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1) Mudbound
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
Series
Criterion collection volume 753
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row, despite overwhelming evidence that he did not commit the crime.
3) 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.
4) Weekend
Series
Criterion collection volume 622
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A one-night stand develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men in the English Midlands, in an emotionally naked film that's both a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary gay living, and a portrait of a love affair.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her adoptive parents die, a Black optometrist searches for her birth mother and discovers that she is a poor white factory worker.
Series
Criterion collection volume 775
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young Edwardian-era girl's first visit to Florence turns out to hold surprises in impropriety, confusion, and passion.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1071
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A man learns that he must defend his actions on Earth when he gets to the afterlife.
9) Playtime
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
Français
Description
A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.
10) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley₂s classic children₂s novel by Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home), in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse, is a cinematic tour de force. After surviving a shipwreck together, a young boy and a horse develop a bond, and begin training to race once they are rescued.
12) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A young ballerina is torn between love and success.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Français
Description
Pascal is a young French boy who discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris that seems to have a mind of its own and begins to follow Pascal everywhere. The two beome inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere. A touching allegory of the magic powers of love and friendship.
Series
Criterion collection volume 855
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend
When an actress attempts suicide after her married lover rejects her, a chaotic series of events intervenes.
15) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A part-time exterminator writes of his drug induced fantasy world where he confronts giant talking bugs.
16) Mon oncle =
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
Français
Description
A supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society.
17) Cameraperson
Series
Criterion collection volume 853
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer
18) The last emperor
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Pu Yi is the last of the Emperor of China who from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City was the object of worship by half a billion people. From his abdication, to his decline and dissolute lifestyle. His life was exploitated by the invading Japanese and his term as the emperor of Japan's Manchuguo. He was eventually released back to public life in 1959 and died as gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking.
19) Eraserhead
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
Series
Criterion collection volume 778
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
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