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Series
Criterion collection volume 379
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment.
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (41 p.).
Description
A young couple who pretend to be brother and sister move from Chicago to the Texas panhandle to escape poverty. There, they work the ranch of a rich and handsome farmer, who has fallen in love with the woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Formats
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
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 410
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 p.).
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
8) Summer hours
Series
Criterion collection volume 513
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. The three siblings must sift through the past and decide what to do with the country home and items she has left for them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 119
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two down-and-out British actors leave their city life for a disastrous vacation in the country with an eccentric uncle.
10) 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.
11) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 109
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Catherine, a German princess, married the Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Because of his madness, she was able to seize the throne and become known as Catherine the Great.
13) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
14) The circus
Series
Criterion collection volume 996
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin shines as director, composer, and star. A gag-packed comedy full of audacious set pieces, it showcases silent cinema's most popular entertainer and ranks among Chaplin's finest.
15) Brute force
Series
Criterion collection volume 383
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joe Collins, along with his fellow inmates, live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Series
Criterion collection volume 463
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires.
17) Claudine
Series
Criterion collection volume 1052
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Claudine, a struggling mother working to raise enough for her six children by working as a maid in a wealthy home, meets Roop, a charming man who holds back his affections because of his own struggles.
18) Summer interlude
Series
Criterion collection volume 613
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
When she discovers a diary of a former lover, a ballerina recalls a summer affair filled with both happiness and tragedy. Marie is an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student. Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholm's outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works.
19) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century.
20) Fantastic planet
Series
Criterion collection volume 820
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine like leaders.
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