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Series
Criterion collection volume 145
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.
63) Chaplin
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
64) Pierrot le fou
Series
Criterion collection volume 421
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Offbeat, influential road story about a man and woman on the lam in southern France.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet.
Description
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton sparkle and amuse as Katharina and Petruchio in this adaptation of William Shakespeare's comic look at a male chauvinist in 16th century Padua who violently subdues his ill-tempered wife.
66) Le Doulos
Series
Criterion collection volume 447
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A complicated thriller about the fatalistic relationship between two men: Maurice, a crook just out of prison, and Silien, a mysterious, cryptic informer caught up in the complex relationship between the criminal underworld and the police.
67) After the fox
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A convicted con artist becomes a new wave Italian director as a front. Peter Sellers as the Fox dons no less than eight disguises en route to becoming director Federico Fabrizi.
69) Tout va b!en
Series
Criterion collection volume 275
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a wildcat strike at a sausage factory, as witnessed by an American reporter and her has-been New Wave film director husband. Culminates in a free-range assault on consumer capitalism and ineffective leftists. A caustic critique of society, marriage, and revolution in post-1968 France.
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After breaking up with her boyfriend, 30-year-old Stefania vacations on the Greek "Isle of Love", and reluctantly agrees to chaperone her precocious 15-year-old niece, Meggy. But Stefania doesn't know that Meggy plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over, and the guy she has her eye on is none other than Stefania's ex.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom in Ireland in 1920. As the Irish freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side find themselves pitted...
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors. It is a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal.
Publisher
FOCUSfilm Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (213 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The stranger: An ex-Nazi is allowed to escape from a German war crimes prison after WWII to lead the Allies to a notorious spy planning to revive the Third Reich. The trail leads to a small Connecticut town where intrigue and murder combine for a tense situation.
The trial: Portrays the experiences of Josef K as he is mysteriously arrested by agents of the police for an unspecified crime. Josef is then plunged into a nightmare world of an inescapable...
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
76) Chains
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matarazzo's breakthrough melodrama concerns the virtuous wife of a mechanic whose happy family is torn asunder when a former flame reenters her life by chance and pursues her relentlessly.
77) The Organizer
Series
Criterion collection volume 610
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, brimming with humor and honesty.
Series
Criterion collection volume 427
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress Mar?a Jos?, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrept ethics of a society seduced by decadence.
79) Red desert
Series
Criterion collection volume 522
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six characters are drawn together by circumstances - an old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
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