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Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
5) The tin drum
Series
Criterion collection volume 234
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles Danzig in the 1920s/1930s and the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth, he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive...
6) Z
Series
Criterion collection volume 491
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1180
Formats
Description
Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their terms.
8) Quadrophenia
Series
Criterion collection volume 624
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Jimmy, an angry British youth trying to find himself, and his like-minded rowdy "Mod" friends invade a seaside resort town and become involved in violent street fighting.
Series
Criterion collection volume 630
Formats
Description
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby."
10) Babette's feast
Series
Criterion collection volume 665
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food. A layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth century Denmark. Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 676
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
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.
13) Tootsie
Series
Criterion collection volume 738
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
An out-of-work actor disguises himself as a woman to get a job on a soap opera, but then complicates matters by falling in love with the lead actress.
Series
Criterion collection volume 789
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Terry Southern, and Lucien Carr....
15) The fisher king
Series
Criterion collection volume 764
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
16) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
17) Dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 842
Formats
Description
Unfolding in a series of mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa brings eight of the beloved director's own nighttime visions, informed by tales from Japanese folklore, to cinematic life.
18) The naked island
Series
Criterion collection volume 811
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the survival of these people and their land
19) Certain women
Series
Criterion Collection volume 893
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 692
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A group of strangers race across California to find $350,000 buried by an ex-convict.
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