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61) Harold and Maude
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English
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Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by...
62) L'humanité
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Français
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Pharaon de Winter is a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in northern France. He agonizes over the evil he confronts every day during the course of his work. The brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl tests Pharaon's profound humanity to its limits as the investigation proceeds to its climax, and as Pharaon struggles to grasp the crime's meaning.
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
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Description
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously...
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Criterion collection volume 70
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English
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Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Series
Criterion collection volume 72
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Digitally remastered version with restored sound.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
Description
A musical comedy about a pair of young lovers who lose a lottery ticket worth a million francs and chase it frantically across Paris. Considered one of the very first musical films.
66) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to transform a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
[Thirtieth anniversary version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, including a performance at Madison Square Garden and a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where violence broke out between fans and Hell's Angels who were providing security. Includes performances by Ike and Tina Turner, the Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
68) Sisters
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English
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Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters' insidious sibling bond. A scary and stylish paean to female destructiveness, Brian De Palma's first foray into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split-screen effects, bloody birthday cakes, and a chilling score by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann....
69) Testament of Orpheus, or, Don't ask me why =: Le Testament d'Orphée, ou, Ne me demandez pas pourquoi
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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.
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Criterion collection volume 71
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Digitally remastered version.
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1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
An opera by Mozart, in which a handsome young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of Night's daughter from an evil sorcerer.
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Criterion collection volume 74
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
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Criterion collection volume 79
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This compilation of films pays tribute to America's cantankerous comedy genius, W.C. Fields. Legendary one-liners and slapstick routines are preserved in these early shorts that chronicle the development of Fields' irascible screen persona.
Series
Criterion collection volume 867
Language
English
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Description
In this hilarious excursion into the battle of the sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper's bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling continues, until their problems are overcome by their deep love for...
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen edizione.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
76) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Language
English
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Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
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Language
Español
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Description
Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Series
Criterion collection volume 113
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.
80) Billy Liar
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.
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