Laurent Terzieff
1) Araya
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Description
Explored is a day in the lives of three families living in Araya, an arid peninsula in Venezuela. For centuries since its discovery by the Spanish, the region's salt was collected and stacked into radiant white pyramids. Captured are the breathtaking and unforgettable images from the salineros toiling to build the mountains of salt, a fisherman hauling in huge teeming nets, and a young girl and her grandmother laying 'flowers' of shells on windswept...
2) Kapò
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
The story of a Jewish girl from Paris sent to a concentration camp during World War II. In the camp the girl is befriended by a kindly doctor, who helps her hide her true identity and work as a camp guard, or "kapo." Unfortunately, her new found power goes to her head, and her abuse of that power is very nearly on the same level as the Nazis.
3) Medea
Publisher
Video Arts
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the tragedy by Euripides.
4) The Prisoner
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
Français
Description
Josée is the wife of an artist whose work is exhibited in a modern art gallery. The owner of the gallery, Stan satisfies himself by photographing women in humiliating poses. Josée is fascinated by the man and soon falls completely in love with him. *"...an aesthetic and thematic tour-de-force." - Martyn Conterio, **CineVue***
Series
Criterion collection volume 402
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
Español
Description
The film is inspired by the picaresque Spanish novels of the sixteenth century. Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Compostello in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people - some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures - some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural... Winner of the Interfilm Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"Everything is photographed...
7) 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...
10) Jean-Luc Godard
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Passion: Uninspired and overbudget, a bored Polish film director who is shooting a tedious movie in France, begins simultaneous love affairs with two very different women--Hanna, the owner of the hotel where his film crew stays, and Isabelle, a factory worker fired by Hanna's husband.
First name, Carmen = Prénom Carmen: A satirical black comedy that winks at Mérimée's classic, a famous director pretends to be ill in a mental institution but is...
11) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...