 | The Million Dollar Hotel
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $0.85 My favourite. A screwball tragedy
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 | Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.79 Best Shakespeare I've ever seen
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 | Smallville - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $5.35 So many love stories in this series
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 | Smallville - The Complete Second Season
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $10.45 |
 | Smallville - The Complete Third Season
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $11.00 |
 | Smallville - The Complete Fourth Season
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $13.97 |
 | Smallville - The Complete Fifth Season
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $12.49 Clark & Lana seemed doomed from the start but, when it all came down, it broke my heart like no movie or series has ever done before. Got this season as soon as it came out, but it will be a long time before I can watch it again.
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 | Chinatown
Buy used from: $5.64 One of the best movies ever made. DVD includes remastered audio (DD 5.1) & 25th anniversary interviews with director, writer, producer.
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 | Old Gringo
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.85 Ever wonder what really happened to Ambrose Bierce?
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 | Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.66 / Used from: $6.65 |
 | Humphrey Bogart - The Signature Collection, Vol. 1 (Casablanca Two-Disc Special Edition / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Two-Disc Special Edition / They Drive by Night / High Sierra)
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $45.98 Even Treasure of the Sierra Madre fits for hopeless, tragic, doomed lust. Or is lust always hopeless, tragic, doomed?
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 | Cyrano de Bergerac / The Son of Monte Cristo
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.06 Marengo Films edition (somewhat darker transfer) of the Jose Ferrer film, plus another film
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 | Cyrano de Bergerac
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.38 In French, with English subtitles. I know the play well, and Depardieu's acting is so powerful, it makes me forget I haven't used French since high school.
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 | Conspiracy Theory
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.70 That's two with Mel
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 | Tequila Sunrise
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.33 though only one of the love stories in this triangle is doomed. Written & directed by Robert Towne, this is the true successor to Chinatown. Commentary by producer.
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 | Practical Magic (Snap Case)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.08 As in TS, there are three love stories here, though not a triangle. Also as in TS, only one is doomed, but the most important one to me is the love betwixt the two sisters.
Fabulous soundtrack (commentary includes Alan Silvestri), but the composer has nothing to do with it. It's all because of director Griffin Dunne's choice of tunes.
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 | Sense & Sensibility (Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.90 It's Jane Austen -- all happy endings here
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 | Chasing Amy: The Criterion Collection
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $3.25 Back to tragic, doomed
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 | Legends of the Fall (Special Edition)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $1.24 A tragic, doomed triangle
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 | One False Move
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.70 I put it low on this list, because the love story is subtext, but it is one of my favourite movies
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 | Almost Famous
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.09 |
 | Mona Lisa - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $14.99 Commentary by director, Neil Jordan, & star. Bob Hoskins received an Academy Award nomination for this one. He should have WON it the year before, for WF Roger Rabbit
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 | Mona Lisa
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.46 Dolby 1.0, no special features
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 | Heart Condition
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $16.19 Hoskins is in love with the woman who left him. Wistful ending, with lots of tragedy on the way. Written & directed by James Parriott, creator of 'Forever Knight'
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 | Beauty and the Beast - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $26.49 / Used from: $15.28 Katherine & Vincent
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 | King Kong
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $1.94 It's Beauty & the Beast
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 | King Kong (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $0.01 It's Beauty & the Beast, and the Comedian
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 | King Kong (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $0.01 Disc 1 same as above. Disc 2 has many special features, none of which are on the 3-disc edition. Compare carefully
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 | King Kong - Extended Cut (Three-Disc Deluxe Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $3.47 Extended 13 mins, 38 mins of deleted scenes, one track of commentary by director and writers (PJ & Philippa Boyens), many other features, none of them on the 2-disc edition
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 | Firefly - The Complete Series
Buy new: $38.49 / Used from: $23.98 Mal & Inara, Kaylee & Simon, and the strange chaste triangle with River. Then there's my own love of Firefly, as hopeless, tragic & doomed as the others.
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