Francis Ford Coppola
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Romania is on the brink of war with Germany and linguistics professor Dominic Matei has little left to live for. On Easter Day 1938, he crosses the street and is struck by a bolt of lightning. Badly burned and nearly dead, he amazes the doctors by healing in only a short time. He defies science and ages in reverse from 70 to 40. There's seemingly no limit to the wonder and love he can find in his new youth. He pursues lost dreams, endless knowledge...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"This film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society. By juxtaposing images of ancient cultures with those of modern life, Powaqqatsi masterfully portrays the human cost of progress"--Container.
10) Koyaanisqatsi
Series
Criterion collection volume 640
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
None
Description
This first work of The Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern hemisphere, in an astonishing collage created by the director, cinematographer Ron Fricke, and composer Philip Glass. It shuttles viewers from one jaw-dropping vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings' increasing dependence on technology.
11) The outsiders
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Coming of age movie set in Tulsa Oklahoma in the mid sixties.
12) My family
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of three generations of Mexican Americans.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this lavish, 1930s-era drama, Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide. Now, Francis Ford Coppola's extraordinary film is brought tovivid new life with never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences thatdeepen and enrich the storylines.
Series
Criterion collection volume 432
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
日本語
Description
A look at acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, the impossible harmony he created between self, art, and society, and his famously committed public seppuku (ritual suicide). Includes interviews, commentary, documentary, and more.
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Tagged by Roger Ebert as the most influential film critic of the late twentieth century, the film tells the story of Pauline's turbulent life and work, through never-seen archival footage, her published writing and personal letters, and interviews with both friends and foes of her pen."
16) THX 1138
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A film by George Lucas that was his directorial debut and used gripping special effects that would later be showcased in Star Wars. Includes commentary by George Lucas and sound editor Walter Murch, a documentary, a making-of featurette, and much more.
20) Powaqqatsi
Series
Criterion collection volume 641
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
None
Description
Reggio turns his sights on third-world nations in the Southern hemisphere. Forgoing the sped-up aesthetic of the first film, Powaqqatsi employs a meditative slow motion in order to reveal the beauty of the traditional ways of life in those parts of the planet, and to show how cultures there are being eroded as their environments are taken over by industry.