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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.
83) 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.
84) 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.
86) 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.
88) A fond kiss
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Scotland, a second generation Pakistani man falls in love with an Irish woman, much to his family's dismay.
89) Umberto D
Series
Criterion collection volume 201
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003], c1952
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar night in 1944, when she was six years old, and the residents of San Martino, her small Tuscan hometown, struggled against Nazi oppression during the final days of WWII.
91) Certified copy
Series
Criterion collection volume 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
92) The valet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of Franc?ois Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...
Publisher
No Shame Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Violent summer: In the final days of Mussolini's reign, Carlo, the hedonistic son of a high-ranking Fascist, falls in love with a Navy officer's widow. Fleeing the wrath of the Anti-Fascists for the safety of Southern Italy, the lovers are stranded by the masses of the dead and dying and must confront the horrors of war previously kept from them by a life of privilege.
Girl with a suitcase: 16-year-old Lorenzo falls in love with cabaret singer Aida,...
94) Vincere
Publisher
MPI Media Group [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
About fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and the woman he loved. Ida Dalser was scorned, denounced, and then written out of history. Mussolini's rise to power and Dalser's descent into an insane asylum are tragic counterpoints in a doomed romance. Dalser may have been written off at the time, but Bellocchio and Mezzogiorno allow her a final, unexpected triumph in this cinematic masterwork.
Series
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rio Conchos: An ex-Confederate, two Army officers, and a Mexican bandit team up to find the thieves who are supplying guns to renegade Indians and outlaws for the purpose of resurrecting the Civil War.
Take a Hard Ride: A loyal cowboy, whose boss died during an arduous cattle drive, vows to take the money made from the sale of the herd to the man's widow. Accompanied by two offbeat companions, he encounters killers, thieves, and a ruthless bounty...
98) The duchess
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life of aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who became the style icon of late eighteenth-century England. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter...
99) Suspiria
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young American student enrolls at a prestigious dance academy in Europe, but after her arrival there, ominous events begin to disturb her plans.
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.
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