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La Boheme: Puccini, Gardelli, Cotrubas, Shicoff, Royal Opera Covent Garden (With 55-page Booklet)
»rank: 13702
:Description:Puccini's great operatic masterpiece is a tragic love story and one of the best loved works of its kind throughout the world. lt is set in the Latin Quarter of Paris among the Bohemian students whose hectic gaiety only partially masks the despair and pain that threaten their lives. With its stark contrasts of lively humour and poignant tragedy, La Boheme is one of Puccini's most immediate and compelling works. This spectacular Royal 0pera House production stars lleana Cotrubas and Neil Shicoff as ...
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The Tamarind Seed
»rank: 3289
:Description:Puccini's great operatic masterpiece is a tragic love story and one of the best loved works of its kind throughout the world. lt is set in the Latin Quarter of Paris among the Bohemian students whose hectic gaiety only partially masks the despair and pain that threaten their lives. With its stark contrasts of lively humour and poignant tragedy, La Boheme is one of Puccini's most immediate and compelling works. This spectacular Royal 0pera House production stars lleana Cotrubas and Neil Shicoff as ...
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Over the Hill (1992)
»rank: 9267
:Description:An aged mother buys a hotrod and goes on a cross-country journey of self-discovery in Australia, before mustering up the courage to face her estranged daughter.
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Shag
»rank: 2380
:Description:What do you get when you mix T-Birds, Bermuda shorts, bubble-flip dos and incredible dancing? You get Shag, The Movie a comic free-for-all (The New York Times) that Variety calls fun and breezy and you'll call a blast! Carson (Phoebe Cates, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is all set to marry respectable but boring Harley (Tyrone Power, Jr., Cocoon) until her best friends Melaina (Bridget Fonda, Single White Female), Pudge (Annabeth Gish, MysticPizza), and Luanne (Page Hannah, TV's Fame ) whisk her off ...
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Weekend
»rank: 14561
: 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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Wise Blood
»rank: 5521
: 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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Five Miles To Midnight
»rank: 12824
: 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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Kika
»rank: 5030
: 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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Un Coeur En Hiver
»rank: 7663
: :Daniel Auteuil (Manon of the Spring) plays Stephane, the curiously diffident coowner of an exclusive violin brokerage and repair shop. A brilliant technician, Stephane can make any instrument live up to its promise, yet he is emotionally remote himself, disconnected from passionate experience. His partner, Maxime (André Dussollier), lacks Stephane's gifts but is rich in personality and desire. When Maxime's new lover, a violinist named Camille (Emmanuelle Béart), is drawn to Stephane's still waters, the latter is briefly moved, thus destroying the fragile, ...
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Saving Grace
»rank: 8161
: :lmagine a Cheech and Chong pothead comedy, only instead of two scruffy lowlifes, the movie is about an aimless Scottish gardener and a middle-aged British widow with a green thumb. Grace (Brenda Blethyn of Secrets and Lies and Little Voice) has just discovered that her recently deceased husband has left her with an enormous debt when her gardener Matthew (Craig Ferguson, The Big Tease) asks her to help him tend to his small, personal-use marijuana crop. Grace soon realizes that they can turn ...
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