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41) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for a crime they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
42) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
43) Missing
Series
Criterion collection volume 449
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A film based loosely on actual events. A declassified document released in 1999 by the U.S. Government appears to contradict the State Department's official statement on the film, supporting the essential themes of the film. From http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19991008/
A film based on the disappearance of journalist Charles Horman. A father searches for his missing son during the oppressive and violent political chaos of the 1973 Chilean coup....
44) White dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 455
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (26 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. Now it's up to an animal trainer to try to change the dog.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 150 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
46) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1946
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (102 min., 94 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 program notes.
Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
47) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Formats
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 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.
49) Il posto
Series
Criterion collection volume 194
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta. A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man's stumbling...
50) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
51) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of her mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation.
52) Mamma Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 236
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 p. : ill.)
Description
A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.
53) Walker
Series
Criterion collection volume 423
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
54) Monterey pop
Series
Criterion collection volume 168
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
©2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Monterey Pop is the first filmed document of a rock festival. The Monterey Pop Festival, held on California's Monterey Peninsula in 1967, helped launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding. Legendary moments captured on film include Pete Townshend destroying his guitar and Jimi Hendrix burning his.
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.
56) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (63 p. : col. ill., port. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
57) Hobson's choice
Series
Criterion collection volume 461
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong eldest daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life. Bonus features include commentary, documentary, essay, interviews, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 271
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Riton gets kidnapped by a mob boss in the hopes that there will be an exchange for the money, but nothing turns out as anyone has it planned.
59) Blow out
Series
Criterion collection volume 562
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on...
60) Pierrot le fou
Series
Criterion collection volume 421
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Offbeat, influential road story about a man and woman on the lam in southern France.
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