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61) Billy Liar
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African village, is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid of the evil ones in his life.
63) Day of wrath
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the pastor's shrewish mother, Anne is offered an opportunity to take...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor rivalry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
65) Gertrud
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Around 1910, a woman who is unhappily married to a lawyer meets a famous poet whom she had loved, has an affair with a young composer and finally decides to live alone in Paris.
Series
Criterion collection volume 134
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (179 min.) : sd., col. (restored tinting) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous. Through painstaking research, this silent docu-drama attempts to reconstruct the practices of witchcraft and satanism from the 15th through the 17th centuries, concluding with cases of demoniac possession...
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
69) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but nai?ve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
70) 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.
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.
73) Mona Lisa
Series
Criterion collection volume 107
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.
74) My man Godfrey
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
75) 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.
77) 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.
78) The ruling class
Series
Criterion collection volume 132
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, a blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy.
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.
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.
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