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Criterion collection volume 736
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"Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
43) Uncanny
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For ten years, inventor David Kressen has lived in seclusion with his inventions, including Adam, a robot with incredible lifelike human qualities. When reporter Joy Andrews is given access to their unconventional facility, she is alternately repelled and attracted to the scientist and his creation. But as Adam exhibits emergent behavior of anger and jealousy towards her, she finds herself increasingly entangled in a web of deception where no one₂s...
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In season two of the Finnish Nordic Noir hit, chief investigator Kari Sorjonen of the Serious Crimes Unit deals with a variety of harrowing homicides on the border between Finland and Russia. Each of these murder cases takes the viewer on a journey into humanity₂s dark underbelly, in which no one will be able to escape their past.
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"20 minutes into the future...Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the stations dominion over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public. After Carter's "accident," his mind is uploaded to create...
46) La dolce vita
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Criterion collection volume 733
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Italiano
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The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
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Adele, a redheaded, wisecracking, hard-living adventurer-cum-novelist living in pre-WWI France is on a mission in Egypt. She is attempting to retrieve a sarcophagus and tote it back to Western Europe. She succeeds on both fronts, but runs headfirst into another issue: a Parisian scientist with the power to heal Adele's comatose sister has accidentally let loose an ancient Pterodactyl above the Parisian skies. While a zany detective and a hunter attempt...
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Robert Kittredge is a foreign news correspondent known for inexplicably scooping the big stories. But when he misses the beat on Germany invading Russia, he heads home to his fellow reporter and fiancée Christina Hill in Washington, D.C., in hopes of saving his relationship, career and reputation. While there, he stumbles on a tip that the Axis powers are set to destroy the capital. As Kittredge digs deeper into the story, he finds himself a target,...
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Three great films with the hero from the land Down Under. In the first film, Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is a free spirited crocodile hunting Australian who follows a beautiful reporter to New York and shakes the Big Apple to its core. In Crocodile Dundee II, Dundee and his girfriend, the reporter are targeted by a gang of ruthless drug dealers. To even the odds, Dundee leads the big-city hoods into the treacherous Australian outback. In Crocodile...
50) Love is news
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Love is News: a young heiress, tired of being hounded by a reporter, announces the two are engaged. That Wonderful Urge: a reporter causes scandal of his own after the heiress he scooped announces that they are married. Also includes special features.
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[Booby dupes] The Stooges decide to increase profits of their fish business by catching their own fish. [Crash goes the hash] The Stooges are mistaken for reporters and are sent to cover the patrician wedding of a beautiful socialite. [Dutiful but dumb] The Stooges are "expert" photographers on their way to the sinister Kingdom of Outer Vulgaria. [How high is up?] It's a life and death adventure when they decide to become "Jiffy Menders" and work...
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What would happen if someone could get tomorrow's newspaper headlines today? A newspaper reporter wishes he could scoop his colleagues by knowing about events before they occur. But then a mysterious man gives him the day early news, it turns his life upside-down. Racing to prevent a headline predicting his own death, he gets mixed up with a beautiful fortune teller and her overprotective uncle.
55) Apache Junction
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After big-city reporter Annabelle Angel arrives to write an article on the town, she becomes a target when notorious gunslinger Jericho Ford comes to her aid. Now Annabelle must entrust her future to a man with a deadly past, as Jericho heads toward a tense showdown in this thrilling Western that unloads a double-barreled blast of action.
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Born on the planet Krypton, but sent in a rocket by his parents to Earth, Kal-El is eventually found by Jonathon and Martha Kent. They raise "Clark" as their own child. He possesses powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary mortals. He vows to use these powers for good and moves to Metropolis to start a newspaper career, where he soon finds himself working with attractive reporter Lois Lane. He adopts an alter ego, Superman, to fight such...
58) Forever
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Alice is a young, passionate investigative reporter. She suffers a sorrowful loss and her reporter's instinct leads her to an enigmatic commune where she begins to plot her next story. Instead she begins to unravel the paradox of loss and find her will to live and love again.
60) It's love again
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Peter is a gossip columnist on a paper, and is attracted to Elaine, a young actress. He decides to invent a character to write about, an English beauty from India, who instantly becomes a celebrity. Since no one has ever seen this person, Elaine impersonates this fictitious woman to gain attention, and Peter is mystified that his creation is 'real.'