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Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
Series
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. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
5) Sanjuro
Series
Description
A skilled but slovenly ronin comes to the aid of a group of naive young warriors fighting their corrupt clan leaders and manages to keep them out of trouble and alive in spite of their high ideals.
7) Hercules
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Animated, musical adaptation of the story of Hercules.
9) Melody time
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Features a blend of music and fantasy showcasing musical numbers from seven classic stories.
10) Gertrud
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Around 1910, a woman who is unhappily married to a lawyer meets a famous poet whom she had loved, has an affair with a young composer and finally decides to live alone in Paris.
12) The outlaw
Series
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Notorious western tells the tale of Billy the Kid and the sexy dame (Jane Russell) who loves him.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelganger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
16) Man bites dog
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
"A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter"--Internet Movie Database.
17) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1940
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the period of several days, Katharina's privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker.
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