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1) Native son
Author
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1940's Chicago, a young black man's life takes a tragic turn after he accidentally kills the daughter of his white employer and then tries to cover it up.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Paris in the 1930s--a playground for industrial heirs and debonair architects, but the City of Lights does not shine evenly for all. Struggling actress Madeleine and her best friend Pauline, an unemployed lawyer, live in a cramped flat and owe five months' rent. Opportunity knocks after a lascivious theatrical producer who made an inappropriate advance towards Madeleine turns up dead. Madeleine stands trial for murder and ascends to decadent stardom,...
3) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Description
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...
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