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Harrisons Flowers [2000]
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An implausible plot doesnt prevent Harrisons Flowers from being a harrowing and moving depiction of the cost of war. Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah Lloyd, the wife of a photojournalist reported lost in the 1991 civil war raging between ethnic divisions in the former Yugoslavia. Refusing to believe her husband is dead, Sarah flies to Austria and then drives into the heart of the war, where she teams up with other photographers (Adrien Brody and Brendan Gleeson), who help her find a small t..
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ET - 20th Anniversary [1982]
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This 20th Anniversary edition of E.T. introduces the warmth and sense of magic of Steven Spielbergs much-loved movie to a whole new generation. And it is the youngsters at whom this new version has been aimed, with the film being given a Star Wars-style make-over in the hope that it will appeal to a generation weaned on digital effects. Thus, ET now has a souped-up space ship and the pursuing FBI agents are more politically correct, carrying walkie-talkies in place of guns. Theyve ..
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Cabaret - 30th Anniversary Special Edition [1972]
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Cabaret is one of those film musicals whose cultural and stylistic influence extend well beyond the cinema. It confirmed Bob Fosses status as one of the boldest choreographers of the 20th century and gave Liza Minnelli an early peak in a film career which would never scale such heights again. Minnelli is both the films strength--on its own merits her performance is an Oscar-winning tour de force--and weakness. The real Sally Bowles was a third-rate performer and just one of a rich ..
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Flowers In The Attic [1987]
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This screen adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love, shies away from what made the book so hugely popular--the incestuous sex between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson, the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier..
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Modern Jazz Quartet - 35th Anniversary Concert [1990]
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This 35th Anniversary Concert performance by bebop veterans The Modern Jazz Quartet was filmed at the International Music Festival in Freiburg in 1987. Although they had formally disbanded in 1974, they reformed when they realised there was still a strong public appetite for their music and continued to tour. A vehicle for the formidable compositional and arranging skills of pianist John Lewis, as well as the suave and elaborate vibes playing of Milt "Bags" Jackson, the MJQ came to epitomise..
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