Poetry in Motion (11 titles)
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Pan's Labyrinth
A lyric fantasy world interwoven in reality
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Pan's Labyrinth
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Accompanied by her parents, Ofelia moves from a large Spanish city to a more rural area in the North of the country. Faced with the upheaval of moving home, an abusive stepfather and the general unpleasantness surrounding Franco's victory in 1944, Ofelia enters an imaginary world of creatures and ..read more »
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Fight Club
The ultimate in narcissism
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Fight Club
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf
Director: David Fincher
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FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
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2001 - A Space Odyssey
poetry in 4-dimensions
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2001 - A Space Odyssey
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission while hiding the truth from the public. Later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the ..read more »
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from 28,732 members
Shakespeare In Love
for the script, the songs, the set and the cinematography...
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Shakespeare In Love
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush
Director: John Madden
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The reign of Elizabeth I finds Will Shakespeare, a writer, broke and envious of a rival. Then, he meets with a woman who wants to be an actor and who disguises herself as a man...
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from 28,026 members
The Remains Of The Day
for the understated butler
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The Remains Of The Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox
Director: James Ivory
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James Ivory directed this quietly moving film set just prior to World War II. On the large English estate of Lord Darlington (James Fox), a disciplined butler, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), devotes himself to his duties with rigorous dedication. Like his father (Peter Vaughan) before him, Stevens ..read more »
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from 9,062 members
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
crazy poetry
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield
Director: Milos Forman
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In one of the most memorable indictments of mental institutions, and a subtle examination of male anger, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (based on the novel by Ken Kesey) presents a biting, and ultimately tragic, satire. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson, in a role it would seem he was born to play), a ..read more »
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from 57,039 members
Dogville
It needs your attention, then rewards by being as intense as any action flic (sic).
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Dogville
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Set in the 1930s during the Depression in the Rocky Mountains, DOGVILLE is Lars von Trier's comment on Americana and his uniquely perverse view of small town life. With period costumes, and flashes of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER--which is being read by one of the characters--von Trier sets the ..read more »
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The Third Man
For the zither and the shadows
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The Third Man
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard
Director: Carol Reed
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This classic noir mystery, from the team of Carol Reed and Graham Greene, is generally considered to be the best filmwork of both of these estimable talents. THE THIRD MAN features Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his ..read more »
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The Sacrifice
the screen's a canvas here - every shot's a Master
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The Sacrifice
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Valerie Mairesse
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film. In the hours before a nuclear holocaust, a retired actor promises God that he will gladly sacrifice all he has if the disaster can be averted. By the following morning normality is restored ...now he must keep his vow... Swedish dialogue with subtitles.
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Woman Of The Dunes
for the sand (and also for the change of scale in the opening shots - grains, insects)
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Woman Of The Dunes
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Eiji Okada, Koji Mitsui
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
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Woeful of the trappings of civilization, a young entomologist enjoys solitary fieldwork among the dunes of an oceanside village. Missing his bus to Tokyo, he accepts an invitation to stay in the home of a young widow, whose hut lies at the bottom of an ominous sand pit. He soon realizes that he has ..read more »
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