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Series
Criterion collection volume 240
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1951.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.
2) 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.
3) Tess
Series
Criterion collection volume 697
Publisher
Timothy Burrill Productions
Pub. Date
1979.
Edition
DVD + Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
2 DVD and 1 Blu-ray (171 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
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Language
English
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Description
Daniel Miller was tooling along a Los Angeles boulevard listening to Barbra Streisand sing "Something's Coming" when something came - a bus. One head-on crash later, Daniel wakes up deceased. And his troubles are just beginning ... Meryl Streep joins writer/director/star Brooks ... for a witty peek at the afterlife where you can eat all you want and not gain an ounce. But there's a catch: you're saddled with Defending Your Life. If you can't make...
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.
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English
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Description
"In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaïre 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger powerhouse George Foreman for the boxing heavyweight championship title ... When the main event was delayed, extending Ali's stay in Africa, Gast wound up amassing a treasure trove of footage, observing the wildly charismatic...
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Language
Français
Formats
Description
American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city of the film's title where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed fusion of science fiction with pulp characters and surrealist poetry. Godard's irreverent journey to the mysterious city remains one of the least conventional films of all time.
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, Andrei Tarkovsky's second feature conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. The film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes, gradually emerging as a man struggling to preserve his creative and religious integrity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 19
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A journalist fakes mental illness to get himself committed to a mental hospital for a story. Soon, he starts to lose his mind.
10) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
11) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
12) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her grown daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each...
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The number-three ranked killer in the Tokyo underworld carries out three hits, but bungles a fourth. Then both the women in his life try to kill him. The next thing he knows, he is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the very dangerous No. 1 killer ...
14) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Language
Français
Description
Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
30 schoolboys lost on a tropical island after a plane crash revert to savagery in their efforts to survive.
Series
Criterion collection volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
19) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Language
English
Formats
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching struggle...
20) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cult classic of gooey greatness. Follows the havoc on a Pennsylvania town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader.
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