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Gilda 76 reviews Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford
Sony Pictures, 2000
After more than sixty years Gilda is still scorching her way across Buenos Aires....
+ "Flamin' Mamie" + GREAT DELIVERY TIME! + Bisexual Film Noir + Beautiful Rita
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Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection 71 reviews
Criterion, 2004
Such a rich and fulfilling look at family and tragedy...
+ Very good + Childhood impressions that shape us + Paganism Vs. Puritanism + Magical realism meets Dickens
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The Virgin Spring - Criterion Collection 43 reviews Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg
Criterion, 2006
Extremely powerful film that asks some tough questions about God.
+ Exploration of good and evil + "You allowed it to happen!" + INGMAR BERGMAN, OPUS 21
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Andrei Rublev (Criterion Collection Spine #34) 90 reviews Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov
Criterion, 1999
The Most Spiritual Film Ever Made
+ A stunning and thought-provoking film - but not for the faint-hearted or those with ADHD + THE LOWDOWN ON THE TWO VERSIONS
Tarkovsky digs deep into history itself and reveals hidden truths about the religious experience and the mind of the artist in this epic struggle through the wintry wastelands of medieval Russia. A profound, mystical journey of enlightenment which remains perhaps the most spiritual film ever made.
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The Loved One 64 reviews Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters
Warner Home Video, 2006
Wonderful Value-Rare Movie
+ Very funny look at dying + A gem. + The Loved One
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The Outlaw Josey Wales 136 reviews Sam Bottoms, Matt Clark
Warner Home Video, 2001
Eastwood is the One and Only Josey Wales
+ Outlaw Josey Wales + One of the Greatest Westerns Every Filmed!!!!! + A good kind of ridiculous + Eastwood's near classic Western
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The King of Comedy 97 reviews Diahnne Abbott, Richard Baratz
20th Century Fox, 2002
An honest look at our own obsessions with fame and fortune...
+ If you like "Curb your enthusiasm" - the king of comedy is for you + Good One + If you need a reminder that DeNiro is a great actor... + MIght be the best contemporary film ever made
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew 46 reviews Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso
Legend, 2007
A Tragic Christ
+ Good presentation of Pasolini's Gospel of Matthew + Easter
Very austere and literal version of Matthew's gospel, from birth to death of Jesus. All speechs are direct from the Gospel. Jesus is rather serious here, the defender of the poor and sick against the rich and self-righteous. Lots of close-ups on Jesus's face. Brilliant use of music.
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Lilies of the Field 81 reviews Stanley Adams, Pamela Branch
MGM (Video & DVD), 2001
A Charming, Touching Movie
+ Classic Movie, Sidney Poitier + Classic movie + Classic
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Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics) 21 reviews Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold
Universal Studios, 2008
I wish they still made movies like this!
+ The bull of broad street... with a girl... in the sable-est sable coat they ever sabled! + "Say What's The Big Deal Anyway?" + Easing Living + Easy Living
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King Lear 37 reviews Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely
Kultur Video, 2000
Makes the Peter Brooks version look bad
+ One of the All-Time Great Lears + a royal pleasure + What can I say? + Definitive
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Hell in the Pacific 36 reviews Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
MGM (Video & DVD), 2004
Clash of Enemies
+ 40 Years Later, still an awesome movie from legendary director John Boorman. + Powerful study & psychological drama but only two stars. Great for most. + another side of a great filmaker + How to make a movie 101
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Ugetsu - Criterion Collection 50 reviews Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô
Criterion Collection, 2005
Mizoguchi--a true master of his craft
+ Mysterious Story! + Great + Ugetsu + Magnificent fable of desire and attachment
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Into Great Silence (Two-Disc Set) 86 reviews The Carthusian Order
Zeitgeist Films, 2007
Be patient with it and it will pull you in to greater peace
+ A Contemplative Retreat + A Beautiful Film + Be still and know that I am God . . .
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Once Upon a Time in the West 339 reviews Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale
Paramount, 2003
Majestic Western, one of the greatest Westerns ever made...one of the greatest films ever made...
+ wonderful + Leone's Finest Western + An Absolutely Awe-Inspiring Western! I Can See Why This One Is So Critically-Acclaimed!!! + Masterpiece
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Rear Window (Collector's Edition) 319 reviews Ross Bagdasarian, Benny Bartlett
Universal Studios, 2001
Restorers' Error
+ No Dream Sequence PLEASE + "We've become a race of Peeping Toms" + "Hand Me the Binoculars, Please"
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The Man Who Came to Dinner 23 reviews Bette Davis, Monty Woolley
Warner Home Video, 2006
"SHERRY' MIXED WITH VINEGAR
+ A Misanthrope's Treat! + Laugh-a-lot. + The Man Who Came To Dinner + The Man Who Came To Dinner
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The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition) 79 reviews Rudolph Anders, Chester Conklin
Warner Home Video, 2003
The Little Tramp speaks! And, oh, what he says!
+ A work of Genius! + A Must Have Classic Comedy Film---Better than anything produced today + A Great Great Dictator + a brilliantly orchestrated dark dramedy (drama/comedy).....
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Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection 28 reviews Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre
Criterion, 2004
"All is grace"
+ Simplicity like a burning flame + Smile, God Loves You + A Spiritual tragedy/triumph
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The Passion of the Christ (Definitive Edition) 1997 reviews James Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern
20th Century Fox, 2007
BEST MOVIE EVER ABOUT CHRIST; JPII: "BE NOT AFRAID." INCREDIBLE FEELING OF COURAGE & HOPE FROM THIS MOVIE!
+ not what I expected + A Very, Very Contraversial Religous Film Indeed! + Best gore flick of 2004!
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