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Series
Criterion collection volume 79
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This compilation of films pays tribute to America's cantankerous comedy genius, W.C. Fields. Legendary one-liners and slapstick routines are preserved in these early shorts that chronicle the development of Fields' irascible screen persona.
2) 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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The “beautiful” novel that inspired the Showtime series, from a Nebula Award finalist (The New York Times).
The Man Who Fell to Earth tells the story of Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien disguised as a human who comes to Earth on a mission to save his people. Devastated by nuclear war, his home planet, Anthea, is no longer habitable. Newton lands in Kentucky and starts patenting Anthean technology—amassing...
The Man Who Fell to Earth tells the story of Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien disguised as a human who comes to Earth on a mission to save his people. Devastated by nuclear war, his home planet, Anthea, is no longer habitable. Newton lands in Kentucky and starts patenting Anthean technology—amassing...
Series
Criterion collection volume 450
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bored young men and best friends Anthony, Dignan, and Bob stage a wildly complex, mildly successful robbery of a small bookstore, then go "on the lam." During their adventures, Anthony falls in love with a South American housekeeper, Inez, and they befriend local thief extraordinaire Mr. Henry.
Series
Criterion collection volume 474
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Special ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
Sadako is a typical Imamura heroine: one who revels in the pleasures of food, labor, sex, and self-preservation. Carrying the burden of her status as a lowly, poor, prostitute-birthed commoner wife, Sadako is subjected to an escalating series of belittlement both at home and in society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 580
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[Standard format], DVD special édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend - now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic - and the provincial life he represents. Includes bonus features.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Danish
Description
This exhaustive documentary surveys the career of one of the great motion picture directors, following Dreyer's life through interviews with the director and his colleagues, film clips and archival materials.
9) The war room
Series
Criterion collection volume 602
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, the filmmakers closely followed the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton's crack team of consultants. Fleet-footed and entertaining, this is a vivid document of a political moment whose...
10) 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.
11) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
12) Shallow grave
Series
Criterion collection volume 616
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash, but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
13) Dreams =: Yume
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016, 1990.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
Unfolding in a series of mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa brings eight of the beloved director's own nighttime visions, informed by tales from Japanese folklore, to cinematic life.
14) Rosetta
Series
Criterion collection volume 621
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on her shoulder throughout.
15) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection volume 265
Language
English
Formats
Description
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
16) Playtime
Series
Criterion collection volume 112
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
18) Badlands
Series
Criterion collection volume 651
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
19) Bigger than life
Series
Criterion collection volume 507
Language
English
Formats
Description
A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
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.
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