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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While Asian Americans have faced a double pandemic of COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism, the rise of solidarity efforts within Asian American and other BIPOC communities gives us moments of joy, resilience, and hope as we rebuild our lives. This series of documentary shorts move beyond the pandemic and reflect the complexities of Asian American experiences in this critical moment.
Series
Criterion collection volume 555
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A New York City public relations agent, dependent on the good publicity his clients get from an influential newspaper columnist, grudgingly agrees to help him destroy the romance between a musician and the columnist's overprotected sister.
3) Walking out
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a father-son hunting trip goes awry leaving the father critically wounded, it is up to his teenage son to find a way for them to survive.
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Language
English
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Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
7) Rio Bravo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
In the dusty town of Rio Bravo, Sheriff Chance arrests Joe Burdette for a brutal murder and must fight off ruthless gunmen to keep him in custody until the state marshal arrives.
Publisher
WinStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the late Cole Porter's birth, this profile provides an entertaining look at the man who embraced an elite lifestyle and chronicled the world of high society. Includes archival footage and interviews with his contemporaries and critics. Includes excerpts from Night and day; Blow, Gabriel, blow; You do something to me; Let's do it; My heart belongs to daddy; Be a clown; True love; and Kiss me Kate.
9) Ugetsu
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
日本語
Description
Set in sixteenth-century Japan, an ambitious potter is haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer dreams of becoming a samurai.
Series
Criterion collection volume 520
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Swedish
Description
Maria Larsson is the long-suffering wife of an alcoholic dock worker who finds a creative outlet in photography.
11) Gomorrah
Series
Criterion collection volume 493
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Italiano
Description
Links five tales of organized crime and its casualties in Naples.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the life and loves of Benjamin Button who was born an old man and ages in reverse.
13) The music room
Series
Criterion collection volume 573
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Bengali
Description
A fallen aristocrat clings to his heritage and fading way of life by hosting lavish parties in his music room until he spends the last of his fortune.
14) L'argent
Series
Criterion collection volume 886
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
A counterfeit 500-franc note sets off a chain of greed, corruption, and betrayal that leads to an innocent man's arrest and his eventual destruction.
15) La dolce vita
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Italiano
Description
A journalist investigates the life-styles of Roman high society and is sickened and fascinated by what he discovers.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014, c1934
Language
English
Description
When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exhange for her exclusive story.
Series
Criterion collection volume 969
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Czech
Description
Follows two young Jewish men who escape a train taking them to a concentration camp as they try to survive in the rural terrain and evade capture.
Series
Criterion collection volume 672-675
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Stromboli. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany.
Europe '51. Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son....
19) True stories
Series
Criterion collection volume 951
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show
20) Doris Day
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife suspect each other of being unfaithful which leads to a case of mistaken identity; musical version of the love story of tomboy Jane and Wild Bill Hickok; follows the life of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tumultuous relationship with Martin "the gimp" Snyder, her manager and gangster; a theater critic, his wife, and their children move to the country where they hope to escape problems of urban living.