Australian Peter Weir's first Hollywood film tells the story of John Book (Harrison Ford), a Philadelphia cop whose life is altered while trying to help Rachel (Kelly McGillis), an Amish woman, and her son Samuel (Lukas Haas), who witnesses a murder in a Philadelphia train station bathroom. After discovering that the murder was committed by a member of his force, Book travels to Lancaster County with Rachel and Samuel and poses as a member of the Amish community to hide from his murderous police peers. While there, love blooms between Rachel and Book, and he finds himself drawn in by the honesty and simplicity of the old-world Amish lifestyle.
Fine performances and beautiful cinematography are prevalent throughout. Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor -Harrison Ford. Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing.

Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez, Ben Johnson, Emilio Fernández
Director: Sam Peckinpah

              Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen
              Production notes
              Documentary Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (1996)
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"I was trying to tell a simple story about bad men in changing times. The Wild Bunch is simply what happens when killers go to Mexico. The strange thing is you feel a great sense of loss when these killers reach the end of the line." (Director Sam Peckinpah)

A hard, violent, shocking, tragic, stylish, and nostalgic tale about a group of misfits cornered by time and circumstance. Acting, dialogue, direction, score, photography, and especially editing are world class; an authentic American classic.

This is a story of two worlds colliding. Lost in the wilderness of Australia, a child (Lucien John) and an adolescent (Jenny Agutter) rely on young aborigine Gulpilil in order to survive. Roeg, in his first solo outing as director, also beautifully photographed this mind-massaging 1971 cult favorite. Exuberant score by John Barry.
John is Roeg's young son and later worked with his father using the name Luc Roeg. The  commentary on the Criterion Collection DVD release by Roeg and Agutter is a useful addition.

Starring: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Burt Reynolds
Director: Ken Russell

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     Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Special Edition, NTSC

A deep emotional journey to the far and deep nether regions we common people know as "the gutter". 

Wild Wild West

Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, Kenneth Branagh

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1869. Secret Service agent Jim West and his partner, agent-inventor Artemus Gordon, are entrustled by US President Ulysses S. Grant to protect the free world. In this story about racism, partnership, and world domination, the malign genius is the former Confederate soldier Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh). Dr. Loveless is a man who only exists from the waist up... 

Without Limits

Starring: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland
Director: Robert Towne

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Without Limits tells the tale of Oregon runner Steve Prefontaine's love-hate relationship with his coach, Bill Bowerman (Donald Sutherland) in the 1970s. The tug of war between the two men -- Prefontaine's passion for running each race as if it will be his last and Bowerman's seasoned, conservative strategies for winning -- becomes a wonderful metaphor for distinct stages of life and attitude. It's the real story of one of America's greatest distance runners, of his career and tragic death.