Olive Films.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
An extraordinary look at motion pictures as seen through the eyes of the reknowned filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who transformed the face of cinema with his prolific, influential, and revolutionary body of work, which includes such classics as Breathless, Weekend, and Contempt. Consisting of eight episodes made over a period of ten years, the series covers a wide range of topics, from the birth of cinema to Italian neo-realism to Hollywood and beyond....
3) Himizu
Pub. Date
2014
Language
日本語
Description
Alienated from his family and devoid of hope for the future, Yuichi becomes a vigilante and commits a string of violent acts upon the world's evildoers, including his abusive father. Keiko is a former classmate who has an obsessive fascination with Yuichi, following every move of the disenchanted teen's murder spree.
4) Amer
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's pastiche tour-de-force plays out a delirious, enigmatic, almost wordless death-dance of fear and desire. Its three movements, each in a different style, correspond to the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of its female protagonist. Drawing its stylized, hyperbolic gestures from the playbooks of Bava, Leone, Argento, and De Palma, it takes them into a realm of near-abstraction.
5) The fool
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
A dramatic tale worthy of Dostoyevsky, The fool tells the story of one man's fight against a corrupt political system. Dima is a young man eking out a living in modern day Russia as a plumber's assistant while working to finish college. Called out late one night to inspect a leak at a derelict housing community, he discovers a major structural problem and a building on the verge of collapse. In his attempt to save lives of the eight hundred residents,...
6) Fugly!
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jesse Sanchez, and artist/comedian gives the performance of his life. During a New Year's party, Jesse fakes a suicide attempt wrapping a retractable dog leash around his neck, accidentally knocks himself out, and sinks into the waters of his bathtub. Jesse gets the chance to reflect, possibly for the lat time, upon his life and love.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Russian
Description
Sergey Sobolev, a police major driving recklessly across an icy stretch of highway, hits and kills a young boy. The boy's mother Irina finds her already unbearable pain and anguish compounded when a cover-up is set in motion to protect Sergey.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Persian
Description
Tragedy strikes as a wife and daughter are accidentally killed in a police shoot-out with demonstrators. In an act of vengeance, a young man, randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animated screen; she was a symbol of the Depression era and a reminder of the more carefree days of the Roaring Twenties. The queen of the animated screen returns to allure and entice audiences all over again in this volume-four compilation featuring many of her greatest adventures. Including thirteen animated short films produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer.
10) Johnny Guitar
Series
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Vienna is a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small, attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar, a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter, who oncewas, and perhaps still is, in love with Vienna.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animated screen, Betty Boop was a symbol of the Depression era and a reminder of the more carefree days of the Roaring Twenties. Her popularity was drawn larger from adult audiences and the cartoons, while seemingly surreal, contained many sexual and psychological elements. Features 12 animated short films from over four thousand scans of the original negatives and finegrains.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animated screen; she was a symbol of the Depression era and a reminder of the more carefree days of the Roaring Twenties. Her popularity was drawn larger from adult audiences and the cartoons, while seemingly surreal, contained many sexual and psychological elements. The queen of the animated screen returns to allure and entice audiences all over again.
13) Cooley High
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1960s, a slice-of-life tale of high school students coping with the challenges of everyday life growing up in the Chicago housing projects.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animated screen, Betty Boop was a symbol of the Depression era and a reminder of the more carefree days of the Roaring Twenties. Her popularity was drawn larger from adult audiences and the cartoons, while seemingly surreal, contained many sexual and psychological elements. Features twelve re-mastered episodes from over four thousand scans of the original negatives and finegrains.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What happens when an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl fall in love and have to navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola? A contemporary romantic comedy about love and tradition in a rapidly evolving society. Funny yet hard-hitting, the film tackles the thorny subject of cross-cultural relationships with humor and honesty.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy-drama that tells the story of a lonely graveyard shift doorman named Abner, a once accomplished sculptor and former college art teacher, but now sadly, a mere shadow of his former self. After meeting Zoe, a young, free-spirited taxi driver, something magical happens to Abner as he begins a quest to seek redemption, and reconcile his conflicted past.
17) The boost
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Unemployed and in debt, Lenny and Linda's hedonistic lifestyle and casual drug use soon spiral out of control as they careen toward an abyss.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
You know whom to call when you have ghosts. But who do you call when you have monsters? The Monster Squad - A group of young kids devoted to protecting their suburban neighborhood from monsters and ghouls. Count Dracula escapes Van Helsing and adjourns modern day Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Black Lagoon's Gillman. The ghouls are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the...
19) Rio Grande
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara are embroiled in an epic battle with the Apaches and each other. Wayne leads his Cavalry troops to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. His toughest battle lies ahead when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to a possible court-martial. Locked in a bloody war, he must fight not only to save his family, but also to redeem his honor.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1173
Language
English
Formats
Description
A satire on the ups and downs of being a black actor in Hollywood. Bobby Taylor, a young black actor whose attempts to find work are dashed when told that he's not "black enough" for the roles being offered. With jobs limited to stereotypes (gang-bangers, pimps and Uncle Toms'), Bobby's struggles are told through a series of comic fantasies and dreams.