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Odd mixture but hey that's life (22 titles)

The word "classic" is over-used but these are definitively classic

by: A customer

My Number One. Superlative script, direction, acting, music, design.

Taxi Driver on DVD (1976)
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Groundbreaking drama of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader. Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works as a New York City taxi driver, and is consumed with disgust by the 'filth' which surrounds him. His explosive, psychotic loathing eventually drives ..read more »
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Out of 10, this movie goes up to "11".

This Is Spinal Tap on DVD (1984)
Starring: Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Ed Begley
Director: Rob Reiner
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Ageing Brit-rockers Spinal Tap embark on a tour of the United States, hampered by the usual tour hassles - banned albums, technical problems, a diminutive Stonehenge, spontaneously combusting drummers... Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary' spoofs the genre and is reliably reported to be popular viewing in ..read more »
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Two people on an old boat, two hours of joy

The African Queen on DVD (1951)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Director: John Huston
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After years of wooing director John Huston via good reviews, film critic James Agee was given a chance to write the screenplay for a Huston picture. Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Allnut, the slovenly, gin-..read more »
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The only intelligent High School comedy I've seen. Project!

Clueless on DVD (1995)
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy
Director: Amy Heckerling
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Jane Austen might never have imagined that her 1816 novel Emma could be turned into a fresh and satirical look at ultra-rich teenagers in a Beverly Hills high school. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash), both named after great singers of the past that now do infomercials, are ..read more »
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As weird as they ever come on the big screen

The Night of the Hunter on DVD (1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Don Beddoe, Evelyn Varden
Director: Charles Laughton
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Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with good represented by a couple of farm kids ..read more »
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No, all the Series. For "The Doll". And "Wandering Bear". OK, it's a cult.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 1 (3 discs) on DVD (2000)
Starring: Larry David, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin
Director: Larry Charles, Andy Ackerman, Larry Charles /
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The man who has it all - career, happy marriage, friends, beautiful home - always finds that in spite of his seemingly perfect existence, his day-to-day life can, and generally does, turn into a sequence of misfortunes. Larry David (of 'Seinfeld' fame) seems to have a talent for finding himself in ..read more »
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There is only one river.....Shirley.

Airplane! on DVD (1980)
Starring: Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Director: Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams
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They are serious. And don't call them Shirley. Writer/directors Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers lampoon the Seventies fad for aeroplane-related disaster movies with this merciless spoof. Former fighter pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) hasn't flown since the war, when an error of judgement on ..read more »
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Only one weak song in the whole thing! Pass me my lederhosen.

The Sound Of Music on DVD (1965)
Starring: Eleanor Parker, Anna Lee, Richard Haydn
Director: Robert Wise
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Austria in the 1930s. Ex-nun Maria (Julie Andrews) becomes the governess for a family of seven children who live in the shadow of their domineering and repressed widower father (Christopher Plummer). She brings love, music and excitement into the children's lives and also eventually begins to have ..read more »
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We're in a tight spot....

O Brother, Where Art Thou? on DVD (2000)
Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Joel Coen
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The Coen Brothers own unique take on Homer's Odyssey sets the action in 1930s Mississippi, where three clueless convicts escape a chain gang and go in search of buried treasure. This leads to a series of unlikely adventures - involving one-eyed con-men, seductive sirens and Ku Klux Klan lynchings - ..read more »
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Billy Wilder - how to blend Forties Style, Fifties innocence and Sixties sex.

The Apartment on DVD (1960)
Starring: Naomi Stevens, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Billy Wilder
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Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star in this acclaimed satire from writer-director Billy Wilder. Insurance clerk C.C. Baxter (Lemmon) lets his superiors use his apartment as a secret love nest and as a result begins to make his way up in the company. Things go awry when director Mr. Sheldrake (..read more »
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