Colin MacCabe
Author
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of the turmoil that spawned the New Wave in French Cinema, and the story of its greatest director, Jean-Luc Godard.
Godard's early films revolutionized the language of cinema. Hugely prolific in his first decade--Breathless, Contempt, Pierrot le Fou, Alphaville, and Made in USA are just a handful of the seminal works he directed--Godard introduced filmgoers to the generation of stars associated with the trumpeted sexuality...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 685
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man, laid down the template for the coming of age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest. His great modern epic, Ulysses, took the city of Dublin for its setting and all human life for its subject, and its publication marked the beginning of the modern novel. Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake, is an...
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England....
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Prolific artist, philosopher, writer, storyteller and "radical humanist" John Berger is the focus of this vivid four-part cinematic portrait. In 1973, he moved from urban London to the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. The Seasons in Quincy examines different aspects of Berger's life in this remote village in the Alps. In four seasonal chapters, the film combines ideas and motifs from his work with the texture and history of his mountain home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A Pakistani living in England during the Thatcher years inherits a laundrette from his family. Together with his companion, he makes it a success. But trouble is only a step away.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperalism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sebastiao Salgado joins John Berger to pore over Salgado's collection 'Migrations'. Six years and 43 countries in the making, Migrations contains photographs of people pushed from their homes and traditions to cities and their margins, slums and streets and refugee camps. Sitting at the kitchen table of Berger's home, their intimate conversation, intercut with photographs from Migrations, combines a discussion of Salgado's work with a critique of...
10) Empire and film
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this volume of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema. Stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperialism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism, this book looks at all aspects of British colonial cinema.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking documentary from the Independent Film channel, filmmaker Isaac Julien takes us back to the early 70s and the explosion of blaxploitation films, today one of American cinema's most beloved cult genres. The original guilty pleasure, these fun and energetic films had all the action, comedy, sex and groovy music you could want in two hours worth of entertainment."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 744
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.
Series
Criterion collection volume 456
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Cardinal Mazarin dies in 1661. The young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, who wants to be prime minister and is looting the treasury. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand. Louis' mistress reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt,...
14) Tess
Series
Criterion collection volume 697
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
15) Tess
Series
Criterion collection volume 697
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
