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Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
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.
83) 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
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of three sisters, one of whom is dying of cancer, and their housekeeper, all of whom are searching for spiritual peace in a world that seems to offer only disorder and despair.
85) Withnail and I
Series
Criterion collection volume 119
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two down-and-out British actors leave their city life for a disastrous vacation in the country with an eccentric uncle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 96
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his nymphomaniac sister."--Container.
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
Criterion collection volume 148
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Description
A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desparate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures.
89) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for a crime they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 149
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bored Italian housewife discovers she can conjure up spirits which bring her sexual satisfaction through complex fantasies.
92) Hearts and minds
Series
Criterion collection volume 156
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (19 x 12 cm.)
Description
Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland; former Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford; Senator William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; and Daniel Ellsberg.
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
94) 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.
95) 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.
96) 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.
97) Red Beard
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002, c1965
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
99) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (169 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
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