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41) The third man
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (19 x 38 cm., folded)
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Series
Criterion collection volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
44) 6 short films
Series
Criterion collection volume 79
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This compilation of films pays tribute to America's cantankerous comedy genius, W.C. Fields. Legendary one-liners and slapstick routines are preserved in these early shorts that chronicle the development of Fields' irascible screen persona.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but na?ve husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 100
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 operations manual (6 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.), 1 poster (51 cm., folded to 19 cm.)
Description
Contains eighteen videos by the Beastie Boys. Each disc is divided into two sections: videos in sequence and videos with supplements.
47) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
48) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.
50) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
51) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
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.
53) Gimme shelter
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.
54) Kaidan
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (163 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
56) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000], c1938
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
57) Sisters
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two sisters, joined at birth as Siamese twins, are separated in late adolescence. One is lovely, gentle, kind-- the other is quite mad.
58) Vagabond
Series
Criterion collection volume 74
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom.
59) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (138 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
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