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A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer for genetic experiments: a female newscaster and the daughter of the musician may be the only missing links around. Why them? And where have all the Mexicans gone? Even the border guards grieve. The state and its economy grind to a halt.

The most celebrated and controversial film by Argentine documentary filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer, who founded the "third cinema" movement Cine de la Base and was disappeared by Argentina's military dictatorship in 1976. Mexico: The Frozen Revolution is a socio-political analysis of the betrayal of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The director uses rare newsreel footage of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata in conjunction with footage of the Tlatelolco massacre at the 1968 Olympic Games in Argentina to comment on the failure of revolution in his own time. A Special Prize-winner at the 1971 Locarno International Film Festival. In Spanish with English subtitles.

La Sierra is part of The Human Rights Watch Collection.

La Sierra is a barrio in Medellin, Colombia - the cocaine capital of the world. Here, lives are defined by drugs, guns and violence. A state of perptual urban warfare exists, with paramilitary gangs, leftist guerrillas and the US-sponsored Colombian military battling continually for power and control. This award-winning film portrays three of La Sierra's inhabitants: 22-year-old paramilitary leader Edison, a self-professed killer and father of six children by six women; gang soldier Jesus, ready for death at any moment; and Cielo, only 17 and already a mother with a boyfriend in prison.

Entering a world where few journalists dare to venture, La Sierra reveals not only startling moments of violence and its aftermath, but also those of tenderness and faith which give the community hope for survival.

WE JAM ECONO - THE STORY OF THE MINUTEMEN is the acclaimed feature-length documentary on the too-brief life of one of the most revered, intriguing, and inspired American bands ever. At the heart of their story is the immeasurable personal and musical bond between bassist Mike Watt and singer and guiatrist D. Boon. Childhood friends, their unbridled creativity and political views were the foundation of this groundbreaking band which refused to be categorized as Punk.

The film weaves together personal tales from Watt and drummer George Hurley with archival interview footage of the band and rare live performances. New interviews with over 50 musicians, artists, journalists, and friends help tell the Minutemen story, from their humble beginnings in the harbor town of San Pedro, California, to the tragic 1985 death of D. Boon in a highway accident in the Arizona desert.

Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece gained a cult following through late night television and has been bootlegged for years. Made by industrial filmmakers on a modest budget, Carnival of Souls was intended to have the “look of a Bergman” and “feel of a Cocteau,” and succeeds with its strikingly used locations and spooky organ score. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion. Criterion is proud to present the ultimate special edition of this eerily effective B-movie classic that continues to inspire filmmakers today.

Buckle on your armor and pick up your lute. Legendary Monty Python star and medieval scholar Terry Jones opens your eyes to the truths behind nine medieval characters you thought you knew. Through a lively mix of humor and research, you'll see beyond Renaissance myths and time-worn stereotypes. Meet intelligent and remarkably healthy peasants; damsels who ran businesses and led armies; plus prosperous monks, risk-taking minstrels and litigious outlaws. Was your typical knight a noble hero or a looting murderer? And can you believe Tudor tales of medieval kings? A most informative and entertaining exposé! Emmy® nominated. As seen on The History Channel. 

After finishing what would become his international phenomenon Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa immediately turned to one of the most daring, and problem-plagued, productions of his career. The Idiot, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s nineteenth-century masterpiece about a wayward, pure soul’s reintegration into society—updated by Kurosawa to capture Japan’s postwar aimlessness—was a victim of studio interference and, finally, public indifference. Today, this “folly” looks ever more fascinating, a stylish, otherworldly evocation of one man’s wintry mindscape.

The first film made in the newly independent Republic of Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk (Grégoire Colin), a British photo agent (Katrin Cartlidge), and a native Macedonian war photographer (Rade Šerbedžija) to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. Made during the strife of the war-torn Balkan states in the nineties, this gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoral innocence, and remains one of recent cinema’s most powerful laments on the futility of war.

In Akira Kurosawa’s first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, the only female protagonist in Kurosawa’s body of work and one of his strongest heroes. Transforming herself from genteel bourgeois daughter to independent social activist, Yukie traverses a tumultuous decade in Japanese history.

:: Hell Ride (Blu-ray) (Larry Bishop, États-Unis, 2008) VA
   
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:: C'est pas moi c'est lui (Pierre Richard, France, 1980) VFi
   
:: Bones - Saison 1 (États-Unis, 2005) VA

:: Lipstick Jungle - Saison 1 (États-Unis, 2008) VA

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:: Smart People (Noam Murro, États-Unis, 2008) VFi

:: National Lampoon's Homo Erectus (Adam Rifkin, États-Unis, 2007) VA

:: Ninja Cheerleaders (David Presley, États-Unis, 2008) VA

:: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, États-Unis, 2008) VFi

:: Les trois brigands (Tomi Ungerer, Allemagne, 2007) VFi

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:: La rivière aux castors (Philippe Calderon, France, 2008) VFi

:: Rue des pignons (Canada) VFi

:: Wieners (Mark Steilen, États-Unis, 2008) VFi

:: Hud (Martin Ritt, États-Unis, 1963) VFi

:: The Bloodstained Shadow (Antonio Bido, Italie, 1978) VA

:: Lady Emanuelle (Pasquale Fanetti, Italie, 1989) VA

:: The Tingler (William Castle, États-Unis, 1959) VA

:: Un chien qui rapporte (Jean Choux, France, 1932) VFi

:: Penelope (Mark Palansky, Royaume-Uni / États-Unis, 2006) VFi

:: Born to Kill (Hyeon-su Jang, Corée du Sud, 1996) STa

:: Rambo IV (Blu-ray) (Sylvester Stallone, États-Unis / Allemagne, 2008) VFi

:: Kiss of Death (Barbet Schroeder, États-Unis, 1995) VFi

:: L'âge d'homme... maintenant ou jamais (Raphael Fejtö, France, 2007) VFi

:: Electric Shadows (Jiang Xiao, Chine, 2004) VA

:: Rogue - Unrated (Greg Mclean, Australie / États-Unis, 2007) VFi

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:: Eugenie de Sade (Jess Franco, Liechtenstein / France, 1975) VA

:: Ripple Effect (Philippe Caland, États-Unis, 2007) VA