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Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Director-approved special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
42) Blind
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Ingrid lithe, beautiful, and married to an up-and-coming architect, is a woman contending with the recent loss of vision. While attempting to navigate a world without sight, she spends her days reconstructing the visual world by writing salacious stories that slowly morph into fantasies about her husband and other characters that may or may not actually exist. When real-life crashes into Ingrid's creations, she must finally come to terms with her...
44) Rams
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Icelandic
Description
In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country's best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi's sheep, the entire valley comes under...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his father's intentions to disown him. Engaged to be married, the widowed man has kept Mohammad a secret from his fiancee, certain the boy's disability will destroy his only chance for happiness. With the wedding swiftly approaching Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balanceas his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see...
46) The long walk
Publisher
Yellow Veil Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Lao
Formats
Description
An elderly man who can communicate with the dead uses the spirit of a young woman to take him back in time, hoping to prevent his mother's suffering from a terminal illness.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm + folded-out sheet
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"A single father makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway. His children wait out their days in supermarkets before they eat with their father and go to sleep in an abandoned building. As the father starts to come apart, a woman in the supermarket takes the children under her wing. There are real stray dogs to be fed in Tsai's everyday apocalypse, but the title also refers to its...
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
In a railway coach Snàporaz wakes from a nap and seduces a beautiful stranger. Then he follows her through a forest to a weird hotel where a feminist convention is being held. He is so unnerved by the vociferous hostility of the militants that he hides in the mansion of a female killer who has wooed and won a thousand hearts. Snàporaz will be forced to run the gauntlet before waking up and realizing that his adventure was only a crazy nightmare....
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2016, ©2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged)
Language
Español
Description
Four priests exiled to a small seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut blackly comic drama.
51) Amerika square
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
Athens 2016. The complexities of immigration are exposed when four lives collide within the backdrop of Amerika square.
52) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
53) Effi Briest
Publisher
Wellspring Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out sheet (8 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Effi Briest is a radiant beauty, a vivacious blend of naivete and intelligence, forthrightness and willful self interest. She is married when very young to a much older Prussian diplomat and carried away to a remote Baltic port where she drifts into a brief, passionless affair with a local womanizer. The full effects are felt only later, in a chilling manifestation of the Prussian legal code.
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A botched kidnapping of a Japanese executive's son turns into a race-against-time.
Series
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director's own desperate obsession with a young actor....
56) Suburban birds
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Hao is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. As he and his team survey the subsiding area, another story is taking place in the same suburban landscape. A younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and making mischief until one-by-one, his playmates start to disappear. As these parallel stories unfold, the connections between them proliferate...
57) Ága
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Yakut
Description
In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable causes, and the ice has been melting every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to their daughter Aga, who left the icy tundra long ago due to a family feud. When Sedna's health deteriorates, Nanook embarks on a long journey...
58) Hour of the wolf
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1968.
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
A brooding artist accompanied by his wife travels to a remote island where he hopes to escape his demons.
Publisher
Wellspring Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A factory worker goes berserk one day killing the boss' son and then throwing himself into the machinery. Trying to clear her husband's name, the murderer's widow journeys through ludicrous arenas of yellow journalism and left-wing politics.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Georgian
Description
A family portrait of three generations of Georgian women in the city of Tbilisi. Eka obsesses over her physician son Otar, while the other two attempt to deal as best they can with Eka's burning desire to see him. A poignant, bittersweet story.
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