 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Buy used from: $19.89 The "Lawrence Of Arabia" of comedy. And that really says it all doesn't it?
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 | The Last of Sheila
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.97 Like many of my favorites, it bears up under repeated viewings easily. Think of it as "Sleuth" meets "All About Eve".
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 | Pennies From Heaven
Buy used from: $2.49 Do not miss. Dark, dark musical take on thirties realism and fantasy.
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 | Stardust Memories
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.00 A deep examination of Allen's feelings of anhedonia (where one is inable to feel joy). Yet funny, touching and an amazing Charlotte Rampling performance.
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 | F for Fake - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $20.99 I've included a Welles film in my list, but it wasn't until a couple of years ago that I decided it's really this film from late in his career that I love the most. Sly, witty and definitely egocentric, it is everything I tend to enjoy in an Orson Welles movie in this "cinematic essay" on frauds and fakers.
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 | Miller's Crossing
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.79 Has Jon Polito ever been better? I think not.
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 | Preston Sturges - The Filmmaker Collection (Sullivan's Travels/The Lady Eve/The Palm Beach Story/Hail the Conquering Hero/The Great McGinty/Christmas in July/The Great Moment)
Buy new: $46.49 / Used from: $43.25 In "Hail...", you will never see a comedy this willing to take on so many sacred cows and yet so sincerely in love with the decency of humanity again. And did I mention it's very, very funny?
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 | Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $6.98 If I had to choose between "Rio Bravo" and "The Searchers", I would probably come down on the side of the one with Dino, pally. With John Wayne, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson, and Walter Brennan.
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 | Funny Bones
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.58 I cannot explain this film without sounding like a raving lunatic, or more like one than I usually do. It stars Oliver Platt, Oliver Reed, Leslie Caron, the mighty Lee Evans and the awesome Jerry Lewis.
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 | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $8.95 Come for the liberal quotes of Algonquin Round Table quips, stay for the melancholy. A dvd for a rainy day.
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