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Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Language
English
Description
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
2) Whip it
Language
English
Description
Bliss Calendar is a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family's footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track, literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes 'Babe Ruthless', the hottest thing on eight wheels.
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. Bill (Richard Gere), a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams). Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes**. Winner of the Best Director Award and Nominated for the Palm d'Or at the...
4) True women
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of friendship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
10) Glory road
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Follows the first predominately African American basketball team in college history to an NCAA championship.
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
With a groundbreaking combination of country music and rhythm & blues, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, a band from Lubbock, Texas, catapulted to national stardom in just three short years. By the age of 22, Buddy Holly had it all, but tragedy cut short his brilliant and promising career.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two rival crime families. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain the last man standing.
13) Secondhand lions
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reporter is sent to chronicle the last days of an anti-death penalty activist now living on death row, after having been convicted of the murder of a fellow activist. The reporter grows to suspect he may have been framed, and sets out to verify her doubts.
David Gale era un miembro activo de Deathwatch, un grupo activista en contra de la pena de muerte. Constance era una activista compañera de Deathwatch. Cuando se encuentra a Constance violada...
15) Man of the house
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleaders. Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach and move in with the young women.
16) The Texican
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Audie Murphy has been framed and comes out of hiding in Mexico to track down a corrupt saloon keeper who not only set Murphy up in the first place, but also murdered his brother, a newspaperman, who was trying to expose the scheme.
17) Rio Bravo
Language
English
Description
On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
20) Hud
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic revisionist western explores complex familial relationships as well as the pitfalls of modern capitalism by following the daily life of Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) and his hero-worshipping nephew Lon (Brandon DeWilde). Though Hud is an amoral, cold-hearted man, he was celebrated as an iconic anti-hero to the countercultural youth audiences of the 1960s. Winner...
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