Essentials You Might Have Missed (34 titles)
We all know the classics, and we've all seen them already, so here's a few ideas for a quality movie night with something different. Some absolute gems, some guilty pleasures!
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Swingers
It might not seem it, but comedy about relationships doesn't always mean shallow rom-com / chick-flick. Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn light the screen up with some of the best dialogue ever committed to film. Vegas, baby, Vegas.
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Swingers
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston
Director: Doug Liman
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A night on the tiles for a group of friends looking for women and doing an awful lot of male bonding!
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La Haine
Hard-hitting MTV-generation film-making by Mathieu Kassovitz, in an at-turns hilarious, heart-warming and harrowing tale of 24 hours in the lives of three guys on a Parisian council estate.
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La Haine
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Shot in black and white cinema verite style, this film follows a day in the life of three aimless, violence-prone, ethnically-diverse young men who hail from the same decaying housing project in Paris. Vinz, who is Jewish, is the angriest and the least intelligent of the three. North African Said ..read more »
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Rushmore
Quirky indie comedy at its absolute best, courtesy of Wes Anderson. If you like the new, surly and downtrodden version of Bill Murray, then this is not to be missed.
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Rushmore
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Bill Murray
Director: Wes Anderson
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Director Wes Anderson's follow-up to the acclaimed BOTTLE ROCKET is a funny, warmhearted, and extremely sharp American response to the English Angry Young Man films of the 1960s, right down to its British Invasion soundtrack. Newcomer Jason Schwartzman creates a classic protagonist in Max Fischer, ..read more »
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From Russia With Love
Enough jumping on the Daniel Craig bandwagon - Casino Royale was superb but Quantum of Solace was a rushjob letdown. Connery was the best Bond and this will always be the best Bond film. Taking its cue from Hitchcock and The Third Man, a perfect mix of spy intrigue, steamy exoticism, and 60s class.
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From Russia With Love
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
Director: Terence Young
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Secret agent James Bond battles the all-enveloping tentacles of an international crime syndicate called SPECTRE. The organization's mad plan for world supremacy unfolds with the icy efficiency of a chessmaster's complex strategy, and if they succeed, the antagonism of the cold war will be pushed ..read more »
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The Apartment
Billy Wilder at his ascerbic, satirical best in probably the best romantic comedy you've never seen. No schmalz here, just a bitter-sweet swipe at get-ahead capitalism and love in the workplace. Some Like It Hot for the real world.
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The Apartment
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Director: Billy Wilder
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Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving ..read more »
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Withnail And I
Student / cult classic, easily one of the most quotable films of all time. Only gets better with repeat viewings.
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Withnail And I
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths
Director: Bruce Robinson
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WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)--take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard ..read more »
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Do The Right Thing
Spike Lee's tour de force: 24 hours of rising tension in Bed-Sty, New York. Still his best work to date.
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Do The Right Thing
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
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A local black community is unhappy that their community is effectively being run by whites. As the heat rises on a hot summer's day in Brooklyn, so the racial tension, which has so far lay dormant under the surface, begins to rise.
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The Royal Tenenbaums
More Wes Anderson gold, this time with an incredible all-star cast. Sharply written, meticulously designed.
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The Royal Tenenbaums
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller
Director: Wes Anderson
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In their youth, the Tenenbaums--an eccentric New York family--were extraordinary. They were all geniuses. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful litigator. His wife Etheline (Angelica Huston) raised their children to be ambitious, entrepreneurial, and creative--then published an acclaimed ..read more »
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Good Will Hunting
"Do you like apples?" A witty, life-affirming film about a boy genius from the wrong side of the tracks. Sounds terrible, I know, but watch it. Even Ben Affleck's good in it.
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Good Will Hunting
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Director: Gus Van Sant
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A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
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The 25th Hour
Spike Lee, Ed Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson... Another great 'day/night in the life of' drama. The post-9/11 polemic might be layered on a bit thick, and the ending is a bit contrived, but this still packs one hell of a punch. Watch out for the best night club you'll never get into.
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The 25th Hour
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper
Director: Spike Lee
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Spike Lee's bracing adaptation of David Benioff's novel is a vibrant, vital motion picture. Edward Norton plays Monty Brogan, a harmless drug dealer who has 24 hours of freedom before serving a seven-year jail sentence. Nervous, confused, and terrified, Monty turns to his closest friends for ..read more »
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