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Peter Cowie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the 60-year film and stage career of Bergman as he wrestles of themes of love, sex and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead. Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents a man whose life and work were intimately fused"--Publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Description
An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.
This is a passionate, personal journey through one of the world's greatest national cinemas, beginning with the classic directors who came to the fore in the postwar period and became legendary names on the art house circuit: Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Kobayashi, Naruse, and Oshima, among others. Japanese Cinema traces the common themes explored by these...
6) Coppola
Author
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"At the age of thirty-two, Francis Coppola came to prominence as the director of The Godfather, which rapidly climbed to the top of the rankings as one of the greatest movies ever made ... In 1979, his savage epic of the Vietnamese War, Apocalypse Now, established him as the most visionary and charismatic film-maker of his generation."--Back cover.
Series
Criterion collection volume 477
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Swedish
Description
A candid interview with the reclusive director at his home on Faro Island, as he discusses his fears, regrets, films, and passion for his work.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 359
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Polish
Description
Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, is a French music teacher. Though they are unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond.
Series
Criterion collection volume 766
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Swedish
Description
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged...
11) Z
Series
Criterion collection volume 491
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Français
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
13) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Swedish
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Swedish
Description
Gösta Berling, a defrocked priest , encounters a series of adventures and loves in his tumultuous journey to redemption. Along the way, he encounters the beautiful Elisabeth, played by Greta Garbo in her first major screen role.--Container
15) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Janus Films
Language
日本語
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Series
Criterion collection volume 614
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Swedish
Description
Seventeen-year-old Monika and nineteen-year-old Harry Lund meet in a café. They spend a happy summer together, and soon Monika discovers that she is pregnant. They marry, but Monika is bored with taking care of the baby and the responsibilities of married life. She begins an affair with a former lover and their marriage falls apart.
