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1) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1948, 1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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. Includes original theatrical trailer.
2) Tess
Series
Criterion collection volume 697
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014
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.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1995], c1938
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure.
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Language
English
Formats
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...
7) Amarcord
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Director's cut, widescreen, RSDL dual-layer ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (205 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art.
Series
Criterion collection volume 175
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas, accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, to cover a motorcycle race. His cut-and dried assignment quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
11) Moonstruck
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
12) The naked kiss
Series
Criterion collection volume 18
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A former prostitute, hoping to fit into mainstream society, moves to an all-American suburb, but her past comes back to haunt her.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
14) Rushmore
Series
Criterion collection volume 65
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
15) Shock corridor
Series
Criterion collection volume 19
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journalist gets himself admitted to a mental hospital to solve the murder of an inmate.
16) 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.
17) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood.
18) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
Series
Criterion collection volume 50
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1914, a colorful melange of celebrities embark on a funeral voyage for a dead opera star. An allegorical film blending spectacle, humour, poignance and grotesquerie.
20) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Digitally remastered version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of her mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation.
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