s returning home in 1945. (3 bikes) Last seen: 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Beyond Silence
(Jenseits der Stille)
Year: 1996. Director: Caroline Link Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0116692 | Gifted clarinettist feels misunderstood by her deaf parents, but perseveres in furthering her education. Some beautiful moments, some inspired scenes. Could rival Running on Empty except for the weak ending. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Blazing Saddles
Year: 1974. Director: Mel Brooks Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0071230 | Mel Brooks does a western unlike any ever seen, skewering every cultural piety, sparing no cliché. I doubt I want to see it again but it was worth 90 minutes. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (93 mins) |
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Title: Blowup
Year: 1966. Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0060176 | Search me, but without the audio commentary by Antonioni scholar Peter Brunette, I'd still be looking for the meaning of this strange piece. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Dec 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Bounce
Year: 2000. Director: Don Roos Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0186894 | Paltrow and Affleck as lovers united by a strange coincidence. She's widowed after he swaps air tickets with her husband, who boards a doomed flight. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 75%. (106 mins) |
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Title: The Boys from Brazil
Year: 1978. Director: Franklin Schaffner Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0077269 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (123 mins) |
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Title: Braveheart
Year: 1995. Director: Mel Gibson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0112573 | Blockbuster entertainment, Mel Gibson style. Story of Scottish leader in fight of his life against autocratic English king. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (177 mins) |
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Title: Breaker Morant
Year: 1980. Director: Bruce Beresford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0080310 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 1999 (VHS) - First seen: 1999. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Camila
Year: 1984. Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0087027 | Jesuit priest and wealthy young woman secretly wed in 19th C Argentina. Hunted down, they are victims of severe repression as an example of a shaky government's control tactics. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 50%. (107 mins) |
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Title: Le Chateau de ma mere
(My Mother's Castle)
Year: 1990. Director: Yves Robert Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099266 | Sequel to La Gloire de mon pere , I did not find it as appealing, as it tries to squeeze in too many details of Marcel's later life in the final few minutes. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (98 mins) |
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Title: Children of a Lesser God
Year: 1986. Director: Randa Haines Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0090830 | About a deaf teacher. Oscar-winning performance by Marlee Matlin. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1990 (VHS) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 25%. (119 mins) |
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Title: The China Syndrome
Year: 1979. Director: James Bridges Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0078966 | TV crew finds possible cover-up of safety problems at nuclear plant. Star turn by Jane Fonda. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1985 (Cinema) - First seen: 1979. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Claire's Knee
(Genou de Claire, Le)
Year: 1970. Director: Eric Rohmer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0065772 | Writer, starved for ideas, challenges a middle-aged man to pursue a 16-year-old girl and examine how he feels about this adventure. However, he soon falls for Claire, the older sister. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (105 mins) |
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Title: Cleo de 5 a 7
(Cleo from 5 to 7)
Year: 1961. Director: Agnes Varda Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0055852 | Rather contrived story of young and beautiful singer who is awaiting the results of her biopsy, between 5 pm and 7 pm. Could have been so much better. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 10%. (90 mins) |
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Title: The Color of Money
Year: 1986. Director: Martin Scorsese Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0090863 | Pool hustler recruits young hotshot. (My DVD failed at the 1 hour mark, so I haven't watched it all. I liked what I saw.) (3 bikes +) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: Le Corbeau
Year: 1943. Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0035753 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. |
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Title: Coup de Torchon
(Clean Slate)
Year: 1981. Director: Bertrand Tavernier Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0082206 | Bizarre morality tale of police captain in old French Africa who loses any sense of compunction and starts shooting in cold blood anyone who "annoys" him. Superb performance by Philippe Noiret. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (128 mins) |
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Title: Cries and Whispers
(Viskningar och rop)
Year: 1972. Director: Ingmar Bergman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0069467 | Dark and harrowing film about the fear of death, emotional distance, betrayal. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 25%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Crime and Punishment
Year: 1935. Director: Josef von Sternberg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0026246 | Screen adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel about a brilliant criminologist who decides to test out his plan to commit the perfect crime, but is racked with guilt. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 75%. (120 mins) |
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Title: El Crimen del Padre Amaro
(Crime of Padre Amaro, The)
Year: 2002. Director: Carlos Carrera Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0313196 | Priest assigned to small Mexican town loses his moral compass. Revulsion by Mexico's Catholic Church only managed to up its ratings and exposure to the public. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2002 (Cinema) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 75%. |
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Title: Crossing Delancey
Year: 1988. Director: Joan Micklin Silver Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0094921 | Matchmaker service. Funny, touching. Great performance by Amy Irving. (3 bikes +) Last seen: 1994 (VHS) - First seen: 1992. Lwwa: 100%. (97 mins) |
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Title: Dangerous Liaisons
Year: 1988. Director: Stephen Frears Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0094947 | Jealousy, lust, deceit, etc. What isn't in this lushly photographed period piece of 18th C. France? (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (119 mins) |
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Title: Day of Wrath
(Vredens dag)
Year: 1943. Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0036506 | Witch burned at the stake puts curse on her executioner. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (93 mins) |
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Title: Days of Heaven
Year: 1978. Director: Terrence Malick Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0077405 | Pair of drifters con a wealthy Texas rancher into marrying the woman. It all ends badly when the deception is discovered. Fabulous photography. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (95 mins) |
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Title: The Delicate Art of Parking
Year: 2003. Director: Trent Carlson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0325234 | Somewhat sophomoric comedy about the life of parking-meter enforcement officers. Set in Vancouver. Filmed in documentary style, it's worth a laugh. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (Cinema) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 5%. |
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Title: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
(Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le)
Year: 1972. Director: Luis Buñuel Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0068361 | Bizarre satire about rich, snobby people with little to do except attend dinner parties. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1972. Lwwa: 20%. (102 mins) |
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Title: Do the Right Thing
Year: 1989. Director: Spike Lee Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0057261 | Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant on hottest day of summer erupts into race riot. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (120 mins) |
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Title: Edwin (TV)
Year: 1984. Director: Rodney Bennett Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0087192 | Comedy about British judge who has long-standing doubts about his wife's fidelity. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1992 (VHS) - First seen: 1992. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Elmer Gantry
Year: 1960. Director: Richard Brooks Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0053793 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Emma
Year: 1996. Director: Douglas McGrath Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0116191 | Another Jane Austen story brought to the screen. Entertaining. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (121 mins) |
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Title: Enfant sauvage, L'
(Wild child, The)
Year: 1969. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0064285 | Story of a small boy found living alone in a remote forest, unable to speak and unsure about how to relate to other people. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (83 mins) |
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Title: Les Enfants du Paradis
(Children of Paradise)
Year: 1945. Director: Marcel Carné Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0037674 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 1974 (Cinema) - First seen: 1974. Lwwa: 75%. (190 mins) |
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Title: Erendira
Year: 1983. Director: Ruy Guerra Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0085501 | Based on a novel by my distant relative Gabriel García Márquez, the inimitable Colombian master writer. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1984 (Cinema) - First seen: 1984. Lwwa: 20%. (103 mins) |
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Title: Europa Europa
Year: 1990. Director: Agnieska Holland Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0099776 | Jewish young man tries to fool his Soviet and Nazi captors by pretending to be pure Aryan. Apparently based on real-life. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Fahrenheit 451
Year: 1966. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0060390 | Truffaut's adaptation of Bradbury's novel. A bit heavy-going but perhaps the most memorable way to approach the material. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Oct 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (126 mins) |
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Title: Far from Heaven
Year: 2002. Director: Todd Haynes Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0297884 | A quintessentially perfect 1950s American family has to deal with some secrets that threaten to tear it apart. Forbidden love, homo and hetero, racism, etc. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (108 mins) |
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Title: Felicia's Journey
Year: 1999. Director: Atom Egoyan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0165773 | Inexperienced young woman trapped by devious old man who offers assistance when her travel plans go awry. Not the best Egoyan, i.m.h.o. See The Sweet Hereafter . (3 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Une Femme de Ménage
(A Housekeeper)
Year: 2002. Director: Claude Berri Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0291538 | Claude Berri's fantasy about a pretty young maid who organizes and tidies the apartment and eventually the life of a recently-separated man 30 years her senior. Hmm, only in France, perhaps? (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (85 mins) |
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Title: Fidel
Year: 2001. Director: Estela Bravo Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0292508 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (Cinema) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Finding Neverland
Year: 2004. Director: Marc Forster Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0308644 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (106 mins) |
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Title: The Fisher King
Year: 1991. Director: Terry Gilliam Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0101889 | (3 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 25%. (137 mins) |
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Title: Flirting
Year: 1991. Director: John Duigan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0101898 | Coming of age story that rings true, about a couple of bright misfits. Young Nicole Kidman, Thandie Newton and Naomi Watts shine here. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Aug 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 100%. (99 mins) |
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Title: The French Connection
Year: 1971. Director: William Friedkin Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0067116 | FBI agent is determined to get his man. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (104 mins) |
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Title: George Washington
Year: 2000. Director: David Gordon Green Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0262432 | Portrait of adolescence in rural south, avoids stereotyping and easy solutions. Reminiscent of Truffaut's Les Quatre-cents Coups . (3 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Giant
Year: 1956. Director: George Stevens Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0049261 | As big as Texas, this 3-hour epic covers 30 years of the Benedict family life in ranching and the oil business. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1964. Lwwa: 10%. (201 mins) |
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Title: Girl, interrupted
Year: 1999. Director: James Mangold Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0172493 | Mental hospital in 1960s is the backdrop for this drama. Young woman is unsure she belongs there but is not ready to face the world, until things get really weird inside. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: The Gods Must be Crazy II
Year: 1989. Director: Jamie Uys Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0097443 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Oct 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (98 mins) |
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Title: Good Will Hunting
Year: 1997. Director: Gus Van Sant Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0119217 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 2000 (VHS) - First seen: 2000. Lwwa: 50%. (126 mins) |
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Title: The Graduate
Year: 1967. Director: Mike Nichols Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0061722 | Young man falls into an affair with an old flame's mother. Wonderful up until the affair ends. Fairly ho-hum after that. Simon and Garfunkel's music sounds dated and out of place. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 1967. Lwwa: 100%. (105 mins) |
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Title: The Great Dictator
Year: 1940. Director: Charles Chaplin Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0032553 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 2000 (VHS) - First seen: 2000. Lwwa: 100%. (124 mins) |
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Title: Grey Gardens
Year: 1975. Director: Albert Maysles Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0073076 | Oddball story of two odd birds, mom and daughter, (relatives of Jackie Kennedy) living in a dilapidated mansion in the Hamptons. (3 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: Happiness
Year: 1998. Director: Todd Solondz Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0147612 | I did not achieve Happiness by watching this to its end, but I may be willing to watch it again and reconsider my rating. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 75%. |
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Title: Hope and Glory
Year: 1987. Director: John Boorman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0093209 | Family story about British boy in a bombed area of World War II England. Charming. (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (100 mins) |
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Title: House of Sand and Fog
Year: 2003. Director: Vadim Perelman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0315983 | Sad story of fight over a house with ocean view. Depressed young woman loses it to unpaid taxes, Iranian immigrant buys it for a song. The American Dream, viewed from both sides of a deep chasm. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (126 mins) |
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Title: Housekeeping
Year: 1987. Director: Bill Forsyth Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0093225 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 2000 (VHS) - First seen: 1998. Lwwa: 100%. (116 mins) |
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Title: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Year: 2003. Director: Donald Petrie Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0251127 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (116 mins) |
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Title: In the Bedroom
Year: 2001. Director: Todd Field Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0247425 | Dark drama, harrowing, sense of dread... some of what comes to mind after watching this film. Don't watch it if you aren't feeling chipper yourself. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (130 mins) |
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Title: Innocence
Year: 2000. Director: Paul Cox Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0251141 | Story of a mature love affair, rekindled 40+ years after a youthful romance. Controversial because it reminds younger people that their grandparents still have a libido! Pleasant enough, but somewhat maudlin. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 75%. (94 mins) |
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Title: The Insider
Year: 1999. Director: Michael Mann Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0140352 | Tobacco industry insider threatened if he reveals secrets about industry research on health effects. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 50%. (157 mins) |
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Title: Io speriamo che me la cavo
(Ciao, Professore!)
Year: 1993. Director: Lina Wertmuller Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0107225 | Cute story about an Italian school teacher from the wealthy north who is assigned to a poor southern school as a result of clerical error. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (100 mins) |
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Title: Journal d'un cure de campagne
(Diary of a country priest)
Year: 1951. Director: Robert Bresson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0042619 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. |
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Title: The Joy Luck Club
Year: 1993. Director: Wayne Wang Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0107282 | Based on a novel, this film struck me as too long-winded, as if it tried too hard to make me like the characters. But they are already quite appealing and their stories intensely human. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (139 mins) |
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Title: Kandahar
(Safar e Ghandehar)
Year: 2001. Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0283431 | Perilous journey from Iran to Kandahar, Afghanistan by woman journalist. Weak acting but unforgettable images of dangerous travel conditions, war depredation, religious intolerance. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2001 (Cinema) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 10%. (85 mins) |
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Title: Kinsey
Year: 2004. Director: Bill Condon Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0362269 | Biopic of famous sex researcher. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (118 mins) |
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Title: Komissar
(Commissar, The)
Year: 1967. Director: Aleksandr Askoldov Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0061876 | Female officer gets pregnant in post-revolution Russia and holes up in the home of Jews. Released 20 years late due to controversy about the treatment of Russian Jews depicted in the film. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 25%. (110 mins) |
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Title: La Cage aux Folles
Year: 1978. Director: Edouard Molinaro Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0077288 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 1988 (VHS) - First seen: 1988. Lwwa: 20%. (100 mins) |
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Title: La fille sur le pont
(Girl on the Bridge)
Year: 1999. Director: Patrice Leconte Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0144201 | Knife-thrower takes in suicidal drifter. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: The Lady Vanishes
Year: 1938. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0030341 | Spy caper has several passengers on a train across Europe trying to outwit one another to keep a coded message secret and get it back to London. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 30%. (97 mins) |
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Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Year: 1962. Director: David Lean Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0056172 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. |
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Title: Lenny
Year: 1974. Director: Bob Fosse Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0071746 | Biopic about controversial comedian Lenny Bruce. (3 bikes) Last seen: 2000 (VHS) - First seen: 1980. Lwwa: 20%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Light Keeps Me Company
(Ljuset håller mig sällskap)
Year: 2000. Director: Carl-Gustav Nykvist Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0151372 | Tribute to the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist, master at lighting faces. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (76 mins) |
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Title: Lista de Espera
(Waiting List)
Year: 2000. Director: Juan Carlos Tabío Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0222150 | Bus passengers take action when faced with interminable waits for buses. Romance blossoms. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (107 mins) |
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Title: Littoral
Year: 2004. Director: Wadji Mouawad Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0374828 | Lebanese-born Quebecois wants to bury his father in Lebanon but is unaware of how explosive the situation is there. Somewhat amateurish although beautifully-photographed (in Albania). (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 20%. (96 mins) |
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Title: The Long Good Friday
Year: 1980. Director: John Mackenzie Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0081070 | London gangster film. I found I didn't get to know the characters very well before they revealed their nasty sides. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (114 mins) |
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Title: Lord of the Flies
Year: 1963. Director: Peter Brook Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0057261 | Boys stranded on island descend into savagery. DVD has commentary and readings by book author William Golding. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (92 mins) |
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Title: The Lost Weekend
Year: 1945. Director: Billy Wilder Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0037884 | A man succumbs to the evil bottle and is saved from a descent to hell by his devoted girlfriend. A bit dated but powerful drama. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 30%. (101 mins) |
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Title: Lovely and Amazing
Year: 2001. Director: Nicole Holofcener Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0258273 | Lovely performances by conflicted women at various stages of their lives. Amazingly forgettable, though. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2001 (Cinema) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 10%. (89 mins) |
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Title: Mahler
Year: 1974. Director: Ken Russell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0071797 | Quirky biopic about the great Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1997 (VHS) - First seen: 1997. Lwwa: 100%. |
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Title: La Mala Educación
(Bad Education)
Year: 2004. Director: Pedro Almodovar Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0275491 | A very gay picture, about child abuse by Catholic priests and blackmail. (3 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 20%. (106 mins) |
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Title: A Man for all Seasons
Year: 1966. Director: Fred Zinnemann Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0060665 | Story of Sir Thomas More and his defence of the Church against English King Henry VIII and his first divorce. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (120 mins) |
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Title: The Man who knew too much
Year: 1956. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0049470 | International intrigue mixed with humor and a little singing. All things considered, an enjoyable time is had by all, except for the bad guys. Vintage Hitchcock. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (120 mins) |
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Title: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Year: 1992. Director: Peter Wintonick Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0104810 | Documentary about Chomsky's views and political awareness campaigns. Good extras on the DVD. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (167 mins) |
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Title: Me You Them
(Eu Tu Eles)
Year: 2000. Director: Andrucha Waddington Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0244504 | Fact-based story about Brazilian backwoods woman with three husbands under one roof. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (104 mins) |
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Title: The Member of the Wedding
Year: 1952. Director: Fred Zinnemann Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0044896 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (VHS) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Memoria del saqueo
(Social Genocide)
Year: 2004. Director: Fernando E. Solanas Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0400647 | Heavily-politicized rant about Argentina's economic collapse, loss of national control over its major natural resources, and the emerging social genocide. A bit overlong unless you're into the stuff. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (113 mins) |
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Title: Merci pour le chocolat
(Nightcap)
Year: 2000. Director: Claude Chabrol Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0232083 | Hitchcockian mystery with good acting and photography. Set amongst wealthy society in Switzerland. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 25%. (99 mins) |
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Title: The Miracle Worker
Year: 1962. Director: Arthur Penn Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0056241 | The story of the young Helen Keller. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Missing
Year: 1982. Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0084335 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 1984 (Cinema) - First seen: 1984. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Les Mistons
Year: 1957. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0050714 | Boys infatuated with young woman act cruelly. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jun 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 20%. (23 mins) |
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Title: Monster's Ball
Year: 2001. Director: Marc Forster Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0285742 | Racist prison guard examines his deep prejudice as he falls in love with wife of prisoner he executed. (3 bikes) Last seen: 2002 (Cinema) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 75%. (111 mins) |
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Title: Mulholland Dr.
Year: 2001. Director: David Lynch Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0166924 | In true Lynch style, a dark, foreboding mystery. The camera work and lighting flatter the already ravishing Naomi Watts, a fave of mine in Brides of Christ (mini) . (3 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (145 mins) |
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Title: My Dinner with Andre
Year: 1981. Director: Louis Malle Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0082783 | Conversation over dinner reveals entire lives. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1983. Lwwa: 5%. (110 mins) |
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Title: My Life as a Dog
(Mitt liv som hund)
Year: 1985. Director: Lasse Hallstrom Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0089606 | Swedish boy shuttles between home with his dying mother and his uncle in a remote village. Very curious about birds-and-bees stuff and is far more indulged in learning it than any Canadian kid. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 1986. Lwwa: 30%. (101 mins) |
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Title: My Life so Far
Year: 1999. Director: Hugh Hudson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120899 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2000. Lwwa: 50%. (98 mins) |
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Title: Naked States
Year: 2000. Director: Arlene Donnelly Nelson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0259453 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. (73 mins) |
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Title: Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud
Year: 1995. Director: Claude Sautet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0113947 | Old man hires secretary to help him type up his memoirs. Slowly, they fall in love but cannot acknowledge it, as their age and social status forces them to maintain a polite distance. (3 bikes +) Last seen: 2002 (VHS) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 100%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Network
Year: 1976. Director: Sidney Lumet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0074958 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (129 mins) |
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Title: New Waterford Girl
Year: 1999. Director: Allan Moyle Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0213121 | Teenager is desperate to leave her small Nova Scotia town, so she fakes pregnancy to get shipped out. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (97 mins) |
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Title: New York Stories
Year: 1989. Director: Scorsese, Coppola, Allen Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0097965 | Three short films, by Scorsese, Coppola, Allen. I liked Scorsese's Life Lessons and Woody Allen's Oedipus Wrecks best. Wish they could have been longer. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (119 mins) |
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Title: No habra mas penas ni olvido
(Funny Dirty Little War)
Year: 1983. Director: Hector Olivera Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0086017 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (77 mins) |
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Title: Nobody Knows
(Dare mo shiranai)
Year: 2004. Director: Hirokazu Koreeda Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0408664 | Based on a real case, 4 kids under 13 are left alone in an apartment in Tokyo by their hare-brained sorry excuse for a mother. Slow-paced and harrowing at times. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 30%. (141 mins) |
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Title: The Notebook
Year: 2004. Director: Nick Cassavetes Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0332280 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (123 mins) |
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Title: Notorious
Year: 1946. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0038787 | Daughter of German war criminal is drafted by the Americans to spy on her dad's buddies in Brazil. (3 bikes) Last seen: May 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (101 mins) |
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Title: Ocean's Eleven
Year: 2001. Director: Steven Soderbergh Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0240772 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (117 mins) |
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Title: Out of Rosenheim
(Bagdad Cafe)
Year: 1988. Director: Percy Adlon Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0095801 | Rather inconsequential story line about a cafe in the California desert. Unforgettable characters, especially Jack Palance, CCH Pounder and Marianne Saegebrecht. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1999 (VHS) - First seen: 1999. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Patton
Year: 1970. Director: Franklin Schaffner Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0066206 | War adventures and misadventures of cocky General Patton. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. |
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Title: The People vs. Larry Flynt
Year: 1996. Director: Milos Forman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0117318 | Biopic about the fight to have the right of free expression upheld for aggravating, pushy porn publisher Flynt. His revenge campaign in later years rubbed a lot of noses in a lot of dirt. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (129 mins) |
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Title: Per un pugno di dollari
(A Fistful of Dollars)
Year: 1964. Director: Sergio Leone Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0058461 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 20%. (97 mins) |
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Title: The Philadelphia Story
Year: 1940. Director: George Cukor Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0032904 | Socialite's wedding is the centre of a love triangle. Very charming old classic, but I felt Katharine Hepburn was sleepwalking through a lot of her scenes; James Stewart, however, is terrific as a young reporter. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 25%. (112 mins) |
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Title: La Pianiste
(Piano Teacher, The)
Year: 2001. Director: Michael Janeke Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0254686 | Isabelle Huppert in a strong performance as a sexually-repressed piano teacher who tests her men to prove their love. Based on E. Jelinek's (2004 Nobel Prize) novel. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (130 mins) |
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Title: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Year: 1975. Director: Peter Weir Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0073540 | (3 bikes +) Last seen: 1990 (Cinema) - First seen: 1980. Lwwa: 100%. (115 mins) |
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Title: Pixote
Year: 1981. Director: Hector Babenco Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0082912 | Tragic lives of street kids in Brazil. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1981 (Cinema) - First seen: 1981. Lwwa: 100%. (122 mins) |
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Title: Le Placard
(Closet, The)
Year: 2001. Director: Francis Veber Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0243493 | Mild-mannered accountant is about to be fired. His neighbour cooks up a scheme to 'out' him as gay though he's straight. Hilarious consequences ensue. Sort of funny but not memorable. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (84 mins) |
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Title: Places in the Heart
Year: 1984. Director: Robert Benton Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0087921 | Oscar for Sally Field, playing a Great Depression-era cotton farmer in the U.S. South. However, on a second viewing, I found the story fell apart at the end. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 0%. (112 mins) |
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Title: The Player
Year: 1992. Director: Robert Altman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0105151 | Robert Altman's satire about film industry insiders. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (124 mins) |
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Title: Por la Libre
(Dust to Dust)
Year: 2000. Director: Juan Carlos de Llaca Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0262698 | Road trip to scatter grandfather's ashes turns up family secrets. Somewhat amateurish but great photography of Mexico. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Aug 2005. Lwwa: 10%. (96 mins) |
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Title: Il Postino
Year: 1994. Director: Michael Radford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0110877 | Love story about barely-literate postie who befriends the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, enlisting his help to woo the prettiest woman in the village. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (108 mins) |
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Title: Prime Suspect 3
Year: 1993. Director: David Drury Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0106104 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. |
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Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Year: 1969. Director: Ronald Neame Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0064840 | Classic story about a well-meaning but somewhat deluded teacher of girls in the early 20th century. My estimation of this film has dropped over the years. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 1973. Lwwa: 0%. (116 mins) |
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Title: Psycho
Year: 1960. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0054215 | Horrific tale of murder and disguise. I find that it has not aged well, and is a little too predictable for a 21st Century moviegoer. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1970. Lwwa: 25%. (98 mins) |
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Title: The Purple Rose of Cairo
Year: 1985. Director: Woody Allen Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0089853 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 1985 (Cinema) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 10%. (84 mins) |
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Title: The Quiet Room
Year: 1996. Director: Rolf de Heer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0117422 | Parental acrimony leads a 7-year-old girl to withhold talking. Unusual perspective. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (95 mins) |
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Title: Quiz Show
Year: 1994. Director: Robert Redford Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0110932 | Based on 1950s scandals of rigged American TV game shows. Good fun but awfully predictable; Redford just phoned this one in. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (133 mins) |
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Title: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Year: 2002. Director: Phillip Noyce Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0252444 | Australia's anti-aboriginal policies that ended in the 1970s are portrayed in this film. I found it less than believable in the details. (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2003 (Cinema) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (94 mins) |
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Title: Ratcatcher
Year: 1999. Director: Lynne Ramsay Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0171685 | Dark and disturbing story of adolescents in a desperately poor section of Glasgow. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 50%. (94 mins) |
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Title: Le Rayon vert
(Summer)
Year: 1986. Director: Eric Rohmer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0091830 | Rohmer's affecting look at loneliness, part of his Comedies and Proverbs series. No one else could have made something quite like this film. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 100%. (94 mins) |
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Title: Rebecca
Year: 1940. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0032976 | Typical Hitchcock mystery about a very rich man, unlucky at love and with a big secret. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (130 mins) |
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Title: Rebel without a Cause
Year: 1955. Director: Nicholas Ray Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0048545 | A tragic day in the life of bored middle-class teens in 1950s Los Angeles. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 20%. (111 mins) |
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Title: La Regle du jeu
(Rules of the Game, The)
Year: 1939. Director: Jean Renoir Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0049408 | Classic story of clash of social classes in pre-WW2 France. Beloved by Truffaut, imitated by many, e.g. Gosford Park . I find it too melodramatic for me to sustain an interest. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (110 mins) |
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Title: Rendez-vous
Year: 1985. Director: Andre Techine Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0089902 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 20%. (82 mins) |
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Title: Ressources humaines
Year: 1999. Director: Laurent Cantet Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0220726 | Father and son find themselves on opposites sides of a bitter labour dispute. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 50%. (100 mins) |
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Title: A Room With a View
Year: 1985. Director: James Ivory Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0091867 | Adaptation of E. M. Forster's romantic novel, set in Italy and England. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 20%. (117 mins) |
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Title: Les Roseaux sauvages
(Wild Reeds)
Year: 1994. Director: Andre Techine Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0111019 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Sam & Me
Year: 1991. Director: Deepa Mehta Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0102831 | Young Indian man, newly arrived in Toronto, looks after cranky old Jewish man. A touching story of friendship across societal and age barriers. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (94 mins) |
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Title: Sarah, Plain and Tall
Year: 1991. Director: Glenn Jordan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0102842 | New England schoolteacher in 1800s travels to the midwest to marry a farmer. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1993 (VHS) - First seen: 1993. Lwwa: 100%. (98 mins) |
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Title: The Secret of Roan Inish
Year: 1994. Director: John Sayles Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0111112 | Irish legend. Dreamy and slow-paced. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 25%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Secrets and Lies
Year: 1996. Director: Mike Leigh Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0117589 | Middle-aged woman is found by daughter she gave up for adoption, and develops a warm but tentative relationship with her. (3 bikes +) Last seen: 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 75%. (142 mins) |
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Title: Shadow of a Doubt
Year: 1942. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0036342 | Hitch's favourite film. Slowly builds fear in a young woman's heart against her uncle, who may be a serial murderer on the run from the law. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (113 mins) |
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Title: The Shawshank Redemption
Year: 1994. Director: Frank Darabont Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0111161 | Entertaining story of a prisoner. For me, this lost its charm when the narrator proceeded to explain his terribly cute and clever escape plot in excruciating detail. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (142 mins) |
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Title: Sleepers
Year: 1996. Director: Barry Levinson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0117665 | Sleepers are kids who have done time in a reformatory. This follows four kids sent up for a really stupid crime, who suffer shameful abuse at the hands of vicious guards. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (147 mins) |
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Title: Sleepless in Seattle
Year: 1993. Director: Nora Ephron Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0108160 | Pretty high gag me with a spoon potential, partly relieved by charming actors. Tired old story rehashed from An Affair to Remember . (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (105 mins) |
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Title: The Sorrow and the Pity
(Chagrin et la pitie, Le)
Year: 1971. Director: Marcel Ophuls Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0066904 | Classic film about the extent of French citizens' collaboration with the Vichy puppet government during the Second World War. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 100%. (260 mins) |
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Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Year: 1948. Director: Anatole Litvak Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0040823 | Woman, alone and confined to her apartment while her husband is away on business, is certain a murder is about to take place and intuits that she may be the victim. Adapted from popular radio play. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (88 mins) |
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Title: Spellbound
Year: 2002. Director: Jeffrey Blitz Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0334405 | Documentary crew follows eight young teens vying to win the American national spelling bee. Some boring bit but generally exciting to watch these budding word geeks. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (96 mins) |
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Title: Spellbound
Year: 1945. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0038109 | Murder mystery has Ingrid Bergman as a psychoanalyst, attempting to solve the crime, get the guy (Gregory Peck) and live happily. As usual, Hitchcock has a few surprises in store. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (120 mins) |
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Title: Stand and Deliver
Year: 1988. Director: Ramon Menendez Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0094027 | Math teacher believes in his underprivileged students and spurs them to great test results. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Sep 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (102 mins) |
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Title: Stand by Me
Year: 1986. Director: Rob Reiner Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0092005 | Four boys do a lot of growing up on a weekend of shared adventures. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1997 (VHS) - First seen: 1997. Lwwa: 75%. (89 mins) |
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Title: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Year: 1986. Director: Leonard Nimoy Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0092007 | Funny. No whales were harmed. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (136 mins) |
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Title: State of Siege
(Etat de siege)
Year: 1973. Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0070959 | (3 bikes) Last seen: 1980 (Cinema) - First seen: 1980. Lwwa: 75%. (115 mins) |
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Title: The Straight Story
Year: 1999. Director: David Lynch Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0166896 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. |
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Title: Taste of Cherry
(Ta'm e guilass)
Year: 1997. Director: Abbas Kiarostami Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120265 | Kiarostami toys with the audience here, starting with a gripping tale of a man looking for someone to assist his suicide, but ending in a bizarre manner. Thought-provoking, at least. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (95 mins) |
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Title: Tirez sur le pianiste
(Shoot the Piano Player)
Year: 1960. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0054389 | A gifted but troubled pianist ends up in the low-rent district and falls into serious trouble. Life repeats itself, as he cannot save the women who love him. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (85 mins) |
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Title: To Die For
Year: 1995. Director: Gus Van Sant Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0114681 | Ambitious TV newswoman finds that her husband and domestic life interfere with her life. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. |
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Title: To Sir, with Love
Year: 1967. Director: James Clavell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0062376 | Classic story of underemployed engineer assigned to teach hardened youth in 1960s London. Love, filial, platonic and otherwise, blossoms and breaks into song at the end. Dated but still fascinating. (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1970. Lwwa: 5%. (105 mins) |
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Title: The Trip to Bountiful
Year: 1985. Director: Peter Masterson Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0090203 | Old woman's last trip to her childhood home is full of evocative memories. (3 bikes) Last seen: 1990 (VHS) - First seen: 1986. Lwwa: 100%. (108 mins) |
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Title: Tystnaden
(Silence, The)
Year: 1963. Director: Ingmar Bergman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0057611 | Two sisters, one terminally ill, one still young and active, drift apart emotionally and part ways. (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (96 mins) |
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Title: Une liaison pornographique
(An Affair of Love)
Year: 1999. Director: Frederic Fonteyne Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0204709 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. |
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Title: The Usual Suspects
Year: 1995. Director: Bryan Singer Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0114814 | Crime thriller. Cleverly articulated to not reveal who was conning whom until the end. May need more than one viewing. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 100%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Va Savoir
(Who knows?)
Year: 2001. Director: Jacques Rivette Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0242994 | Fascinating love-triangle cum quadrangle cum pentangle .... Everyone seems sweet on someone else's main squeeze. Develops like a play. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. (154 mins) |
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Title: Venus Beauty Institute
Year: 1999. Director: Tonie Marshall Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0174330 | Lives and loves of beauty parlor employees. Affecting performance by Nathalie Baye as the conflicted Angele. (3 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (105 mins) |
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Title: Vera Drake
Year: 2004. Director: Mike Leigh Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0383694 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 10%. (125 mins) |
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Title: El Viaje de Carol
(Carol's Journey)
Year: 2002. Director: Imanol Uribe Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0331701 | Daughter of American fighting against Franco visits her Spanish family as the Civil War ends. Tale of first love, tragedy. Nice acting and photography but fairly predictable. (3 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Nov 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (100 mins) |
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Title: The Virgin Suicides
Year: 1999. Director: Sofia Coppola Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0159097 | Middle-aged men recollect the multiple suicides of five sisters, whom they had lusted after in 1978. Quirky. Interesting debut for F.F. Coppola's daughter. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (97 mins) |
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Title: Vivement dimanche!
(Confidentially yours)
Year: 1983. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0086551 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 50%. |
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Title: Walkabout
Year: 1971. Director: Nicolas Roeg Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0067959 | Adolescent white girl lost in Australian bush with little brother is guided back to civilization by aboriginal boy on his walkabout. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (100 mins) |
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Title: We Don't Live Here Anymore
Year: 2004. Director: John Curran Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0361309 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (101 mins) |
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Title: Welcome to the Dollhouse
Year: 1995. Director: Todd Solondz Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0114906 | Teen girl, victim of bullies at junior high, takes revenge at her little sister's expense. (3 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2005 (DVD) - First seen: Dec 2005. Lwwa: 50%. (88 mins) |
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Title: What's Cooking?
Year: 2000. Director: Gurinder Chadha Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0197096 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. |
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Title: Wild Dogs
Year: 2002. Director: Thom Fitzgerald Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0290930 | Disturbing scenes of poverty and cruelty in Bucharest, deluded westerners there to make a buck exploiting the people's desperation. (3 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (Cinema) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. |
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Title: Wild Strawberries
(Smultronstället)
Year: 1957. Director: Ingmar Bergman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0050986 | An old professor confronts his long life and relationships. You do have to like Bergman to enjoy this long saga. (3 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 20%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Wimbledon
Year: 2004. Director: Richard Loncraine Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0360201 | (3 bikes) Last seen: Feb 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 20%. (98 mins) |
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Title: The Winter Guest
Year: 1997. Director: Alan Rickman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0120521 | Intertwined stories in a little town in Scotland in mid winter. Interesting but hardly earthshaking. (3 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 75%. (108 mins) |
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Title: The Year my Voice Broke
Year: 1987. Director: John Duigan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0094347 | (3 bikes +) Last seen: Oct 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (98 mins) |
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Title: The Year of Living Dangerously
Year: 1982. Director: Peter Weir Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0086617 | Oddly titled story about journalist facing insurrection in Sukarno's Indonesia. Great turn by Linda Hunt as a male midget. (3 bikes +) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 1983. Lwwa: 100%. (114 mins) |
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Title: Yentl
Year: 1983. Director: Barbra Streisand Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0086619 | (3 bikes +) Last seen: 1992 (VHS) - First seen: 1985. Lwwa: 100%. (132 mins) |
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Title: Zelig
Year: 1983. Director: Woody Allen Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0086637 | Probably the quirkiest Woody Allen offering. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. |
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Title: Zert
(Joke, The)
Year: 1969. Director: Jaromil Jires Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0065241 | Man plots revenge over his expulsion from Czech Communist Party. (3 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 5%. (80 mins) |
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Title: Angels and insects
Year: 1995. Director: Philip Haas Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0112365 | (2 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. |
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Title: La Baie des anges
Year: 1963. Director: Jacques Demy Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0056846 | (2 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. |
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Title: The Basket
Year: 1999. Director: Rich Cowan Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0190255 | (2 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (105 mins) |
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Title: The Battleship Potemkin
(Bronenosets Potyomkin)
Year: 1925. Director: Eisenstein Eisenstein Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0015648 | Classic Soviet film about a mutiny and subsequent police massacre. Only for dedicated filmies. (2 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (75 mins) |
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Title: Belle de jour
Year: 1967. Director: Luis Buñuel Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0061395 | Disappointing, banal. (2 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. |
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Title: Blume in Love
Year: 1973. Director: Paul Mazursky Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0069808 | Divorce lawyer is enmeshed in his own troubles when he cheats on his wife. Boring. (2 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (115 mins) |
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Title: Camille Claudel
Year: 1988. Director: Bruno Nuytten Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0094828 | Story of French sculptor Auguste Rodin and his lover. I found it tedious. (2 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (175 mins) |
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Title: The Circle
(Dayereh)
Year: 2000. Director: Jafar Panahi Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0255094 | Portrays inequitable treatment of women in Iran. Important as it is to document this, I found this film missed the mark, spending way too much time following people walking around doing nothing. (2 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (90 mins) |
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Title: Citizen Kane
Year: 1941. Director: Orson Welles Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0033467 | Over-rated satire about media magnate W. R. Hearst. Many critics name it the best movie of all time. I say Jean de Florette is a far better portrayal of self-centredness, arrogance and greed. (2 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 10%. (119 mins) |
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Title: East is East
Year: 1999. Director: Damien O'Donnell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0166175 | Abusive Pakistani father cannot fathom why his whole family turns against him. Supposedly a comedy, it's hard to watch. (2 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 10%. (96 mins) |
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Title: Gangs of New York
Year: 2002. Director: Martin Scorsese Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0217505 | Historical account of New York City in the 1860s. I couldn't see how the brutal fights added to my understanding or enjoyment of the story. (2 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2002 (Cinema) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 10%. |
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Title: Groundhog Day
Year: 1993. Director: Harold Ramis Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0107048 | Has its moments, but generally boring as hell. Interesting homage to Brief Encounter with Rachmaninoff's music. (2 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 50%. (101 mins) |
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Title: Hannah and her Sisters
Year: 1986. Director: Woody Allen Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0091167 | Allen's lost his way here; he juggles way too many characters, ending up a bit thin on development. Ultimately, I found myself not caring much about the outcome. This movie drops in my estimation each time I watch it! (2 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 1990. Lwwa: 25%. (103 mins) |
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Title: Harold and Maude
Year: 1971. Director: Hal Ashby Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0067185 | Over-rated love story. Some funny and touching moments but I found I did not care for the characters all that much. (2 bikes) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (91 mins) |
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Title: I Heart Huckabees
Year: 2004. Director: David O. Russell Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0356721 | Strangely contrived riff on analysts and their subjects. (2 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 0%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Marion Bridge
Year: 2002. Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0329355 | Three sisters spend some uncomfortable time together caring for their dying mother. Set in Cape Breton. Has its moments but is generally dull. (2 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (90 mins) |
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Title: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Year: 1971. Director: Robert Altman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0067411 | Old west tale of saloon keeper who teams up with whorehouse madam in a peripatetic partnership. Bizarre ending leaves lots of dead bodies and unfulfilled dreams. Or perhaps I just didn't get it. (2 bikes) Last seen: Mar 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 100%. (120 mins) |
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Title: Mrs. Dalloway
Year: 1997. Director: Marleen Gorris Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0119723 | Based on Virginia Woolf's novel. The movie does drag quite a bit, hence the low rating. (2 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. |
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Title: My Own Private Idaho
Year: 1991. Director: Gus Van Sant Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0102494 | Strange story of male hooker suffering from narcolepsy. Good acting, but I did not care enough about the characters to stay with it to the end. (2 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 30%. (102 mins) |
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Title: Ni neibian jidian
(What time is it there?)
Year: 2001. Director: Ming-liang Tsai Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0269746 | Curious story about watch salesman who pines for a customer who bought his own watch. Homages to Truffaut's Les Quatre-cents Coups and cameo by Jean-Pierre Leaud as himself. (2 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. |
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Title: Parlez-moi d'amour
Year: 2002. Director: Sophie Marceau Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0304520 | (2 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (98 mins) |
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Title: La Peau Douce
(Soft Skin, The)
Year: 1964. Director: François Truffaut Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0058458 | Middle-aged married man descends into hell after falling for younger woman. Not the best Truffaut. (2 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. (113 mins) |
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Title: Plenty
Year: 1985. Director: Fred Schepisi Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0089816 | (2 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 5%. |
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Title: Pygmalion
Year: 1938. Director: Anthony Asquith Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0030637 | Speech researcher bets friend that he can turn a poor uneducated woman into a society babe within a few days. One of the early My Fair Ladys on the silver screen. Badly needs a proper transfer to DVD. (2 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 1995. Lwwa: 0%. (89 mins) |
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Title: Red River
Year: 1948. Director: Howard Hawks Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0040724 | Classic western about a risky cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. Very dated now, with clearly racist overtones in relationships between white men and natives. (2 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 0%. (133 mins) |
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Title: The Seventh Seal
(Sjunde inseglet, Det)
Year: 1957. Director: Ingmar Bergman Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0050976 | Classic tale of life's struggle against death. Bored me to tears. (2 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (92 mins) |
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Title: Shakespeare in Love
Year: 1998. Director: John Madden Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0138097 | (2 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2005 (DVD) - First seen: 2005. Lwwa: 5%. (123 mins) |
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Title: Soy Cuba
(I am Cuba)
Year: 1964. Director: Mikheil Kalatozishvili Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0058604 | Propaganda film about evils of Batista regime and wonders of communism in Cuba. Renowned for marvelous cinematography. I found it contrived and annoying. Unrealistic lighting, goofball camera angles. (2 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (141 mins) |
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Title: Star Trek: Nemesis
Year: 2002. Director: Stuart Baird Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0253754 | Earnest, as all Trek films should be. Maybe I'm tired of it now. (2 bikes) Last seen: Dec 2002 (Cinema) - First seen: 2002. Lwwa: 0%. (116 mins) |
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Title: Taxi Driver
Year: 1976. Director: Martin Scorsese Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0075314 | (2 bikes) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (113 mins) |
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Title: Under the Volcano
Year: 1984. Director: John Huston Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0088322 | Slow-moving story of alcoholic former British consul in Mexico. (2 bikes) Last seen: Nov 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. |
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Title: El Verano de la señora Forbes
(Summer of Miss Forbes)
Year: 1988. Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0096373 | Governess looks after 2 boys for a summer. Story by my distant relative Gabriel García Márquez does not make up for wooden, indifferent acting. (2 bikes) Last seen: Apr 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (89 mins) |
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Title: Viridiana
Year: 1961. Director: Luis Bunuel Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0055601 | (2 bikes) Last seen: Jan 2004 (VHS) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. |
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Title: The War Zone
Year: 1999. Director: Tim Roth Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0141974 | Brutally graphic film about incest, betrayal, family dysfunction. (2 bikes) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 20%. (96 mins) |
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Title: Wo hu cang long
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Year: 2000. Director: Ang Lee Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0190332 | So many awards, yet this left me so flat. I was quite done with it when it ended. (2 bikes) Last seen: Aug 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (120 mins) |
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| These are movies I frankly thought a waste of my time and that I cannot recommend to my friends. Would rather go for a bike ride (15 entries). Lwwa: Likelihood I'll want to watch again. |
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Title: Anger Management
Year: 2003. Director: Peter Segal Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0305224 | Does Jack Nicholson really want his life-long fans to remember him for dumb, derivative, potty-humor drivel such as this? I suppose if one got drunk enough ... nah, even then, not worth the time. (1 bike) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (106 mins) |
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Title: Brazil
Year: 1985. Director: Terry Gilliam Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0088846 | (1 bike) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. |
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Title: Closely Watched Trains
(Ostre sledované vlaky)
Year: 1966. Director: Jirí Menzel Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0060802 | Why did this poorly-scripted, poorly-lit snooze-fest win an Oscar? Was someone trying to earn brownie points in the cold war? (1 bike) Last seen: Nov 2003 (VHS) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (91 mins) |
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Title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Year: 2002. Director: Callie Khouri Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0279778 | Awful... I only lasted through the first hour of this. Read James Berardinelli's review and avoid this stinker. (1 bike) Last seen: Oct 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (116 mins) |
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Title: The Duellists
Year: 1977. Director: Ridley Scott Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0075968 | Long saga of a never-ending grudge match in Napoleonic France. I lost interest after the third duel. (1 bike) Last seen: Apr 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (95 mins) |
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Title: Faces
Year: 1968. Director: John Cassavetes Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0062952 | Infidelity is the topic. However, the set situations, marital fights, cheap flirting got to me even before the bad audio and video. I stopped it after a while. (1 bike) Last seen: Nov 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (130 mins) |
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Title: Forrest Gump
Year: 1994. Director: Robert Zemeckis Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0109830 | Stands as a great testament to idiocy, not Gump's but that of the voters at the American Academy who threw several Oscars at this vapid time-waster. (1 bike) Last seen: Aug 2001 (VHS) - First seen: 2001. Lwwa: 0%. (142 mins) |
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Title: Koyaanisqatsi
Year: 1983. Director: Godfrey Reggio Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0085809 | Assorted moving images with guttural chanting, pretending to be art. Some will say it's worth your time, but not me. (1 bike) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (87 mins) |
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Title: The Last Temptation of Christ
Year: 1988. Director: Martin Scorsese Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0095497 | Unsuccessful adaptation of the Kazantzakis novel. It simply does not sustain interest to watch to the end. (1 bike) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (164 mins) |
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Title: Un Paraiso bajo las estrellas
Year: 2000. Director: Gerardo Chijona Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0227224 | Utterly boring and amateurish tale of the misadventures of performers and staff in cabaret troupe. Too long at 94 min. Miss this one. (1 bike) Last seen: Jan 2006 (DVD) - First seen: Jan 2006. Lwwa: 0%. (94 mins) |
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Title: Pay it Forward
Year: 2000. Director: Mimi Leder Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0223897 | Emotionally manipulative and ultimately pointless flick, in spite of its multiple-award-winning cast. (1 bike) Last seen: Mar 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. |
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Title: Playtime
(Tempo di divertimento)
Year: 1967. Director: Jacques Tati Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0062136 | Jacques Tati's satire of modernity is quite ... weird. (1 bike) Last seen: Sep 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (155 mins) |
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Title: Pulp Fiction
Year: 1994. Director: Quentin Tarantino Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0110912 | Arghh. This bored me to death. Want to see a superb film made up of intertwined stories? See Amores perros . (1 bike) Last seen: Jul 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (154 mins) |
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Title: Unforgiven
(Imperdonable)
Year: 1992. Director: Clint Eastwood Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0105695 | The Spanish subtitles give the title as 'Imperdonable' or 'unforgiveable', which more or less sums up this overlong piece of drivel. (1 bike) Last seen: Dec 2003 (DVD) - First seen: 2003. Lwwa: 0%. (130 mins) |
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Title: La Vida es silbar
(Life is to whistle)
Year: 1998. Director: Fernando Perez Imdb: imdb.com/title/tt0192745 | Odd mix of interconnected yarns about some very sexy-looking but conflicted Cubans, all heading for a denouement on December 4th at 4:44. (1 bike) Last seen: Jan 2004 (DVD) - First seen: 2004. Lwwa: 0%. (106 mins) |
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