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Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
»rank: 1702
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The Big Lebowski
»rank: 1031
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:After the tight plotting and quirky intensity of Fargo, this casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen (Ethan and Joel) brothers seems like a bit of a lark, and the result was a box-office disappointment. The good news is, The Big Lebowski is every bit a Coen movie, and its lazy plot is part of its laidback charm. After all, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied, pot-smoking loser ...
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Monsters, Inc. (Widescreen) (2 Discs)
»rank: 1424
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The folks at Pixar can do no wrong with Monsters, lnc., the studio's fourth feature film, which stretches the computer animation format in terms of both technical complexity and emotional impact. The giant, blue-furred James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan (wonderfully voiced by John Goodman) is a scare-monster extraordinaire in the hidden world of Monstropolis, where scaring kids is an imperative in order to keep the entire city running. Beyond the competition to be the best ...
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Barton Fink
»rank: 5640
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:A darkly comic ride, this intense and original 1991 offering from the Coen brothers (Fargo, Blood Simple) gleefully attacks the Hollywood system and those who seek to sell out to it, portraying the writer's suffering as a loony vision of hell. John Turturro (Miller's Crossing, Jungle Fever) plays the title character, a pretentious left-wing writer from New York City who is brought to 1930s Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling movie for ...
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Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary) (2 Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 5640
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (ie, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a ...
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Miller's Crossing
»rank: 5656
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Arguably the best film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1990 Miller's Crossing stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom, a loyal lieutenant of a crime boss named Leo (Albert Finney) who is in a Prohibition-era turf war with his major rival, Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito). A man of principle, Tom nevertheless is romantically involved with Leo's lover (Marcia Gay Harden), whose screwy brother (John Turturro) escapes a hit ordered by Caspar only to become Tom's ...
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Ghost World
»rank: 3766
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Director-writer Terry Zwigoff's follow-up to his underground hit Crumb is a dark coming-of-age comedy about two super-cynical girls, Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), who have just graduated from high school. Glad to be free of the constraints of school, they struggle--together and separately--over the course of the summer to figure out what to do next. Based on an underground comic by cowriter Daniel Clowes that celebrates the weird and obscure, Ghost World offers ...
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Lonesome Dove
»rank: 3766
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, aging cowboys and former Texas rangers and who organize a 2,500 mile cattle drive for one last great adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel. The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of Mexican cattle rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse thieves, angry lndian tribes, and a renegade half-breed ...
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Armageddon (Widescreen)
»rank: 1986
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The latest testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continues Hollywood's millennium-fueled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understands what mainstream American audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid-fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but lovable, of course) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized ...
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New York Stories
»rank: 6446
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Three views of life in the city of all cities comprise this film, with segments directed by Woody Allen, Francis Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. The best of the three is 'Life Lessons,' directed by Scorsese, about an artist (played by Nick Nolte) who uses his hypersuccess to lure beautiful young aspiring artists to serve as his assistant/lovers. The segment is an astute portrait of the nature of the New York art world. ln ...
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