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1) 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.
2) Day of wrath
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the pastor's shrewish mother, Anne is offered an opportunity to take...
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 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 273
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Ex-G.I. Nick Garcos is a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father, a ruthless market operator by the name of Mike Figlia. But when Figlia gets wise to his plan, Nick finds himself in a web of treachery and heartbreak."--Container.
6) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (247 min.) : sd., b&w (disc 1) and col. (disc 2) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (69 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
Series
Criterion collection volume 341
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
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 386
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 446
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After living alone with his daughter for years, a widower must learn how to let her go, letting her be free to move on with her life, by arranging a marriage for her.
11) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Mia... lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's new boyfriend... enters the picture"--Container.
12) Floating weeds
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 leaflet
Description
An aging actor returns to the town where his son lives, who has believed all these years to be his uncle rather than his father.
13) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Formats
Description
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin?s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times?though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)?is a timeless showcase of Chaplin?s untouchable...
14) The only son
Series
Criterion collection volume 525
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The story examines the motherly love of a peasant woman who gives up everything so that her son can receive education in Tokyo. Ten years later, the mother pays her son a visit in Tokyo, believing that he has become a successful young man. However, upon arrival, she is bitterly disappointed to find out that her son is working as a night-school teacher and living in poverty with his family.
15) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
An amnesiac man found wandering in the Texas desert works to reconstruct his past with the help of his wife and family who have not seen him in four years.
16) Pale flower
Series
Criterion collection volume 564
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] p. ; 18 cm.)
Description
In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict. What at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 555
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Description
A New York City public relations agent, dependent on the good publicity his clients get from an influential newspaper columnist, grudgingly agrees to help him destroy the romance between a musician and the columnist's overprotected sister.
Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, as an imperial lady-in-waiting gradually descends to street prostitution.
Series
Criterion collection volume 700
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (87 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Based on the beloved, best selling book by Roald Dahl.
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Formats
Description
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. A tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn nasty.
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