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1) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
2) The runner
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
Childhood takes on mythic dimensions in one of the defining works of postrevolutionary Iranian cinema. Inspired by director Amir Naderib2(Bs boyhood, The Runner is lit from within by Madjid Niroumand's electrifying performance as a young orphan fending for himself on the streets of a port city, determined to rise above his circumstances working odd jobs, passing time with friends, learning to read and running, always running, toward the future. Water,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 699
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of...
4) Nanny
Series
Criterion collection volume 1196
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant, takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage, one that could either destroy or empower her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1194
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023].
Formats
Description
Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
6) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1209
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Formats
Description
"A southern Black railroad worker confronts the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity as he attempts to settle down with his new wife and track down his father"--
8) Mudbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 1205
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart.
9) Godland
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
At the end of the 19th century, young Danish priest Lucas is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the Icelandic landscape, the more he loses a sense of his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1210
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color and some black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
Intertwined are the mission of PAIN, an advocacy group focused on the Sackler family's role in the opioid crisis, with Nan Goldin's journey through New York City's underground arts scene, addiction, and activism. Goldin's photographs and reflections on memory and trauma underscore her solidarity with marginalized communities, making for a powerful narrative of art, activism, and survival.
11) The servant
Series
Criterion collection volume 1182
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously...
12) The others
Series
Criterion collection volume 1195
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A remote manor; hushed, candlelit atmosphere; and shivery, supernatural menace. With his first English-language feature, Chilean Spanish writer-director-composer Alejandro Amenb̀ar resurrected the classic gothic chiller to create a ghost story of uncommon emotional resonance. Nicole Kidman stars as a World War II-era mother whose imperiousness masks a terrifying pain, as she keeps her light-sensitive children enshrouded in darkness on her country...
13) Blast of silence
Series
Criterion collection volume 428
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (77 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron's New York City noir film is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city. At once visually ragged and artfully composed, and featuring rough, poetic narration...
14) Tori and Lokita
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (89 minute) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
15) La bamba
Series
Criterion collection volume 1193
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother and rebellious brother, rises from his farm-working roots to chart-topping fame in the early days of rock, until one fateful...
16) Trainspotting
Series
Criterion collection volume 1204
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
A young heroin addict in Edinburgh tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends aren't making it easy for him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1184
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu0ray (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman, whose story proves to have surprising resonances with Cheryl's own life as...
18) Dogfight
Series
Criterion collection volume 1216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
"Aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose and hotheaded, Vietnam-bound Marine Eddie Birdlace, 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 1183
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Description
One of the great debut features of the twenty-first century, Barry Jenkins's captivating, lo-fi romance Medicine for Melancholy unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco, where a one-night stand between two young bohemians, Micah and Jo,' spins off into a woozy daylong affair marked by moments of tenderness, friction, joy, and intellectual sparring as they explore their relationships to each other, the city, and their own...
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1210
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
"Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed entwines the mission of PAIN--an advocacy group she founded to raise awareness about the billionaire Sackler family's integral role in the ongoing crisis of opioid overdoses--with an intimate journey through Goldin's life, from her rebellious adolescence and immersion in New York City's thriving underground arts scene to her personal experiences of addiction and...
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