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42) The last wave
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
43) The longest day
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
46) Ordet
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A study of spiritual faith and love ; the film tells of the death of Inger in childbirth and her resurrection, a miracle that is seen as the result of human love. The film opens as a family of marshland farmers trail a seemingly mad son (Johannes) who calls himself Christ. It closes as Johannes approaches the open coffin of his sister-in-law and, at the urgings of her child, brings her back to life.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
48) The outlaw
Series
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Notorious western tells the tale of Billy the Kid and the sexy dame (Jane Russell) who loves him.
49) Rififi
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001, c1955
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other.
50) The sand pebbles
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelganger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
54) The vanishing
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
57) Loves of a blond
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of a young woman who like her friends is very concerned with men and love. A reserve army group comes into town and she falls in love with a pianist, who after swearing eternal love leaves for his home.
58) Man bites dog
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
"A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter"--Internet Movie Database.
59) Nosferatu
Series
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (66 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats.
60) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
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