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Parakh (Film)
Bimal Roy's Parakh continues the season of Indian classics celebrating their 50th anniversaries. A witty and satirical tale of how money brings out the worst in people, it tells the parable of a village turned upside down by the benevolence of a stranger, the mysterious Sir JC Roy. One morning in Radhanagar village, the postmaster Nivaran receives a cheque for 500,000 rupees, a royal fortune. The cheque is sent with instructions that it must be given to the village's "noblest" man, who must use the money to help others. All the greedy folk in the village, including the priest, the landlord and the moneylender, try desperately to prove just how honourable they are, but in the middle of the mayhem, the postmaster's daughter and the local teacher fall in love.
Director: Bimal Roy
Starring: Sadhana Shivdasani, Durga Khote, Leela Chitnis, Sheela Rao, Ruby Paul, Mumtaz Begum
(Black and White, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Hindi with English Subtitles, 1960, PG) (Get more information on this movie)
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Angel Heart (Film)
Atmospheric drama tale set in the 1950s. Small-time sleuth Harry Angel is hired by a mysterious client to track down a missing crooner in New Orleans. The detective discovers that the singer spent time in a sanatorium recuperating from war injuries, but as he traces the man's history, he is drawn into a tangled web of voodoo and murder.
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert de Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu, Brownie McGhee
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, Including Entertainment News Update, Audio Described, 1987, 18, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
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Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (Documentary)
Cinematic masters including Nestor Almendros and John Bailey reveal the changing techniques in cinematography that have shaped Hollywood's evolution.
(Stereo, Widescreen, 1994)
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Profound Desire of the Gods (Arts)
An engineer arrives on a small Japanese island to find a primitive culture governed by superstition and bizarre religious practices. Biting satire from Shohei Imamura.
(New, Dolby Stereo, Widescreen, 1968)

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The Battleship Potemkin (Film)
Sergei Eisenstein's seminal tale of a Russian naval mutiny and the resulting suppression and massacre by the authorities. The Odessa Steps sequence has become part of cinema history.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin
(Stereo, Black and White, 1925, PG, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
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