Code Unknown
on DVD
(2000) Starring:Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler Director:Michael Haneke Certificate:
In Michael Haneke's CODE UNKNOWN, the lives of five individuals intersects in one moment on a Parisian street. This fascinating and complex film stars Juliette Binoche along with an international cast.
Amores Perros
on DVD
(2000) Starring:Emilio Echeverria, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero Director:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Certificate:
Beginning with a kinetic, bone-crushing car accident, Amores Perros imaginatively interweaves the stories of its three victims: Octavio a young man who has fallen in love with his violent brother's wife; Valeria, a beautiful Mexican model for whom physical appearance is everything; and El Chivo, a ..read more »
The master of the multi-plot, Robert Altman's classic film: an amazing cast (including Jack Lemmon, Lily Tomlin, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Tom Waits and Huey Lewis!) and an amazing film. It's got everything.
Short Cuts
on DVD
(1993) Starring:Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins, Madeline Stowe Director:Robert Altman Certificate:
Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a springboard, American maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial, rage, and despair in the lives of several ..read more »
M.A.S.H.
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1970) Starring:Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt Director:Robert Altman Certificate:
Widely considered to be one of the best comedies ever made. The story focusses on surgeons during the Korean War and their madcap antics to degrade the U.S. military bureaucracy. A Best Screenplay Oscar went to Ring Lardner Jr.
Little Children
on DVD
(2006) Starring:Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly Director:Todd Field Certificate:
Little Children centers on a group of young marrieds, whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.
Pulp Fiction
on DVD
(1994) Starring:John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis Director:Quentin Tarantino Certificate:
Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to RESERVOIR DOGS is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hitmen, restaurant-robbing ..read more »
Hannah And Her Sisters
on DVD
(1986) Starring:Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow Director:Woody Allen Certificate:
Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City. Hannah (Mia Farrow) has put her acting career aside in order to take care of her family with second husband ..read more »
Tom Cruise's only good film (and he isn't even in it much).
Magnolia
on DVD
(1999) Starring:Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon Director:Paul Thomas Anderson Certificate:
In a single day in Los Angeles, a number of interconnected lives are changed forever. A lonely police officer (John C. Reilly) falls in love with a disturbed cocaine addict (Melora Walters). Her father (Philip Baker Hall), the host of the game show "What Do Kids Know
Crash
on DVD
(2005) Starring:Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon Director:Paul Haggis Certificate:
Crash is a powerful, moving and provocative drama following the intersecting lives of a diverse group of people in Los Angeles. Using a sophisticated, layered structure to tell the stories of a multi-racial group of characters as their lives inter-connect through a sequence of events around a car ..read more »
Ok, so it's not a film: it's a two part, 6 hour, TV special. So sue me. Tony Kushner (who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play this is based on) is a phenomenal talent.
Angels In America
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003) Starring:Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson Director:Mike Nichols Certificate:
In transferring Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play to the small screen, director Mike Nichols has crafted a profound, ambitious masterpiece. The film follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear ..read more »