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Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (25 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Classic biographical telling of the life of Abraham Lincoln, from his youth to his death.
2) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but nai?ve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
Series
Criterion collection volume 450
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet .
Description
Anthony finds himself embroiled in the machinations of his best friend, who is an elaborate schemer. With the help of a getaway driver they develop a plan to rob a small bookstore.
Series
Criterion collection volume 414
Publisher
Distributed by Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A driver and a mechanic join a drag race driving east from L.A. in a souped up '55 Chevy, where they challenge another driver to a cross country race with their pink slips as the prize.
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 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 399
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1987
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
9) The river
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
10) Breathless
Series
Criterion collection volume 408
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet. (80 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
Series
Criterion collection volume 224
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
12) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (41 p.).
Description
A young couple who pretend to be brother and sister move from Chicago to the Texas panhandle to escape poverty. There, they work the ranch of a rich and handsome farmer, who has fallen in love with the woman.
13) The fallen idol
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
14) Stagecoach
Series
Criterion collection volume 516
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians. On the National Film Registry.
"It's impossible to overstate the influence of Ford's magnificent film."--Time Out.
15) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Set in Sicily in the 1800s, this film depicts Prince Salina, a great landowner, who watches the decrease of the aristocracy's power and influence during the 'Il Risorgimento', the unification of Italy under the royal House of Savoy. The upper class tries to ignore the nationalist movements, while the prince's rebellious nephew joins Giuseppe Garibaldi's revolutionaries.
Series
Criterion collection volume 26
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
British comedy thriller about a racketeer who attempts to transform the London dockyards into a potential Olympics site.
17) Life of Brian
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 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.
19) 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.
20) Five easy pieces
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Description
An extremely crass and frustrated oil worker, and failed child pianist hiding from his past in Texas. Robert Dupea spends his life drinking beer and sleeping with (and cheating on) his annoying but adoring wannabe girlfriend, but when he learns that his father is dying in Washington State, he leaves because leaving is what Dupea does best, from his problems, fears, and those who love him.
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