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1) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
2) Cloudstreet
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two flawed families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in an acclaimed Australian miniseries. Adapted by Tim Winton from his award-winning novel, set around Perth from 1943-63, it's gripping, poignant, and gorgeous. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof. Exquisitely filmed with an outstanding ensemble cast led by Kerry Fox.
3) My fair lady
Language
English
Formats
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
4) Paul's case
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New York City. Once there, Paul experiences everything he ever dreamed of...from a luxurious hotel suite to his first taste of champagne. However, when reality finally comes crashing down around him, Paul realizes the...
6) Martin Eden
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Italiano
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...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
John P. Merrick, the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store to catch the union activists without detention. Once he himself is subjected to the humiliating treatment by the department supervisor, Hooper, Merrick starts to wise up-and soften up.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A modern-day fairy tale of a young boy who exchanges boxing gloves for ballet shoes. Billy's story is set during the 1980s miners' strike in northern England, where his determination inspires an entire community. This is a story of self-discovery, determination, love and hope. Based on the beloved film and winner of ten Tony Awards including Best Musical.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the extensive historical archive of Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire and portraying the lives of real people, this powerful scripted drama series depicts Britain at a time when the industrial revolution is changing the country beyond recognition. In the 1830s, children as young as nine work twelve-hour shifts in the mills, and the new class of mill-owning families prosper. But the so-called 'white slaves of England' are about to take their lives...
11) Marty
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Marty is a nice guy, living with his mother in the Bronx, hanging around with similarly socially inept friends, dreaming of owning his own butcher's shop, and maybe even finding a girl to love. The people around him don't think Marty will make anything more of himself than he already has--life is comfortable, why would Marty want to change? But when Marty meets Clara, a schoolteacher with similar aspirations, Marty is motivated to do remarkable things....
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
13) My fair lady
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
A professor takes a wager to turn a London flower girl into someone presentable in high society.
Special features: British premiere featurette; Rex Harison BFI honor; More loverly than ever: The making of My Fair Lady then & now; photo galleries; Comments on a lady; Rex harrison Golden Globe acceptance speech; Academy Awards highlights; interview Martin Scorsese; alternate Audrey Heopburn vocals; production tests; Los Angeles premier; 1963 production...
14) Modern times
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job.
Series
Criterion collection volume 411
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After spending four years in prison for killing his girlfriend, lumbering man-child Franz Biberkopf is finally released back into society. He wants to stay honest now he has left jail, but it is tough in the Alexanderplatz section of Berlin. After failing to succeed in several 'regular' jobs, he falls in with some old cohorts and an on-again, off-again association with thugs. Post-war society is crumbling, and it appears that nothing will bring...
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