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Barton Fink   

Dark, nasty but somewhat redemptive Cohen brothers' movie which was nominated for Oscars for Art/Set Decoration, Costume Design, and Best Supporting Actor (Michael Lerner as the loquacious studio boss). Roman Polanski was the head of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival that awarded this movie the Palme d'Or, and you can see why - it's an eerily distorted comedy (not unlike Polanski's own The Tenant) that Polanski himself would have been proud to make.  

"What don't I understand?" asks an exasperated Barton Fink (John Turturro) - a young, idealistic and hopelessly bewildered New York playwright who comes to Hollywood and finds himself in a seedy room at the Hotel Earle, struggling to write weird screenplays. Barton meets a fat, sweaty insurance salesman named Charlie Meadows (John Goodman). Then happen some strange things...
But in this film everything is (funny) strange. So the sickly, claustrophobic, yellow-green corridors of the Hotel Earle, which seems to contain only Barton and Charlie as tenants, could be viewed as a projection of both men's troubled psyche...   Underrated masterpiece

Best in Show

When Christopher Guest is listed as the director of a movie, it's a pretty safe bet that there's going to be plenty of laughs ahead. Like the mockumentary classics that went before it (This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman), Guest's Best in Show is no exception. Filled with familiar faces (Catherine O'Hara, Bob Balaban, co-writer Eugene Levy), Guest and crew take aim at another unsuspecting target - the world of dog shows. The "documentary" follows the paths of five dogs and their owners as they wend their way to a prestigious national dog competition. As expected, we learn more about the owners than we do the dogs - more than either we, or sometimes the other characters in the film could possibly want to know. Which dog will win? It doesn't really matter - the focus of the film is the idiosyncrasies of the people involved in this unusual, bizarrely competitive world. The movie and the dog show itself are stolen by Fred Willard, who improvises some painfully funny lines as the color commentator of the dog show itself. And yes, as the old adage goes, many of these dogs and their owners do look and act suspiciously alike; Harlan Pepper (Guest) and his hound both with long faces and droopy eyes, and Meg and Hamilton Swan (Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock) matching their clothes with their Weimaraner's coat color. There's little in the way of plot here, which is fine, as the character studies stand well on their own - the "Where's Busy Bee?" sequence serving as a perfect example of a scene that will tickle your funny bone long after the movie is done.

The Big Lebowski   

"Sometimes you eat the bar, sometimes the bar eats you."
The Big Lebowski is every bit a Coen movie: great Story and Writing. Actor Jeff Bridges is wonderful as "The Dude". Nice performance from Coen regulars John Goodman and Steve Buscemi. Soundtrack includes Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder, CCR and the Gypsy Kings.

Band of Brothers      All 10 episodes on 6 discs

                              The Brood  

Rage takes on a life of it's own in David Cronenberg's shocking, twisted masterpiece of psychological horror.
With Art Hindle, Cindy Hinds, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar

A Beautiful Mind   Widescreen Awards Edition

                              Boys Don't Cry   

Blow

Authentic drug saga.

A Bronx Tale

To re-create the Bronx of the 1960s, Robert De Niro had to shoot this in Brooklyn and Queens... A Bronx Tale should have won an Oscar. It's great, it's awesome. And it gives you an important lesson about love and life.

Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack  
Director: Mel Gibson

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                  Commentary by director Mel Gibson
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Being There   One of the best movies of all time!

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