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1) Seasons
Publisher
Music Box Films
Formats
Description
After traveling the world alongside migrating birds and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays, Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age.
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in. + 2 pamphlets (18 x 13 cm.)
Description
Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos.
A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic...
Series
Criterion collection volume 141
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (190 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.
4) Bullhead
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provencal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six characters are drawn together by circumstances - an old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
7) Dogtooth
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A darkly surreal look at three teenagers confined to an isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen by their parents - an alternately hilarious and nightmarish experiment of manipulation and oppression.
8) Les cousins
Series
Criterion collection volume 581
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins recasts that film's stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gřard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles....
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., b&w and col.; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them.
A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them, a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical, but elegant and formal banquet...
10) Rosetta
Series
Criterion collection volume 621
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on her shoulder throughout.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, The Middle of the World is the story of a couple and their five children -- ages ranging from 6 months to 14 years old -- as they travel 3,200 km by bicycle to chase a dream. Romao, an illiterate and unemployed truck driver, and his wife Rose, leave the State of Paraiba in Brazil, and over the course of six months, travel across five states to reach Rio de Janeiro, in a quest for a job and a decent life.
13) Footnote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.
Special feature include behind the scenes footage, an evening with Joseph Cedar, theatrical trailer and footnote soundtrack.
14) Paisan
Series
Criterion collection volume 498
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A series of six vignettes, each vignette showing the story of one Allied soldier and his interactions with the Italian people he meets, during and after the liberation of Italy.
16) The last circus
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sad Clown Javier finds work in a circus and befriends a cast of characters, including brutish Happy Clown Sergio, who humiliates Javier daily in the name of entertainment. He also meets Natalia, a gorgeous acrobat and abused wife of Sergio. Javier falls deeply in love with her and tries to rescue her from her cruel, violent husband, unleashing Sergio's jealousy. With neither man willing to back down, the twisted love triangle evolves into a ferocious...
17) The music room
Series
Criterion collection volume 573
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
Director Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat desperately clinging to his way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years, now a shadow of its former vivid self. An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a showcase for some of India's most popular musicians of the day.
18) My best friend
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Unlikeable antiques dealer François always gets what he wants, but there's one thing he's never had: a friend. Challenged to a bet by his business partner, François must find someone who will pose as his best pal in just 10 days. Enlisting the assistance of charming taxi driver Bruno, François goes to outrageous lengths to be a likeable guy.
19) Secret sunshine
Series
Criterion collection volume 576
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([18] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh start.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatic retelling of the story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old Sicilian girl whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims) who break the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino. Her days are numbered from that moment on. She only has nine months to live.
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