 | A Little Princess
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $1.86 Unabashedly emotional and beautifully made, this is one of the masterpieces of cinema of the last 20 years, and woefully neglected.
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 | Fearless
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.34 The film opens with a man carrying a boy out of a cornfield as the camera pulls back to reveal the wreckage of a plane crash. The film ends with a recreation of the crash that is astonishingly immediate and real. The lack of a widescreen edition of Peter Weir's masterpiece is criminal.
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 | What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! by Dinah Washington
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $6.65 A heart-wrenching song cycle about love lost, won back ... and then lost again.....
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 | It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.00 Yeah, I know, this one makes everybody cry.
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 | The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album by Bill Evans
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.23 Carefully chosen songs present a portrait of middle-aged manhood and its obsessions (lost youth, lost romance, children growing up) that will bring a lump to your throat. Riveting.
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 | Leon - The Professional (Uncut International Version)
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $4.88 Director Luc Besson is the first major artist since Dickens to mix crime stories with unabashed sentimentality... and it works. The scene at the end when Mathilda (Natalie Portman) extracts a profession of love from emotionally-stunted Leon (Jean Reno) before he sends her escaping down a ventilation shaft is three-hankie time.
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 | Carl & The Passions - So Tough / Holland by The Beach Boys
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.69 The Carl Wilson song "The Trader" gets me every time.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $3.49 The John Ford film is astounding but stops a few pages short of the novel's excruciating conclusion. Ford didn't get me, but Steinbeck did.
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 | On Fire by Galaxie 500
Buy used from: $12.89 Dean Wareham's masterpiece aches with loneliness.
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 | The Horse Whisperer
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $2.85 When Scarlett Johansson cries, "No one will ever love me," you'll cry, too.
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