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1) Red River
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Formats
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 938
Description
Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.
4) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
Series
Criterion collection volume 109
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Catherine, a German princess, married the Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Because of his madness, she was able to seize the throne and become known as Catherine the Great.
Series
Criterion collection volume 119
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two down-and-out British actors leave their city life for a disastrous vacation in the country with an eccentric uncle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A clan lord orders an aging swordsman to have his son marry the lord's mistress, but reverses his decision after the young couple falls in love. The samurai rebels against his master when the master demands back his mistress, who has become the samurai's beloved daughter in law.
11) Ace in the hole
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Formats
Description
An early look at the impact of mass media in the public arena, featuring the story of a cynical and manipulative journalist. When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, an amoral, down-on-his-luck reporter takes over and prolongs the rescue effort in order to make a name for himself.
12) Army of shadows
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Formats
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
14) Brute force
Series
Criterion collection volume 383
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joe Collins, along with his fellow inmates, live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
15) The Burmese harp
Series
Criterion collection volume 379
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment.
Series
Criterion collection volume 397
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 p.)
Description
An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. 12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the World War II eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.
Series
Criterion collection volume 410
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 p.).
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
Series
Criterion collection volume 463
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires.
19) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
20) Revanche
Series
Criterion collection volume 502
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.
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