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This is a story of children from two small towns in Ireland who form small armies and battle against each other in a never-ending quest for supremacy. The film investigates the slightly surreal and powerfully emotional world we inhabit as children.

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DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is Stanley Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States when all it would take to destroy the world was one push of a button. And General Jack D. Ripper Sterling Hayden is just the man to do it. Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence" the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers wacky generals spying Russians drunken premiers battles with soda machines fights in the War Room and the Russians' top-secret Doomsday Machine. Shot in black and white the film has three main centers of action: one of the B-52 bombers on which a group of loyal men know they are about to start World War III; Burpelson Air Force Base where Group Captain Lionel Mandrake Peter Sellers is trying to convince everyon

With the release of Robert Altman's MASH in 1970 a new form of comedy was born one that would help to forever change the face of cinema. Altman's audacious film reflected the American counterculture's growing distrust of religion and government in the late 1960s and early 1970s resulting in one of the biggest box office smashes of its time. Introducing the techniques he would employ throughout his storied career--overlapping dialogue a constantly moving camera with a heavy amount of zooming and a bold combination of frank subject matter with cynical humor--Altman immediately vaulted himself to Hollywood's upper ranks. Based on the novel by Richard Hooker MASH follows a group of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital officers as they perform surgery and pass the time just miles from the front lines of the Korean conflict. Led by sardonic captains "Hawkeye" Pierce Donald Sutherland and "Trapper" John McIntyre Elliott Gould the film has the feel of an absurd three-ring circus. Other characters include the uptight nurse "

A powerful frontline cast - including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson and George Clooney - explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II.

With the release of Robert Altman's MASH in 1970 a new form of comedy was born one that would help to forever change the face of cinema. Altman's audacious film reflected the American counterculture's growing distrust of religion and government in the late 1960s and early 1970s resulting in one of the biggest box office smashes of its time. Introducing the techniques he would employ throughout his storied career--overlapping dialogue a constantly moving camera with a heavy amount of zooming and a bold combination of frank subject matter with cynical humor--Altman immediately vaulted himself to Hollywood's upper ranks. Based on the novel by Richard Hooker MASH follows a group of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital officers as they perform surgery and pass the time just miles from the front lines of the Korean conflict. Led by sardonic captains "Hawkeye" Pierce Donald Sutherland and "Trapper" John McIntyre Elliott Gould the film has the feel of an absurd three-ring circus. Other characters include the uptight nurse "

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