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Amelie [DTS] [2001]
~ Audrey Tautou
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DVD - Momentum Pictures Home Ent
/ 15 April, 2002
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Synopsis The story of Amelie, a naive girl living and working in Paris. Amelie has craved love all her life, at the age of eight, her mother was the victim of a freak accident and her father was unable to give the attention she deserved. One day Amelie realises that the way to true happiness is to improve...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2 Disc Set) [2000]
~ George Clooney, Ed Gale
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DVD - Momentum Pictures Home Ent
/ 5 November, 2001
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Amazon.co.uk Review Only Joel and Ethan Coen, masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plotline of Homer's Odyssey for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, their comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill,...
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Jean De Florette [1986]
~ Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu
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DVD - Pathe Distribution Ltd
/ 27 March, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review A truly impressive French film destined to become a modern masterpiece, Jean de Florette is an evocative adaptation of the highly regarded French novel. Two 1920's farmers engage in a bitter rivalry as one tries to tend to a plot of land and the other deviously undermines his efforts in order to...
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Manon Des Sources [1986]
~ Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil
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DVD - Pathe Distribution Ltd
/ 27 March, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review Less a sequel than a seamless continuation of its predecessor, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources brings with it a more epic scope as it depicts the growth to womanhood of the daughter (Emmanuelle Béart) of the doomed farmer of the first film. As she discovers the truth of what happened to...
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Miller's Crossing [1990]
~ Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney
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DVD - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
/ 13 October, 2003
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Synopsis Two men, Leo and Tom belong to the same local mob. When they both happen to fall in love with the same woman their friendship is severed and Tom joins up with Leo's enemy. A gang war begins to rip the city apart...
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Seven Samurai [1954]
~ Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune
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DVD - Bfi Video Publishing
/ 22 November, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review Unanimously hailed as one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of the motion picture, Seven Samurai has inspired countless films modelled after its basic premise. But Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 action drama has never been surpassed in terms of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and...
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Talk To Her [2002]
~ Rosario Flores, Elena Anaya
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DVD - Pathe Distribution Ltd
/ 24 February, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her is his least stylised, most accessible and arguably greatest movie. Covering the same, highly provocative terrain as Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma", Almodovar forges a work that's funny, compassionate,...
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Trainspotting: The Definitive Edition [DTS]
~ Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner
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DVD - Universal Pictures Video
/ 16 June, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller, Trainspotting is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, it...
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Buena Vista Social Club [1999]
~ Compay Segundo, Pío Leyva
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DVD - Cinema Club
/ 16 June, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review In 1996, composer, producer, and guitar legend Ry Cooder entered Egrem Studios in Havana with the forgotten greats of Cuban music, many of them in their 60s and 70s, some of them long since retired. The resulting album, Buena Vista Social Club, became a Grammy-winning international bestseller. When...
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Il Postino [1995]
~ Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi
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DVD - Buena Vista Home Entertainment
/ 7 January, 2002
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Amazon.co.uk Review Italian star and filmmaker Massimo Troisi was dying of heart failure even before this film, his dream project, began production, and he prevailed upon British director Michael Radford (White Mischief) to see him and the film through to the end. (The 40-year-old Troisi, a beloved comic actor in...
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Monsoon Wedding [2001]
~ Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey
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DVD - Cinema Club
/ 16 June, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding is a return to the form of Salaam Bombay!, her 1988 feature. Nair's gift for observation of the everyday and love for her characters makes for a delightful film, with the whole web of family relationships that knit and break during a wedding being spun at a perfect pace....
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Bound [1996]
~ Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly
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DVD - Pathe Distribution Ltd
/ 25 August, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review Destined for cult status, this provocative thriller offers a grab bag of genres (gangster movie, comedy, sexy romance, crime caper) and tops it all off with steamy passion between lesbian ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) and a not-so-ditzy gun moll named Violet (Jennifer Tilly), who meets Corky and...
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Queer As Folk - Definitive Collector's Edition [1999]
~ Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly
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DVD - Channel 4 Video
/ 8 September, 2003
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Synopsis A drama which follows the lives of three men living in Manchester's gay village. Stuart is rich and gorgeous, Vince is funny and Nathan is young and wild as he finds his own identity.
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La Reine Margot [1993]
~ Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
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DVD - Pathe Distribution Ltd
/ 27 March, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, La Reine Margot concerns the events behind infamous Massacre of St Bartholomew in sixth-century France. Isabelle Adjani plays Margot, betrothed for political reasons to one man (Daniel Auteuil) by her mother (Virna Lisi), while she is, in fact, in love with...
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Girl on the Bridge [1999]
~ Vanessa Paradis, Daniel Auteuil
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DVD - Pathe Distribution Ltd
/ 20 November, 2000
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Synopsis When a girl on a bridge looks like she is determined to take her own life, a passing stranger shows her that there is a different way...
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
~ Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand
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DVD - Entertainment
/ 22 April, 2002
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Amazon.co.uk Review With The Man Who Wasn't There the Coen brothers--those ironic geniuses of left-field bizarre--have pulled off another side-swerve into the unexpected. A movie "about a hairdresser who wants to become a dry-cleaner" as the brothers gleefully claim to have pitched it, it's set in 1949 in the small...
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All About My Mother [1999]
~ Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes
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DVD - Pathe Distribution Ltd
/ 28 February, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review After her son is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, a pre-op transsexual prostitute named La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), who introduces her to Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun who turns out to be...
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Fargo Special Edition [1996]
~ Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
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DVD - Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.
/ 21 April, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper with Fargo that's simultaneously a comedy of errors, a Midwestern satire, a taut suspense thriller and a violent tale of criminal misfortune. It all begins when a hapless car salesman (played to perfection by...
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Cinema Paradiso [1989]
~ Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin
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DVD - Arrow Film Distributors Ltd.
/ 28 April, 2003
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Synopsis A young boy in a small Italian village, where the only pastime is going to the cinema, is overjoyed when the projectionist reveals to him the mysteries of movie making, which begins his life-long love affair with the movies. Italian dialogue with subtitles.
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The Big Lebowski
~ Jeff Bridges, John Goodman
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DVD - Universal Pictures Video
/ 12 April, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review The Big Lebowski, a casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel), seems like a bit of a lark and the result was a box-office disappointment. It's lazy plot is part of its laidback charm. After all, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied,...
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The Mission - Two Disc Special Edition
~ Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons
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DVD - Warner Home Video
/ 2 June, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review The Mission is director Roland Joffé's fuzzy effort at an epic in David Lean style without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. In fact, Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a...
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Italian For Beginners [2001]
~ Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Stovelbaek
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/ 31 March, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review The winner of a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Italian for Beginners is the first film made under the Dogme rules of austerity (no artificial lighting, no extraneous music, no imported props, etc) to be directed by a woman, Danish director Lone Scherfig. It's set in a small Danish town...
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Battle Royale - Two Disc Special Edition [2002]
~ Fujiwara Tatsuya, Maeda Aki
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DVD - Tartan Video
/ 23 September, 2002
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Amazon.co.uk Review With the Japanese currently leading the way in thought-provoking cinematic violence, it's only fitting that Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale is being touted as A Clockwork Orange for the 21st century. Based on the novel by Koshun Takami, the film opens with a series of fleeting images of unruly...
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Babette's Feast [1987]
~ Stephane Audran, Bibi Andersson
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DVD - MGM Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.
/ 1 July, 2002
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Amazon.co.uk Review Released in 1987, Babette's Feast is a film which depicts so little, yet says so much. Set in a rural Danish community, it centres around the twin sisters of the village pastor and the French women who serves them after fleeing the 1871 revolution. On winning the lottery she plans a feast to mark...
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover [1989]
~ Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
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DVD - Universal Pictures Video
/ 10 November, 2003
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Synopsis A French restaurant is the setting for murder, sex and revenge. The vicious Thief is Albert - Georgina is the long suffering doormat of a Wife - Michael, a fellow diner is the Lover - and the Cook is Chef Richard whose only care is his restaurant.
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