 | Dangerous Liaisons
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $1.88 Aristocracy in decay and the not lived life moments. Sex at the court as an exercice of conquest and a pastime
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 | A Room With A View
Buy used from: $11.75 Life at it's fullest, and a anti prejudice lesson. Hymn to optimism. Best viewed for those ho have been to Italy
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 | Flesh for Frankenstein - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $28.85 An old plot, a new aesthetics. Originally in 3 d. Overwhelming photography, astonishing sceneries, and distant, lousy acting
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 | Platoon (Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.84 US Army runs into disaster in Vietnam. Desperation and confusion times for the "boys"
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 | Open Your Eyes
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $2.99 Dead frozen corpses are just a methaphore. A pessimistic view over Life. Death starts life. Life starts with death: "open your eyes"........
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 | House of Games
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $6.07 A psychiatrist woman with no sense of humour. Those gamblers and thieves were real artists...
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 | Torn Curtain
Buy used from: $3.76 Hitchcock tricks you about politics in this "cold war" ambience he chose. Clumsy? No, exhilarating...
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 | Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $7.97 This is really a masterpiece of black movie
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 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Buy used from: $76.98 Grenaway becomes too crude in this movie, he paints the characters with violent colors. A somehow barroque movie. Colors and sceneries match the violence. Interesting
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 | M*A*S*H (Five Star Collection)
Buy used from: $3.30 Nonsense and sex during the Corean War, a movie which was shot during the Vietnam War
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 | Manhattan
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $9.50 The most ballanced of Woody Allen's movies
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 | The Servant
Buy used from: $23.49 Class status and class power at war behind walls in a British conventional town house
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 | In the Realm of the Senses
Buy used from: $15.99 Love, madness and sex as parts of a unique process of narrowing cloisture upon two lovers. The complete surrender to the other. Sublime!
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 | In the Realm of Passion
Buy used from: $6.21 Released right after "The Realm of Senses", the plot is all about the same, mad love and passion. But here social consequences and final punishement by society, are overwhelmingly present
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 | The Blue Angel
Buy used from: $6.99 Shot in 1931, this could be a cult movie. It made a myth out of Marlene Dietrich. An old teacher surrenders to the charm of a cabaret singer, and gets disrepected first by his pupils, then by society
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 | Claire's Knee
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.50 Part of his "moral tales", this is a beautiful movie about chastity and tenderness. Historically important since comes in the sequense of the european "nouvelle vague" (new wave)
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 | The Man Who Loved Women
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.68 The main character chases after all kinds of women, but he's not machist, some kind of exhilarating typical Paris guy. An hymn to life. Representative of the "nouvelle vague"
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 | The Canterbury Tales
Buy used from: $72.04 Part of Pasolini's "Triology of Life". A sunny look over the 12th century in England, he makes you laugh and think
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 | Arabian Nights
Buy used from: $149.99 Part of Pasolini's "Triology of Life", the most beautiful of the three movies
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 | The Decameron
Buy used from: $12.95 Part of Pasolini's "Triology of Life" maybe humour and violence underline Pasolini's view about his own country. The epoch doesn't matter
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 | Beyond The Clouds
Buy used from: $71.65 Three different stories about different ways of loving, they all are really beyond the clouds, specially the first, which is breathtaking. Music by U2. The most poetic movie I've seen lately
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 | Red Desert
Buy used from: $119.99 Historically, part of the european movement "nouvelle vague", against american film industry. The desert is there: absense of feelings, and motivations
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 | The English Patient
Buy used from: $6.66 I like the desert........ This is a great story about forbidden love, and the director, somehow sets everything to faillure. Teaching about transgretion and punishement?
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 | Breathless
Buy used from: $18.99 Tipycally "nouvelle vague". Jean Luc Godard's cult movie
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 | Belle de Jour
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $8.99 A pityless movie by Bunuel. A high society wife decides to spend her afternoons receiving men in a brothel. Nothing sacred stands for the director
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