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Series
Criterion collection volume 46
Publisher
Criterion collection
Pub. Date
1932.
Language
English
Description
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all -- man.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Shochiku Co., Ltd
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Publisher
MK2 ; Les Films du Carrosse
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
Français
Description
Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own,he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school, from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 707
Publisher
Incei Film ; Sancro Film
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
Italiano
Description
A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy.
5) The river
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
In post-World War II India, three adolescent girls develop competing crushes on a young American veteran who lost a leg in combat. As their romances and rivalries deepen, the background of the Indian society, culture and environment influences all their personlities in subtle and symbolic ways.
Series
Criterion collection volume 587-590
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
Français
Description
Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy of the human condition in contemporary French society, with each film drawing its colour from the French flag: liberty (Bleu), equality (Blanc) and fraternity (Rouge).
BLEU. A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lives and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins...
Series
Criterion collection volume 225
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Struggle between two officers for hearts and minds of a peacetime Scottish regiment.
8) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
11) Dead ringers
Series
Criterion collection volume 21
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story of identical twin gynecologists -- suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, opposite sides of one personality -- who share the same practice, the same apartment, and the same women. Then one special woman enters their lives. The twins, their bizarre bond threatened for the first time, descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs and madness.
12) M
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
13) The naked kiss
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In small town America, a prostitute seeks redemption.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls and their teacher prepare for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear mysteriously and are never found. This release includes the original theatrical trailer. DVD.
Closed-captioned.
Disc characteristics: DVD Region 1.
Series
Criterion collection volume 17
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Italiano
Description
At Mussolini's holdout in northern Italy, four Fascists kidnap a group of young men and women. The victims move through three increasingly violent and perverse phases at the hands of their tormentors, culminating in ritualistic death. Considered by many the most disturbing film ever made.
17) The seventh seal
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
18) Shock corridor
Series
Criterion collection volume 19
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Obsessed by a Pulitzer Prize, hotshot reporter Johnny Barratt goes undercover in an insane asylum to solve a grisly murder mystery.
19) Sid and Nancy
Series
Criterion collection volume 20
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"Sid & Nancy chronicles the brief, intense attachment of two of Punk's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen"--Container.
20) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Language
English
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
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