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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...
2) 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.
3) 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
Alliance Vivafilm
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb, wedged between the high school, the mine and the skate park. One morning, he finds his friend Thomas's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more and more detached from the world around him. Only Mia, his best friend's girl, can reach him. With more questions than answers, Josh's is the story...
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.
6) 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...
9) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (37 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Kindly antiques dealer Jesus Gris happens upon an ancient golden device, and soon finds himself possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious, crude American named Angel.
10) 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.
11) 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.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 650 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow the adventures of three ordinary girls as they make life's awkward moments a thousand times worse. Along with a colorful bunch of classmates, they learn their most important lessons the hard way. Like whether goats are an appropriate form of transportation, who would win in a wrestling match between the principal and a deer, and most notably, if the three-second rule applies to weenies that fly through mohawks.
14) 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...
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.
16) Half moon
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mamo is an iconic Kurdish musician in the twilight of his life and failing health, must lead a dozen of his sons to Iraq for a concert to celebrate the fall of Saddam Hussein and the end of his repression of Kurdish music. Their plan is to drive across the border between Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan, but the road will be long and winding and the local wise man has predicted calamity. The men will encounter the most sublime visions alongside the most...
17) Rome open city
Series
Criterion collection volume 500
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends.
18) The Class
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's...
19) Remorques
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For Andre and the other members of the crew of the tugboat Cyclone, existence is harshly divided between the danger of the stormy seas and the safety of life at home with their patient women. When Andre meets temptation in the form of the alluring Catherine during a risky rescue, he comes perilously close to betraying his wife of ten years.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., b&w and col.; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five short films by the greatest directors of the Czech New Wave make up this extraordinary anthology ; based on the stories of legendary Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, the films represent a range of artistic expression and human emotion.
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