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À Coeur Joie

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Cecile is a young and beautiful Frenchwoman married to a much older Englishman. She loves her husband and seems to be content with her life, until she meets a younger man and feels forgotten passions stirring within her. She now finds herself confronted with a choice: to stay with the steady and peaceful love of her husband, or to run off for excitement and adventure with a new love?

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2.35:1

Year:

1967

Length:

92min

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That Obscure Object of Desire

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Luis Buñuel's final film explodes with eroticism, bringing full circle the director's lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flare, Buñuel uses two different actresses in the lead: Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Angela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from Pierre Louÿs's 1898 novel, La Femme et le Pantin, THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harkens back to Buñuel's brilliant surrealistic beginnings.

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Format:

1.66:1

Awards – Nominated:

Best Foreign Film, Best Writing, 1978 Academy Awards

Best Foreign Film, 1978 Golden Globes

Best Director, Best Writing, 1978 César Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Director, Best Foreign Film, 1977 National Board of Review

Best Director, 1977 National Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Foreign Film, 1977 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A03E6DE133CE731A2575AC0A9669D946690D...

Review quote:

"With an effortlessness matched by no other director today, Buñuel creates a vision of a world as logical as a theorem, as mysterious as a dream, and as funny as a vaudeville gag." -- Vincent Canby, NY TIMES

Year:

1977

Length:

102min

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Ratings

Critic rating:

100

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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/that_obscure_object_of_desire

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Pierrot le Fou

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Fernand takes to the road with Marianne, a student he once loved. But their cozy journey soon turns into a chase. A gang of crooks who seem to have something to do with Marianne are watching them...

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2.35:1

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Fernand takes to the road with Marianne, a student he once loved. But their cozy journey soon turns into a chase. A gang of crooks who seem to have something to do with Marianne are watching them...

Awards – Nominated:

Golden Lion (Godard), 1965 Venice Film Festival

Best Foreign Actor (Belmondo), 1967 BAFTA Awards

Awards – Won:

Sutherland Trophy (Godard), 1965 British Film Institute Awards

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/5367046/Pierrot-Le-Fou-revie...

Review quote:

"Godard and his great cinematographer, Raoul Coutard, translate the ideas into some of the most visually exuberant French cinema of the Sixties." -- Tim Robey, DAILY TELEGRAPH

Year:

1965

Length:

110min

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School for Scoundrels

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Adapted from the Stephen Potter novels on 'Lifemanship', this lighthearted comedy shows us how Henry Palfrey changes from a young man with a giant inferiority complex into a confident, assured man-of-the-world after a course at the College of Lifemanship on 'how to win without actually cheating'. Sweet is the moment when he takes his revenge on all who cheated and duped him and steals the beautiful April from the arms of his cocksure rival.

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Format:

1.66:1

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/487382/index.html

Review quote:

"The virtues of SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS rest almost entirely in the script and performances. Thankfully, the latter are up to scratch -- Terry-Thomas in particular is outstanding as a classic British bounder." -- Michael Brooke, BFI SCREENONLINE

Year:

1960

Length:

94min

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Citizen Kane (70th Anniversary Edition)

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Orson Welles' masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and directed with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner (1941) is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity -- the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word: "Rosebud."

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Format:

1.33:1

Blu-ray

Awards – Nominated:

Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Sound, 1942 Academy Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Original Screenplay, 1942 Academy Awards

Best Film, 1941 National Board of Review

National Film Registry, 1989

Best Film, 1941 NY Film Critics Circle Award

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980524/REVIEWS08/401...

Review quote:

"More than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound." -- Roger Ebert

Year:

1941

Length:

119min

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Grand Illusion

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One of the very first prison escape movies, GRAND ILLUSION is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German POW camp, with Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable German Capitan.

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Format:

1.33:1

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Awards – Nominated:

Best Picture, 1939 Academy Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Overall Artistic Contribution, 1937 Venice Film Festival

Best Foreign Film, 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Best Foreign Film, 1938 National Board of Review

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,64177,00.html

Review quote:

"Renoir, the grand humanist filmmaker, spoke for all that's best about people at a time when people were in danger of becoming their worst." -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Year:

1937

Length:

113min

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.

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Format:

1.66:1

Awards – Nominated:

Best Screenplay, 1973 Academy Awards

Best Film, Best Direction, 1974 BAFTA Awards

Best Foreign Language Film, 1973 Golden Globes

Awards – Won:

Best Foreign Language Film, 1973 Academy Awards

Best Film, Best Director, 1973 National Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Actress (Audran), Best Screenplay, 1974 BAFTA Awards

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19720101/REVIEWS/20101...

Review quote:

"The greatest directors can carry us along breathlessly on the wings of their own imaginations, so that we don't ask questions; we simply have an experience& here comes old Buñuel to show that he can, too." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Year:

1972

Length:

102min

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Le Cercle Rouge

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Recently released from prison, a criminal organizes the hold-up of a lifetime with the help of an escaped convict and an alcoholic ex-policeman. They are successful, but the fence, shaken by the value of the loot, suggests they go to a specialist, who is none other than the inspector handling the case.

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Format:

1.66:1

http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/le-cercle-rouge/1984

Review quote:

"A seminal work in the advancement of the crime film, the cool, solemn tragedy of LE CERCLE ROUGE rightly still makes most gangster films look like unfocused male fantasies and boyish temper tantrums." -- Chris Cabin, SLANT MAGAZINE

Year:

1970

Length:

140min

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Boyz n the Hood

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BOYZ N' THE HOOD is the critically acclaimed story of three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, and of street life where friendship, pain, danger and love combine to form reality. "The Hood" is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony coexists with adversity, especially for three young men growing up there: Doughboy (Ice Cube), an unambitious drug dealer; his brother Ricky (Morris Chestnut), a college-bound teenage father; and Ricky's best friend Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who aspires to a brighter future beyond "The Hood." In a world where a trip to the store can end in death, the friends have diverse reactions to their bleak surroundings. Tre's resolve is strengthened by a strong father (Larry Fishburne)who keeps him on the right track. But the lessons Tre learns are put to the ultimate test when tragedy strikes close to home, and violence seems like the only recourse.

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Format:

1.33:1

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"The Hood" is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony coexists with adversity, especially for three young men growing up there.

Awards – Nominated:

Best Director, Best Writing, 1992 Academy Awards

Best Supporting Actor (Cube), Best Supporting Actor (Fishburne), 1992 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

Best Movie, 1992 MTV Movie Awards

Best Screenplay, 1992 Writers Guild of America

Awards – Won:

BMI Film Music Award, 1992 BMI Film and TV Awards

Most Promising Actor (Cube), 1992 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

Outstanding Motion Picture, 1993 Image Awards

Best New Filmmaker, 1992 MTV Movie Awards

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19910712/REVIEWS/10712...

Review quote:

"Not simply a brilliant directorial debut, but an American film of enormous importance." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Year:

1991

Length:

112min

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The Piano

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A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.

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Trailer:

CAM303_0.mp4

Format:

1.85:1

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Awards – Nominated:

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, 1994 Academy Awards

Best Edited Feature Film, 1994 American Cinema Editors

Best Cinemtography, Best Editing, Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Score, Best Sound, 1995 BAFTA Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Actress (Hunter), Best Supporting Actress (Paquin), Best Screenplay, 1994 Academy Awards

Best Foreign Film, 1994 Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards

Best Actress: Drama (Hunter), 1994 Golden Globes

Best Foreign Film, 1994 César Awards

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thepianorhinso...

Review quote:

"[An] evocative, powerful, extraordinarily beautiful film." -- Hal Hinson, WASHINGTON POST

Year:

1993

Length:

121min

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