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Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
83) Le trou
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
Series
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Suffused with wry humor, this underworld comedy of manners melds the toughness of American gangster films with Gallic sophistication to lay the roadmap for the French New Wave. As the neon is extinguished for another dawn, an aging gambler navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen and nav̐e associates while plotting one last score, the heist of the Deauville casino.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special édition, RSDL dual-layer édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. There the wife and producer engage in an affair, and she decides to leave her husband. However, something quite unexpected happens.
Series
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
89) Hopscotch
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having to much fun!
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Story of a young woman who like her friends is very concerned with men and love. A reserve army group comes into town and she falls in love with a pianist, who after swearing eternal love leaves for his home.
91) 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.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 412 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (72 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Five films featuring the enthusiastic, melancholic, and hopelessy romantic trouble maker Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud. The films take Doinel from his troubled childhood through myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements, from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in Latvia in 1919 at the end of the Russian civil war, a Prussian soldier rejects the advances of an aristocratic woman. She retaliates by joining the Bolsheviks.
Series
Criterion collection volume 183
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A love story based on a novelette by Denis Diderot which follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she engineers a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.
97) Dangerous moves
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A senior Soviet chessmaster and his former star pupil, now a dissident living in exile, square off in a highly publicized chess tournament. Both become pawns in a much larger game, however.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Dual-layer édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
99) Kiss me Kate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lilli Vannessi and Fred Graham, a battling, once-married couple, are reunited to star in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash. But backstage and downstage, viewers get to see lavish numbers and hear wonderful Cole Porter tunes.
100) Les girls
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cheeky musical variation on Rashomon, the film gives three flashbacks on the Parisian sojourn of a dance master and his featured artists.
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