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Criterion collection volume 1217
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Multiple
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In Emitaï, French colonial forces in Senegal, during World War II, conscript young men of the Diola people and attempt to seize rice stores for soldiers in Europe; while the tribe's patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvest. In Xala, a Senegalese businessman takes a third wife to show how successful he is, and finds himself impotent on his wedding night; as he obsesses about...
2) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
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Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
3) Dogfight
Series
Criterion collection volume 1216
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, Nancy Savoca's funny, sensitive tale of love and war etches two vividly alive characters: aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose and hotheaded, Vietnam-bound marine Eddie, who meet on the occasion of a cruelly misogynistic party where men compete to bring the most unattractive dates they can find. But what begins as a night to forget unexpectedly develops into something far more meaningful....
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jabez Stone is a hardworking farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the devil himself. Stone promises "Mr. Scratch" his soul in exchange for seven years of good fortune. But when the troubled farmer realizes the error of his choice, he enlists the aid of the one man who might save him: the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster. Directed with stylish flair by William...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1207
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"The Heroic Trio and its sequel, Executioners, follow a new kind of justice league: a team of blade-throwing, shotgun-toting, kung fu-fighting heroines who join forces to battle evildoers in a dystopian, noirish city"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1204
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel was a breakthrough for director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge. With live-wire energy and stylistic verve, Trainspotting bounces across the life and times of Mark Renton, a Scottish heroin addict who, along with his misfit mates, gets high, gets in trouble, gets clean, and gets high again,...
7) 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
Criterion collection volume 1218
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
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The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet's masterful, Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth. When Sandra Voyter (a transfixing Sandra Hüller), a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration--or was it suicide?--of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1206
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
The seasons may change, but the follies of the heart are constant in this lovely quartet of films by Eric Rohmer, one of cinema's most perceptive chroniclers of the pangs and perils of romance. In A Tale of Springtime, Natacha urges her friend Jeanne to pursue Natacha's father in order to supplant Eve, his young girl friend, whom Natacha loathes. In A Tale of Winter, Felicie, 5 years after losing touch with Charles, the love of her life, attempts...
10) 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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