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Black Panthers Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1968 | 29 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton.
Documentary / Short
Lions Love (...and Lies) Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1969 | 112 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men delight in one another's bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics.
Comedy / Drama
Mur Murs Blu-ray Movie
Mural Murals
Criterion | 1981 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city.
Documentary
Documenteur Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1981 | 64 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A lonely French woman faces growing despair while living with her son in Los Angeles.
Drama / Foreign
One Sings, the Other Doesn't Blu-ray Movie
L'une chante, l'autre pas
Criterion | 1977 | 121 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
When seventeen-year-old Pauline helps struggling mother of two Suzanne procure the money for an abortion, a deep bond forms between the two, one that endures over the course of more than a decade as each searches for her place in the world.
Drama / Foreign
Réponse de femmes Blu-ray Movie
Réponse de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe / Women Reply: Our Bodies, Our Sex
Criterion | 1975 | 8 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1975, a television station gave seven female filmmakers seven minutes to answer the question "What does it mean to be a woman?" Varda responded with this frank assemblage, examining how women are taking control over their bodies and lives.
Documentary / Short / Foreign
Plaisir d'amour en Iran Blu-ray Movie
The Pleasure of Love in Iran
Criterion | 1976 | 7 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young couple goes sightseeing in Iran.
Drama / Romance / Short / Foreign
Vagabond Blu-ray Movie
Sans toit ni loi
Criterion | 1985 | 105 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
7 p., cuis., s. de b., ... (à saisir) Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1984 | 29 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A real estate agent tries to sell a seven room house with kitchen and bathroom to a young couple even though he had previously sold it to its former owners.
Short / Foreign
Jane B. par Agnès V. Blu-ray Movie
Jane B. for Agnès V.
Criterion | 1988 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A portrait of actress, singer, and model Jane Birkin.
Documentary / Drama / Fantasy / Foreign
Kung-Fu Master! Blu-ray Movie
Le petit amour
Criterion | 1988 | 79 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A lonely forty-year-old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the fourteen-year-old Julien, but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
Drama / Romance / Foreign
Jacquot de Nantes Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1991 | 118 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A portrait of filmmaker Jacques Demy during his formative years in 1940s France.
Biography / Drama / Foreign
The Young Girls Turn 25 Blu-ray Movie
Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans
Criterion | 1993 | 64 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Twenty-five years after the release of "The Young Girls of Rochefort", Agnès Varda returned to Rochefort to convene a one-of-a-kind reunion: Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, composer Michel Legrand, and then-publicist Bertrand Tavernier revisit the streets that they imbued with a dreamy second life.
Documentary / Music / Foreign
The World of Jacques Demy Blu-ray Movie
L'univers de Jacques Demy
Criterion | 1995 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Interweaving clips from Jacques Demy's films with insightful interviews with his collaborators and fans, Agnès Varda offers an illuminating overview of her partner's life and career.
Documentary / Foreign
One Hundred and One Nights Blu-ray Movie
Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
Criterion | 1995 | 104 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
100-year old Simon Cinéma lives in a magnificent house filled with movie memorabilia. To help him remember the important details of his career he hires Camille, a film student to write down his remembrances and experiences which have involved all areas of movie-making. Camille comes once a day for 101 days. Film clips, photographs, and actual visitors highlight his stories.
Comedy / History / Romance / Foreign
The Gleaners and I Blu-ray Movie
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Criterion | 2000 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life, as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnès Varda. The aesthetic, political, and finally moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip, and in previous generations were immortalized by the likes of Millet and Van Gogh.
Documentary / Foreign
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later Blu-ray Movie
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après
Criterion | 2002 | 63 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film.
Documentary / Foreign
Faces Places Blu-ray Movie
Visages villages
Criterion | 2017 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Director Agnès Varda and photographer and muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Documentary / Foreign
Salut les cubains Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1964 | 30 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Filmmaker Agnès Varda presents a photographic exploration of Cuba, set in 1963.
Documentary / Short / Foreign
Ulysse Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1982 | 22 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda interviews two subjects from a photograph she took 30 years earlier.
Documentary / Short / Foreign