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Criterion collection volume 680
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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...
2) City lights
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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...
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Masters of cinema volume no. 1
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In this tale of temptation and redemption, the pleasant and peaceful life of a naive country man is turned upside down when he falls for a cold-blooded yet seductive woman from the city. She tries to persuade him to drown his virtuous wife and come back to the city with her.
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"Once upon a time there was a little girl named Carmen, who never knew her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend. A re-telling of the classic 'Snow White'"--Container.
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In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...
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Criterion collection volume 706
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A heartfelt story of a housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband.
11) Trust me on this
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What would it take to lure a serious young newswoman from a respectable New England paper to the most notorious supermarket tabloid in America? How about the promise of a salary that's triple what she's making? En route to her new job at the Weekly Galaxy, Sara Joslyn stumbles across a bloody corpse in a Buick Riviera. A big story? Not in this paper: Sara finds herself scheming with three drunken Australians over the problem of the 100 year old twins...
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Criterion collection volume 706
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A housewife, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband.
16) Way down East
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A poor country girl is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a blizzard.
17) Sunrise
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A naive country man falls for a cold-blooded city woman who persuades him to drown his wife in order to be with her.
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Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney were first introduced on TV's Happy Days, and their ensuing spin-off series, co-starring Lenny, Squiggy, Carmine and the rest of the Milwaukee gang, soon became a smash-hit sitcom with audiences nationwide, in one of television's all-time greatest comedies!
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Having pioneered the art and technology of cinema during its infancy (organizing a system of film production at the Gaumont Studios in France), Alice Guy Blach ̌moved to the United States where she co-founded the Solax Company, where she served as head of a production. Enjoying complete creative freedom, she explored long-form storytelling, alternating between serious dramatizations of the early Twentieth-century American experience.
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Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney were first introduced on TV's Happy Days, and their ensuing spin-off series, co-starring Lenny, Squiggy, Carmine and the rest of the Milwaukee gang, soon became a smash-hit sitcom with audiences nationwide, in one of television's all-time greatest comedies!
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