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3) 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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gripping novel of culture clash and murder: as summer draws to a close, a small Long Island town is gripped by a series of mysterious deaths-and one young man, a loner taken in by a local, tries to piece together the crimes before his own time runs out. Orient is an isolated town on the north fork of Long Island, its future as a historic village newly threatened by the arrival of wealthy transplants from Manhattan-many of them artists. One late...
5) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
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...
Publisher
Pegassus Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Español
Description
A story from real life about tramp Pito Perez, a native of Michoacan where he lived, suffered and died. a poet wrote his adventures, making this a great work.
Una historia de la vida real acera del vagabundo Pito Perez, originario de Michoacán donde vivió, sufrió y murió. Un poeta escribió sus aventuras, haciendo de esta una gran obra.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat and Colorado sugar beets and Washington apples. With this new agriculture came an unavoidable need for harvest workers-for hands to pick the apples, cotton,...
12) Treacle Walker
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
An extraordinary, "playful, moving, and wholly remarkable" (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers.
An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds' eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day...
An extraordinary, "playful, moving, and wholly remarkable" (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers.
An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds' eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day...
13) Boxcar Bertha
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1972
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930's, a homeless woman and an union organizer team up on a crime spree to get revenge from a railroad company.
14) The kid
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The Tramp rescues an abandoned baby and raises him to become his inseparable sidekick.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1119
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it's up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco...
Publisher
Digiview
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Life with father: Adaptation of Clarence Day's humorous autobiographical account of family life with his strong-minded father in the late 1800's.
My man Godfrey: A zany millionaire family invite a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
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