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1) The graduate
Series
Criterion collection volume 800
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uncertain of what he wants to do with his life, college graduate Benjamin Braddock returns home. And when the wife of his father's business partner, the sexy Mrs. Robinson, seduces him, the affair only deepens his confusion. That is, until he meets the girl of his dreams. But there's one problem-- she's Mrs. Robinson's daughter.
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nice, tweedy old English woman disappears from her compartment on a European train. A young woman who wonders why becomes frantic when everyone tells her there never was such a person. A young man comes to her aid and they solve a criss-cross puzzle of espionage, counter-espionage and attempted assassination.
3) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Language
English
Formats
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.
4) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1057
Language
English
Description
"Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cold crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically post-modern take on the hit-man thriller. In one of his defining roles, Forest Whitaker brings a commanding serenity to his portrayal of a Zen contract killer working for a bumbling mob outfit, a modern man who adheres steadfastly to the ideals of the Japanese warrior code...
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Language
English
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Description
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by...
7) Citizen Kane
Series
Criterion collection volume 1104
Language
English
Description
In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also...
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
9) The rock
Series
Language
English
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Description
A retired US Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery) assemble to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs out.
10) The ruling class
Series
Criterion collection volume 132
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Language
English
Formats
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
12) Tootsie
Series
Criterion collection volume 738
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
Series
Criterion collection volume 711
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A hard day's night, in which the bandmates play slapstick versions of themselves ... reconceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video ... "--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
15) Spellbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 136
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Constance Peterson is a dedicated psychiatrist who puts all her passion into her work--until she falls in love with Dr. Edwardes. Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that Edwardes is an impostor--an amnesiac--who may or may not be a cold-blooded murderer. Pursued by the police, Constance must decide whether to turn in her mysterious lover...or risk her life by trying to unlock the dark secrets in his mind.
16) Thelma & Louise
Series
Criterion collection volume 1180
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their terms.
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Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Language
English
Formats
Description
Internationally reknown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
Series
Criterion collection volume 226
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.
Series
Criterion collection volume 304
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen format; director-approved special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 accompanying booklet.
Language
English
Description
An alien, on mission a mission to obtain water, becomes a head of a large corporation. Ultimately, he is overwhelmed by American capitalism and a relationship with a women. Includes director Roeg's full uncut version.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
In an instant, nurse Manuela loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy's long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun, an illustrious star of the stage, and a transgender sex worker.
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