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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.
82) Citizen Kane
Series
Criterion collection volume 1104
Language
English
Description
In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also...
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.
84) 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.
85) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Language
English
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
88) The elephant man
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
89) Eraserhead
Series
Criterion collection volume 725
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nightmarish collage of images which blends the grotesque and the absurd, the deeply disturbing and the darkly humorous. Henry is the nerdish central character who lives in a squalid apartment with a strange girl and their monstrous baby. The extraordinary special effects create an eerie, dream-like world with a logic all its own.
90) 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
Criterion collection volume 134
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (179 min.) : sound, color (restored tinting) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
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...
94) 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.
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.
96) 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.
97) Mona Lisa
Series
Criterion collection volume 107
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.
98) My man Godfrey
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man"-- an apparent down-and-out drifter-- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
100) 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.
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