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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.
2) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Independent Producers :
Pub. Date
c1948, 1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
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A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding...
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 494
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Director Michael Ritchie's (*The Golden Child*) debut film is a tense and taut look at the world of Olympic skiing. Robert Redford plays the hero, Chappellet, a handsome loner from Colorado, bent on making it to the top and Gene Hackman plays his demanding coach. As the pressure and tension build, Chappellet learns how fleeting and lonely fame can be. Winner of Best Actor (Robert Redford) at the **BAFTA Awards**. Nominated for Best Drama Written Directly...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1064
Formats
Description
THE PARALLAX VIEW, a superb drama about one man's paranoia that turns out to be total, incredible fact, ranks amount the best political thrillers. Warren Beatty is a news reporter who, along with seven others, witnesses the assassination of a political candidate. When the other seven die in "accidents," the newsman begins to doubt the official position: that a lone madman was responsible for the crime. He imagines a sophisticated network of highly...
7) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Description
Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister plots and giant talking bugs.
Series
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Iris is travelling on a train through Europe and befriends Miss Froy, a kindly old lady. When Iris is knocked unconscious by a falling flower pot, she awakens to find Miss Froy mysteriously replaced by an imposter. She's led to believe the accident caused an illusion until Gilbert, a young musician, comes to her assistance. Together, they find themselves caught up in a mystery.
9) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
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 26
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
British comedy thriller about a racketeer who attempts to transform the London dockyards into a potential Olympics site.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
15) 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...
18) Seven samurai
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
19) The seventh seal
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.
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