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Series
Criterion collection volume 49
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen edizione.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A young prostitute who works in the streets of Rome is continually deceived by men who claim to love her.
42) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 45
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
47) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Language
English
Formats
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching struggle...
48) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cult classic of gooey greatness. Follows the havoc on a Pennsylvania town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader.
49) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
50) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
51) Cleo from 5 to 7
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers.
52) The daytrippers
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan, strong-willed mom, taciturn dad, and jaded sister with pretentious boyfriend in tow, has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations.
53) Detour
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run--a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage's snarling, monstrously conniving drifter...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (101, 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (tri-folded ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
The story of an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer preying on young girls. Set in Germany, the film is shot in sepia tones with brilliant blue flashes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 92
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains.
Series
Publisher
Blue Moon Production Company
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
DVD + Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (90 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the decaying rural South must confront a tangle of difficult choices.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1057
Language
English
Description
"Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cold crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically post-modern take on the hit-man thriller. In one of his defining roles, Forest Whitaker brings a commanding serenity to his portrayal of a Zen contract killer working for a bumbling mob outfit, a modern man who adheres steadfastly to the ideals of the Japanese warrior code...
60) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
RSDL dual-layer edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (157 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
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