Monica
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English
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Stalled in his company's pecking order, ad man David Howard failed to land the Senior VP slot he wanted. He quits, convinces wife Linda to do the same, sells their house and stocks and buys a Winnebago to roam the USA. Though they feel they're Easy Riders, they're actually Born to Be Mild. With their $145,000 nest egg tucked reassuringly within reach, they make their first stop: Las Vegas. Goodbye, nest egg. Greetings, hilarity.
2) L'avventura
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Criterion collection volume 98
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Italiano
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Concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover and best friend. Antonioni's controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation. Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative in its own right.
3) L'avventura
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Criterion collection volume 98
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Italiano
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Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative in its own right, concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover and best friend. Antonioni₂s controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation.
4) La notte
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Criterion collection volume 678
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Italiano
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During one evening, an author and his wife begin to explore their deteriorating marriage and the indifference that they feel towards their circle of friends.
5) L'avventura
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Criterion collection volume 98
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Italiano
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Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; the searchers gradually become preoccupied with their own problems.
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Criterion collection volume 522
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Italiano
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A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
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Criterion collection volume 278
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Italiano
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Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
9) L'eclisse
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Criterion collection volume 278
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Italiano
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A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
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Criterion collection volume 694
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English
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Eleven-year-old Bud is a shy, dreamy boy who is adored by his close-knit family but tormented by his stronger schoolmates. It is only in the darkness of the neighborhood movie theatre that Bud feels free, escaping his drab life in the romantic, innocent films of the 1950s.
11) L'eclisse
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Criterion collection volume 278
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Italiano
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The concluding chapter of Michalangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L'Avventura and La Notte) tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover and drifts into a relationship with another.
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Criterion collection volume 290
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Français
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A perverse, playfully absurd comedy with a series of surreal sequences touching on many of the themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
13) La notte
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Criterion collection volume 678
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Italiano
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During one evening, an author and his wife begin to explore their deteriorating marriage and the indifference that they feel towards their circle of friends.
14) Amores perros
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Criterion collection volume 1060
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Español
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In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers, a young man mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman who seems to have it all, and a mysterious assassin who is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, collide in a tragic twist of fate that forever alters their personal journeys. A tour de force of violence and emotion captured in a rush of kinetic handheld camera work, an unforgettable plunge into a world of brutality...
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In 1996, Ry Cooder went to Cuba, rediscovering talents of Cuba's foremost folk musicians, and then making a recording selling millions and earning a Grammy Award. Cooder now returns to Cuba with filmmaker Wim Wenders to reveal the stories, personalities, and music of the performers who collaborated on that recording. Includes live performances in Amsterdam and at Carnegie Hall.