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CertificationPG
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The movie that confirmed Kurosawa's greatest strength, his innovative handling of genre. It's set amid the civil wars of 16th Century Japan, and concerns samurai Mifune escorting a princess and two oafish peasants through enemy territory. Kurosawa's treatment is part traditional (the plotting, the concept, the use of Noh theatre music), part eclectic (there are reminiscences of John Ford Westerns), and part truly idiosyncratic (the Shakespearean contracts between clowns and heroes).
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Certification18
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The last in Pasolini's trilogy, after 'The Decameron' and 'The Canterbury Tales', is a series of interlinked tales from the ancient Middle Eastern classic. 'Arabian Nights' is a truly lush and lusty version of the original folk stories revolving around slaves, kings, demons, love, betrayal, loss and appeasement.
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Certification15
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How to describe 'Inland Empire' to the uninitiated? I think the answer is if you're new to David Lynch films don't start with this one, if you like his stuff you'll love it. Nikki, a leading Hollywood film actress, but living an empty life, starts work on a film that is a remake of an old Polish film that was never completed due to too many on set deaths. People, especially Nikki, get whisked from place to place and time to time in a series of nightmarish non-sequiturs, but at least you know whe
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CertificationPG
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Cocteau's version of the famous fairytale which, with its fantastic set design, set standards never bettered. The love story between woman and beast, in a fantasy world inside his enchanted castle, is both erotic and tragic, and this bewilderingly, beautiful and mystifying film is often seen as an allegory for a wounded France recovering from the Nazi occupation. Pure genius.
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Certification18
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Two centuries after The Beast, a sexual monster, was outclassed by an insatiable French lady he has returned to haunt the dreams of the American fiancee of a seriously deranged aristocratic French heir. 'La Bete' is a gloriously over the top reworking of the Beauty and the Beast myth, dark, twistedly humorous and sexually obsessed tale, very silly… very saucy.
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CertificationPG
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The story of Lancelot and Guinevere's adulerous affair and its catalyst in the collapse of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table. Loosely adapted from the Lancelot-Grail cycle and the works of Chrétien de Troyes, the film portrays Arthurian legend stripped bare, unglamourous and bloody, the characters cruel and proud. It's beautiful, mesmerising, haunting, uplifting, amazing, stylish - all the things you would expect from a masterpiece.
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Certification15
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Cocteau's last film is a personal and intimate trawl through his work, reprising the major themes and characters. He plays himself at the centre of the 'Orpheus' myth that he based his work upon, and self-consciously re-examines his own work and ideas. Strange fantasy, only for Cocteau afficionados.
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CertificationPG
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This movie is a magical adventure whitch features elves, demons and other mythical creatures. By killing every unicorn in the world Darkness, the personification of evil, plans to turn the pastoral Eden, where this story takes place, into an Arctic wasteland. Fortunately, sprightly Jack (Tom Cruise in his first important role) and his friends, are disposed to do everything to save the world and princess Lili, whom Darkness intends to make his wife, from the hands of this evil monster. Tim Curry
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CertificationU
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The final part of the trilogy based on the 3,500 year old Indian narrative telling the story of mankind and its near destruction by the feuding Pandavas and Kauravas. Brook has condensed his critically acclaimed stage production to create a rich vibrant and riotously colourful movie.
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