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Videos
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Sunday Times 5* videos
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5* Videos and DVD's from this year
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Eyes
Wide Shut |
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The
Blair Witch Project |
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Warner Home Video, 18, 152 mins, 1999; video, £14.99
It may have taken years to make, led to the bizarre sackings
of Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh, but Stanley Kubrick's
last film is a pretty good way to sign off...
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Fox Pathé, 15, 77 mins, 1999; video
£14.99
Now the battle's lost (too much hype) and won (most profitable
film ever made), it's good to sit back in the discomfort of your own
home and take another look at the Project... |
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Breathless
(A Bout de Souffle) |
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Magnolia |
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Optimum Releasing,
15, 90 mins, 1959; video £16.99
Jean-Luc Godard's first film caused a sensation and remains one of
his very few uncontested classics, a movie that ranks in every list
of the century's best... |
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Entertainment, 18,
186 mins, 1999; DVD, £16.99
Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to his LA porno epic, Boogie
Nights, is an outstanding piece of work, another large-scale look
at Californian life... |
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The
Insider |
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The
Filth and the Fury |
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Touchstone Video, 15, 151 mins,
1999; DVD £19.99
Michael Mann's engrossing, suspenseful and articulate drama about
a sacked biologist's painful decision to expose the lies of the tobacco
industry... |
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FilmFour, 15, 103 mins, 2000; DVD £18.99
Julien Temple's engrossing and loving history of the Sex Pistols
says more about the splendour and futility of the rock'n'roll dream
than any film since Woodstock...
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American
Beauty |
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Angela's
Ashes |
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Universal, 18, 116 mins, 1999;
video £15.99
A midsummer treat with the release of Sam Mendes's debut film,
which swept the boards at the Oscars and looks better after all the
hype has died... |
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Universal, 15, 105 mins, 1999;
DVD £14.99
Frank McCourt's bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning memoir of
a life of grim poverty in 1930s and 1940s Limerick is a natural for
the screen... |
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Fight
Club |
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Fox Home Entertainment, 134 mins,
18, 1999; video £14.99
In terms of excitement, energy and intellectual force, David
Fincher's controversial movie really stands out from the Hollywood
crowd... |
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