50 Cinematic Gems (50 titles)

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Roger Dodger

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• Roger Dodger on DVD (2003)
  Starring: Campbell Scott,  Jennifer Beals,  Elizabeth Berkley
  Director: Dylan Kidd
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  After cynical New York advertising copywriter Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) is dumped by his on-again/off-again girlfriend Joyce (Isabella Rossellini), who is also his boss, his painful work day is further complicated by the unexpected arrival of his 16 year-old nephew Nick (Jesse Eisenberg). ..read more »
  
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The Insider

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• The Insider on DVD (1999)
  Starring: Al Pacino,  Russell Crowe,  Christopher Plummer
  Director: Michael Mann
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  Based on the article The Man Who Knew Too Much, THE INSIDER depicts the true story of Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), a successful scientist who is fired from the Brown & Williamson tobacco company for objecting to certain lab tests. He signs a confidentiality agreement to ease the company's ..read more »
  
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Brick

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• Brick on DVD (2006)
  Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt,  Nora Zehetner,  Lukas Haas
  Director: Rian Johnson
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  Brick follows the path of the hard-boiled noir mystery but wittily and bracingly immerses itself in a modern-day Southern California high school. Student Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin) prefers being an outsider and he stays that way until the day that his ex-girlfriend Emily (..read more »
  
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Hard Candy

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• Hard Candy on DVD (2006)
  Starring: Ellen Page,  Patrick Wilson,  Sandra Oh
  Director: David Slade
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  Claustrophobic and brightly coloured, this tightly wound psychological thriller is constantly pulling the rug out from under the viewer, mostly due to the tense, explosive performances of its two main characters. The tale opens with a coffee shop rendezvous between 14-year-old Haley (the fantastic ..read more »
  
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The Fog Of War

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• The Fog Of War on DVD (2003)
  Starring: Robert McNamara
  Director: Errol Morris
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  Documentarian Errol Morris directs THE FOG OF WAR, a captivating look at Robert S. McNamara, who served as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The movie does not exclusively focus on this part of McNamara's career, however, and instead gives a broad ..read more »
  
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Lost In Translation

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• Lost In Translation on DVD (2003)
  Starring: Bill Murray,  Scarlett Johansson,  Giovanni Ribisi
  Director: Sofia Coppola
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  An American film star out to make a commercial in Tokyo meets up with a photographer's wife in a hotel bar. These two people are lonely and having to contend with a foreign language and a new culture. A friendship begins.
  
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Mon Oncle

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• Mon Oncle on DVD (1958)
  Starring: Jacques Tati
  Director: Jacques Tati
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  Unemployed Monsieur Hulot spends his days waiting to pick up his adoring nephew from school and escort him to his ultra modern home. Concerned for Hulot's future, his sister tries to pair him with her neighbor while his brother-in-law tries to secure a job for him in his hose factory. Chaos ensues. ..read more »
  
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Miller's Crossing

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• Miller's Crossing on DVD (1990)
  Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Albert Finney,  Marcia Gay Harden
  Director: Joel Coen
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  An Irish gangster (Albert Finney) and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Byrne) and counselor find their domination of the town threatened by an ambitious Italian underboss (Jon Polito). Just as this threat erupts, the two sever their friendship when they realize that they love the same woman (Marcia ..read more »
  
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The Notebook

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• The Notebook (2004)
  Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Rachel McAdams,  James Garner
  Director: Nick Cassavetes
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  A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
  
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Elephant

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• Elephant on DVD (2003)
  Starring: Alex Frost,  John Robinson,  Eric Deulen
  Director: Gus Van Sant
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  Gus Van Sant's drifty, eloquent, and effortlessly poignant ELEPHANT is loosely based on the massacre at Columbine High School. (On April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado two 17-year-old boys fired semi-automatic weapons on their high school classmates, killing 13, injuring 25, and then taking their ..read more »
  
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