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Iris is travelling on a train through Europe and befriends Miss Froy, a kindly old lady. When Iris is knocked unconscious by a falling flower pot, she awakens to find Miss Froy mysteriously replaced by an imposter. She's led to believe the accident caused an illusion until Gilbert, a young musician, comes to her assistance. Together, they find themselves caught up in a mystery.
2) Red River
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
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Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
3) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
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Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Series
Criterion collection volume 102
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
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Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, including a performance at Madison Square Garden and a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where violence broke out between fans and Hell's Angels who were providing security. Includes performances by Ike and Tina Turner, the Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
9) 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
Criterion collection volume 174
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
11) The Bostonians
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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 214
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Description
A Pakistani and a young white man from South London take over a laundrette and convert it into an upscale place.
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (136 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her.
16) Umberto D
Series
Criterion collection volume 201
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003], c1952
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Series
Criterion collection volume 222
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his country diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and God.
18) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
20) The 400 blows
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Description
The semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel, portraying his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. Also includes the short film, Antoine and Colette, which originally appeared as part of the film L'amour à vingt ans, picking up Antoine's story a few years later, when he is living on his own and pursuing his first love affair, initiating a lifelong career of quixotic dreams...
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