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1) Side man
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Side Man follows the haphazard career of a talented but self-absorbed jazz trumpeter over the course of three decades.
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In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a...
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Criterion collection volume 555
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A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this fascinating story cuts deep and sends a chilling message. It's late at night in Times Square, and everything's buzzing with nervous energy. But press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is oblivious to it all as he nervously waits for the early edition of The Globe. Whose career did gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster)...
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In this lavish, 1930s-era drama, Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide. Now, Francis Ford Coppola's extraordinary film is brought tovivid new life with never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences thatdeepen and enrich the storylines.
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Autumn in New York : A handsome playboy (Richard Gere) falls for a younger woman (Winona Ryder) and realizes that his love could last a lifetime. But a lifetime may be more than she's able to give in this heart-tugging drama.
Breathless : Richard Gere is Jesse Lujack, a small-time car theif who loves livin', Jerry Lee Lewis and his Silver Surfer comic books. But most of all, Jesse loves Monica, a sexy French architecture student. Gere gives "a breakthrough...
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