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9) Ikiru
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
10) The black tower
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Vision
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (287 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A string of mysterious deaths catapults Dalgliesh into a maze of mystery, blackmail and murder.
14) Forbidden games
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 17 page book
Description
A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clement's devastating Forbidden games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France.
Series
Publisher
Alfred Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Teaches essential blues techniques such as bending, vibrato, raking, and sweeping. Also covers the most important blues forms and styles, including 12-bar blues, 8-bar blues, slow blues, jazz blues, and minor blues.
17) The 400 blows
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Description
The semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel, portraying his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. Also includes the short film, Antoine and Colette, which originally appeared as part of the film L'amour à vingt ans, picking up Antoine's story a few years later, when he is living on his own and pursuing his first love affair, initiating a lifelong career of quixotic dreams...
18) Grand illusion
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A French World War I POW is held by Erich von Stroheim's German captain. A rousing prison-escape adventure and an exemplar of the 1930's poetic realist movement.
19) 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.
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