(0)Jeremy Thomas
21) Kon-Tiki
Language
Norwegian
Description
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea to settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long journey across eight thousand kilometers, all while the world was watching.
Language
English
Description
The bizarre and hilarious fictional documentary charting the rise and fall of punk's most notorious band. The film presents the band's success as an elaborate scam perpetrated by its calculating manager, Malcolm McLaren, to make 'a million pounds.' Features over seventeen classic performances.
23) 13 assassins
Language
日本語
Description
Thirteen brave samurai must face overwhelming odds in an epic battle against a sadistic lord and his army of 200 to prevent him from plunging Japan into war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of author Laurens van der Post's experiences as a WWII prisoner of war.
25) Stealing beauty
Language
English
Description
A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother's diary.
27) Kon-Tiki
Language
English
Description
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea to settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long journey across eight thousand kilometers, all while the world was watching. This feature film is based on Heyerdahl's...
28) Insignificance
Series
Criterion collection volume 566
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.
29) The hit
Series
Criterion collection volume 469
Language
English
Description
In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his tranquil Spanish village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
31) Young Adam
Language
English
Description
The film focuses on Joe; a young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by Les and Ella. They happen upon the corpse of a young woman floating in the water and it is evident Joe knows more that he will admit. Meanwhile, Joe and Ella have an affair.
32) Franklyn
Language
English
Description
Preest is a masked vigilante detective who is searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City, a monolithic metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervor. Esser is a broken man who is searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of London's homeless. Milo is a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love. Emilia is a beautiful art student whose suicidal art projects...
33) Tideland
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life change, but the result is her increasingly odd behavior. Jeliza-Rose begins to communicate with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears...
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of author Laurens van der Post's experiences as a WWII prisoner of war.
36) High-rise
Language
English
Description
Dr. Laing is the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
Series
Language
English
Description
"For decades, legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas has driven from England to the Cannes Film Festival. This time, he's joined by acclaimed filmmaker Mark Cousins. On their intimate five-day road movie through rural France, they remember some of the most acclaimed and controversial films ever made: 'The Last Emperor,' which won nine Oscars for Thomas when he was still in his 30s, including Best Picture; David Cronenberg's 'Crash' and its Cannes scandal;...
39) Moko jumbie
Language
English
Description
"A gothic punk Caribbean love story arises in the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad. English girl Asha, returning to her Indo-Caribbean family home, is drawn to Roger, the Afro-Caribbean boy across the road. Her auntie forbids their relationship, while her uncle is oddly aloof. The taboo attraction between the two teenagers grows despite family disapproval, political turmoil, a clash between cultures, and mysterious hauntings by unnaturally...
40) Eureka
Language
English
Description
In the Canadian wilderness, Jack McCann breaks through the snow to an underground cavern and becomes the world's richest man. Twenty years later Jack is living like a king in his own Caribbean island but his dream becomes a nightmare when his daughter marries a gigolo, his wife becomes a drunk and his lawyer becomes a gangster who will stop at nothing to get money to build a casino.