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1) Detective
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
Français
Description
This avant-garde crime drama from director Jean-Luc Godard is set in a Paris hotel where two detectives investigate the death of a mysterious character. Meanwhile, Jim Fox Warner, a boxing trainer, is hoping his boy will win, so he can pay back the Mafia… Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Innovative Film Award at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** *"You can't afford to miss it..." - Vincent...
2) Dayveon
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his older brother's death, 13-year-old Dayveon spends the sweltering summer days roaming his rural Arkansas town. When he falls in with a local gang, he becomes drawn to the camaraderie and violence of their world.
3) Lacrau
Publisher
Terratreme Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return 'to the curve where man got lost' in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ivan Mosjoukine, who left a starring career in Russia for even greater glory in France, wrote and directed The burning crucible (Le Brasier ardent, 1923) in which he also plays eleven parts. Of this film Jean Renoir said I was ecstatic I decided to abandon my trade, ceramics, to try to make films.
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Tagalog
Description
Middle-aged Lina dreams of having a child and magically gives birth to a fish, testing her marriage to the reluctant father, Miguel. Winner of the Best Actor and Best Editing Award at the **Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.**
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1898.
Language
English
Description
Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, The Gardener, Arrival of a Train at La Ciot Station and many more are on display in Lumiere's First Picture Show; a collection of firsts from the filmakers that started a business of film production, exhibition and distribution. The acknowledged birth of film history was December 28, 1895 when the first paying audience gathered at the Grand Cafe on Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, for a performance of films on the...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
Noted by legendary film critic Roger Ebert as one of his top ten favorite films of all time, this masterpiece from Oscar-nominated director Werner Herzog is an unforgettable portrait of madness and power. In the mid-16th century, after annihilating the Incan empire, Gonzalo Pizarro (Allejandro Repulles) leads his army of conquistadors over the Andes into the heart of the most savage environment on earth in search of the fabled City of Gold, El Dorado....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
I see a new world. Do you see it? If you listened to the city back in 1984, here's what it told you: there are dark days coming, and the only way to survive them is by being rich. Made during the re-election year of Ronald Reagan, the election year of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the very beginnings of the shattering saving and loan scandal that would come to look like candy store shoplifting a generation on, Ron Mann's rare early non-documentary...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Français
Description
A woman who has never had much trouble choosing between love or money tries to teach a man the tricks of the trade in this sly romantic comedy. Irene (Audrey Tautou) is an attractive thirtysomething woman who lives a comfortable life by taking up with older and very wealthy men. She meets Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a handsome bartender who works a variety of odd jobs to keep himself afloat. She ends up enjoying a romantic evening with Jean, that is until...
10) Vive L'Amour
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In this quintessential Taiwanese New Wave film, three alienated yuppies find love and sex as they unknowingly share an apartment at the center of Taipei. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and the Golden Lion at the **Venice Film Festival**. Winner of Best Feature Film and Best Director at the **Golden Horse Film Festival**.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This supplementary collection of films by pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès presents 28 films that have been recovered. Many of these films that have not previously appeared on home video, and have been mastered in high-definition yielding excellent results. The source prints themselves range from good to excellent, with two films presented in their fragmentary survival state.
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A playful comedy of lost love, friendship and revenge fantasies. Charles (Charlie Sheen) is a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. When his true love, Ivana suddenly breaks off their relationship, Charles’ life falls apart and he swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection. With the support of his loyal friends Kirby (Jason Schwartzman), Saul (Bill Murray),...
13) Barely Lethal
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Alba and Samuel L. Jackson star in this action-comedy featuring Hailee Steinfeld as a teenage special ops agent who fakes her own death to assume the role of an exchange student and experience a ‘normal’ adolescence. "*Charming and funny, a wonderfully sweet and silly mashup of spy stuff and high-school comedies, like if John Hughes made a James Bond movie.*" - MaryAnn Johanson, ***Flick Filosopher***
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Noah Baumbach and powered by great performances by Ben Stiller, Adam Driver, Naomi Watts and Amanda Seyfried, WHILE WE'RE YOUNG is a funny cross-generational comedy about aging, ambition and success, as well as a moving portrait of a marriage tested by the invading forces of youth. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*This delicious satire about aging hipsters and their discontents is everything we've come...
15) Edison album
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The landmark first "peep-show" films that dazzled the viewers of the Kinetoscope were created by Thomas A. Edison and W.K.L. Dickson, and continue to be known as the first revelation of what film would become. Inventor Thomas A. Edison and William. K. L. Dickson, his principal associate, began work on the motion picture project in 1891. In 1894, they began to exhibit films commercially in the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device. Theatrical projection...
16) Poison
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking American Indie was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s and a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes’ spectacular follow-up to his legendary "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" is audacious, disturbing and thrillingly cinematic. A runaway theatrical hit and **Sundance Film Festival** Grand Jury Prize winner, which made national headlines and the network news when it was attacked...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Kemmel is almost 40. Although little throws the good-natured sculptor off, he is torn... between wanting to address his generation’s memories of the Holocaust, and disappointment that many people don’t understand his works—despite official programs to bring art to the public. One day, he offers to make a sculpture for the sports field in his hometown. The Wolf/Kohlhaase team based this tongue-in-cheek, episodic film on the life of Werner Stötzer,...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
Italiano
Description
On an unforgiving, snow swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist) stands between the innocent refuges and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1928.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged landowner who has been a widower for five years, decides that the time has come for him to choose a wife from among the unattached women of his neighborhood. Thinking himself to be a fine catch he sets about the task of conferring his favor on someone whom he considers to be deserving of the high honor. With the aid of his housekeeper, the faithful Araminta, he compiles a list of eligible females and then sets off on his journey to make...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many trials, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who invests money and facilities to develop it. However, when the news of Stratton's invention breaks, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves...
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