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Weekend
»rank: 10439
: essential video:Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Buñuel enjoyed an ardent misanthropic duel in the '60s and '70s, but who won is anyone's call. Godard's Weekend lays down the trump in a harrowing and darkly funny allegory in which social mores fray along political lines. Played out in a metafilm in which characters question their own reality, a morally bankrupt Parisian couple tries to leave the city on a much-loathed country holiday with the wife's parents. Along the way, endless traffic jams, sudden violence, ...
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La Grande Bouffe
»rank: 10969
: essential video:Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Buñuel enjoyed an ardent misanthropic duel in the '60s and '70s, but who won is anyone's call. Godard's Weekend lays down the trump in a harrowing and darkly funny allegory in which social mores fray along political lines. Played out in a metafilm in which characters question their own reality, a morally bankrupt Parisian couple tries to leave the city on a much-loathed country holiday with the wife's parents. Along the way, endless traffic jams, sudden violence, ...
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Solaris
»rank: 4972
: :The Russian answer to 2001, and very nearly as memorable a movie. The legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky made this extremely deliberate science-fiction epic, an adaptation of a novel by Stanislaw Lem. The story follows a cosmonaut (Donatas Banionis) on an eerie trip to a planet where haunting memories can take physical form. lts bare outline makes it sound like a routine space-flight picture, an elongated Twilight Zone episode; but the further into its mysteries we travel, the less familiar anything seems. Even ...
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I, a Woman
»rank: 16573
: :The Russian answer to 2001, and very nearly as memorable a movie. The legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky made this extremely deliberate science-fiction epic, an adaptation of a novel by Stanislaw Lem. The story follows a cosmonaut (Donatas Banionis) on an eerie trip to a planet where haunting memories can take physical form. lts bare outline makes it sound like a routine space-flight picture, an elongated Twilight Zone episode; but the further into its mysteries we travel, the less familiar anything seems. Even ...
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Alphaville
»rank: 5067
:Description:0ne of the greatest directors of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Contempt) continues to influence the bold styles of directors such as Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. Comparable to Blade Runner in its futuristic vision, Godard's Alphaville is an exciting blend of crime thriller and sci-fi drama. Eddie Constantine, known through French films as tough American detective Lemmy Caution, stars as the space spy who must destroy the supercomputer that runs Alphaville. ln a dictatorial state where love and poetry are ...
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
»rank: 23468
: :Shinya Tsukamoto draws on the marriage of flesh and technology that inspires so much of David Cronenberg's work and then twists it into a manga-influenced cyberpunk vision. A man (Tomoroh Taguchi) awakens from a nightmare in which his body is helplessly fusing with the metal objects around him, only to find it happening to him in real life... or is it? Haunted by memories of a hit and run (eerily prophetic of Cronenberg's Crash), the man knows this ordeal could be a dream, ...
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Lone Wolf and Cub - Sword of Vengeance
»rank: 24300
: :'Child and expertise for rent,' reads the banner flying from the wooden cart of rogue samurai ltto 0gami (Tomisaburo Wakayama). With his infant son and a baby carriage stocked with a veritable arsenal in tow, 0gami rents his services for 500 pieces of gold while awaiting his revenge on the corrupt clan that murdered his wife. Director Kenji Misumi draws his distinctive graphic style from the legendary manga series written by Kazuo Koike (who adapted his own work for the screen) and adds ...
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Pulgasari
»rank: 28240
:Description:When oppressed peasants unleash a metal-eating demon in hopes of fending off an invading army, their would-be savior becomes a nightmarish monster! Soon the entire countryside is laid to waste as the towering behemoth does what giant monsters always do when visiting South Korea. Sweeping epic vistas and spectacular special effects produced by members of the 'Godzilla' team highlight this monstrous tale of feudal savagery and revenge! BANNED F0R A DECADE by the government of North Korea, Pulgasari has finally arrived. 0riginal Korean ...
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Gamera Vs Guillon
»rank: 33101
: :This fourth entry in the Gamera series found the titanic turtle paralleling the cuddly direction of his competitor Godzilla. When two young, star-gazing children investigate a spaceship that has practically landed in their backyard, they are whisked away to Terra, our undiscovered tenth planet whose two 'groovy spacegirls' are all that remain of a once-superior alien civilization. But the boys soon discover that their seemingly friendly hosts have sinister plans in mind for them. Never fear, for Gamera comes to save them, flying ...
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Man Bites Dog
»rank: 32433
: :This Belgian satire (in French with English subtitles) is dark, dark, dark--but also right on the money in its sly sendup of the media's fascination with violence and its complicity therein. This mock documentary has a trio of filmmakers shooting a cinéma vérité feature about a garrulous serial killer who lets the film crew follow him around as he selects victims and then dispatches them. But at what point does filmmaking become participation? These hapless documentarians soon find out as their subject eventually ...
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