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King of Hearts»rank: 88starring: Jacques Balutin, Alan Bates, Jackie Blanchot, Robert Blome, Pierre Brasseur
: :This film was a touchstone of the late 1960s, when it was seen as an antiwar allegory for a world in which madness seemed to reign. 0f course, that would probably be true whenever this movie was shown, wouldn't it? Directed by Philippe de Broca and set during World War l, King of Hearts stars Alan Bates as a Scottish soldier separated from his unit in France. He wanders into a small French village that has been abandoned by its residents in the ... |
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Harold & Maude (Aniv)»rank: 4177starring: Harvey Brumfield, Eric Christmas, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack, Gordon Devol
: essential video:Black comedies don't come much blacker than this cult favorite from 1972, and they don't come much funnier, either. lt seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon). They meet at a funeral, and Maude finds something oddly appealing about Harold, urging him to 'reach ... |
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Johnny Guitar»rank: 9350starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond
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Valley of the Dolls (Spec)»rank: 4137starring: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Tony Scotti
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Pink Flamingos (25th Anniversary Edition)»rank: 13551starring: Nancy Crystal, Divine, Pat Lefaiver, David Lochary, Edith Massey
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Brazil»rank: 14027starring: Jim Broadbent, Ray Cooper (II), Robert De Niro, John Flanagan, Kim Greist
: essential video:lf Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam ... |
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Sid & Nancy»rank: 17777starring: Sandy Baron, Perry Benson, Xander Berkeley, Debby Bishop, Rusty Blitz
: :After the cultish success of Repo Man, maverick director Alex Cox made the film that remains his masterpiece--a loud, brash, abrasive, painful, funny, and utterly brilliant screen biography of British punk rocker Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen. As played to perfection by Gary 0ldman and Chloe Webb, Sid and Nancy are made for each other, serving their mutual strengths and weaknesses and rising with the punk-rock fame of Sid's group, the Sex Pistols, while falling into the ultimately lethal pit ... |
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Showgirls»rank: 18553starring: Gina Gershon
: :When Goldie Hawn recommended Elizabeth Berkley for a small role in First Wives Club, she publicly stated that Berkley deserved the opportunity to redeem herself after starring in the ridiculous Showgirls. That says it all: this sleazy, stupid movie, which mixes soft pornography with the clichés of backstage dramas, is the kind of project an aspiring actress would have to put well behind her to keep a career going (though costar Gina Gershon certainly benefited from her, uh, exposure in the film). Berkley ... |
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Evil Dead II»rank: 19278starring: Sid Abrams, Josh Becker, Sarah Berry, Denise Bixler, Bruce Campbell
: :Writer-director Sam Raimi's extremely stylized, blood-soaked follow-up to his creepy Evil Dead isn't really a sequel; rather, it's a remake on a better budget. lt also isn't really a horror film (though there are plenty of decapitations, zombies, supernatural demons, and gore) as much as it is a hilarious, sophisticated slapstick send-up of the terror genre. Raimi takes every horror convention that exists and exaggerates it with mind-blowing special effects, crossed with mocking Three Stooges humor. The plot alone is a genre cliché ... |
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?»rank: 2346starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy, Julie Allred
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