Anna Karina
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (16 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1515 Machiavelli stated that it would be better for the Prince to be feared, than loved. Some 500 years later, Michael Hardt, political philosopher and co-author of *Empire, Multitude and Commonwealth*, asks what it would mean to base a political system on love, rather than on fear. How can we transform a society that is increasingly defined by a permanent state of war and cultivated by an industry of fear? How can we realize the paradigm shift...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When she was a teenager, Anna Sten was already a star in Soviet silent movies. When talking pictures started, she moved to Germany and had an impressive career there as well. Samuel Goldwyn, a prestigious independent Hollywood producer, brought her to Hollywood in the hopes that he had discovered the next Garbo or Dietrich. But the projects he picked for her were all big flops. At the age of 27, she was a has-been and her career never recovered.
3) Alphaville
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1965.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In ALPHAVILLE, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to ALPHAVILLE, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha (Anna Karina), the daughter of the scientist who designed Alpha 60....
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (170 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Inspired by the backstage Hollywood musicals of the 1930’s, this later period Rivette recounts the adventures of three young women in Paris, each at a turning point in her life – and with a musical number (or two)!
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A psychedelic peyote-fueled fever dream of a film, traversing multiple formats as a pair of drifters are on a quest to find a legendary musician when they team up with an Indigenous woman intent on reclaiming her land.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1961.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Angela wants a child at all costs, but her husband, Emile, refuses. At the end of her tether, she pretends to her husband that she's asked their friend Alfred to do her the honors and that he's accepted.
7) The Nun
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1965.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (141 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Around 1750, a young girl is sent to a convent against her will. When she asks to renounce her vows, she finds herself caught in a fatal trap. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*In its sculptural compositions and meticulous choreography of bodies through space, it has a recognizably Rivettian formal beauty.*" - Justin Chang, **The Los Angeles Times**
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (39 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
In a series of twelve vignettes, follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.