Maggie Renzi
1) Girlfight
Series
The Criterion collection volume 1219
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn, a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter. In Karyn Kusama's raw, understated feature debut, Rodriguez commands the screen with both tightly coiled intensity and deep wells of vulnerability as a young woman hitting back at society's...
2) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
3) Lone star
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
4) Passion Fish
Author
Language
English
Description
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.