Recommended Films on Kanopy

(Recommendations by Christina.)

2019: Echo in the Canyon. Jakob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, others.

https://wls.kanopy.com/video/echo-canyon

This documentary celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.

 

2017: Faces Places, Dir. Agnès Varda.

https://wls.kanopy.com/video/faces-places

A heartwarming road movie/documentary, in which 89-year-old leading French filmmaker Agnès Varda travels through France with acclaimed 33-year-old photographer JR. Together they travel around France’s small towns in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories, and producing epic-size portraits of them.

 

2017: Logan Lucky, Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Starring Daniel Craig, Adam Driver, Channing Tatum

https://wls.kanopy.com/video/logan-lucky

Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy (Channing Tatum) and Clyde Logan (Adam Driver) set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

 

1967: Playtime, Dir. Jacques Tati. Starring Jacques Tati.

https://wls.kanopy.com/video/playtime

Tati again thrusts the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PLAYTIME is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.

 

1963: Charade, Dir. Stanley Donen. Starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn

https://wls.kanopy.com/video/charade

In this equally thrilling and romantic classic, Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) while on holiday in the French Alps. Her newfound romance is interrupted, however, upon her return home, when it is revealed that her husband has been murdered. The most Hitchcockian-film Hitchcock did not direct!

 

1955: Summertime, Dir. David Lean. Starring Katherine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi

https://wls.kanopy.com/video/summertime

An American spinster’s dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome–but married–Italian man while vacationing in Venice. Katharine Hepburn’s sensitive portrayal of the lonely heroine and Jack Hildyard’s glorious Technicolor photography make SUMMERTIME an endearing and visually enchanting film.

 

1940: His Girl Friday, Dir. Howard Hawks. Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

https://wls.kanopy.com/video/his-girl-friday

A screwball romantic-comedy, with fast-talking wit and undeniably strong-willed characters.

 

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