TOP 10 MOVIES (10 titles)

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Favourite screen performance.

Being There on DVD (1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Richard Basehart, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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Having lived his life as the gardener on a millionaire's estate, Chance (Peter Sellers) knows of the real world only what he has seen on TV. When his benefactor dies, Chance walks aimlessly into the streets of Washington D.C., where he is struck by a car owned by wealthy Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine)...read more »
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Kubrick's universe.

The Shining on DVD (1980)
Starring: Danny Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick directs this chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker. Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation ..read more »
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Hilarious.

Bringing Up Baby on DVD (1938)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Director: Howard Hawks
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Eccentric heiress Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from absent-minded paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant), forcing him to track her down to her Connecticut farm. Along the way he runs into trouble with the authorities and a possible sponsor for his museum, and ends up ..read more »
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Brilliantly written/acted/directed.

Look at Me on DVD (2004)
Starring: Laurent Grévill, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Marilou Berry
Director: Agnes Jaoui
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This is the tale of four people who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well. Very simply, they are struggling to find out who they are. Lolita Cassard is a young woman of 20 years who has it in for the entire world because she doesn't look ..read more »
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Beautifully observed drama.

The Station Agent on DVD (2003)
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Jase Blankfort, Paula Garces
Director: Thomas McCarthy
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Winner of the Audience Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, this offbeat independent comedy drama stars Peter Dinklage as Finbar McBride, a lonely man with dwarfism who moves to an abandoned train station in rural New Jersey to live the life of a hermit after suffering the bereavement of his ..read more »
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OK so I like comedy - if it's done well, and it don't get much better than this.

Some Like It Hot on DVD (1959)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Mike Mazurki, Billy Gray
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder's classic Oscar nominated comedy. In February 1929, unemployed musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) go on the run after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Pursued by gangsters, the duo are forced to disguise themselves as women and join Sweet Sue's all-girl band ..read more »
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Linklater's great experiment.

Waking Life on DVD (2001)
Starring: Julie Delpy, Steven Soderbergh, Wiley Wiggins
Director: Richard Linklater
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Writer-director Richard Linklater returns to the terrain of his debut feature, 'Slacker', with another series of loose meditations on various philosophical topics voiced by a disparate series of young Americans. Shot on digital video and then processed using a technique known as rotoscoping, which ..read more »
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Watch it!

Hidden on DVD (2005)
Starring: Aissa Maiga, Annie Girardot, Juliette Binoche
Director: Michael Haneke
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Georges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family -- shot secretly from the street -- and alarming drawings whose meaning is obscure. He has no idea who may be sending them. Gradually, the footage on the tapes becomes more personal, suggesting ..read more »
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Allen has a number of great movies - but maybe this is the best,.

Crimes And Misdemeanors on DVD (1990)
Starring: Martin Landau, Alan Alda, Woody Allen
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. Martin Landau plays Dr. Judah ..read more »
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Polanski's best.

Rosemary's Baby on DVD (1968)
Starring: Ruth Gordon, John Cassavetes, Tony Curtis
Director: Roman Polanski
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City ..read more »
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