Jonathan Demme
Summary
Neil Young will play three nights at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the original home of The Grand Ole Opry, performing songs from his new album, as well as six of his all-time greatest hits. All of the songs for this album were written while Neil was recuperating from a brain aneurysm that he suffered in April of this year. The film will be a compilation of these three shows - a true concert film. Performers will wear costumes evoking the rural extravagance...
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"Welcome to Stanley, North Dakota, sitting atop the largest oil discovery in North American history. In his debut documentary feature, director Noah Hutton captures the spectrum of changes wrought by the unprecedented boom. Through revealing interviews and breathtaking imagery of the northern plains, Crude Independence is a rumination on the future of small town America--a story of change at the hands of the global energy market and America's unyielding...
5) Philadelphia
Summary
Story of two competing lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
Summary
Manhunter: A retired detective enters the dreams of a serial killer in order to catch him and almost loses his own sanity.
Silence of the lambs: A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer.
Hannibal: It has been seven years since Hannibal Lecter escaped, and when one of his victims seeks revenge on him FBI agent Clarice Starling...
Series
Criterion collection volume 13
Summary
"In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender dynamics and gives one of the most memorable performances...
8) Beloved
Summary
Beloved (ca. 171 min.): On a journey to find freedom, Sethe is confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope.
Their eyes were watching God (ca. 113 min.): A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages,...
