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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
This is the story of how a shellshocked World War One veteran, who'd left school at 12, took to the road as a hawker and ended up creating a national icon. The clothing design, retail and manufacturing business that he established in the small Victorian town of Warrnambool would, at its peak, encompass 55 stores around Australia and employ over 2750 people. It was called Fletcher Jones and Staff, because the staff actually owned the company. Fletcher...
122) La Habanera
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Legendary director Douglas Sirk's (Written on the wind, Imitation of life) La Habanera is a lushly poetic and boldly modern musical drama decades ahead of its time. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios (Metropolis), under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later force him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" Zarah Leander into a dark and intimate anti-colonial melodrama....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From actual murder to magazine fiction to movie, the history of Double Indemnity is as complex as anything that hit the screen during film noir's classic period. A 1927 tabloid sensation "crime of the century" inspired journalist and would-be crime-fiction writer James M. Cain to pen a novella. Hollywood quickly bid on the film rights, but throughout the 1930s a strict code of censorship made certain that no studio could green-light a murder melodrama...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
DW Griffith is properly esteemed as the Father of Film from his years of discovery making short films at the pioneer Biograph Company and for such pioneering features as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East and Orphans of the Storm, but his later films - several of them lost or almost unavailable - are often dismissed as back efforts of a talent in decline. Griffith's 1928 comedy-drama The Battle of the Sexes belies this...
125) Dinner at eight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multi-starred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber...
126) The outsiders
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Francis Ford Coppola's stylized teen melodrama is based on the popular novel by S. E. Hinton. In 1960s Tulsa, the "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks are represented by rival gangs, the upscale Socs and the underprivileged Greasers. Darrel Curtis (Patrick Swayze) is doing his best to raise his two younger brothers, Sodapop (Rob Lowe in his first film role) and Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell). Sensitive Ponyboy is a budding writer in love with Cherry...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1924.
Language
English
Description
“On leaving the theatre one has the impression of having witnessed the birth of a new art.” - Adolf Loos. Flicker Alley and Lobster Films are proud to present this groundbreaking landmark of artistic collaboration and avant-garde design, newly-restored with two original scores from Aidje Tafial and the Alloy Orchestra, in its North American Blu-ray premiere.. Released to intense controversy in 1924 for its cinematic and technical innovations,...
128) Devil's backbone
Series
Criterion collection volume 666
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"One of the most personal film by Guillermo del Toro ... is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, it tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro expertly combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish melange that, like his later...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1006
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Loosely adapted from William Faulkner's controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
130) Cléo de 5 à 7
Series
Criterion collection volume 73
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
Français
Description
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
131) Dance, girl, dance
Series
Criterion collection volume 1028
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the '30s and early '40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship, jealousy, and ambition in the ruthless world of show business, Dance, Girl, Dance follows the intertwining fates of two chorus girls.
132) Psycho
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Criminal on the run, Marion Crane (Anne Heche) takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn)--a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his 'mother.' Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts inquiries from her sister (Julianne Moore) and a private investigator (William H. Macy). They both soon discover the morbid bond linking Norman to his mysterious 'mother' at the Bates Motel"--Container...
133) Mildred Pierce
Series
Criterion collection volume 860
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a...
134) Cartier cartel
Author
Publisher
Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Cartier GG Timmons and Monya Money White were born to teenage mothers who were also best friends. The two young neglectful mothers allowed Moneys alcoholic grandmother to raise their daughters. At 15, GG formed her own crew aptly named the Cartier Cartel. The main and only vision of the crew GG, Money, Bam, Lil Mama, and Shanine was to do petty crimes in order to wear the flyest gear. While Money loves boys, clothes, and cash (in that order), GG is...
Author
Publisher
Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Cartier is back from South Beach and anxious to begin the next chapter of her life with Head. She soon awakens from her love fantasy, however, and realizes that her dark knight isn't all he seems. With her love life on the rocks yet again, Cartier has a nightmare case of déjà vu that she must snap out of. Vowing to harden her heart for good this time, she redirects her energy to forming a new Cartier Cartel"--Back cover.
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