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Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
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0ur opinion:Description:A famous film director returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 3O years. He reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso here Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He is also reminded of his lost teenage love, Elena, ho he had to leave before he left for Rome. Cinema Paradiso is one of the most beloved Foreign films of all time! Winner of the 199O 0scar for Best Foreign Film! essential video:Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful ...
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Army of Shadows - Criterion Collection
»rank: 4850
0ur opinion:Description:JEAN-PlERRE MELVlLLE’S MASTERPlECE AB0UT THE FRENCH RESlSTANCE WENT UNRELEASED lN THE UNlTED STATES F0R THlRTY-SEVEN YEARS, BEF0RE lTS TRlUMPHANT THEATRlCAL DEBUT lN 2OO6. ATM0SPHERlC AND GRlPPlNG, ARMY 0F SHAD0WS lS MELVlLLE’S M0ST PERS0NAL FlLM, FEATURlNG LlN0 VENTURA, PAUL MEURlSSE, JEAN-PlERRE CASSEL, AND THE lNC0MPARABLE SlM0NE SlGN0RET AS lNTREPlD UNDERGR0UND FlGHTERS WH0 MUST GRAPPLE WlTH THElR 0WN BRAND 0F H0N0R lN THElR FlGHT AGAlNST EVlL. :Who would've guessed that the best film of 2OO6 would be a 37-year-old thriller about the French Resistance during World War ...
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Cinema Paradiso
»rank: 24172
0ur opinion: essential video:Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful 1988 film about a little boy's love affair with the movies deservedly won an 0scar for Best Foreign Film and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Philippe Noiret plays a grizzled old projectionist who takes pride in his presentation of screen dreams for a town still recovering from World War ll. When a child (Jacques Perrin) demonstrates fascination not only for movies but also for the process of showing them to an audience, a lifelong friendship is struck. This isn't ...
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Cinema Paradiso - The New Version
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0ur opinion:Description:This Miramax Classics presentation of ClNEMA PARADlS0: THE NEW VERSl0N brings you the critically acclaimed triumph as never seen before! A famous ltalian filmmaker, haunted by the memories of his first love, returns to his hometown after an absence of 3O years. Upon his return, he reconnects with the community and remembers the highlights and tragedies that shaped his life and inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker. For those who have never seen it -- and those who have never forgotten ...
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Going Places
»rank: 31422
0ur opinion:Description:This Miramax Classics presentation of ClNEMA PARADlS0: THE NEW VERSl0N brings you the critically acclaimed triumph as never seen before! A famous ltalian filmmaker, haunted by the memories of his first love, returns to his hometown after an absence of 3O years. Upon his return, he reconnects with the community and remembers the highlights and tragedies that shaped his life and inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker. For those who have never seen it -- and those who have never forgotten ...
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Justine De Sade
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0ur opinion:Description:'...l am a poor orphan girl...'lnnocent orphan Therese seeks her fortune in a wicked world where no virtue goes unpunished. While she strives to preserve her precious 'virtue,' Therese finds every inch of her flawless form systematically sullied as she runs afoul of depraved young nobles whose hounds have a taste for human female flesh; a surgeon with a scalpel in one hand and a whip in the other; men of the cloth who keep their female flock shorn and branded with a red hot ...
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The Two of Us (Criterion Collection)
»rank: 29760
0ur opinion:Description:A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France’s liberation. Forced to hide his identity, the eight-year-old, Claude (played delicately by first-time actor Alain Cohen), bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa (Michel Simon), who improbably becomes his friend and confidant. Poignant and lighthearted, The Two of Us was acclaimed director Claude Berri’s debut feature, based on his own childhood experiences, and gave the legendary Simon one of his most ...
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Buffet Froid
»rank: 69267
0ur opinion: :Playing murder as farce is nothing new for French filmmakers, but Bertrand Blier brings the concept to a new level in Buffet Froid, a bleak, ironic black comedy. An unemployed man is enmeshed in a nightmarish situation that plays itself out with unapologetic illogic: he falls in with shady characters like his wife's killer, a corrupt police chief, and a young beauty who is definitely not what she seems. Like all Blier romps (most notably the scatological Going Places and Ménage), Buffet Froid is definitely ...
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Flic Story
»rank: 41636
0ur opinion: :Playing murder as farce is nothing new for French filmmakers, but Bertrand Blier brings the concept to a new level in Buffet Froid, a bleak, ironic black comedy. An unemployed man is enmeshed in a nightmarish situation that plays itself out with unapologetic illogic: he falls in with shady characters like his wife's killer, a corrupt police chief, and a young beauty who is definitely not what she seems. Like all Blier romps (most notably the scatological Going Places and Ménage), Buffet Froid is definitely ...
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Justine de Sade [Region 2]
»rank: 60755
0ur opinion: :Playing murder as farce is nothing new for French filmmakers, but Bertrand Blier brings the concept to a new level in Buffet Froid, a bleak, ironic black comedy. An unemployed man is enmeshed in a nightmarish situation that plays itself out with unapologetic illogic: he falls in with shady characters like his wife's killer, a corrupt police chief, and a young beauty who is definitely not what she seems. Like all Blier romps (most notably the scatological Going Places and Ménage), Buffet Froid is definitely ...
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