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Series
Criterion collection volume 215
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
The suspenseful story of three people isolated for 24 hours aboard a yacht.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Dzongkha
Description
Dondup, a young government official who dreams of escaping his rural village for America, misses his bus to the city and is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a young monk, and an elderly man and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the monk tells the story of another young man that mirrors Dondup's ambitions.
4) Fat girl
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, Eléna, is a beauty. Eléna meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 74
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Series
Criterion collection volume 174
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Renoir's antiwar classic is based on the true story of French aviators who escape from a WWI prison camp.
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Inuktitut
Description
Set amongst the Inuit people of the arctic, the film is a thrilling, passionate story exploring the universal themes of love, revenge and survival. When a small, nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman, the curse is still felt years later. Atanarjuat falls in love with Atuat, a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader. In a fight, she is won by Atanarjuat, causing vengeful clan leader Oki to plot to attack Atanarjuat and his...
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a provincial French town, a sophisticated schoolmistress avoids attachments but strikes up a congenial friendship with the charmingly passionate local butcher, a veteran of Indochina. As a serial killer spreads terror throughout the countryside, the effort of these two people to come back from their emotional islands to some kind of mutual understanding and reality builds from oblique tenderness and humor to shattering tragedy.
11) Tae Guk Gi
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Two brothers live a simple and happy life until younger brother Jin Seok is conscripted to fight in the Korean war. Elder brother Jin Tae also signs up to protect Jin Seok from harm. As the brothers are surrounded by death and destruction on all sides things begin to change and the men both face the horror that confronts them.
12) Faust
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil, based on Goethe, Marlowe, and folk sagas.
Author
Publisher
TDK
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
This revival of Le Coq d'Or brings to stage the great Kabuki actor Ennosuke III's striking staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera. Theatre Musical de Paris-Chatelet 2002, conducted by Kent Nagano and starring Albert Schagidullin and Ilya Levinsky.
14) Norma
Author
Publisher
CBC Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Norma, a Druid priestess, has broken her vow of chastity with an enemy of her people, the Roman Proconsul Pollione, who has now turned to another lover. Norma must choose between taking vengeance against her lover or atoning for her sins.
17) House =: Hausu
Series
Criterion collection volume 539
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
After learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father's new girlfriend, a young girl invites some friends to join her at her aunt's house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home.
18) The Blue Angel
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
English version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A middle-aged schoolmaster becomes infatuated with and marries a singer from a sleazy cafe. When she leaves him for another man he returns to his school as a broken old man, and dies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 183
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A love story based on a novelette by Denis Diderot which follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she engineers a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.
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