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The Wages Of Fear (1953)
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Four losers drive trucks loaded with unstable nitro across treacherous jungle roads. It takes a full hour to introduce its characters, before turning the screws unbearingly, twisting round hairpin bends, over rocky ground, and into oil slicks. Read Review › |
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Withnail And I (1987) Director: Bruce Robinson Truly funny, truly cult: fans can mouth the words of Richard E. Grant’s speeches along with him, relishing every viperish turn of phrase and perfectly pronounced curse. A beloved British oddity never repeated. Read Review › |
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen The Coens in Dashiell Hammett gangster territory, recounting the near-tragedy of an honourable crook undone by a single gesture of mercy. Finney sees off hitmen with a Thompson while smoking a cigar and listening to Danny Boy in a bravura sequence of Coen magic. Read Review › |
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Rio Bravo (1959)
Director: Howard Hawks Hawks’ Western is at once roundabout — with time-outs for songs and Angie Dickinson in tights — and a model of suspense, as John Wayne, Dean Martin and Walter Brennan hole up in a town jail besieged by the bad hats. Read Review › |
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Blazing Saddles (1974)
Director: Mel Brooks Brooks invented scattershot movie parody with this cowboy outrage (we get less grateful everytime a Meet The Spartans or Disaster Movie opens). Highlights: a classic theme song and the Ben-Hur chariot race of flatulence scenes. Read Review › |
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The Conversation (1974)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola A Watergate-era analysis of paranoid high-tech eavesdroppers, it’s also a great thriller with a clever plot twist and a riveting, underplayed central performance from Gene Hackman. Read Review › |
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Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Director: Adam McKay Will Ferrell’s breakout vehicle homages the fashion, music and sexual politics of the ’70s, with a smarmily self-confident TV newsreader threatened by a female rival. Major plus — it’s not about a stupid sport. Read Review › |
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I Am Cuba (1964)
Director: Alexander Payne Russian helmer Kalatozov unsurprisingly reveals the source of Cuba’s ache for revolution via a quartet of stories set in Batista’s Cuba. Yes, it’s Communist propaganda, but also a technical marvel. Read Review › |
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Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Director: Werner Herzog A crazed Klaus Kinski brings opera to the jungle — by pulling a steamer over a mountain, obviously. As ambitious, visually stunning and plain old insane as cinema gets, this is Herzog’s masterwork. Read Review › |
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Before Sunset (2004)
Director: Richard Linklater Before Sunrise, ten years on. Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meet again, briefly, getting another chance to talk about love. How many sequels are made for artistic reasons and add meaning, rather than strip it away? Read Review › |
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