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1.The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee directed by: Carol Reed July 25, 1995
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True masterpiece in every sense of the word. Try it . . . You'll like it!

2.I Want You starring: Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Luka Petrusic, Labina Mitevska, Carmen Ejogo directed by: Michael Winterbottom July 18, 2000
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I WANT YOU is the fascinating coming-of-age account of 14-year old professional voyeur, Honda, a mute Balkan orphan emigre, whose link to the world is through his obsessive collection of rather dark data using his inexplicably high-tech sound and video equipment (yep, we're dealing with meta-cinema here). He spends most of his time observing his friend and the object of his affection, hairdresser Helen (yes, Rachel Weisz), and her sociopathic, recently released on parole ex-bf Martin (Alessandro Nivola, LAUREL CANYON). Desensitized to sexuality by his promiscuous, carefree older sister who sings in a Sade-meets-Portishead band and sleeps in the adjacent room, Honda may be gathering explicit material, but he's not some peeping tom getting off; rather, he's trying desperately to make sense of the madness ... Read More

3.Le Samourai starring: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville June 27, 2000
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Fine transfer of one of Melville's ganster movies. Alain Delon draws his gun faster than the eye! Stylish and hilarious and set in an imaginary Paris, this is not at all a realistic movie - but it is simply excellent.

4.Le Doulos (The Finger Man) starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre, Marcel Cuvelier directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville November 14, 2000
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To dramatize gangsters because of some fictitious "code"...to romanticize them by dressing them in trench coats with the collars pulled up and Borsalinos on their heads...is not just naive, it's downright silly. One wonders what Melville, with Cagney and Raft in his system, would have done with some modern thugs like Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano, Peter "Rabbit" Calabrese or Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik. These hefty slobs would look ludicrous in fedoras, and their "code" included back shooting each other. Melville's fascination with idealized and rigidly unreachable gangsters comes across almost as weird as Hitchcock's fascination with blond ice queens who can be humiliated. We're talking fetish, and if Melville and Hitchcock weren't such masterful moviemakers they'd probably be discussed in psychology ... Read More

5.Mississippi Mermaid starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière, Marcel Berbert directed by: François Truffaut January 27, 1993
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This film was made by the great Francois Truffaut. It is worth seeing just for Jean-Paul Belmondo and the young and beautiful Catherine Deneuve.

6.Mortelle Randonnee starring: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Macha Méril directed by: Claude Miller November 11, 2003
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Claude Miller directed Mortelle randonnée with Michel Serrault and a young Isabelle Adjani. Serrault is Beauvoir, a private eye, who mourns the death of his daughter in 1962 (an important date). Isabelle Adjani is a serial killer, born in 1962, who ritually searches for her "father" among rich strangers and then murders him (them). When Beauvoir crosses Catherine's path, a folie adieux results, which of course leads to--murder. The film is reminiscent of Hitchcock's Marnie, which is not farfetched because Miller was Truffaut's associate and Truffaut wrote one of the definitive studies of Hitchcock. Claude Miller was a part of the nouvelle vague and the nouvelle vague idolized Hitchcock. The movie is seductive and sexy. Adjani, who always looks great, looks even better in this film. The scenes at Spa play ... Read More

7.The Bride Wore Black starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich directed by: François Truffaut September 07, 1999
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Which "Hitchcock" inspired this? Some of Alfred's camera work, perhaps, the sort that has become a cliche in serial killer flicks. This script, however, has far less subtlety than "Seven" and few surprises. Moreau is always appealing in some way, but she is so businesslike in this role that the apparent fascination that her victims show for her is not credible even as comic parody of predatory men. Two of the revenge killings had promising storylines. One of these worked well. In the second she was an artist's model in a character that parodied the men, but the parody wasn't highlighted, the episode missed opportunities for added interest and thus seemed too long for nothing. Same for the film.

8.The American Friend starring: Ismael Alonso, Gérard Blain, Lou Castel, Andreas Dedecke, Jean Eustache directed by: Wim Wenders January 01, 1998
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The tension is so palpable here that it's a character in and of itself. Tom Ripley, as played by Dennis Hopper, feels truer to his EASY RIDER role than the character in the novel upon which the movie is based, as some critics have said. I say "feels truer" because I haven't seen the first or read the second, but I believe those critics. But that doesn't matter. Not at all. This movie is about Jonathan Zimmerman, as played by Bruno Ganz. Every time he's on the screen, which is most of the time, you're just gripped in both your mind and your gut and you can't turn away, reach down for a drink of water, hit pause and go to the bathroom, or anything. I'm one of those weird animals who's just as comfortable with Hollywood crap as I am with literary classics. My wife's non-American and anti-Hollywood. We were ... Read More

9.Cast a Dark Shadow (B&W) starring: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Flemyng directed by: Lewis Gilbert September 19, 1997
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"I know who I appeal to. Freda because she's my class and Monie because she was old and lonely." That's Edward 'Teddy' Bare (Dirk Bogarde) speaking. He's a charming young man. Monie (Mona Washbourne) was his first wife, considerably older than he and quite rich. He killed her and made it look like an accident. Freda (Margaret Lockwood) is his second wife. She's strong-willed, older than he, common and is quite well off. Teddy was thinking about other kinds of accidents that might happen even before they married. He already has spotted Charlotte (Kay Walsh), another older, wealthy woman he and Freda met shortly after their wedding. But Teddy didn't count on two things: That he might be too clever by half is one. The other is that Monie had a sister. Please note that there are no spoilers here; everything is laid out early. The plot is all about how Teddy ... Read More

10.Under Suspicion starring: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill, Alan Talbot directed by: Simon Moore September 12, 1995
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One of the best British thrillers of the 90s, Under Suspicion is an unpretentious audience picture which doesn't let its passing nods to classic British thrillers of the Fifties and early Sixties such as Hell Drivers, Blind Date and Victim, smother it. Set in Brighton at the close of the fifties, Liam Neeson plays the disgraced policeman turned seedy private detective who, with his wife, arranges the 'evidence' of adultery that British law then required for divorces only to find himself the number one suspect when she and his latest client are found murdered. With strong support from Kenneth Cranham as his last remaining friend on the force and a particularly good use of the scope frame (although the extra width does accidentally catch some very nineties phone booths and TV aeriels in the early scenes), it's well worth a look. The only extra ... Read More

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