James Quandt
1) Kamenʹ
Series
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Russian
Description
"A mysterious tale about a young night watchman's encounter with the ghost of Chekhov"--Container.
2) Akai satsui
Series
Criterion collection volume 471, 474
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Sadako is a typical Imamura heroine: one who revels in the pleasures of food, labor, sex, and self-preservation. Carrying the burden of her status as a lowly, poor, prostitute-birthed commoner wife, Sadako is subjected to an escalating series of belittlement both at home and in society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 393
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1962
Language
日本語
Description
When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Series
Criterion collection volume 395
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
Okuyama, after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist's radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations.
5) Tati shorts
Series
Criterion collection volume 729
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The charming short films directed by Jacques Tati.
Series
Criterion collection volume 500
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2009.
Language
Italiano
Description
When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends.
7) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...