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1) I Vitelloni
Series
Criterion collection volume 246
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Language
Italiano
Description
This film compassionately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives.
2) The mountain
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy, an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum’s patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gross) and lost in the burgeoning New Age movement of the west. Also starring Denis Lavant and Udo Kier. Official...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through violence. These gender stereotypes interconnect...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful new film based on his bestselling book, sociologist Michael Kimmel maps the troubling social world where boys become men -- a new stage of development he calls "Guyland." Arguing that the traditional adult signposts and cultural signals that once helped boys navigate their way to manhood are no longer clear, Kimmel provides an astonishing glimpse into a world where more and more young men are trying desperately to prove their masculinity...
5) Indignation
Publisher
Roadside Attractions Llc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Passion ignites culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story based on the bestselling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey, arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio, where he becomes infatuated with his classmate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and his own beliefs to the ultimate test.
7) The Pirogue
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
In Moussa Toure’s powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
11) Guest artist
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
12) Clerks
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widecsreen.
Language
English
Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
14) Aces
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Aces is the story of a young man who fights against the battering of his mother by his drunken father. The situation escalates until Ace desperately stabs his father to death, and is sent to jail for a period of 15 years. Nine years later he is out on parole. He kills again within a day's time of his release.
15) Tom Jones
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.
16) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, MARTIN EDEN is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university...
17) Tom Jones
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
Director's cut ; [widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
This adaptation of Henry Fielding's beloved novel, Tom Jones, is a picaresque adventure through the eighteenth century. Tom Jones, an abandoned infant of nebulous parentage, is found at the home of the good-natured Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget. Raised as the ward of the unmarried country gentleman, he grows into a handsome and roguish lad, irresistible to the women around town. His one true love, however, is the beautiful Sophie, daughter...
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