 | Mighty Aphrodite
Buy used from: $6.45 A movie after dear Aristophanes' own heart. Full of wonderful classical allusions - for the distinguished viewer!
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 | 12 Monkeys (Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $1.49 A Greek tragedy told via the medium of the science fiction genre. A unique film.
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 | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.49 A quaint movie full of Redneck allusions to Homer's ODYSSEY.
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 | Mannequin
Buy used from: $4.00 Yes, believe it or not, there is a reason to see this movie BEYOND the fact that it stars Kim Cattral. Behold, herein is a spin-off of the Classical myth of PYGMALION.
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 | Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $2.77 Filled with splendid allusions to Roman history; the likes of Cincinnatus, the Gracchi brothers, Cicero, Scipio Africanus and so much more!
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 | The Natural
Buy used from: $3.43 Much more than just another sports movie; is filled with Jungian archetypal imagery / symbols. Neat stuff!
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 | Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.00 Brilliant idea. Superb direction. Splendid acting. Great soundtrack. Wonderful sets & costumes. Exquisite symmetry. Don't ask questions - just see this one for yourself!
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 | Dead Poets Society
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.94 Perhaps Robin Williams single most worthwhile movie. Disinters the vibrant and fervent value and pleasures of the Liberal Arts.
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 | Star Trek - The Motion Picture: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $7.94 A machine built by man returns to earth so that it may ask "Why am I here? Is this all there is? Is there nothing more?" Questions we have been asking ourselves for several thousand years.
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 | Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Buy used from: $1.76 Oh, my - a ST film filled with allusions and tidbits of MOBY DICK. Perhaps the best ST movie of them all.
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 | Star Trek - First Contact
Buy used from: $1.00 OK: I'm not saying that the writers ever read Martin Heidegger. However, with the BORG they've certainly tapped into an archetype that Heidegger would have identified as das man. The darkest ST film
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 | Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
Buy used from: $1.11 Comes complete with motifs of Jean Paul Sartre and postmodern existentialism. Hauntingly beautiful.
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 | Finding Forrester
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.00 The best showcase of the importance of Liberal Arts since DEAD POET'S SOCIETY.
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 | Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.64 Has some parallels to FINDING FORRESTER & is by the same director. The story of a precocious lad who has a gift he can't quite handle.
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 | Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $1.87 Has sensational tidbits of Dante, Milton & St. Thomas Aquinas. Nicely done.
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 | American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.13 Faulkneresque in its presentation of life (and death) as we know it in the 21st century.
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 | Creator
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $6.61 A film about life, about death, about microbiology, about love and about the fact that you cannot duplicate (or clone) the past. PLUS, it stars the venerable Peter O'Toole.
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 | The Lathe of Heaven
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $13.25 Trust me: dreams CAN come true! Unfortunately, so does the law of unintended consequences.
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 | Logan's Run
Buy used from: $2.89 Has parallels to Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD. A post-modern classic complete with muted satire on religion.
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 | Brazil
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.10 A glimpse at a nightmarish world where beaurocracy has taken over to the extent that heroism itself has become obsolete.
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 | Bedazzled
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.21 Here we have a rendition of the Faustian motif - told Elizabeth Hurley style! Great stuff for readers and non-readers alike.
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 | Pink Floyd - The Wall
Buy used from: $4.11 Pink Floyd's cinemetic masterpiece, complete with its own "built-in" soundtrack. Brilliant!
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 | Altered States
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.76 An interesting, psychadelic view of human evolution, complete with allusions to Carl Gustav Jung's concept of the "collective unconscious."
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 | Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.99 Kafka, the way you've NEVER seen him before! Plus 3 other short stories. THE DEAL is a classic.
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 | The Matrix
Buy used from: $0.01 A fascinating meditation on Rene Descartes' COGITO, ERGO SUM
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![Vanilla Sky [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PHWNQqLwL._SL75_.jpg) | Vanilla Sky [Region 2]
Buy used from: $16.21 An original movie which examines the philosophical notion of solipsism (sort of). Tom Cruise is caught in between Cameron Diaz & Penelope Cruz. As Rod Stewart would say, some guys have all the luck!
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 | Cashback
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.49 An artist's introspective meditation on feminine beauty. Very nice!
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 | Feast of Love
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.74 A film with some profound Schopenhauresque and Sartre overtones. In addition, it stars the venerable Morgan Freeman.
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 | Big Fish
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.99 If ever there was a movie which could act as an allegory for life itself (and death too), this is it. This film is widely overlooked, but to me it's Tim Burton's true masterpiece.
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 | Prince Of Darkness
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.99 A group of theoretical physics take on Satan head-on in this John Carpenter classic. Whoa! Who could ask for anything more!?!?
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 | Copying Beethoven
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.14 What would it be like to be the master's apprentice during his final years?
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 | Moliere
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $8.50 Bawdy, brilliant and funny! A masterpiece on the (albeit fictionalized) French playwright's life!
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