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1) Weekend
Series
Criterion collection volume 635
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Français
Description
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Discover the challenges and creative opportunities behind telling a story with a mix of environmental and backdrop portraits.
The standard photo essay is typically a collection of photographs documenting real events happening in front of the camera. Telling a story without action?with only portraits?creates a few challenges for the photographer. In this course, photojournalist Paul Taggart shows how using different types of portrait photography and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Russian
Description
Andreĭ Rublev, a monk in fifteenth-century Russia, takes a vow of silence after witnessing the repressive society around him.
4) Shaka Zulu
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Shaka Zulu is the powerful true story of tribal Africa during the turbulent 19th century. This critically acclaimed mini-series follows the life of Shaka, a powerful and mighty Zulu leader, as he grows up to fulfill an ancient tribal prophecy, uniting his people into a bold new nation. Shaka is driven by his extraordinary intelligence, courage, astounding physical ability an immortal stance, leading his proud warriors in their quest to be one people,...
5) Orpheus
Series
Criterion collection volume 68
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Modern retelling of the Greek myth has the poet Orpheus searching for his wife Eurydice after Princess Death has taken her into in the Underworld.
Series
Criterion collection volume 63
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After surviving a car accident, a church organist begins to experience hallucinations and finds herself drawn to an abandoned carnival.
7) Patton
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1025
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the oldest and richest patron of a legendary hotel in the Alps turns up dead, her greedy son is shocked to find she has left the concierge a priceless Renaissance painting and stops at nothing to frame him for her death.
9) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Appears on list
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
10) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret performer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that's as richly metaphorical as it...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
A two-disc set containing both 'I Am Curious - Yellow' and 'I Am Curious - Blue.' Two films about a young woman and her personal quest to understand the social and political conditions of the 1960s, with the line between fact and fiction getting blurred.
Includes: I Am Curious-Yellow.
12) True stories
Series
Criterion collection volume 951
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows a visitor to the fictional town of Virgil, Texas, as the citizens prepare for the town's sesquicentennial with a "Celebration of Specialness."
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"A carefree pickpocket turns his appealing brand of mischievous thievery toward the attainment of happiness-- and an exotic Princess. The only way he can win either is by retrieving the rarest treasures hidden within the mysterious Orient, a quest that grows more fantastic with every passing thrill" -- Container.
14) The gold rush
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.
15) Playtime
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
Français
Description
A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.
Series
Criterion collection volume 695
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux. Directed by Adbellatif Kechiche, this finely detailed,...
17) Slacker
Series
Criterion collection volume 247
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants.
19) Bringing up Baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1100
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After Scott Carey encounters a radioactive mist on a boating trip, his life takes a terrifying turn as he shrinks to a height of two inches.
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