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61) Testament of Orpheus, or, Don't ask me why =: Le Testament d'Orphée, ou, Ne me demandez pas pourquoi
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A modern account of the Orpheus myth. An 18th-century poet travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Digitally remastered version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.
63) Alexander Nevsky
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four stories set in the Klondike, including the classic adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
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.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
67) Coup de torchon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Dual layer édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African village, is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid of the evil ones in his life.
68) Day of wrath
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the pastor's shrewish mother, Anne is offered an opportunity to take...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
70) Gertrud
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Around 1910, a woman who is unhappily married to a lawyer meets a famous poet whom she had loved, has an affair with a young composer and finally decides to live alone in Paris.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (184 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequence at end ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Part one is set in Moscow during the 16th century, Ivan Alexieff, Prince of Moscow, is crowned Tsar Ivan. This action puts him in direct opposition to all other royal families and Ivan finds himself isolated and alone in his attempt to centralize power under the crown. In Part two, Ivan returns to the throne after a self-imposed abdication to challenge the Boyars, Russia's corrupt aristocracy. Betrayed by his oldest friend and surrounded by murderous...
72) The last wave
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
73) The longest day
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
75) Mon oncle
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
76) Ordet
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
A study of spiritual faith and love ; the film tells of the death of Inger in childbirth and her resurrection, a miracle that is seen as the result of human love. The film opens as a family of marshland farmers trail a seemingly mad son (Johannes) who calls himself Christ. It closes as Johannes approaches the open coffin of his sister-in-law and, at the urgings of her child, brings her back to life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 115
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other.
78) Salesman
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
RSDL dual-layer edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A landmark documentary ... Captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the line from hype to despair"--Promotional materials.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelgänger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed.
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