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Series
Criterion collection volume 46
Publisher
Criterion collection
Pub. Date
1932
Language
English
Description
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all -- man.
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Français
Description
In this classic tale of adventure duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
9) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
[Distributed by] Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Disc one contains Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making of film as well as an audio essay by Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda, an introduction by Terry Gilliam, and the theatrical trailer. Disc two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television, an imagined documentary, as well as a documentary about Nino Rota, the maestro behind the music of Fellini's films, interviews,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
Series
Criterion collection volume 130
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001, c1965
Language
Czech
Description
When the Nazis come to Czechoslovakia, they appoint Tono as the "Aryan controller" of a shop owned by an elderly Jewish widow. The two become friends, and Tono faces a difficult decision when the Nazis start rounding up the Jews.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
13) Withnail & I
Series
Criterion collection volume 119
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Two down-and-out young London actors decide to take a vacation at the seedy estate of the uncle of one of them. The surprise comes from what lies in store for two inept, city-bred boys in the country.
14) Bob le flambeur
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
16) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1972
Language
Russian
Description
Ground control has been receiving bizarre transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he too experiences the strange phenomena afflicting the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Series
Criterion collection volume 174
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films
18) The Bostonians
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant 19th century suffragette, takes on the education of a young girl with the gift of oratory. Olive hopes to use her gift for the feminist cause, but finds her student involved in a love triangle with Basil Ransom, a young lawyer from Mississippi, who is strongly opposed to the feminists in Boston.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003, c1953
Language
日本語
Description
Upon arriving at the homes of their married children in Tokyo, Tomi and Shukichi find themselves welcomed instead with a trip to the hot springs, as their children are too busy to entertain them, but when Tomi gets sick and she and Shukichi travel home, their children make haste to be at their sides.
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
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