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1) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 417
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stops him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation....
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (205 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art.
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
5) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 16
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer guide ([4] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In this third and last installment of the Samurai trilogy, the main character continues his quest for enlightenment, but turns his back on the world in disillusionment. Forced to fight again, he eventually comes face to face with his arch rival and long time enemy in a final showdown.
Series
Criterion collection volume 15
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. The trilogy (whose first part won an Academy Award) follows Musashi's odyssey from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. In the second and most violent installment, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Musashi beats a samurai armed with a chain-and sickle and is later set upon by eighty...
Series
Description
In medieval Sweden, a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Criterion collection volume 938
Description
Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.
10) Shock corridor
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A journalist gets himself admitted to a mental hospital to solve the murder of an inmate.
11) 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.
12) 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.
13) 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.
14) Jules and Jim
Series
Description
Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates between a French student, Jim, and a German student, Jules. After the war, they meet again and form a constantly shifting triangle.
15) The night porter
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The chance meeting of a woman and a former Nazi SS officer brings back memories of their sado-masochistic relationship in a concentration camp years before.
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 100
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 operations manual (6 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.), 1 poster (51 cm., folded to 19 cm.)
Description
Contains eighteen videos by the Beastie Boys. Each disc is divided into two sections: videos in sequence and videos with supplements.
17) Black narcissus
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...
18) Brief encounter
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 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (163 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
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