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Series
Criterion collection volume 141
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
Français
Description
A story which revolves around theater in 19th century Paris, and the love between the mime Debureau and the beautiful courtesan Garance who is also loved by an aristocrat, a criminal, and an actor.
2) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1963
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
4) 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
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.
6) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998, c1955
Language
English
Description
Jane Hudson is a single American woman vacationing alone in Venice. She meets and falls in love with a dashing, married Italian man.
7) Election
Series
Language
English
Description
Civics teacher Jim McAllister is worried: obnoxious, perennial overachiever Tracy Flick looks likely to win the student body presidency--she is running unopposed. Seeking to inject some democracy into the process, he persuades nice but dim football hero Paul Metzler to stand against her. This merely makes Tracy even more determined to win, and when Paul's alienated younger sister Tammy joins the race, leads her to use extreme measures to guarantee...
Series
Criterion collection) volume 44
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
1999, c1948
Language
English
Description
Torn between two lovers, a young ballerina must choose either the composer who loves her or the man who can make her a great dancer.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them. DVD.
10) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
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.
12) Le Million
Series
Criterion collection volume 72
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
A musical comedy about a pair of young lovers who lose a lottery ticket worth a million francs and chase it frantically across Paris. Considered one of the very first musical films.
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
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
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
Criterion Collection/Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Swedish
Description
A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes is dying of cancer and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.
Series
Criterion collection volume 113
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
Italiano
Description
Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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.
18) The last wave
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
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.
19) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001, c1960
Language
English
Description
Spartacus, a slave trained as a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic. Political figures in Rome plot to aid or hinder him for their own purposes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 96
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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.
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