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| Lost in Translation (2003)
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| Blow-Up (1966)
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| Both two incredibly deliberately paced films that, after you are done watching, are totally worth it. |
| Vertigo (Special Edition) (1958)
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| Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
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| This is great fun, because, like Vertigo, Bell Book and Candle also stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, but rather than being a creepy movie about stalking is a lighthearted comedy about witches that also features Jack Lemmon as a crazy beatnik witch. |
| Play It Again, Sam (1972)
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| Annie Hall (1977)
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| If you like Annie Hall you might wanna see where it all came from, with the same plot same actors, but different character names. |
| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
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| A Woman Is a Woman (Criterion Collection) (1961)
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| Let Jacques Demy build the musical up for you, before letting JL Godard tear it down. |
| Lolita (1962)
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| Being There (1979)
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| Two films that feature, in the first 20 or so minutes, scenes of Peter Sellers with covered furniture. |
| Zoolander (2001)
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| Pootie Tang (2001)
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| Two social issue dramas in the forms of uproarious and belligerently inane comedy. |
| Bananas (1971)
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| Sleeper (1973)
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| Two Woody Allen movies featuring the song of the Rebels: "Rebels are we, Born to be free, Just like the fish in the sea!" |
| Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection) (1933)
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| The Great Dictator (Criterion) (1940)
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| Marx Bros & Chaplin comment on war and poverty. |
| Family Plot (1976)
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| Smile (1975)
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| Bruce Dern at his swarthy best. |
| Lola (1961)
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| Breathless (1960)
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| Americans playing Americans in French Nouvelle Vague films. (Jean Seberg in Breathless and the sailor guy in Lola) |
| Songs For Cassavetes (2001)
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| Sun Ra: The Cry of Jazz (1958)
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| This pair shows the genesis and structure behind two forms of music, mid to late 90s indie rock in the case of Songs For Cassavettes and late-era jazz music in The Cry of Jazz. The spirit remains. |