 | Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
Buy used from: $8.49 The only Almodovar I've embraced, and it's a doozy. The filmmaking is amazing and he punches through the usual "kookiness" to find something in the honest heart.
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 | 25th Hour
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.00 Stunned this wasn't more highly acclaimed at the time. A near masterpiece, with Norton's greatest performance and Lee (often an underrated filmmaker, often overshadowed by his celebrity) finding the truth of our post-9/11 time.
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 | The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)
Buy used from: $6.84 For my money, the best of the trilogy. Darkest of the three, most open-ended and with a great battle sequence in the mud that nearly ranks with those staged by Kurosawa.
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 | The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $16.65 Haneke is often hard to take (he's not quite the intellectual he thinks he is), but in Huppert he finds the perfect vehicle for his ideas because she's able to emote the feelings in those concepts.
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 | About Schmidt
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $0.01 No apologies here. Often funny with a sad center, and more appreciative of the characters than those who think they are being condescended to.
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 | The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $8.87 An Inuktitut epic that feels Biblical.
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 | Late Marriage
Buy used from: $6.98 The relationship at its heart is one of the realistic you'll find.
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 | Spirited Away
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $15.64 Miyazaki the master creates a world that could only come out of his own mind. Each moment of imagination is a delightful jewel.
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 | Roger Dodger
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.94 It's all about Campbell Scott, who's never been more vital (or funny) before or since.
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 | Y Tu Mama Tambien
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.62 A road movie that takes some interesting turns. Sexually frank, it gets closer to identity - including the identity of Mexico - than most that try to hit that theme directly.
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