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2) Moonstruck
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English
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An enchanting romantic comedy that brought together a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement to the staid Johnny are thrown into question after she meets his hot-blooded brother, Ronny, and...
3) Rushmore
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Criterion collection volume 65
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English
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Max Fischer, a tenth-grader at Rushmore Academy, is involved in too many extra-curricular activities, and, as he tries to avoid getting expelled because of his grades, Max befriends a first-grade teacher, whom he falls in love with, and a melancholy, self-made millinaire.
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Criterion collection volume 97
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English
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
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When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
7) Rashomon
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
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.
8) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen.
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2 DVDs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (31 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
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...
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Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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日本語
Description
When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
10) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
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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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Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
12) Paris is burning
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English
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A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
13) Double indemnity
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English
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Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
14) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special ed., English subtitled version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
15) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
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2 DVDs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Based on a true story of author Laurens van der Post's experiences as a WWII prisoner of war.
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English
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The Rev. Harry Powell is a religious fanatic and serial killer who targets women who use their sexuality to attract men. Serving time in prison for car theft, he meets condemned murderer Ben Harper, who confesses to hiding $10,000 in stolen loot. Released from jail, Powell is obsessed with finding the money, and he tracks down Harper's widow, Willa, and her two children, John and Pearl.
18) Seven samurai
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Blu-ray ed.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1100
Language
English
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Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity's place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller... and smaller... and smaller... until he's left to fend...
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