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261) Nightmare alley
Series
Criterion collection volume 1078
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
"Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous...
262) One night in Miami
Series
Criterion collection volume 1106
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
A fictional account of one amazing night when icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese's documentary about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
264) Secrets & lies
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
After her adoptive parents die, a Black optometrist searches for her birth mother and discovers that she is a poor white factory worker.
265) Boat people
Series
Criterion collection volume 1113
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
After the communist takeover of Vietnam, a Japanese journalist revisits Vietnam to report on the life of its people after the war.
266) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
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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...
267) Lost highway
Series
Criterion collection volume 1152
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"We've met before, haven't we?" A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch's seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker's most potent cinematic dreamscapes. The film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.
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268) Mississippi masala
Series
Criterion collection volume 1127
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism,...
269) Okja
Series
Criterion collection volume 1133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her super...
270) Sound of metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
Ruben is a drummer in a metal-duo with his girlfriend Lou. When he suddenly loses his hearing, he goes through a profound odyssey and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York's 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's...
273) Inland empire
Series
Criterion collection volume 1175
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Strange, what love does." The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble...David Lynch's first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes as it...
274) Triangle of sadness
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Master of social discomfort Ruben �Ostlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d'Or, winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece...
275) 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...
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