Vilmos Zsigmond
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Criterion collection volume 636
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A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
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A divorced father, who has run from parental responsibilities, takes his three children on a magnificent summer cruise. When they receive word of their mother's death, they find themselves pawns for the affections of their father and stepfather and must make the decision as to which father they want.
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Harry, Arch, and Dan head into Del Norte, a small town in the middle of nowhere. Harry decides to return home after a seven-year absence, but not before Dan runs afoul of a group of unsavory characters and Harry vows vengeance for the lad's death. Harry and Arch flee from the town. Harry's wife, Hannah, is none too pleased to see her wayward husband at her doorstep. Taking his wife's anger in stride, he asks only to be allowed to work as a hired hand....
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In the remote desert of New Mexico, “The Manhattan Project” is materializing – the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb. **Oscar**-winner Paul Newman (*Hud*, *Nobody’s Fool*) stars as General Leslie Groves, the military man in charge of a massive project that will produce two weapons: “Fat Man” and “Little Boy.” Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A singular, powerful experience."...
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Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. The case...
8) The rose
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Criterion collection volume 757
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English
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Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
9) Jersey girl
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Ollie is madly in love with his wife. But when the Manhattan music publicist's wife dies in childbirth, Ollie's life becomes emotionally shattered. Not sure what to do next, he moves to New Jersey with his infant daughter to live with his dad. Juggling his career and single parenthood proves more than Ollie can manage, and one day he's fired after he bungles a major press event. He devotes his time to his daughter and ends up frequenting a local video...
10) Life as a house
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In a final attempt to make something meaningful with his life, George launches a last ditch effort to build the house of his dreams. In the process, he renovates his crumbling relationship with friends and family.
11) Scarecrow
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Max, just out of prison, plans to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel, back from five years at sea, wants to visit the child he's never seen. Meeting on the road, the 2 forge a touching friendship tempered through hard times.
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Criterion collection volume 827
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English
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Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation,...
13) Real genius
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"When a group of crazy college geniuses put their heads together, almost anything can happen. Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 16-year-old whiz kid, and Lazlo, America's number one brain, literally lives in a world of his own -- Chris' closet. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project, they still find the time to turn the dorm into an ice-skating rink, dismantle a nerd's car and reassemble it in his room, and throw a beach...
14) Blow out
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Criterion collection volume 562
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Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on...
15) The deer hunter
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Shout select volume 105
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English
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Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what happens to friendship and courage under stress.
16) Obsession
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A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland discovers that his wife and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. In an attempt to trap the criminals, counterfeit money is used to pay the ransom, but the plan fails and the wife and child are never recovered. Ten years later he meets the double of his dead wife and on the eve of their wedding, she disappears and he is drawn into a strange plot to recreate the past....
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Nobodys's fool is an affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York. Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make some of them right when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life. Fat man & little boy is an adventure story about the "Manhattan project and the effort to build the atomic bomb during WWII.
18) Jinxed!
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Bonita is a brassy casino lounge singer who lives in a trailer with a semi-professional gambler named Harold. Harold's dreams of striking it rich seem about to come true-- he's got a jinx on a sexy blackjack dealer. But the gambler's luck changes when Bonita and the dealer get together to play a few cards of their own!
19) Intersection
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Handsome and successful architect Vincent Eastman (Gere) is torn between his loyalty to his beautiful but aloof wife (Stone) and his joyful & passionate mistress. In more ways than one, Vincent is on a collision course!
20) Maverick
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Comedy about a handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist and a lawman, all headed for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.