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1) Beba
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rebeca 'Beba' Huntt undertakes an unflinching exploration of her own identity in the remarkable coming-of-age documentary...memoir BEBA. Reflecting on her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, Huntt investigates the historical, societal, and generational trauma she's inherited and ponders how those ancient wounds have shaped her, while simultaneously considering the universal truths...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz's story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity -- despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family's explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts...
Series
Criterion collection volume 724
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Gifted director and choreographer Joe Gideon has an exhausting work schedule-- mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie by night. His routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk. Based on the life of choreographer Bob Fosse.
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour of need. Takes place over the course of three weeks in...
5) The wall
Pub. Date
2016, ©2018.
Language
English
Description
Based on true events from director David Kinsella's childhood growing up in Northern Ireland, in which the character David is told a story about Yung Hee, a young woman poet fleeing from the North Korea regime. By drawing parallels between his own childhood and the refugee's story, the film creates a "dream u menatary" showing how stories and myths build both identity and the idea of never trusting "the others".
6) 400 blows
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
Français
Description
Antoine Doinel is a young Parisian boy who is neglected by his derelict parents, skips out on school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries, with disastrous results, to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. But, unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He lives in a Paris filled with dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories,...
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: 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...
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