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Series
Criterion collection volume 255
Publisher
Castle Hill Productions
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
A successful Broadway actress is touched by a personal crisis that gives her the strenght to turn this challenge into her greatest performance.
2) Stalker
Series
Criterion collection volume 888
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1979.
Language
Russian
Description
Inside a mysterious realm called the Zone there is the Room, a place that will grant you your innermost desire. Stalker, a man that knows how to pass the deadly secrets of the Zone, escorts a group of people to the Room.
5) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
6) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
Series
Criterion collection volume 31
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth. The orphaned Pip later meets the unattainable Estella, falls in love with her and yearns to better himself in order to be worthy of her
8) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end.
Series
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
10) Badlands
Series
Language
English
Description
Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
11) Diabolique
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.
13) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 47
Language
Norwegian
Description
Stellan Skarsgard plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll.
14) Time bandits
Series
Criterion collection volume 37
Language
English
Description
Young Kevin's daydreams burst into astonishing and hilarious life when a band of time-traveling little men come crashing through his bedroom wardrobe and carry him off on an unbelievable crime spree, weaving through the greatest and strangest moments of history. Features Terry Gilliam Interview and trailer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 100
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Contains eighteen videos by the Beastie Boys. Each disc is divided into two sections: videos in sequence and videos with supplements. Includes commentary by Evan Bernard, Adam Bernstein, Tamra Davis, Spike Jonze, and others.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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.
17) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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. This special version also contains never-before-seen performances from the Madison Square...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. The film finished the circle of the journey begun in Blood of a Poet, exploring the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Publisher
Universal City Studios
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise, "--Container.
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