Film Four International
21) Salaam Bombay!
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
A young boy in India is left behind when the circus he works for leaves without him. With nowhere to go, he struggles to survive on the streets of Bombay.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
A young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
24) The War zone
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Collectors edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom, an alienated 15-year-old, forced to move away from his friends in London when his family relocates to rural Devon, struggles with the change and becomes an observer of the family. His mother is pregnant, his father is vocally abusive, and his 18 year old sister is sexually active. Troubled by his own emerging sexuality, the boy comes to suspect his father and sister have had an incestuous relationship. Isolated, confused and consumed by anger,...
25) The sacrifice
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus DVD + 1 booklet (19 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
Swedish
Description
As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander, news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by director Tarkovsky's arresting palette of luminous grays washing over the bleak landscape around their home.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A zed and two noughts: Oliver and Oswald Deuce, twin zoologists, become obsessed with the meaning of life after Oliver's wife is killed in a freak car accident. They both become involved with Alba, the woman responsible for Oliver's wife's death and with the process of decay. Using zoo animals, they eventually become involved in the ultimate experiment.
The Falls: Arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway's prolific career. Shot as a...
28) Salaam Bombay!
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
World films special ed.; Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets.
Series
Criterion collection volume 694
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD (85 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
The story of eleven-year-old Bud, a sad and lonely boy who struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local movie-house. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school.
31) Peter's friends
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in their early 30s gather at the expansive estate of Peter Morton in 1992. Various jealousies and fears are revealed between joyous feasts.
32) Dust devil
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Imprint volume 61
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.
34) Into the West
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two young brothers living in the Dublin slums run away with a magical horse, trying to recapture their family's traditional life as tinkers and to find the wild west of their imaginations, while their desperate father and the law search for them.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The musical group Sex Pistols was in existence for only 26 months and recorded only one album, yet they changed the face of music forever. This shocking portrait of arguably the most influential and certainly the most notorious rock group of all time documents their rise from the back streets of London, through their crucifixion by the British tabloids and ultimate implosion on tour in America. Culled primarily from the band's own 20-hour-plus archive...
Publisher
Twilight Time
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Two war-weary young veterans go to the peaceful town of Oxgodby ; their work at a village church brings them in contact with the pastor's young wife and forces one man to face his own dark desires.