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21) Shock corridor
Series
Criterion collection volume 19
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A journalist fakes mental illness to get himself committed to a mental hospital for a story. Soon, he starts to lose his mind.
22) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
23) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
24) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
Series
Criterion collection volume 50
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1914, a colorful melange of celebrities embark on a funeral voyage for a dead opera star. An allegorical film blending spectacle, humour, poignance and grotesquerie.
26) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her grown daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each...
Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Extended international version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The number-three ranked killer in the Tokyo underworld carries out three hits, but bungles a fourth. Then both the women in his life try to kill him. The next thing he knows, he is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the very dangerous No. 1 killer ...
29) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Language
English
Formats
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Language
Français
Description
Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
31) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
32) Election
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tracy Flick (Witherspoon), a straight-A go-getter is determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Broderick) decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr. M. never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.
34) For all mankind
Series
Criterion collection volume 54
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at America's first manned flights to the moon told by the 24 men who traveled to the moon and using the images from their experiences.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Renoir's antiwar classic is based on the true story of French aviators who escape from a WWI prison camp.
36) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Language
English
Description
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
30 schoolboys lost on a tropical island after a plane crash revert to savagery in their efforts to survive.
40) The night porter
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The chance meeting of a woman and a former Nazi SS officer brings back memories of their sado-masochistic relationship in a concentration camp years before.
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