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an anthropologist's favourites (35 titles)
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appreciating the beauty of elderly people is so rare, and so is confronting one's immortality- a real gem
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harold and maude
(1971)
starring: bud cort, ruth gordon, cyril cusack
director: hal ashby
in the long ago days before video when access to anything but first-run hollywood movies was limited to repertory houses and college film societies, hal ashby's harold and maude, while not what one would call an underground film, achieved cult status, becoming one of the most popular american films ...
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quirky little british film that steals the show.
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cold comfort farm
(1995)
starring: kate beckinsale, stephen fry, joanna lumley
director: john schlesinger
dramatic adaptation of stella gibbons' novel which tells the story of flora, who orphaned at twenty, is sent to live with her chaotic relatives at cold comfort farm.
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if you ever wonder how you would face up to an early death, this film sets a great example
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my life without me
(2003)
starring: sarah polley, scott speedman, deborah harry
director: isabel coixet
sarah polley delivers a heartbreakingly subtle performance in isabel coixet's my life without me. polley is ann, a young mother and wife who works as a university janitor and lives in a trailer in her mother's backyard. the relationship between ann and her mother (deborah harry) is on shaky ground, ...
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a low budget film, directed and starring johnny depp as a native american
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the brave
(1997)
starring: johnny depp, marlon brando, marshall bell
director: johnny depp
johnny depp writes, directs and stars in this tense drama about a man racing to save his own life. depp plays raphael, whose family are struggling to make ends meet and defy poverty. he seeks a more secure future for his family when he meets the sinister mccarthy (brando) who offers him $30000 to ...
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gritty documentary, but one of the best commentaries on brasilian slums i have ever seen.
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favela rising
(2005)
starring: jose junior, anderson sa
director: matt mochary, jeff zimbalist
favela rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (brazilian squatter settlement) united. haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, anderson sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in rio de janeiro's most feared slum. through ...
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the best of michael caine and julie walters- what more could you want?
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educating rita
(1984)
starring: julie walters, michael caine, malcolm douglas
director: lewis gilbert
dr. frank bryant (michael caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. rita (julie walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. when the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. as rita engages her ...
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this has to be one of the best documentaries ever made. martin scorsese really went to town.
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no direction home: bob dylan
(2 discs)
(2005)
starring: bob dylan
director: martin scorsese
spawning both politically charged folk ballads that came to embody the very spirit of the turbulent 1960s ('the times they are a-changin') and sprawling, stream-of-consciousness litanies that irrevocably changed the face of rock music ('like a rolling stone'), the years between 1961-1966 were ...
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a cartoon telling an african folk story! it is one of the best things i've ever seen.
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kirikou and the sorceress
(2002)
director: michel ocelot
based on an african folktale, kirikou is the story of a little boy who delivers himself from his mother's womb already walking and talking and decides straight away to free his village of an evil sorceress's curse. joint winner in 2002 (with chicken run) of the british animation award for best ...
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everyone's favourite comedy, right?
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withnail and i
(1986)
starring: paul mcgann, richard e. grant, richard griffiths
director: bruce robinson
withnail and i is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker bruce robinson's early years as an actor. in 1969 london, two unemployed thespians--withnail (richard e. grant) and marwood (paul mcgann)--take a holiday in the lake district at the home of withnail's uncle monty (richard ...
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the best film on education! i never knew the subject could be so gripping!
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etre et avoir
(2002)
starring: georges lopez
director: nicholas philibert
a documentary that follows french schoolteacher, georges lopez as he teaches twelve students between the ages of four and ten in a one room schoolhouse.
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the ultimate revenge!
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the count of monte cristo
(2 discs)
(1998)
starring: gerard depardieu, ornella muti, jean rochefort
director: josee dayan
alexandre dumas' the count of monte cristo follows the adventures of edmond dantes (gerard depardieu), a 19th-century french version of james bond or batman, a rich, ruthless, and suave purveyor of homemade justice. this french production goes all out, having the destinction of being the first ...
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how can such an ugly life be made this beautiful?
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life is beautiful
(1998)
starring: roberto benigni, nicoletta braschi
director: roberto benigni
guido has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his family but that life is now threatened by world war ii. italian dialogue.
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basically set in one room, but couldn't be more gripping
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cat on a hot tin roof
(1958)
starring: elizabeth taylor, paul newman, burl ives
director: richard brooks
this is the classic cinematic version of tennessee williams's breathtaking play about a crazed southern family torn apart by greed. larger-than-life patriarch big daddy (burl ives) lays dying, and the members of his brood clamor for the inheritance. paul newman is brick, the alcoholic son ...
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odd little film set in brasil, but beautifully directed.
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central station
(1998)
starring: fernanda montenegro, marilia pera, vincius de oliveira
director: walter salles jr., walter salles
fernanda montenegro's affecting performance, nominated for a best actress oscar, is the centerpiece in this acclaimed brazilian film. in the bustling heart of rio de janeiro, a young boy, josue (vinicius de olivera), witnesses the accidental death of his mother. when a lonely letterwriter (...
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a heartbreaking glipse at aboriginal life
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walkabout
(1970)
starring: jenny agutter, john meillon, lucien john
director: nicolas roeg
after a pair of british children are abandoned in the australian outback, they join up with a young aborigine who is performing his traditional, coming-of-age rite of passage, the walkabout. a commentary on pastoral simplicity versus cosmopolitan clutter, this haunting film marked nicholas roeg's ...
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odd but honest account of a divorce
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the squid and the whale
(2005)
starring: jeff daniels, laura linney, jesse eisenberg
director: noah baumbach
based on the true childhood experience of director noah baumbach and his brother, this quirky, offbeat and hilarious black comedy illustrates the real life struggles of a family splintered by divorce. the squid and the whale tells the story of the patriarch of an eccentric brooklyn family who once ...
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remarkable documentary on ballet!
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ballets russes
(2005)
director: daniel geller, dayna goldfine
ballets russes is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists, now in their 70s, 80s and 90s, who gave birth to modern ballet.
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just for the music and scenery!
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dances with wolves
(2 discs)
(1990)
starring: kevin costner, rodney a. grant, mary mcdonnell
director: kevin costner
in 1865, civil war hero lt. john dunbar asks to be reassigned to the western frontier before it disappears. at his isolated post he develops a relationship with the peaceful lakota sioux and a white woman who lives among them, finding greater kinship with them than with his own people.
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a brasilian "shawshank redemption"
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carandiru
(2003)
starring: luis carlos vasconcelos, milhem cortaz, milton goncalves
director: hector babenco
acclaimed argentinean director hector babenco (kiss of the spider woman, pixote), blends pathos and black comedy in this adaptation of the autobiographical book carandiru station by dr. drauzio varella, who worked inside sao paulo's now-defunct carandiru prison. in 1992, overcrowded carandiru ...
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deals with loss, death and mourning and parenting - it is charming and accompanied by beautiful soundtrack.
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corrina, corrina
(1994)
starring: whoopi goldberg, ray liotta, tina majorino
director: jessie nelson
since her mother went young molly hasn't spoken a single word. her dad needs to find a housekeeper to look after her... then along comes corrina. she is not what they expected... but she is exactly what they need...
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