 | The Public Enemy
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $3.45 ***** 1931. Directed by William A. Wellman. The screenplay earned an Academy award nomination. During the prohibition, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle become part of the Paddy Ryan gang and enjoy the mobster life. For a while. Cagney, Harlow and Blondell are great. Masterpiece.
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 | Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $11.98 ***** 1937. Written and directed by Jean Renoir. A prize in Venice and an Academy award nomination. Often designed as the best film ever produced, LA GRANDE ILLUSION describes the relations between war enemies of the same social class that can be, in certain circumstances, stronger than the relations between men of the same country. Criterion collection spine #1. Masterpiece.
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 | Yellow Sky
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.98 ***** 1948. Directed by Willam A. Wellman. 1867. A gang of bandits, led by Gregory Peck, must cross the desert in order to escape the army after their last hold-up. They finally arrive to a ghost town where they meet an old prospector and his granddaughter. Masterpiece.
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 | Night and the City - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $19.74 ***** 1950. Directed by Jules Dassin. Harry Fabian is a crook who dreams of becoming somebody in the London underground. One day, after having met the old wrestling glory Gregorius, he thinks to have at last found a way to reach fame. Masterpiece.
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 | Seven Samurai - 3 Disc Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine # 2)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $19.42 ***** 1954. Written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Silver Lion in Venice and two Academy awards nominations. Japan, XVIth century. The inhabitants of a small village, poor farmers, decide to hide samurais to protect them against bandits. Masterpiece.
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 | Garden of Evil (NTSC All Region Import)
Buy used from: $9.66 ***** 1954. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Cooper, Widmark and Mitchell arrive by boat in Puerto San Miguel where they meet Susan Hayward, the wife of an engineer, who's willing to give $1000 to anyone coming with her through the Apache territory in order to save her husband. Masterpiece.
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 | The Last Wagon
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $6.91 ***** 1956. Written and directed by Delmer Daves. Widmark, who has been raised by the Comanches, must lead a group of youngsters through the Arizona desert while Apaches are after them. Tremendous western deserving to be rediscovered. Masterpiece.
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 | Anatomy of a Murder
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $6.65 ***** 1959. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Seven Academy awards nominations and a prize in Venice (James Stewart). Paul Biegler accepts to stand up for Lt. Frederick Manion who killed the man who raped his wife. Biegler pleads not guilty saying that his client suffered from temporary insanity at the time of the crime. Masterpiece.
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 | Advise and Consent
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.67 ***** 1962. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Washington D.C. When the President decides to choose Robert A. Leffingwell as new Secretary of State, he knows very well that it won't be easy to get the votes of the senators of his own party. Furthermore, during the hearings, Leffingwell is accused to have patronized a communist cell when in Chicago. Masterpiece.
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 | Persona
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $5.75 ***** 1966. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. When actress Elisabeth Vogler decides not to talk anymore, her doctor asks Alma, a nurse, to accompany Elisabeth for a holiday in a house near the sea. Both women get along well until the day Alma discovers by reading one of the actress's letters that Elisabeth is in fact observing her. Masterpiece.
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 | Amarcord (Criterion Collection)
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $22.98 ***** 1973. Written and directed by Federico Fellini. Two Academy awards nominations (Director and Writing). The Italian Master remembers his childhood in a little town near the sea. The 20's, the Fascism, his friends, his family. Superb musical score by Nino Rota. Masterpiece.
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 | GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $4.39 ***** 1990. Written and directed by Martin Scorsese. Academy award earned by Joe Pesci (Best Supporting Role) and a Silver Lion in Venice by Martin Scorsese (Best Director). The best movie about the mafia according to various sources. I'm not quite sure of it but the film is, according to me, a masterpiece.
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 | The Mission
Buy used from: $11.12 ***** 1999. Produced and directed by Johnny To. Hong Kong Film award earned by Johnny To in the Best Director category in 2000 and five other nominations. Five men are hired by a Hong Kong mob boss to protect him when unknown hitmen try to kill him. Masterpiece.
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 | There Will Be Blood
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $1.98 ***** 2007. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Academy award and Golden Globe for Daniel Day-Lewis and two prizes in Berlin for the movie itself. The film will not be appreciated by our generation of uncultivated movie-goers who are only swearing by the likes of Michael Bay. Please let the others enjoy this rare masterpiece.
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![The Secret of the Grain ( Couscous ) ( La Graine et le mulet ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Kwro1W1cL._SL75_.jpg) | The Secret of the Grain ( Couscous ) ( La Graine et le mulet ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
Buy used from: $29.99 ***** 2007. Written and directed by Abdel Kechiche. Four French Academy awards (Best movie, director, writing and promising actress), Prix Louis Delluc and five awards in Venice. The difficult integration of the Arab born community in the social life of the Port of Sète, France. Best French film of 2007 and a masterpiece.
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