 | Brazil - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $18.99 Torture, Terrorism, and Television--sound familiar? 1984 meets Monty Python in Terry Gilliam's visionary masterpiece.
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 | Gattaca
Buy used from: $1.50 Guanine, Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine--genetic control opens some doors, closes others. Yet another utopian scheme reveals perfection is an error.
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 | Time Code
Buy used from: $2.75 To best follow these four simultaneous uninterrupted threads, get a projector & watch with friends. It will literally alter your brain activity (temporarily). (One hopes.)
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 | Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.48 There are many layers to this true tour de force. Funny & disturbing, with a sweet time lapse denouement.
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 | Memento (Widescreen Two-Disc Limited Edition)
Buy used from: $2.10 Reminiscent of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow, this is a story told in reverse with curious presults.
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 | Being John Malkovich
Buy used from: $2.87 I didn't know who John Malkovich was before I saw this. Malkovich! Malkovich!
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 | Team America: World Police - Unrated (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.95 I watched it four nights in a row. Best viewed in a roomful of friends. F*** yeah! No one is spared.
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 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Widescreen)
Buy used from: $6.15 Have you ever loved a bicycle? Do you like to laugh? This movie is sweet. Reubens got a raw deal.
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 | It's a Wonderful Life
Buy used from: $12.94 This public domain heartwarmer describes an alternate universe where Jimmy Stewart exhibits socialist leanings. Sort of like a sentimental Twilight Zone episode. The best!
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 | A Christmas Story (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.95 When we first saw this when it first came out, my teenage friends and I literally fell out of our seats laughing. Based on a short story by genius humorist Jean Shepherd.
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 | South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $0.19 I hadn't laughed this hard since I first saw A Christmas Story. Funny because it's true--from Operation Human Shield to fetishizing Saddam Hussein.
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 | Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.43 The funny (I mean terrifying) thing is, this movie is more topical now than ever. Could a POTUSA be more incompetent?
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 | Serial Mom
Buy used from: $2.30 Did you ever have a crush on a friend's mother? I've got a crush on Kathleen Turner.... John Waters at his genius best.
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 | The Ice Storm
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.64 Family dysfunction is everybody's secret in this convincing 1970's period piece. "Molecules."
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 | Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.76 Ice is just one of Andy Goldsworthy's preferred found-in-nature art media. Profoundly beautiful with strong ecological undercurrent.
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 | Spirited Away
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $13.79 All Hell breaks loose when Greed wins out over Common Courtesy and Respect for the Environment.
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 | Grey Gardens - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $22.10 Unnarrated documentary of the eccentric aunts you wish you had but are glad you don't.
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 | Lolita
Buy used from: $4.11 Kubrick took Nabokov's masterpiece and made it his own--much to Nabokov's approval. Peter Sellers at his lunatic best.
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 | Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams
Buy used from: $1.98 C&C are *accomplished filmmakers.* ND is tight, funny, and somehow truer than most movies. Where else will you find Paul Reubens and Timothy Leary sharing the screen? Reubens AND Chong got raw deals.
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 | Hair
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.52 Directed by Milos Forman with choreography by Twyla Tharp. I don't usually like musicals, but this one has real power. It's finale gives me chills every time.
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 | The American Astronaut
Buy used from: $79.99 Shot in stark black and white, this space rock opera has haunting imagery and stomp and clap singalong showstoppers. Soundtrack is great by itself, too.
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 | Rockers - 25th Anniversary Edition
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $12.80 A modern day Robin Hood fable set in late 1970s Jamaica Rasta subcultcha. Sympatico characters, straightforward storytelling, rockin' soundtrack.
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 | Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $2.35 In a witty reversal, a war is used to draw attention away from a presidential scandal.
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 | The Conversation
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.10 Gee, how did I make the leap from Government Disinformation to Privacy Invasion? The eavesdropping tools in this film are so quaint! The technology is much less detectable now...
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