 | Strange Days
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.95 LA on the brink of collapse. Interactive sensation junkies. Racial strife. Gee, doesn't sound too far from reality! Bigelow puts you right in the middle of the action.
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 | Point Break
Buy used from: $2.25 Great surfing flick. Patrick Swayze is even good in this.
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 | The Loveless
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.93 Retro "Wild One" homage. Leather, motorcycles and enough hair gel to fill Shamu's tank. Beautifully shot, too.
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 | Smithereens
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.54 Downtown NY, back when punk was young and unspoiled. Wanna-be rock band manager Susan Berman bounces from one adventure to another. Great look at NY life.
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 | The Piano
Buy used from: $18.50 Mute Hunter travels with her young daughter to New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Exquisite, lovely film. Lots of strange, hypnotic imagery.
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 | Suburbia
Buy used from: $14.99 Best film about punk life EVER! Spheeris is awesome and I wish she would stop making movies like The Beverly Hillbillies and go back to flms like this. TR kids rule!!
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![The Decline of Western Civilization Part II-The Metal Years [VHS]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/nav2/dp/no-image-no-ciu._SL75_V46836203_.gif) | The Decline of Western Civilization Part II-The Metal Years [VHS]
Buy used from: $29.99 Spheeris also makes documentaries! Decline pt. 2 takes a look at Metal bands of the late 80s (Shut up, you remember!) Both hilarious (Ozzy cookin breakfast!) and sad (sloppy drunk Chris Holmes)
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 | The Hitch-Hiker
Buy used from: $4.75 Who knew Ida Lupone was also a director? Very few people, considering she was the sole female filmmaker of the 50s. A great, tough noir starring Edmund O'Brien. Check it out!
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 | Go Fish
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.78 Wonderful b&w low-budget film about lesbian lifestyles. Troche's uses a variety of experimental techniques to express her views. Guess what? They work!
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 | Vagabond - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $25.00 Varda's masterpiece about a young female drifter and her adventures (running the gamut from amusing to chilling to hearbreaking) across the French countryside. Ultimately a devastating film. See it!
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 | Cleo From 5 to 7 - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $29.67 Varda's OTHER masterpiece. This one also about a young woman who drifts. In this case an actress awaiting possibly devastating test results
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 | Maya Deren: Experimental Films
Buy used from: $99.99 Brilliant early b&w films by revolutionary experimental filmmaker Maya Deren. Mostly shorts. Contains "Meshes of the Afternoon", her best known work.
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 | I Shot Andy Warhol
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.99 Fantastic, subersive look at writer/militant feminist Valerie Solanas who, in the late 60s, well...shot Andy Warhol. Good stuff. You can't go wrong with Lili Taylor. "Scum?"
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 | Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.48 Social anthropologist Anders explores life among a group of young Hispanic girls living in crime-riddled Echo Park in Los Angeles. Wonderful characters and dialogue.
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 | Ratcatcher - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $15.94 Lynn Ramsay's brilliant film about life in a Glasgow slum, seen through the eyes of a young boy. Ramsay is a true artist of the cinema. Beautiful use of silence. Perfectly framed and acted.
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 | Morvern Callar
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $6.99 One of my favorite films. Again the brilliant Lynne Ramsay. Teaming this time with Samantha Morton. A young Scottish rave girl is so shattered by her boyfriend's suicide she pretends it didn't happen.
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 | Fat Girl - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $16.95 Catherine Breillat's films are an acquired taste. This is one of her best. Two sisters - one hefty and introspective. the other lithe and beautiful. A strange, at times brutal film.
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