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Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1987
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
3) 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.
4) The hit
Series
Criterion collection volume 469
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his Spanish tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
5) Naked city
Series
Criterion collection volume 380
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Police investigate a woman's death in New York City.
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, including a performance at Madison Square Garden and a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where violence broke out between fans and Hell's Angels who were providing security. Includes performances by Ike and Tina Turner, the Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
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.
8) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
10) Walker
Series
Criterion collection volume 423
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
11) Broadcast news
Series
Criterion collection volume 552
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
A caustic inside look at the Washington news media, stars Holly Hunter in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter. James L. Brooks' witty, gently prophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
13) 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.
Series
Description
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.
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.
16) Marriage story
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
A New York couple hoping for an amicable divorce find themselves in a system that pits them against each other.
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
18) Blast of silence
Series
Criterion collection volume 428
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + photos and 1 booklet.
Description
Professional killer Frankie Bono returns after an apparent absence to Manhattan during the Christmas season to assassinate the gangster Troiano. Bono is a loner and intends to avoid any unnecessary human contact while planning the murder of his victim. Bono is recognized by an acquaintance from the orphanage he was raised in who invites him to a Christmas party. There he meets up with an old semi-girlfriend, Lorrie. His friend's happy marriage contrasts...
19) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Looks at the life of an early-1970s, middle-class family in Mexico City through the eyes of their indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running.
20) Okja
Series
Criterion collection volume 1133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her super...
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