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The Hudsucker Proxy
(more) »rank: 5562starring: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney
directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
: :They thought he was a fall guy. But he threw them for a hoop. The chairmans plan was to put a ding-dong at the head of hudsucker inc. then snap up the stock at a bargain price when it falls. But the plan didnt count on the fool chosen. Mailroom flunkie having an idea of his own. Its called the hula hoop. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005 Starring: Tim Robbins Jennifer Jason Leigh Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Joel Coen essential video:The Coen brothers (Raising Arizona, Fargo) have become the most consistently original filmmakers in the land. ...
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Barton Fink
(more) »rank: 6930starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney
directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
:Description:Set in Hollywood during the 1940's, 'Barton Fink' is a comic satire about creative egos, flashy moguls, a travelling salesman and a nasty case of writer's block. Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a New York playwright lured to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter. It doesn't take long for Barton's life to erupt in complete chaos. His studio boss orders the serious-minded Barton to write a low budget wrestling movie. Deeply disappointed, Barton returns to his seedy hotel, types one sentence and then¿ nothing. To make matters worse, he is continually interrupted by Charlie (John Goodman), a chatty travelling insurance salesman who lives ...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
(more) »rank: 5843starring: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Audrey Fildes
directed by: Robert Hamer
: :Set in Victorian England, Robert Hamer's 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts and Coronets remains the most gracefully mordant of the Ealing comedies. Dennis Price plays Louis D'Ascoyne, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was spurned by her noble family for marrying an Italian singer for love. Louis resolves to avenge his mother by murdering the relatives ahead of him in line for the dukedom, all of whom are played by Alec Guinness. Guinness's virtuoso performances have been justly celebrated, ranging from a youthful D'Ascoyne with a priggish wife to a brace of doomed uncles and one aunt. Miles Malleson is a splendid doggerel-spouting ...
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The Second Chance
(more) »rank: 6846starring: Michael W. Smith, Jeff Obafemi Carr, J. Don Ferguson, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, David Alford
directed by: Steve Taylor (VII)
:Description:Ethan Jenkins (Michael W. Smith) and Jake Sanders (introducing Jeff Obafemi Carr) are both passionate pastors who worship the same God from the same book--but that's where the similarity ends. White and well-to-do Ethan is comfortable in his music ministry at the media-savvy suburban mega-church, The Rock; Jake is a street smart African-American who ministers to the gang members, teen mothers, and drug addicts of the urban Second Chance. When they are suddenly thrown together in a tough neighborhood and forced to work side by side, Ethan discovers there is no boundary between the streets and the sanctuary. But can the faith these ...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
(more) »rank: 17849starring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant
directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
: :The vampire comes to england to seduce a visitors fiance and inflict havoc in the foreign land. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/20/2005 Starring: Gary Oldman Anthony Hopkins Run time: 127 minutes Rating: R Director: Francis Ford Coppola essential video:With dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the 1990s. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, as the Count and Mina Murray, are quite a pair of star-crossed lovers. She's betrothed to another man; he can't kick the habit of feeding off the living. ...
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Great Expectations (1946) (Criterion Collection Spine #31)
(more) »rank: 10652starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
directed by: David Lean
:Description:One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's Great Expectations brings Charles Dickens' masterpiece to robust onscreen life. Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella populate Lean's magnificent miniature, beautifully photographed by Guy Green and designed by John Bryan. essential video:David Lean's handsome adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel captures the warm humor and richness of character that so many filmmakers miss in their reverent recreations of Victorian England. From the nightmarish opening sequence on the windswept graveyard where young orphan Pip (Anthony Wager) meets the desperate escaped criminal Magwitch (Finlay Currie) to the shadowy, musty mansion of the widow ...
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Hello Again
(more) »rank: 14032starring: Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward
directed by: Frank Perry
:Description:Housewife Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE and TV's CHEERS) comes to an untimely end while nibbling on an oriental chicken ball ... but says HELLO AGAIN when her wacky, mystical sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) brings her back from the great beyond! Only one year has passed but oh, how things have changed. Lucy's miraculous return creates laugh-filled pandemonium with everyone she re-encounters ... especially with her upwardly mobile husband (Corbin Bernsen, L.A. LAW) who is now wed to her 'former' best friend! Suddenly solo, Lucy must piece together a new life -- in a riotous odyssey that bewitches her handsome doctor... ...
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Gilbert & Sullivan - H.M.S. Pinafore / Trial By Jury - David Hobson, Anthony Warlow, Colette Mann, Tiffany Speight, John Bolton Wood, Richard Alexander, Opera Australia, State Theatre, The Arts Centre Melbourne
(more) »rank: 13512starring: Gilbert & Sullivan, Warlow, Hobson, Greene, Opera Australia
:Description:For most of the 20th century, the D’Oyly Carte Opera performed HMS Pinafore with a companion piece, Trial by Jury. Opera Australia re-unites these long-standing stage-mates with two fresh productions and an inspired cast. While HMS Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan’s first full-length satirical work and first major international success, Trial by Jury was their first collaboration - the show's outrageous antics made it the toast of London. In this filmed recording, Anthony Warlow, Australia’s musical theatre superstar, is at the helm as both the 'right good captain' and the 'good judge' too. He is joined by a stellar cast featuring David Hobson, ...
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Cabin Boy
(more) »rank: 27013starring: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Ricki Lake, Brian Doyle-Murray
directed by: Adam Resnick
:Description:Get ready for over-the-top hilarity when comedy original Chris Elliott (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, SCARY MOVIE 2) goes overboard in this hysterical high-seas misadventure that's sure to keep everyone laughing! Elliott stars as Nathanial Mayweather, a spoiled rich kid whose plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire, finding him lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors. And when his crusty cabin mates get a whiff of his highfalutin attitude, they give him every rotten chore on the boat -- and take him on the wackiest adventure yet to sail the Seven Seas! Chart a course for fun with CABIN BOY ...
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The Bride of Frankenstein
(more) »rank: 41233starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger
directed by: James Whale
:Description:One of the most popular horror classics of all time and an acclaimed sequel to the original Frankenstein. The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most understood monster who now longs for a mate of his own. Colin Clive is back as the overly ambitious Dr. Frankenstein, who creates the ill-faed bride (Elsa Lanchester). Directed by the original's James Whale (hislast horror film) and featuring a haunting musical score, The Bride of Frankenstein ranks as one of the finest films not only of the genre, but for all time. essential video:It appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 ...
