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NZD19.99
Release date: 25/08/2004
In the comic Hall of Fame, there's Batman, Superman, Spiderman... and everyman. Meet real-life hero Harvey Pekar. He's a shuffling, grumbling file-clerk from Cleveland, a social misfit and an observational genius. Pekar chronicles the mishaps and minutiae of his own life in American Splendor and gets his pal Robert Crumb on board as illustrator-extraordinaire. His cult-comic elevates all-things-mundane into an artform and makes Pekar a celebrity underdog in the process....
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NZD19.99
Release date: 12/06/2002
NOMINATED Best Foreign Language Film, 73rd Annual Academy Awards®
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu makes his directorial debut in an honest, raw, unapologetic look at the total human experience. Set against the violence, passion and chaos of Mexico City, 'Amores Perros' is a Tarantino-esque thriller that expertly intertwines three stories that collide in a fatal car crash.
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NZD19.99
Release date: 16/02/2005
The Corporation, an unprecedented box office hit and multi award-winning festival favourite!
In The Corporation, case studies, anecdotes and true confessions reveal behind-the-scenes tensions and influences in several corporate and ani-corporate dramas....
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NZD29.99
Release date: 19/04/2006
A sexually-explicit drama about second-generation Turkish immigrants ("guest-workers" or gästarbeiter ) in Germany, Head On is an exploration of love and anguish in culturally-repressive worlds. Numbed by drugs, alcohol and a deep depression,...
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NZD29.99
Release date: 15/11/2006
Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) live the perfect life of modern comfort and security in modern day Paris. They have a teenage son and Georges hosts a popular literary review television program while Anne works in publishing. One day they start receiving packages on their doorstep that contain video surveillance footage shot secretly from their street, accompanied by disturbing drawings. Georges and Anne's idyll is shattered....
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NZD34.99
Release date: 14/11/2007
Through the neighbourhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened.
A stunning line-up of internationally renowned directors and actors rediscover the city of Paris in a collective work about love.
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NZD29.99
Release date: 29/12/2004
Jacques Tati, the choreographer of the charming, comical ballet that is Playtime, casts the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot as the principal character wandering through modernist Paris. Amid the babble of English, French and German tourists, Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusion of the encroaching age of technology.
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NZD29.99
Release date: 17/10/2007
'Bout time to tell you a story, eh? Then I'll tell you one of ours...
It is longtime ago. It is our time, before you other mob came from cross the ocean...longtime before then. The rains been good and ten of the men go on the swamp, to hunt the eggs...
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NZD29.99
Release date: 13/12/2006
A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.
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NZD29.99
Release date: 20/03/2008
1983 was a time before MTV and Gameboy, when there was very little to keep the disenchanted British youth anaesthetised.
As unemployment figures rose and Youth Training Schemes fell, the kids refused to toe the factory line and spilled out onto the streets....
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