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Francis Ford Coppola's lavish, 1930s-era epic comes to a vivid new life in this newly remastered and restored version featuring never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences. The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people who visited the club, those who ran it and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous. Alternatly released as The Cotton Club Encore.
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Created by Norman Lear (All in the Family), this series pushed the boundaries for network television during its six-year network run from 1972 to 1978. Often controversial and always refreshingly honest, they never shied away from tackling the topical issues of the day, yet its depth of character and humor left audiences laughing all the way. Maude was first introduced as Edith Bunker's outspoken, liberal cousin on the classic TV show All in the Family....
4) The Killing
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Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, and Elisha Cook Jr., The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. With its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense...
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Features plays from 1953-1958 and includes Marty (1953), Patterns (1955), No Time for Sergeants (1955), A Wind From the South (1955), Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956), The Comedian (1957), and Days of Wine and Roses (1958). Bonus features include commentaries, interviews, and an essay by curator Ron Simon.
8) Citizen Kane
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Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life, and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power, and ultimate fall, of a complex man.
9) Topaz
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American and French intelligence agents join forces to reveal the secrets of Russian occupation in Cuba. This verison has been digitally remastered. Part of the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection.
10) Legend
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A forest dweller is chosen to save a beautiful princess and defeat the Lord of Darkness in this visually stunning fantasy-adventure. This title has been repackaged.
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The early days of TV were filled with live programs and these three shows feature a 31-year-old Paul Newman in some of his first starring roles: as a punk on the road, accused of a crime he didn't commit:, a clothing manufacturer who stands up to hoodlums and a cowardly soldier looking to get discharged from the army.
12) Fail Safe
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The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
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A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, Miller's Crossing marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers' trademark savory dialogue, colorful characters, and finely calibrated set pieces. Gabriel Byrne brings a wry gravitas to the role of Tom Reagan, the quick-thinking right-hand man to a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney), whose unflappable cool is tested when he begins offering...
14) Rope
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Two college students murder a friend and hide him in a trunk. This version has been digitally remastered. Part of the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection.
16) Gigot
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Though the more 'upstanding' members of the Parisian community may shun him, the lovable oaf named Gigot is a favorite among the neighborhood children. Gigot finds a sense of purpose when a young girl, the child of a cold-hearted woman of the night, seeks refuge with him.
17) Madigan
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A street-savvy police detective, who often operates beyond the law, has just two days to find a brutal escaped killer. Based on the Richard Dougherty novel, The Commissioner.
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Stanley Kubrick's painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (The Killing's Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded President Merkin Muffley,...
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Originally airing from 1975 to 1985, The Jeffersons documented the side-splitting exploits of an upwardly mobile family: dry cleaning entrepreneur George, his wife Louise, and their son Lionel, as they move from the working-class section of Queens to a luxury apartment in Manhattan. George’s brash, arrogant personality always seems to get him in hot water. Lucky for him, he’s got the level-headed ‘Weezy’ by his side and their wise-cracking...
20) Macbeth
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Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis star as a decorated warrior rising in the ranks and his driven wife, scheming together to take the throne by any means.
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