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Waitress (Widescreen Edition)

starring: Andy Griffith, Keri Russell, Adrienne Shelly, Jeremy Sisto, Sarah Hunley
directed by: Adrienne Shelly

Release Date November 27, 2007
This is a very cute movie. Its very real with a feel good ending (well, mostly) and definitely worth seeing.

CD-Charts Position 2
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How to Steal a Million

starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer
directed by: William Wyler

Release Date December 07, 2004
I just love the old movies! They are so much fun to go back to. And Audrey Hepburn was always terrific in EVERY movie she made!

CD-Charts Position 3
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The Blair Witch Project

starring: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffith, Jim King (IV)
directed by: Eduardo Sánchez (II), Daniel Myrick

Release Date October 22, 1999
Remember that guy or girl in your school who refused to listen to the Top 40 radio stations not because he/she didn't like the music, but because too many other people liked the songs and that alone made them "corporate trash"? This is the film made for him/her, and only that type of person. If this describes you, then buy a copy tout de suite so you can watch it in the company of others. After watching, if they are people who actually watch films in order to be entertained, they will ask, "Why do so many people like this film? Nothing happened. It's a bunch of annoying, worthless college punks running around in the woods swearing at each other". You then can put your "snob" on and denounce them as "populace filth" who cannot grasp the sheer ... Read More:

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Guarding Tess

starring: Edward Albert, Susan Blommaert, Nicolas Cage, Stephen S. Chen, Mark Conway

Release Date April 15, 1998
THis is a favourite and a fun movie. Shirley MacLaine does a wondeful performance of an ex-First Lady who knows she is in the middle of nowhere with not much of a life. Nicolas Cage is great as the annoyed head of her security detail. The DVD arrived quickly and in great shape.

CD-Charts Position 5
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The Killing

starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr.
directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Release Date June 29, 1999
Stanley Kubrick's third film, 1956's The Killing is a small noir masterpiece. Starring Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay this film has been copied many times by many great directors including Quentin Tarantino.

The film follows the exploits of a small band of criminals as they attempt to pull off a race track robbery. This is perhaps the most tightly plotted film that I have seen in many years and the dialog, penned by Kubrick with the help of Jim Thompson is nearly perfect. The performances by the cast are spot on.

It must be remembered that this is classic Hollywood B-moviemaking but Kubrick's genius with non linear storytelling shines through like a diamond in the rough. While it may seem dated at times with its heavy voice ... Read More:

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Shaka Zulu - The Complete 10 Part Television Epic

starring: Edward Fox, Robert Powell, Trevor Howard, Fiona Fullerton, Christopher Lee
directed by: William C. Faure

Release Date October 29, 2002
It was just as great this time as it was the first time when I saw it years ago.

CD-Charts Position 7
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The French Lieutenant's Woman

starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell
directed by: Karel Reisz

Release Date September 04, 2001
This 1981 film version of a famous novel by John Fowles from a few years earlier stars Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons at the height of their youthful attractiveness if not their fame. Streep plays the dual roles of Sarah and Anna. Sarah is the title character, a young Victorian woman whose life has seemingly been ruined by her relationship with a Frenchman who abandoned her. Anna is the modern American actress who portrays her and who is involved in an affair with her costar, Mike, despite them both being in other committed relationships. Jeremy Irons plays this actor, Mike, as well as Sarah's love interest in the film Charles. Charles is a paleontologist and wealthy man of leisure who while recently engaged to a silly rich girl develops an obsession for the mysterious, ... Read More:

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The Cruel Sea

starring: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott, John Warner
directed by: Charles Frend

Release Date October 17, 2006
The unrelenting echo of the sonar punctuates this understated J. Arthur Rank film with a taut atmosphere of suspense. Novelist Eric Ambler's intelligent script remains faithful to Nicholas Monserrat's novel about the last voyage of HMS Compass Rose and all who sailed on her. The splendid performances of Jack Hawkins as her captain and Donald Sinden as his First Mate bring the novel to life, as do the performances of the entire ensemble cast, which includes Denholm Elliott. One of the best aspects of the Rank organization films of this era is the devotion that went into the delineation of even the minor characters.

Some viewers (an example being my son) may shun this picture because it was filmed in black and white. This is a shame, because "The Cruel Sea" is so absorbing ... Read More:

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A Stranger Among Us

starring: Melanie Griffith, John Pankow, Tracy Pollan, Lee Richardson, Mia Sara
directed by: Sidney Lumet

Release Date June 03, 2003
A Great movie. I watch this over and over! A good intro to Chassidic Brooklyn.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Waitress (Full Screen Edition)

starring: Andy Griffith, Keri Russell, Adrienne Shelly, Jeremy Sisto, Sarah Hunley

Release Date November 27, 2007
This is a very cute movie. Its very real with a feel good ending (well, mostly) and definitely worth seeing.