(24 titles)
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Withnail And I
Have tried and failed many times to construct a Camberwell Carrot.
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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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Early Films Of Peter Greenaway, The - Vol. 2
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Early Films Of Peter Greenaway, The - Vol. 2
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Vertical Features Remake: A playful parody of avant-garde theorising, in which academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper, Greenaway's best-known fictional character. The Falls: Divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by the "VUE", the Violent Unknown Event, a ..read more »
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover
Vile, violent, art house.
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Richard Bohringer
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Master director Greenaway (THE PILLOW BOOK) outdoes himself with this grisly fairy tale. The thief, Albert Spica, (Gambon) is a gangster, repugnant and boorish, who holds court at the same table in his opulent restaurant every night surrounded by his lackeys (Tim Roth and the late Ian Dury included)..read more »
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail
...and your farther smelt of elderberries
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
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This classic Monty Python comedy, directed by Pythons Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, is a hilarious send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights ..read more »
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Red Dawn
Dirty dancing this is not! Looks very dated nw but it was one of the first videos my brother & I rented after we got a video player (back in the day)
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Red Dawn
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
Director: John Milius
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In the heartland of America, Russian and Cuban paratroopers begin to drop outside while classes go on in the high school. When the soldiers begin killing everyone in sight, local teens take to the hills to avoid the new totalitarian regime established in their little town and, as we later learn, ..read more »
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"Would you like a Gummy Bear?" check out the track 'Yellow' by stella (plays at the end of the film)
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck
Director: John Hughes
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Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, ..read more »
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Reservoir Dogs
Who would not want to be Mr Orange, even if he does die.
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Reservoir Dogs
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Penn
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Former video store clerk Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut, RESERVOIR DOGS, is a brutally funny, supercharged introduction to his supremely distinct cinematic vision, which was later to become one of the most mimicked styles of the 1990s. Mastermind Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assembles a crew ..read more »
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Jean De Florette
I never was any good at French but this film recommended by my teacher (Madame Ananin) was stunning.
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Jean De Florette
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Director: Claude Berri
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French director Claude Berri's stunning adaptation of the acclaimed Marcel Pagnol novel is the winner of numerous international awards and is the world's most popular foreign language film ever. City-dweller Jean de Florette (Gerard Depardieu) moves his family to the Provence countryside in the ..read more »
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The Browning Version
Brillianltly sho, acted adn edited, as full of everything un-said as it is with actiual dialogue, a masterpiece.
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The Browning Version
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick
Director: Anthony Asquith
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A 1951 black & white classic, in which Michael Redgrave stars as a once brilliant scholar, who goes from the despair of a failed career to the hope of a bright future.
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Everyone Says I Love You
any early Woody Alan would do really.
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Everyone Says I Love You
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Woody Allen, Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's 26th film is a celebration of an eccentric and very extended family living on New York's upper east side, exploring a broad spectrum of romantic entanglements as they fall in and out of love. Allen creates a world in which Yves St. Laurent mannequins come to life in store windows and ..read more »
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