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Series
Criterion collection volume 1218
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
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A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
Series
Criterion collection volume 791
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent on revenge for her father's murder and her mother's rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood and set in late nineteenth century Japan, is a bloody, beautiful extravaganza composed of one elegant widescreen composition.
3) Querelle
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Conjured from the unholy meeting of two iconoclastic queer artists, Rainer Werner Fassbinder2s final film audaciously raises Jean Genet2s controversial novel to the level of myth. In an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French seaport town bathed in fiery reds and complete with phallic spires a strapping sailor and unrepentant criminal comes ashore to arouse passion, rivalry, and violence among the libidinal denizens drawn into his orbit. Enacted...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"This caustic inside look at the Washington news media, stars Holly Hunter in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman (William Hurt) and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter (Albert Brooks). James L. Brooks' witty, gently prophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing." -- Back of container.
5) Peeping Tom
Series
Criterion collection volume 58
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Unleashing a murderous filmmaker armed with a killer camera, Michael Powell's groundbreaking reclaimed masterpiece takes a dark detour into obsession and voyeurism, daring viewers to confront their own relationship to the violence on-screen.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
Paul B. Preciado's documentary invites a diverse group of trans and nonbinary people to perform interpretations of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando, interrogating its relevance in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide.
7) Girlfight
Series
Criterion collection volume 1219
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn, a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter. In Karyn Kusama's raw, understated feature debut, Rodriguez commands the screen with both tightly coiled intensity and deep wells of vulnerability as a young woman hitting back at society's...
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