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Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:59 minutes; preserved by Academy Film Archive in 1999 at Triage Motion Picture Services from camera original sand magnetic soundtrack archived at Pacific Film Archives; mastered from the 35mm preservation negative; 1080p digital restoration by Bruce Posner at DuArt Video, FilmVideoDigital, and Gustavo Matamoros; courtesy of the filmmaker.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Español
Description
Karen has left her slimy but successful husband Mario after ten years of marriage. She walks out into Bogota with no job, no friends, and hardly any money, but catches a break when she meets a hairdresser named Patricia at a cheap flophouse. With her younger and seemingly stronger friend by her side, Karen takes her first steps toward independence and self-discovery.
"A powerful and inspiring film..."--Video Librarian
"Carrizosa is superbly contained...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range of media examples - from news anchors' idolatry of military machinery to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting - the film asks: How has war taken...
Series
Criterion collection volume 354
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Director-approved special ed.; widescreen format (1.66:1).
Language
English
Description
A schizophrenic man attempts to track down his young daughter after he is released from an institution.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen Balikci are shown and discussed: the film takes us from Asen's youth in Istanbul to his career in Canada where he became famous for making the Netsilik Eskimo Series, to filming in Afghanistan and then turning to two other activities of his: as a networker...
Series
Criterion collection volume 174
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
Français
Description
Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A film by Madsen Minax. Representing the whole lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, each story is one of a journey in progress through a first-hand perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage performance. The feature documentary Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance will allow a venue for a particular niche of trans existence to be revealed and celebrated. The individuals and bands featured...
Series
Criterion collection volume 208
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Swedish
Description
This four disc set features Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's work on three of his most powerful films presented as a trilogy. The films of the trilogy examine the necessity of religion and question the promise of faith. The last disc is a documentary film offering views on set construction, lighting, rehearsals, editing, as well as intimate conversations with Ingmar Bergman and members of his cast and crew.
Series
Criterion collection volume 536
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010, p1998
Language
English
Description
The soldiers of an American company about to participate in the Battle of Guadalcanal each face personal crises as they prepare for the fight. In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller, until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.
10) The tin drum
Series
Criterion collection volume 234
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Deutsch
Description
Chronicles Danzig in the 1920s/1930s and the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth, he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive...
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