Cinema
Toast Crunch
A film club by the Nintendo Pipeline community
Barry Lyndon (1975)
In 18th-century Ireland, young Redmond Barry flees home after a duel gone wrong and drifts through the Seven Years' War as a soldier, deserter, and spy. Charming his way into aristocratic circles, he eventually marries the wealthy Lady Lyndon and claims the title of Barry Lyndon. But his reckless ambition, gambling, and cruelty slowly unravel everything he's built, leading to a devastating reckoning with his vengeful stepson. Kubrick's visually stunning epic — shot almost entirely by candlelight — is a pitiless, darkly comic portrait of a man undone by his own vanity.
| Director | Stanley Kubrick |
|---|---|
| Year | 1975 |
| Runtime | 185 min |
| Genre | Historical Drama / Epic |
| Starring | Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger |
| Awards | 4 Oscars (Cinematography, Costume Design, Art Direction, Score); nominated for Best Picture & Director |
| Stream | Netflix, Tubi (free), Prime Video (rent) |
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Ann Bishop Mullany's quiet, repressed life in Baton Rouge begins to crack when her husband John's old college friend Graham arrives in town. Graham carries a peculiar habit: he videotapes women discussing their most intimate thoughts and desires. As Ann, her uninhibited sister Cynthia, and the duplicitous John are each drawn into Graham's orbit, long-buried truths about desire, infidelity, and emotional honesty surface with devastating clarity. Soderbergh's Palme d'Or-winning debut is a sharp, quietly explosive chamber piece that helped launch the American indie revolution.
| Director | Steven Soderbergh |
|---|---|
| Year | 1989 |
| Runtime | 100 min |
| Genre | Independent Drama |
| Starring | James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo |
| Awards | Palme d'Or at Cannes; Best Actor (Spader) at Cannes; Oscar nom. for Best Original Screenplay |
| Stream | Apple TV (rent), Prime Video (rent), Fandango at Home (rent) |
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