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La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) ORIGINAL FRENCH [So. Korean IMPORT]

★★★★☆

"This masterpiece by the poet of cinema, Jean Cocteau, has enchanted audiences for more than fifty years with its surreal beauty and magical visual effects. Josette Day and Jean Marais shine in the definitive filmed version of the classic romantic tale."

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Winged Migration ( Special Edition )

Jacques Perrin

★★★★★

"Witness as five film crews follow a rich variety of bird migrations through 40 countries and each of the seven continents. With teams totalling more than 450 people, 17 pilots and 14 cinematographers used planes, gliders, helicopters and balloons to fly alongside, above, below and in front of their subjects. The result is a film of staggering beauty that Entertainment Weekly hailed as 'Mesmerizing!' and the Los Angeles Times applauded as 'Breathtaking! As lofty as it is exhilerating!' Open your eyes to the wonders of the natural world as you fly along with the world's most gorgeous birds through areas as remote as the Arctic and the Amazon and as populated as Paris and New York City. See Why USA Today found it to be 'one of the most beautiful films to come out this year!"

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Night and Fog - Criterion Collection

Alain Resnais

★★★★★

"Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrast the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man's violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again."

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March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)

Luc Jacquet

★★★★☆

"Ecery year, thousands of emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They are birds, but they do not fly. They are aquatic animals, but this time they will not swim. Instead, they walk--marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, March of the Penguins is an amazing, awe-inspiring, all-ages, true-life tale touched with humor and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering you-are-there drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the face of the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable, fuzzy chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader...to adventure!"

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caritas5 on May 9, 2007 | 11 users.

Ma Vie En Rose

Alain Berliner

★★★★☆

"Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl--and that hte mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.
As suburban prejudices close around them, family lovers and loyalties are tested in the ever-escalating dramatic turns of Alain Berliner's critically aclaimed first feature.

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caritas5 on May 4, 2007 | 5 users.

Le Samourai - Criterion Collection

Jean-Pierre Melville

☆☆☆☆☆

"In a career-defining performance, alaindelon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of the 1940's American gangster cinema and 1960's French pop-culture-with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology--maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece Le Samourai defines cool."

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The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection Spine #62)

Carl Theodor Dreyer

☆☆☆☆☆

"With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc convinced the world tha movies could be art. Renee Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, as the young maiden who died for God and France. Long thought to have been lost to fire, the original version was miraculously found in perfect condition in 1981-in a Norwegian mental institution."

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Bread and Tulips

★★★★☆

Rosalba's life is about to change. When the busy housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday ib her own in ravishing Venice. Charmed by the city and her newfound freedom, she extends her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter whom she befriends, and rediscovering her love of playing the accordion. But her solo sojourn does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who recruits an amateur detective to bring his wife back home. Will Rosalba return to her old life or embrace the exciting possibilities of a new one?"

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Diabolique (Criterion Collection Spine #35)

Henri-Georges Clouzot

☆☆☆☆☆

"An acknowledged influence on Psycho, Henri-Georges Clouzot's horror classic is the story of a sadistic headmaster who brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool; when the pool is drained, no corpse is found..."

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Amelie

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

★★★★★

"A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, Amelie, makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better. From then on, Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness...in the most delightfully unexpected ways. But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?"

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caritas5 on May 4, 2007 | 26 users.

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