MainelyKirby’s Wish List (44)
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These elegant, bawdy films, made before strict enforcement of the Hays morality code, feature some of the greatest stars of early Hollywood, as well as that elusive style of comedy that would thereafter be known as “the Lubitsch touch.”
Added 09/23/2012
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In these three films, something like social-realist farces, Kaurismäki surveys the working-class outcasts of his native Finland with detached yet disarming amusement.
Added 09/23/2012
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In these three droll domestic films—Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But . . . , and Passing Fancy—Ozu movingly and humorously depicts middle-class struggles and the resentments between children and parents.
Added 09/23/2012
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The singular French director Maurice Pialat puts his distinctive stamp on the lost-youth film with this devastating portrait of a damaged foster child.
Added 08/17/2012
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This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them.
Added 08/17/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Yeah, it's on DVD... but I really think I will enjoy these films.”
Added 07/25/2012
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MainelyKirby: “This looks like a lot of interesting documentaries...”
Added 07/25/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Oh, one can dream!”
Added 07/25/2012
DVD
25 Discs
SRP: $399.00
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MainelyKirby: “Warrendale was engaging, would like to see more King.”
Added 07/25/2012
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MainelyKirby: “I've heard good things about this one”
Added 07/25/2012
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MainelyKirby: “I've seen League of Gentlemen and it was a fun caper film.”
Added 07/25/2012
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MainelyKirby: “I've seen a couple films in this set, and they really stuck with me. I'd love to see them all!”
Added 07/25/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Want to see on Hulu to know if I will love it or hate it.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Have seen this, it's entertaining. Worth finding used or cheap.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Need to check this one out. Maybe on Hulu or 50% off sale.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Have heard good things about this, would like to check out on Hulu.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “This looks bizarre, need to check out on Hulu I hope!”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “One to get at 50% off, I remember this was a fun flick.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Visceral, need to get this used or on sale.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Low priority, I've seen this on Hulu and it was okay.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “James Mason in HD, worth finding used or cheap.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Stephen Soderbergh on blu-ray, worth checking out.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Biz Stone recommended this, and it sounds great. Need to get at next 50% off sale.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “This sounds great, along the lines of Ride with the Devil and Thin Red Line.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “This looks interesting, Criterion samurai tales always delight.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Kurosawa in color? Gotta get this, next 50% off sale?”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “One to look for on eBay if I can get it under $20.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “One for a 50% off sale, I remember this being a good one.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Another for a 50% off sale”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “This looks really cool, maybe a 50% off sale candidate!”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “I've heard this is the better of the two Suzuki films on blu ray so far.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Saw this years ago and it's got great imagery.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “Should get this next 50% off sale I find.”
Added 03/24/2012
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MainelyKirby: “I have this on DVD in the essential collection, would only get this if it were deeply discounted”
Added 03/24/2012
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Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society.
Added 01/22/2012
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