Ernst Lubitsch
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
Series
Criterion collection volume 291
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A recently deceased playboy must tell his life story to the Devil before being admitted into hell.
3) Sumurun
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sumurun, a member of a harem, turns away from her sheik and falls in love with a cloth merchant.
4) Cluny Brown
Series
Criterion collection volume 997
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch.
5) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In post-World War I Germany, a young woman mourning the death of her fiancé meets a mysterious Frenchman who comes to lay flowers on his grave and claims to be his old friend.
6) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In post-World War I Germany, a young woman mourning the death of her fiancé meets a mysterious Frenchman who comes to lay flowers on his grave and claims to be his old friend.
Series
Criterion collection volume 592
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Description
"A trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult 'gentleman's' agreement, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht (Notorious) from a play. A risque relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist unable, or unwilling, to choose between the equally dashing painter and playwright she meets on a train en route to the City of Light."
8) Cluny Brown
Series
Criterion collection volume 997
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch.
10) Heaven can wait
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this blending of melodrama and comedy, the story of a rebellious harem member who rejects the sheikh and falls in love with a merchant is interwoven with several other related stories.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The commander of a remote fort (and his lovely daughter) eagerly awaits a new lieutenant. En route, he is captured by outlaws who roam the snow-covered mountains and the daughter of their leader quickly falls for the young officer, setting in motion an outrageous farce.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Oyster Princess: a comedy in which a pampered American oyster tycoon plans to find a prince to marry his much-indulged daughter, but things don't go his way.
I don't want to be a man: while her father is away, a teenage tomboy impersonates a man in this gender-bending absurdist comedy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 170
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women"--Container.
16) Monte Carlo
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiance? at the altar and whisks away to the Riviera.
17) Madame DuBarry
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color-tinted black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
"Jeanne Becu, Countess of Barry, rises from humble origins to become a plaything of the rich and powerful during the firestorm of the French Revolution. But it is her romance with King Louis XV that ends her ascent to power, and brings her into the shadow of the guillotine"--
18) Holiday
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (384 min.) : sound, black & white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (83 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tycoon John Glidden, dying but still vigorous, is so dissatisfied with his relatives and associates that, rather than will his money to any of them, he decides to give it away in million-dollar amounts to strangers picked from the city directory. He picks a meek china salesman, a prostitute, a forger, two ex-vaudevillians who hate road hogs, a condemned man, a mild-mannered clerk, a boisterous Marine, and an oppressed inmate of an old ladies' home....