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1) Short Peace
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Overseen by legendary director Katsuhiro Otomo, SHORT PEACE is a 2013 omnibus film consisting of a collection of four shorts that explore different time periods in Japan. In Possessions, a lost samurai seeks shelter in a seemingly abandoned house. Two lovers attempt to reunite through a blazing fire in Combustible. A guardian bear and horrific monster fight to the death in Gambo, and in A Farewell to Weapons, four men do battle with robotic tanks...
2) Petrov's Flu
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A deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Based on the novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu by Alexey Salnikov.
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Director Jiří Barta’s stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half-CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half-Jan van Eyck. The money-obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble (invented by Barta himself) are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their mouths instead of words....
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One evening, soon after the death of her mother and a move to a new town, 14-year-old Millie sees her next-door neighbor, Eric, sitting precariously on his second-floor windowsill, arms outstretched as though in flight. Since the age of five, when his parents died in a plane crash, Eric has been mute, withdrawn from reality and absorbed in the belief that he can fly.As an awkward, magical first love grows between the two, Millie (Lucy Deakins) encourages...
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The United States and Russia have both built computer complexes capable of independently regulating national defenses of their countries. However, the two computers link and share classified information and top secrets, and it is up to the American designer of the U.S. complex, Charles Forbin, and his Soviet counterpart to stop the computers from seizing control of the world's nuclear missile stockpile.
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Harlan Ellison's work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the 20th century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as readers discovering this zany, polyphonic writer for the first time. Featuring these stories and many more: "'Repent Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" - Hugo Award winner "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" - Bram Stoker Award winner...
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