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2) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 42
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales.
5) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Russian
Description
Part I starts with the coronation of Ivan the Terrible and concludes with his return to power after the death of his wife. Part II covers the attempt to assassinate him in 1564. The third part of the saga was never made due to the death of Eisenstein.
Series
Criterion collection volume 167
Publisher
Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation
Pub. Date
[2002,1968]
Language
English
Description
Monterey Pop is the first filmed document of a rock festival. The Monterey Pop Festival, held on California's Monterey Peninsula in 1968, inspired Jann Wenner to launch his enormously successful "Rolling Stone Magazine." It also did much to boost the careers of many of the pop and rock stars who performed in it.
Series
Criterion collection volume 156
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Examines the American involvement in Vietnam, and is a chronicle of the war from a psychological perspective. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright, Walt Rostow, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon are shown in rare footage.
9) F for fake
Series
Publisher
Criterion collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 361
Publisher
Criterion Collection ; [
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After Grey Gardens, the portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie, spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their 1976 vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Documents a decaying East Hampton mansion inhabited by two recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter Edie Beale (aunt and cousin of Jackie Onassis), and shows the eccentricity of their personalities. The Beales of Grey Gardens re-visits the original documentary with never-before-seen footage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 169
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jimi Hendrix's performance at California's Monterey International Pop Festival, in June 1967, is one of his earliest American performances. Otis Redding's performance is one of his last. Both of these performances were taped live.
Series
Criterion collection volume 41, 82, 213
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Features three Shakespeare adaptations for the screen by Sir Laurence Olivier.
15) Dont look back
Series
Criterion collection volume 786
Language
English
Formats
Description
Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan a 23 year-old, pixyish troubador, spent three weeks in England. Follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud. From the opening sequence Dylan is playful and enigmatic....
Series
Criterion collection volume 406
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A dancer's world: Martha Graham discusses the dancer as a creative artist, as members of her dance company illustrate her theories in a dance choreographed by Miss Graham. Woven into the movements of the dance are all the basic techniques required by the modern dancer.
Appalachian spring: a ballet depicting the wedding day of a pioneer couple.
Night journey: Martha Graham's interpretation of the Oedipus legend, depicting the moment of Jocasta's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 479
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment.
Series
Eclipse volume 14
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Examines life in fifteenth-century Florence through the eyes of banker Cosimo de' Medici and art theorist Leon Battista Alberti; chronicles the life of seventeenth-century philospher Descartes; French mathematician Pascal attempts to reconcile religion and science amidst persecution.
19) The Mikado
Series
Criterion collection volume 559
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Victor Schertzinger. The result is a lavish cinematic retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan. Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan, fled his...
Series
Criterion collection volume 644
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A tribute to the late innovative German choreographer, Pina Bausch. The film was originally planned as a collaboration between Wenders and Bausch and was in pre-production when she passed away in 2009. Wenders decided to continue the project as a tribute to her. In this film, the dancers of her company, Tanztheater Wuppertal, perform her most famous visionary creations.
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