 | Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.47 Screenwriter Charlie Kaufmann's best film to date. A masterpiece of postmodern cinema.
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 | The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.02 The highly original comic tone of this film reminds me of a John Irving novel. In fact, this movie captures the Irving tone much better than any of the film adaptations of Irving's books.
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 | There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $3.33 Director Paul Thomas Anderson delivers on the promise of his earlier films and turns a forgotten American novel into a Great American Movie.
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 | Letters from Iwo Jima (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.94 Clint Eastwood's amazing account of the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view. A cross-cultural masterpiece.
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 | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.83 Dark, violent, silly, pessimistic, optimistic, slapstick, literary, intellectual, goofball...Pick an adjective, any adjective. All describe this brilliant film.
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 | Gosford Park
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.95 Robert Altman's late masterpiece is a socially conscious deconstruction of the classic English country house murder mystery.
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 | Mulholland Drive
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.38 David Lynch's hypnotic, erotic tale set inside a hallucinatory Hollywood of the mind.
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 | Fahrenheit 9/11
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.79 Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary is one of the greatest political/polemical films ever made.
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 | Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.09 I await the 'Director's Cut' (which Marty has said does not exist), but meanwhile this big, rambunctious movie comes very close to capturing something essential about this inconceivable country of ours.
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 | Amores Perros (Signature Series)
Buy used from: $4.99 A masterpiece (maybe the defining one?) of the New Mexican Cinema.
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 | Amelie
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.85 A rich, brilliant comedy, smartly written and beautifully photographed.
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 | Ghost World
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.95 A very funny and ultimately sad film about the reality of being young in a world of BS (AKA, contemporary Amerika).
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 | Wonder Boys
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $1.88 Michael Douglas gives the performance of his career in this fearlessly literate adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel.
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 | Synecdoche New York
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $2.11 Charlie Kaufman's fascinating story of the ultimate misuse of MacArthur grant.
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 | Cowards Bend the Knee
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.71 Canadian director Guy Maddin reinvents the silent surrealism of Bunuel and Dali as a vehicle for dark, bizarre and quite funny surrealistic autobiography.
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