![]() | Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East
Buy used from: $12.69 This movie makes existence both meaningful and meaningless. Quintessentially Zen. For me the closest that cinema has come to a koan.
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![]() | Scenes From a Marriage - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $36.49 / Used from: $24.95 Adorable; realistic, yet original. I have always wondered how a couple can stay together for life--two human beings who like each other are incredibly ingenious when it comes to spicing up their lives. Remotely reminded me of Tanizaki's "The Key"
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![]() | Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.38 The reasons to stay alive. A man contemplates suicide and drives around asking various people to help him execute his plan. They all offer him their grains of wisdom.
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![]() | Autumn Sonata - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $16.87 Really superb performance by Liv Ullmann in this one. Reminds us that our childhood years never really abandon us, for better or worse. A study in psychology.
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![]() | That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $11.99 Ah, Luis Bunuel...an old man falls in love with a girl who can be his daughter; I have actually also experienced a bucket of cold water on my head :( Not pleasant but highly amusing after the fact. Just in case, don't show the movie to your bf/gf.
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![]() | Woman Under the Influence - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $23.50 A woman under the influence of living today! This neurotic woman cannot fit into the social frame prepared for her.
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![]() | Closely Watched Trains - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $20.00 Haven't you felt like stamping someone's butt at least once? Much more to that film though; not a happy ending...
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![]() | Marketa Lazarová [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Region 0 Import - Great Britain ]
Buy used from: $24.03 My bf gave a loud snore in the first 10 min of this movie, but then woke up and actually appreciated it. Some beautiful cinematography in this movie, plus a nice story.
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![]() | Dog Day Afternoon (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $4.81 Seriously, it is HARD to believe this actually happened!! But it did and Pacino surely gave one of his best performances--a superb psychological portrait. According to the director, the only reason why this movie didn't get an Oscar is that it was released at the same time as One flew over the cuckoo's nest. No comment. Wish I was living in the 70s.
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![]() | The Tin Drum - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $16.99 Human nature exposed. Little Oscar decides to stop growing at the age of three by jumping off the cellar staircase...His life and the life of his family intertwined with the advent and fall of Nazism. Obsessive focus on food, sex and death.
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![]() | The Phantom of Liberty
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.99 Hi-lar-i-ous! One of the best satires on society ever. Bunuel has such a talent for the outrageous!
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![]() | Ali - Fear Eats the Soul - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $18.48 An old German woman starts a relationship with a young Arab emigrant unleashing a hell of social condemnation and contempt.
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![]() | You, the Living ( Du levande ) ( Nous, les vivants ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Sweden ]
Buy used from: $35.99 How many times did you recognize yourself in this movie? Whining, complaining, and indulging in self-pity every day. To turn self-pity into a comedy, takes a person of Roy Andersson's caliber.
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![]() | Songs From the Second Floor
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $21.94 Never before have I seen such superb combination of the absurd, the hilarious, and the painful, nor such a penetrating critique of contemporary society. The homeless person sums it all: "It seems the whole town is on the road. Everyone going the same direction.Makes you wonder...where they are headed...the people." Then he offers some of the bread he found in the rubbish to a stranger.
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