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Pulp Fiction - Special Collector's Edition (1994) Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring John Travolta. Pulp Fiction packs so much energy and invention into telling its nonchronologically interwoven short stories (all about temptation, corruption, and redemption amongst modern criminals, large and small) it leaves viewers both exhilarated and exhausted--hearts racing and knuckles white from the ride. (Oh, and an infectious, surf-guitar-based soundtrack).
Raising Arizon (1992) Directored by Joel Cohen starring Nicholas Cage. It's the story of "Ed" (for Edwina, played by Holly Hunter), a policewoman who falls in love with "Hi" (for H.I. McDonnough, played by Nicolas Cage) while she's taking his mug shots. She's infertile and he's a habitual robber of convenience stores, and their folksy marital bliss depends on settling down with a rug rat. Unable to conceive, they kidnap one of the newsworthy quintuplets born to an unpainted-furniture huckster named Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), who quickly hires a Harley-riding mercenary (Randall "Tex" Cobb) to track the baby's whereabouts. What follows is a full-throttle comedy that defies description, fueled by the Coens' lyrical redneck dialogue, the manic camerawork of future director Barry Sonnenfeld, and some of the most inventively comedic chase scenes ever filmed.
Natural Born Killers (1994) Directed by Oliver Stone adapted from the original story by Quentin Tarantino. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play traveling serial killers who become television celebrities when a Geraldo-like personality (Robert Downey Jr.) turns their madness into the biggest story in the country.
Being There (1979) Directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, Adapted by Jerzy Kosinski from his own story. Outstanding and simply wonderful movie about a childlike man (Sellers) who chances to meet important, powerful people who interpret his bewildered silence as brilliance.
Dr. Strangelove -Or- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Directed by Stanley Kubric, starring Peter Sellers. Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, this cold war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age. Dr. Strangelove is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity.
Blade Runner-Director's Cut (1982) Director Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford. The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. In DVD or VHS.
Eating Raoul (1982) Directed by Paul Bartel, starring: Mary Woronov. Hilariously delicious black comedy about the Blands, a super-square couple who lure wealthy swingers to their apartment and kill them, which both reduces the number of ``perverts'' and helps finance their dream restaurant.
Repo Man (1983) Directed by Alex Cox, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez. A volatile, toxic potion of satire and nihilism, road movie and science fiction, violence and comedy, the unclassifiable sensibility of Alex Cox's Repo Man is the model and inspiration for a potent strain of post-punk American comedy that includes not only Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), but also early Coen brothers (Raising Arizona), and Men in Black.
91/2 Weeks (1986) new director's cut of this hot movie with Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger, steamy inuendo that really delivers. In DVD or VHS
What Happened to Jack Kerouac (1987) surreal account of Kerouac's journal writing style
Getting Straight (1970) Starring Elliott Gould. Set at the end of 1960s, "Getting Straight" follows a Vietnam veteran who's returning to college as a student/teacher during the heady days of campus unrest
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide : 1999
by Leonard Maltin (Editor)
If you buy only one film book in your life, this should be it. Maltin is the
filmgoer's guide--the most compact, intelligent, and informative reference available.
Alphabetized by title, each of its more than 19,000 entries lists year of release, running
time, director, principal cast, and availability on video
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