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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the Movies is a monumental collection of 140 archival motion pictures. From 19th-century camera tests never intended for public screening to the last feature-length film released by the Thomas A. Edison Studios in 1918 (The Unbeliever), the collection is digitally mastered with musical scores, surrounded by a wealth of historical documents and interviews with...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Professor Challenger, the man of vision who persuades his skeptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. Resisting danger and death, Challenger's party return to London in triumph with a captive Brontosaurus. But the beast excapes, turning the city into a shambles and standing the 20th century on it's head.
8) The unknown
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
None
Description
The Unknown (1927) - A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost. The Mystic (1925) - An American criminal imports a gang of Hungarian gypsies to gain control over a fortune. The victim, Doris Merrick, is persuaded by fake medium Zara to hand over her jewels to Nash. Both features are silent with English intertitles.
Publisher
Kino International [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
10) Safety last!
Series
Criterion collection volume 662
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
None
Description
The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
11) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
12) The artist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
13) Hard luck
Publisher
FunnyMovies.tv
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
None
Description
Silent film star Buster Keaton plays a down-on-his-luck young man who decides to end it all after losing his job and his girl. Silent with English intertitles.
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living with her abusive prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally beats her protector, takes her back home, and, in his rage, kills her. The grief stricken Chinese man...
16) Hell bent
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
None
Description
Cheyenne Harry was an outlaw with a heart of gold. Harry flees the law after a poker game shootout, and arrives in the town of Rawhide, where he becomes friendly with local cowboy Cimmaron Bill and the kindly dance hall girl Bess Thurston, who is tending to her sick mother. Gang leader Beau Ross falls hard for Bess, and kidnaps her. Cheyenne Harry goes to desperate lengths traveling across the deadly desert in order to free Bess from the hard-bitten...
17) The navigator
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An inexperienced young man finds himself shipwrecked with a beautiful woman, and together they must learn how to take care of themselves, with hilarious results! Bonus features include documentary, trailers, and more.
18) Grandma's boy
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Description
A scared young man becomes brave after his grandmother loans him a magical good luck charm.
19) Spite marriage
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
None
Description
An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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