Serge Bromberg
Author
Language
English
Description
When an eccentric small-town collector discovers the showreels of the man who brought moving pictures to the Heartland, he begins a journey to restore the legacy of America's greatest barnstorming movieman and save these irreplaceable cinematic treasures from turning to dust.
3) Mr. Lucky
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Spirited comedy of a professional gambler trying to raise a new bankroll by fleecing a wealthy young woman.
4) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Language
None
Formats
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Special édition.
Language
Français
Description
Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. After a year, he had not only established his Tramp character, he also learned to write and direct his own films and achieved public recognition as a star comedian. The Chaplin at Keystone collection contains over thirty of Charlie Chaplin's greatest works.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Yiddish
Description
"During their heyday in the late 1930s, Yiddish movies covered a broad range of genres: comedies, soap operas, the supernatural, literary adaptations, musicals, and Lubitsch-style romances. Unified through language, gesture, and a common cultural sensibility, they captured the essence of the Jewish soul. [...] This five-disc set captures the diversity of Yiddish film." --Back cover.
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