Simon of the Desert Blu-ray Silent Cinema Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut

Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century

Acclaimed period drama/romance with some haunting moments

27 mins): film starring Alan Bates

Made in response to the suicide of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's lover Armin Meier

'La Jetée' / 'Sans Soleil' Director: Chris Marker (1962 + 1983) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | Restorations | French w/ English subtitles

Simon of the Desert Blu-ray Silent Cinema Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut'Simon of the Desert' Director: Luis Buuel (1965) Radiance Blu ray 4K restoration Spanish w English subtitles A typically outrageous and provocative commentary on organised religion from Luis Buuel, presenting the parable of Simon the would be saint who leads an ascetic life at the top of a succession of pillars of varying height, while being continually tested with visits from a seductive incarnation of the Devil, memorably played by Silvia Pinal