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ALL ABOUT EVE
Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes
people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder
New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends.
Released in 1950, ALL ABOUT EVE's power radiates undimmed
through the years. |
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 ANASTASIA
Years after the last Russian czar and his entire family
are murdered during the revolution, a former asylum patient,
Anna (Ingrid Bergman), surfaces and might be Czar Nicholas's
daughter, Anastasia. Only a meeting with Anastasia's grandmother,
the Dowager Empress who is still alive in Denmark, will
reveal if Anastasia really is who she claims to be. Bergman
won her second Oscar for her winning portrayal that introduces
just the right regal note of doubt about her real heritage. |
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 BOYS
DON'T CRY
Gut-wrenching true story of Teena Brandon, a Midwestern
female who disguised herself as a man. The film treats these
real events with a painful objectivism, as Brandon's relationships
with her friends John, Tom, Kate, Candace, and Lana unfold
toward their inevitably horrific conclusion. A shining example
of independent filmmaking at its most impassioned. |
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CLEOPATRA
CLEOPATRA is a lengthy, sprawling, spectacular love story,
helmed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, depicting Cleopatra's manipulation
of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in her ill-fated attempt
to save the Egyptian empire. The triple-star power of Elizabeth
Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison radiates throughout
this production. Mankiewicz, a consummate magician at depicting
the shadings of human emotion, directed this threesome in
one of the most famous and gloriously powerful love triangles
ever to be captured on film. |
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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
George Stevens' life-altering experience of witnessing the
death camps after WWII was doubtless responsible for his
desire to adapt the famed diary of the teenaged Jewish girl
who took refuge for two years with her family in a small
attic. Stevens achieves a moving portrait of Frank's innocent
precocity, with her ultimate fate the tragic subtext of
this intensely compelling film. |
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Featuring one of the most famous chase scenes in film history,
Gene Hackman makes a lasting impression as tough-guy cop
Popeye Doyle. This loosely based true story begins as a
pair of hard-boiled New York City narcotics detectives uncover
an elaborate heroin smuggling ring headed by a French crime
boss. Wunderkind William Friedkin won an Oscar for Best
Director. |
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THE FULL MONTY
A desperate group of working-class blokes in Sheffield decide
to form an exotic male dance troupe, with one difference--
they're going to go "the full monty." Surprisingly
bittersweet feel-good comedy from England with four Academy
Award Nominations (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original
Screenplay) and Academy Awards for Best Original Musical
or Comedy Score. |
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GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
The best of the few Hollywood treatments of anti-Semitism.
Peck gives the right gravity to his role of a magazine reporter
who comes to understand in a personal way the barriers imposed
by prejudice when, to add depth to his magazine feature,
he takes on a Jewish identity. Hart wrote the script, based
on the novel by Laura Z. Hobson. |
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HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Richard Llewellyn's nostalgic novel, with its Fordian themes
of family and community, could hardly have found a better
director. While the acting and writing are excellent, this
is truly Ford's film, one in which his brilliantly chosen
groupings and compositions are the most expressive elements.
Possibly the most moving film of Ford's career, HOW GREEN
IS MY VALLEY received five Oscars, including Best Picture
and Best Director. |
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 THE
HUSTLER
An arrogant and amoral hustler haunts pool rooms to get
a crack at bringing down Minnesota Fats. When he starts
to have real feelings for a woman, he's faced with a dilemma.
THE HUSTLER received nine Academy Award Nomination including
Best Picture; Best Director; Best Actor, Paul Newman; Best
Adapted Screenplay. |
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THE KING AND I
Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical makes a spectacularly
successful move to the silver screen in the Yul Brynner
tour de force THE KING AND I, for which he won an Academy
Award. One of the most popular musicals in cinema history,
the delightful score, which also garnered an Oscar, includes
three perennial favorite show tunes: "I Whistle a Happy
Tune," "Getting to Know You," and "Shall
We Dance?". |
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 THE
LONGEST DAY
An all-star cast enlists for this epic recreation of the
Allied invasion of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944.
The film dramatizes the viewpoints of the French, English,
German, and American soldiers. Featured actors include John
Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean
Connery, and many more. THE LONGEST DAY received five Academy
Award Nominations, including Best Picture and Best (Black-and-White)
Cinematography. |
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MASH
The hit black comedy about the Korean War received several
awards including the OSCAR for Best Film as well as the
Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm Award. Directed by Robert
Altman, featuring Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould, the
story behind MASH was so compelling and the film so well
acted, it captivated the hearts of millions later catapulting
into one of the most successful and beloved programs in
the history of television running over 11 years. Altman
has been nominated this year for his work on GOSFORD PARK. |
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MRS. DOUBTFIRE
An unemployed actor loses custody of his children after
his wife leaves him. Desperate to spend more time with the
kids, the crafty thespian decides to dress up as a 60-year-old
British woman and interview with his ex-wife for a nanny
position. He lands the job, but he'll have to give the performance
of his life to keep it. Winner of Academy Award for Best
Makeup. |
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MY COUSIN VINNEY
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly
arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them
has a cousin who's a lawyer. When Vinny arrives in Alabama
with his leather-clad girlfriend, it's a real shock for
all of them! Winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress--Marisa Tomei. |
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NORMA RAE
NORMA RAE is a thrilling true story about factory workers
in the South fed up with their dangerous, unhealthy working
conditions. When a Jewish union leader from New York arrives
to help them organize, he meets the impoverished and uneducated
Norma Rae. Together they become a team, ready to wage a
tough war against management. In an electrifying moment,
Field radiates this energy for the rest of the film, providing
an emotional core and drive that gives the picture its power. |
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PATTON
Highly praised biography of controversial World War II hero
General George S. Patton (George C. Scott) who wrote poetry,
fired pistols at strafing fighter planes, and loved America
with a lofty and historical zeal. Recipient of 10 Academy
Award Nominations and winner of eight. The special edition
features a behind-the-scenes feature, production stills,
and a running audio commentary on the production. |
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THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN
BRODIE
Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN
BRODIE stars Maggie Smith who won the Academy Award for
Best Actress for her complex portrayal of free spirited
teacher at a stuffy Scottish school for girls. THE PRIME
OF MISS JEAN BRODIE also won British Academy Awards including
Best Supporting Actree and Best Song. Maggie Smith has been
nominated this year for her role in GOSFORD PARK. |
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 THE
RAZOR'S EDGE
Edmund Goulding directed this film adaptation of W. Somerset
Maugham's novel about a wealthy man left emotionally scarred
and shell-shocked from fighting in World War I. He subsequently
embarks on a journey that ultimately leads him to India,
in an attempt to discover the meaning of his life. Based
on W. Somerset Maugham's highly acclaimed 1944 novel, this
is a sprawling, ambitious account of one man's quest for
spiritual identity. |
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THE SOUND OF MUSIC
THE SOUND OF MUSIC is considered one of the greatest screen
musicals ever made. Winner of five Academy Awards, including
Best Picture and Best Director (Robert Wise), the film,
based on a real family and their true events, tells the
story of a young postulate, Maria (Julie Andrews), who,
after proving too high-spirited for the other nuns, is sent
off to work as a governess to seven unruly children. |
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THE THREE FACES OF EVE
Joanne Woodward gives a tour-de-force portrayal of a young
woman seeking psychiatric help in dealing with her three
distinct personalities. An absorbing story of the trials
of mental illness. |
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WALL STREET
Oliver Stone opened fire on the greed decade of the 1980s
with this morality tale set on Wall Street. Charlie Sheen
stars as Bud Fox, an ambitious young broker who falls under
the spell of superbroker Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas).
Initially awed by the glitz and wealth of the older man,
Bud soon realizes that he is merely a pawn in Gekko's game. |
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel,
John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's
epic novel of the Great Depression is often regarded as
the director's best film. In a stirring film starring Henry
Fonda, Ford gives poverty a human face in a way that was
rare -- with a sense of class consciousness dwindled like
a species nearing extinction. |
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 ZORBA
THE GREEK
Basil, a young, unhappy Englishman finds himself learning
valuable life lessons from Zorba, the earthy peasant who
has a zeal for everything he does. Nominated for seven Academy
Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best
Actor (Quinn) and winner of three, including Best Supporting
Actress (Lila Kedrova). |
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